Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-02-10


several of the Filipinos' positions and
repuIsed them with great loss. The
| American loss was 20 killed and i25
wounded.
TORNADO nearly wiped out Stiles
boro, Ga, on the 5th. No lives lost
TELEGRAM was received at Wheel
ing, w. Va, on the 5th that a slziff
loaded with nitrO-glycerine had broken
loose from the Acme Torpedo COM
pany's wharf at Mingo junction and
was floating down the river with the
| ice. All boats were warned of the
| danger of contact.
AS the result of riot in Justices
court at Drew. Ia, Charles Hall and
| Fred Bradfield were fatally shot and
six others were wounded. The trou BILE
was caused by two factions quarreling
over the location of county bridge.
THE body of Gen. Garcia. late of the
Cuban army, who recently died at
Washington, was transferred on the
4th with military donors to the United
States gunboat Nashville, at Fort
Monroe. Va. which will take the
corpse to Cuba.
A SOAP trust is being planned with
| 500, 900. 600 capital.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
placed boycott on the Chicago News
and the Chicago Record.
JAMES A. SEXTON. conmander-in-
chief of the G. A. R.. died on the 5th
at Garfield hospital, Washington,
| aged 55.
| COIN" HARVEY, who has an Office in
Chicago and is raising fund to carry
on the free silver campaign in 1900,
stated that since October 8, when the
scheme began, the subscriptions have
averaged $500 day and are increasing.
| A BILL to prohibi gambling has been
passed by the Idaho Legislature.
FIRE which originated in the big
bakery of the Stewart Cracker COM
pany at Philadelphia on the Sd COM
pletely Quilted that structure and thou
sands Of dollars worth of adjoining
property, the total loss being estimated
at from $500, 600 to $500. 600.
| The Gaensslen block at Cleveland,
O.. was Quilted by fire and adjoining
buildings damaged. Loss. $4,000.
| A WAGON loaded with furniture, on
which five men and a young woman
were riding, was struck by fast
freight train at the crossing at River
ton station, just above McKeesport,
Pa Four of the men were killed and
the other man and the young woman
were SO badly injured that they will
probably die.
THREE cases of smallpox were dis
covered at the Vendome hotel, at
Omaha. Neb., on the Sd. The health
department rushed a squad of police
men to the scene and when the guests
of the hotel started to go to work they
were driven back and the place quar-
| an tiued.
AN Iron Mountain freight train was
recently wrecked near Malvern. Ark,
| A FIRE in Nagyproboez, Austria, de-
stroyed 800 houses and many lives
were lost.
THE engine of the fast mail train
was derailed at Grand junction, Ia,
on the I'd as the train was ap-
preaching the Rock Island crossing.
Through an oversight of the engineer
or the failure of the brake to work,
the engine ran off the rail and fell
over. crushing Fireman Casey. The
cars remained upright and none of the
passengers were injured.
The Clough & Warren compauv's
piano and organ factory, at Detroit,
Mich. was partly destroyed by fire on
the I'd. The insurance on the stock
and machinery was about S75.OOO
| which it was believed would cover the
loss.
| EX-CoNGREssMAN NIEDRINGHAUs, of
st. Louis. has been elected president of
the newly-organized National Enamel
ing & Stamping company. James In
gram, of Baltimore, will be general
manager of the plants at Granite CITY,
Ill. These are the most valuable alb
sorbed by the new company, which has
a capital stock of $50. Oe0. 600. and will
control the manufacture of granite
ironware in the United States.
The press mill OF the Ohio Powder
company's works, located near Youngs-
town, o., exploded with terrific force
on the lst, killing two employees and
totally demolishing the building and
machinery.
FREIGHTINe party was caught in a
snowslide in Lincoln gulch, 9L miles
above Aspen. Col, on the 1st. 1t was
believed that five men and IS horses
| were killed.
THE Oxford hotel at st. Louis was
partially burned on the 1st and so
guests who were sleeping soundly at
the time had a narrow escape. Manv
got out of the burning building par
TALLY dressed, carrying their clothing
on their arms.
The Buckingham theater, formerly
the Grand opera house, at Louisville.
KY. was recently destroyed by fire.
Loss, 500. 600. The fire was caused by
a live wire.
NEWS was received in Louisville, Kv..
from New York the other day that the
deal com bining nearly all ofssthe inn
portant distilleries of Kentucky into a
gigantic whisky trust had been sue
cessfully concluded. The big company
is to be capitalized at $50, 600, Ooo The
combination embraces about go distil.
lerIes, with between SO. 600, 900 and S10,-
900. GOO of whisky in bond.
A LONDON dispatch said that the
movement renewed recen tly in CHICAGO