Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-23

| he other afternoon, killing four men
| md dangerously injuring two others.
JIM JEFFRIEs and Tom Sharkey have
oeen matched at New York to fight a
! :5-round battle for the heavyweight
| championship of the world before the
| .lub offering the largest purse, the
| winner to take all. The match will
AXE place about October 3.
A FIRE broke out about midnight on
| ;he 18th in the hay barn of the Kansas
! City Stock Yards company and 1000
| tons of baled hay, worth about $40, 600,
| were destroyed. The building and
contents were fully insured.
A TORNADO passed over Winona coun-
| ty, Mimi, on the 18th and several
buildings were demolished The same
storm struck the small settlement of
Montana, Wis, blowing down many
houses and njuring two or three per-
sons. A number of buildings were
also demolished near Algona, in north
| ern Iowa.
GEORGE LAURIE, a farmer at Hunt
| ington, Ind. was attacked by his bull
! and had his life crushed out. His wife,
| who went to his assistance, suffered
| the same fate.
A PITTsBURG & GULF passenger train
| was held up by masked men at Shady
Point. near Poteau, 1. T. Meager de-
tails received by the general offices at
| Kansas City, Mo-, say that the proceeds
! of the robbery were a So bill, property
| of d. 81. Patterson, express messenger,
and one registered letter. The passen-
gers were not molested.
A SPECIAL from Glaze Bay, C. B.,
stated that an explosion accompanied
FL i
on the 10th. More than 40 men were
| in the pit when the explosion occurred
and II of them persisted. The explosion
was caused by gas which had accumu-
| lated in the old workings.
The Spiritual Medium Protective as
ISOLATION met at Richmond, Ind, re-
Gently. The association was formed
for the purpose of shutting out false
mediums and it is the intention to
make it national in its scope.
THE outlook on the night of the 10th
at Denver was more favorable for an
early resumption of work by the trust
shelters in Colorado, steps having
been taken for conference between j.
B. Grant, chairman of the operating
committee of the American Smelling
and Refining company and committee
AT Surrency, Ga. Boy Williams, a
negro, was taken from Jail and lynched
for an attempted assault on a woman.
Dave Clark, another Surrency negro,
was found dead in the woods with sew
eral holes in his body. He had been
arrested for trying to shoot constable.
ACCORDING to dispatch from Man
zanillo, Cuba, during a severe storm
= 81. ,a1-
eral tents in the American camp there
and Is cavalrymen were rendered I'M
conscious. Fortunately no one was
killed.
HENRY GRIFFIN, laborer, employed
in sewer construction work, was buried
alive at Keokul1, Ia, by cave-in.
THE American Seed association con-
vened at Cincinnati on the 18th.
ONE thousand coal miners in the Chi
cago and Alton Qll.) sub-districts struck
on the 18th, owing to the operators
FASTING a notice that they would pay but
3515 cents per ton, the amount fixed by
the board of arbitration.
DIR. JEFFERSON D. GODDARD, who
killed Fred ]. Jackson in Kansas City
on April 2, 1897, was convicted of muir
der in the second degree at Jefferson
City, Mo-, on the 18th and sentenced tC
20 years in the penitentiary.
PLANTERS in Louisiana are alarmed
at the prevalence of anthrax, which is
killing off stock right and left.
A SPECIAL from Xenia, O., on the 18th
stated that unique condition of af-
fairs existed there, owing to the refusal
of the city council to provide money
for meeting the expenses of the work
house. The board Of directors of the
workhouse passed a resolution order
ing that all prisoners confined there
should be released from custody and
work on the stone pile indefinitely sus-
pended. Twenty prisoners were
to be released.
THE Standard Oil company recently
filed certificate with the secretary OF
state at Trenton, n. j., increasing its
capital stock from $40, 600, OGO to S11O,-
900, 900.
THE 5000 employees of the trust smelt
ers in Denver, Pueblo and Leadvil1e
Col, walked out at noon on the 14th,
after having extinguished the fires in
the big furnaces and put everything in
perfect order for a season of idleness
It was predicted that most of the mines
in the mining camps of the state will
soon be closed, throwing thousands OF
miners out of employment. Almost
every industry in the state will be af
fected.
SEVENTY out of la cows at the east
ern Illinois insane hospital at Kanka'
kee showed signs of tuberculosis after
incubation with tuberculin. They
were slaughtered.
TEN persons dead. 25 injured, five OF
whom will die, and half of the remain
der suffering from very serious wounds.
sums up the list of casualties resulting
from the tornado that wrecked Her
| man, Neb., on the 18th. The loss OF
property aggregated $3.50, 900, 100 build
ings having been destroyed and only