Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-05
GENERAL NEWS.

A TORNADO struck the neighborhood
Of Avoca, Ia, on the 30th doing con-
siderable damage.
The treasury returns show the total
receipts for the month of April to be
SAL GIL, 563, while the expenditures We're
$45, 700, 600, leaving a deficit for the
for the war department were in the
neighborhood of SIS, 900. If the
payment for the Spanish check of $780,
600, 900 for the Philippine islands should
be added to the expenditures for the
month the deficit would reach $24,-
OSS, 437.
MEETINGS were held in all negro
churches in Chicago on the 30th to pro-
test against the southern lynchingS.
FIRE destroyed third of the lumber
yard of the Gebhart company at Day
ton, o., on the 3Oth, beside quitting the
st. Johns Lutheran church and burn
ing four loaded freight cars. One man
was fatally hurt and four others Sc
verely injured. Loss, $4,000.
A TORNADO passed through Saunders
county, Neb., on the 3Oth destroying
nearly everything in its path. A large
quantity of stock was killed.
was broken by hailstorm on the
afternoon of the 3Oth.
THERE were 327 deaths in Kansas
City, Mo-, during April, SO being caused
by pneumonia and SO by meningitis, a
heavy increase over the usual mortu-
airy rate.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt about
2:45 p. m. on the 3Oth in San Francisco
and Of hav- r1IaaoS in California
A PRAIRIE fire swept over the north
ern tier of counties in Nebraska de
stroying everything in it's path. A
great many cattle were burned and
Mrs. Livingstone and her son lost their
lives near Coleridge.
The Tyden car factory at Hastings,
Mich, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
BOSTON had a 500, 900 fire on the 3Oth.
The building was occupied by manu-.
featuring firms.
AN earthquake shock was felt at
Louisville, KY, on the Goth.
Four employees of the Dupont powder
works near Woodbury., N. J., were
killed by an explosion the other after
noon. They were experimenting with
a torpedo when it exploded and demol-
ished the building.
The officials at New York were kept
busy in handling the horde of immi.
grants which arrived there on the Goth.
They numbered 1000.
The announcement that England and
Russia have signed self-denying agree
ment regarding China, which is in
tended to pat an end to the contention
over railway and other concessions in
that country, was officially confirmed
at London and the papers ran the news
with big headlines.
THOUSANDS. of Mexicans have entered
Texas from Mexico the last few week.
to avoid being pressed into military
service, a law soon to go into effec
making military education in the stand
ing army compulsory.
Tom ROBINSON, a negro, was legally
hanged at Hillsboro, Tex, on the 2stl
for assault.
THE mattrass factory and the rail
road depot at Peterson, ILL.,, were
burned the other day. Twenty-fiv,
men were thrown out of work at tn,
mattrass factory by the fire.
ORE assaying $1,000 gold to the tol
has been taken out of the side of Blow
out mountain, dispatch from Littl
Rock, Ark, stated, and every claim
within a radius of a mile of the dis
coyery has been staked.
THREE meg were killed on the 26tl
by fall of GATE in the quarry at PEI
Argyle. Pa.