Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

jumped into a boat in tow of naphtha
lunch at Cincinnati on the 10Th when
it sank and only one man was saved.
THE large plant of Somers Bros, m =
ufacturers of horse collars, at st. Lo--,
was totally destroyed by fire. L.
$4,000
THE Tompkins opera house block
at Gallatin, Tenn, was burned.
A HEAVY windstorm did considerable
damage at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
10Th.
A SECOND fire within a week occurred
the other night at Fort Duchesne, Utah,
when the quartermaster's stables were
entirely consumed. Nineteen mules
were burned to death, besides 20 wag-
Ons, ambulances, harness, hay, oats,
etc. The fire was believed to be incen-
diary.
SEVEN men were crossing Turna gain
arm, Alaska, in a small boat, when it
was overturned by a tidal wave and
they were drowned.
A STRIKE was inaugurated on all the
street car lines of Brooklyn on the 10th.
TwENTY-sEvEN business houses, the
pumping station of the waterworks,
the fire engine house and the jail at
Balm bridge, Ga, were destroyed by fire
on the 18th.
BY the breaking of a rope, support
ing a scaffold on which three bricklay-
ers were working at st. Louis, Alfred
Price and Florence Brennan were
thrown to the brick pavement from
the fourth story of the building and
killed. L. S. Doyle, the other man on
the scaffold, saved himself by catching
rope at the other END of the scaffold.
GREwsOME stories come from the Bra
EOS valley in Texas. Outbreaks of sick
ness were reported from many points,
and, owing to the scarcity of nour-
ishing foods and medicines and the
lmpediments to transportation, it
was feared the mortality will be large.
John Carlisle, who owns a large plan
tation at Chappell Hill, near BRENNAN,
reported four deaths among his people
since the flood. The waters washed
the carcasses of $50 animals into the
fence corners on his planta and
portions of his fields were 80 feet under
water.
THREE-CENT fares were adopted by
the Detroit (Iich.) Citizens Street rail
way on the 14th.
WILLIAM GONG, whose Indian name
was Walla Tonaka, was shot at Alikchi,
l.
the Choctaw court for murder. The
execution was a horribly sickening
affair. The sheriff's bullet entered the
victims breast, just missing the right
spot. Going fell backward and moaned
piteously for an hour before expiring.
Water was poured down his throat a
number of times to hasten death by
strangulation.
nar-S' SfI-ilx &c
costing Kansas City 1000 day.
SERIOUS riOting followed the acquit-
tai of Father Flamidien, of the school
of the Christian Brothers at Lille
France, who was charged with murder
ing boy in that institution. Thou
sands of persons paraded the streets
shouting Down with the Jesuits'' and
smashing windows.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago &c AL
ton railroad was wrecked early on the
18th near Glendale, Mo. Ten persons
were stealing a ride in the cars and
three of them were killed and seven ter
ribly injured. 1t was believed the ac-
cident was through a broken fiange,
causing one of the cars to Jump the
track and the indiscriminate pi1ing up
of the other cars followed. The train
consisted of ten cars of merchandise,
coal, hogs and cattle.
SEVERAL hundred wood carvers in
the factories at Shelbyville, Ind, went
on strike the other day, demanding a
raise of wages of Is cents per hour.
They now receive 25 cents.
A PASSENGER train on the Colorado
Southern railway was robbed by four
men at point five miles south of Fol-
som, n. M. The robbers used dyna-
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press car. AS soon as the robbers had
searched the express car they mounted
horses, which were hitched nearby,
and fled without any attempt to go
through the mail car.
THE Tri-City Labor congress at
Moline, ILL.,, has appealed to President
Mckinley to stop the discrimination
against union men in the Rock Island
arsenal and also called on trade and la
Dor assemblies throughout the country
to use their influence in the matter.
o. T. CoRsoN, of Columbus, O., was
elected president of the National Edu-
cational association by unanimous
vote at the meeting at Los Angeles,
Cal. Mrs. CASTOR Boyd, of Kansas, was
chosen as one of the vice presidents.
ONE thousand laborers were thrown
out of employment on the 18th by the
closing down of the Schwarzschild &
Sulzberger packing plant in Armour
dale, Kan. The plant was closed as a
result of a disagreement between the
management and the butchers union
| about wages. The men We're not dis
| charged, the management merely de-
| Gliding to shut down the plant until the
| differences should be adjusted.
| Two hundred brakemen will be at
| once dropped by the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis railway, which is
! supplying the greater part of it's freight
| equipments with modern air appli-
| anceS.
THE Distillery Company of America,
| with an authorized capital of S125, OOO,-