Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-23
MEDICINE KANSAS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1893.

pounds of giant powder in a vacant lot
| on 135th street, New York, the other
| night. The powder was stored in
wooden box in the center of the lot.
Three small boys built fire on top of
the box and the explosion followed.
The boys were saved by policeman,
who, seeing the fire, warned them to
| run for their lives.
NEWS was brought to Jacksonville,
| Fla, on the 18th that the town of Red
| Bay, on the island of Andros, in the
West Indies, was swept away in the re-
cent tropical hurricane and about 800
| lives were lost.
ABOUT 18, 900 acres in the Crow Creek
reservation in South Dakota has been
| opened to settlement.
By an explosion in a colliery in Gla
morganshire, Wales, 25 persons were
KILLED and 60 others were in danger.
Pathetic scenes at the mouth of the
mine were witnessed as the bodies were
brought up.
| PLACERvILLE, Ida, was wiped out by
4 fire the other night, all the business
portion and most of the residences be-
ing destroyed Most of the people lost
everything they had. The fire was
started by the overturning of lamp.
Loss, estimated at $3.50, ,OO0
| THE recent hot and dry weather has
affected the Oklahoma cotton crop.
| AN explosion of oil in the five-story
brick building at 2629 and 2691 Dear
born street, Chicago, gave the fire de-
| partment hard fight. The big struc-
ture was filed with paints and oils
from top to bottom and before the
blaze could be extinguished it caused a
loss of $500, 600.
AN Omaha, Neb., dispatch of the 18th
stated that Gov. Poynter has abandoned
the project of providing a special train
for the First Nebraska, and the dis
banded volunteers will be forced to use
the travelling allowance granted by the
government. The governor issued a
proclamation in which he stated that
he resorted to every possible measure
to secure the funds without result.
A FIRE which started in North Fort
Worth, Tex, destroyed the stables and
a portion of the pens of the Fort Worth h
Packing and Provision company.
Some six or eight horses were burned
up, along with buggies, harness, feed,
etc. The fire was believed to have
been started by tramp.
CARRIAGE containing six persons
was precipitated into White river, neaS
Washington, Ind, the other night as
it was being driven aboard a ferry boat
and all were drowned The dead are:
Mrs. Albert Hensel. four Hensel chill
dren and Miss Amy Dillon. The horse
had just stepped aboard the ferry boat
when the hawser parted and the boat
SWING out dropping the carriage with
its occupants into the river. The swift
current carried the victims under the
boat instantly and all were drowned.
WALTER WELLMAN and the survivors
of the Polar expedition led by him ar
rived at Tromsoe, Norway, on the 18th
on the steamer Capella, having success
fully completed their explorations in
Franz Josef Land. Mr.. Wellman has
discovered important new lands and
many islands, but while leading the
party he fell into snow-covered
crevasse and will probably be perman-
emily crippled. No trace was found in
Franz Josef Land of the missing
aeronaut. Prof. Andree.
The Colorado volunteers reached San
Francisco on the 10Th from Manila.
A BIG Four freight train was wrecked
three miles east of Tower Hin, ILL.,. the
other day. Six cars were piled up and
the tracks blOckaded six hours. w. III.
Weddington and 7. II. Weddington.
brothers, of Golden, Mo-. stealing a
ride in a car of coke, were badly in
jured.
GEORGE C. STARCK president of the
Stonehin Wine company, Hermann,
Mo-, the largest wine making concern
east of California, and his son, Ottmar g.
Starck. the secretary, were arrested by
the United States marshal on the
charge of defrauding the government
by making and disposing of brandy on
which the revenue tax had not been
paid and the immense distillery. wine
cellars and plant, valued at $3.50, OOC
were seized.
Two attempts were made the other
morning to burn the Protestant Or
phans' home at West End. near San
Antonio, Tex, with its so little or
phans.
EIGHT hundred more cloakmakers
in New York joined the ranks OF
the strikers the other day, increas-
ing the number on strike to total OF
5000. The strikers demand better
wages and reduction in the working
| hours.
AFTER an enforced idlcness OF three
weeks all the south side brickyards at
Chicago resumed work on the 10Th in
accordance with an agreement drawn
up the previous day between representa-
tives of the manufacturers and a com
mittee from the strikers. The work
men secured no new concessions and
returned to work under precisely the
same conditions that they left.
FRANKLIN HAssLER and two young
ladies, Hilda and Gertrude Fleischman,
with whom he was driving. were killed
by an express train near Wernersville
Pa, the other day.
LIGHTNING struck the large bank
barn of Abraham Shrock, near Middles
bury. Ind, burning it, together with
FIVE horses, large quantity of grain
and hay and many implements and
vehicles.
AT Brantley, Ala, Charles Hurt, a
negro who attempted to assault Mrs.
Stephen Battle, widow, was taken
from the Brantley Jail by a mob of 10(
men and shot to death in the woods hal.
mile away.
THE third congress of Zionists as
sembled at Basle, Switzerland, on the
18th with 800 delegates present, includ.
ing number of Americans and Eng.
lish. In his inaugural address DR.
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