Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-03-03

The Plant erS' cOtCOnSeed oil mill a
Monroe, La. was destroyed by fire on
the Goth. Loss, 100000.
The bodies of Letter Carrier Fred
Marty, his wife and two-year-old child,
who a few days ago persisted in the
fire at the Arlington fat in Chicago,
were found on the Goth under pile of
debris The body of Mrs Marty had
been burned to a crisp.
THE house of Daniel Ecklon at Wal
ton. Ind, was blown to pieces by a
natural gas explosion on the 26th and
Mrs. Ecklon and Mrs Jesse Cobientz
were fatally injured and Charles Eek
lon and Willis Coblentz and Jesse Cob
lentz more or less seriously hurt. The
Cob1entz family had just arrived on a
visit.
THE United States gunboat Petrol
visited the island of Cebu, one of the
Philippines, and hoisted the stars and
and stripes over it. The president of
the local government of the island de-
clared he yielded only to superior force.
SIX men were killed by a dynamite
explosion at the tunnel works on the
Jungfrau railway in Switzerland.
A BICYCLE race of one mile at Sgd
ney, Australia, in which so of the fast
est men in that section of country took
part, was won by man who went I'M
der the tape a corpse. Doctors said he
had an attack of heart failure on the
last lap.
A STRIKE of all the employees in the
South Omaha packing-houses, invo1v-
ing 5000 men, was said to be immi-
nent on the oath. The men asserted
that they were getting only half time.
and in many instances less than that.
AT a meeting of the broom corn buy
ers of central Illinois at NATION the
price of brush was advanced to $3.50
per ton, an advance of $50 per ton in
the past four months.
THE building occupied by the Trib-
une Newspaper company at Minneapo-
lis. Mimi, was totally destroyed by fire
on the night of the oath. The fire
started in the job room. Nothing was
saved, mailing lists, files, contracts,
account books, machines. type and
every thing else being burned. For
tunately no lives were lost.
PEACHES were nearly all killed in
the lower counties of Georgia by the
recent cold wave as well as number
of young trees. Apples have not suf-
fered to any great extent. P1ums and
some varieties of pears have nearly all
been killed. The damage in the state
will amount to several million dollars.
THE recent cold spell literally wiped
from the face of the earth whole
punches of stock horses. Farmers who
went to Hampstead, Tex, recently to
attend district court all reported that
they had never seen such execution
among horses and that prairies every
where were covered with carcasses.
FIRE on the Esd destroyed the Lind
building, % to 80 Market street, Chi
cago, one of the few buildings which
stood intact through the great fire
of 1871. The building. which was a
seven-story structure, was occupied by
large number of firms. the majority
of them being machinists. printer and
engravers. The total loss is estimated
at 1925, 600, of this amount $75, 600 is on
the building.
HENRY SILAs. negro preacher. ar
rested on suspicion, confessed to hav-
ing killed Jim Pattillo, a negro hack
| driver. few days ago in Waco. Tex.
Silas said he acted in self-defense. A
woman was at the bottom of the trou-
| BILE.
THE smallpox situation became so
| alarming that the district courts were
closed at Dallas, Tex. on the 23d and
| the juries dismissed. There was also
| an agitation in favor of closing the
| public schools. ALI pupils were being
| vaccinated. Reports from Cleburne,
Weatherford, San Diego, Corpus Christi
| and other Texas towns indicated that
the disease was becoming epidemic.
| the cold weather causing the disease
| to spread.
AT three o'clock on the morning of
the oath what was supposed to be an
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the main stairway of the Reinhart
| hotel at Ripley, o. The flames had
such Roadway that two guests of the
hotel were cut off from escape by the
stairway and found safety through
window on the second floor. The fire
spread to two blocks adjoining and
| eight business houses including the
hotel were involved in the loss.
AT fernando. Miss, Bob Campbell
killed Louis Norvel1 in the courthouse,
| while the court was in session. Nor
veil was in Jail on the charge of being
implicated in a tragedy at Horn lake
last spring when four men were
killed. The testimony showed that he
had no connection with the tragedy
and the judge discharged him. The
moment the verdict was announced
Bob Campbell, deputy sheriff, drew
his revolver and opened fire on NorveI.
] A DISPATCH from Hong Kong on the
22d said that through the energy OF
| Consul General Wildman it was dis
covered that 90. 900 rifles and 1000, 600
rounds of ammunition were recently
purchased by the Fi1ipinos in Japan
and stored on lighters at Nankin,
China, ready for shipment to the Phil
ippine islands for Aguinaldo. Consul
Wildman notified Minister Conger at
Pekin and the latter at once communi.
| Gated with the Chinese authorities,
| who seized the munitions of war.
JAMES CHAPMAN and George Wiley,
two colOred teamsters, fought in the
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