Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-16


p. m. on the 18th and killed three mem
bers of the Malloy family and fatally
injured another. Several houses were
demolished. Much damage was also
done at Whiting.
TERRIFIC rains have washed bridges
and dams away in the section around
Wlnona, Mimi, and railroad travel
was completely at standstill on the
18th.
PANIC was reported at Vera Cruz,
Mex, over the outbreak of yellow fever.
SIMON BROOKS. colOred, was lynched
by mob of 500 negroes near Sardis,
Miss, having been taken from the jail
during the night. The victim had as
saulted a negress. The white men had
nothing to do with the lynching.
THE Filipino occupation of the prov
ince of Cavite has been broken and the
Americans now control the coast towns
of Paranaque and Las Pinas. The mon
itor Monadnock shelled both places.
AT a meeting of the trades and labor
assembly at ST. Louis on the 18th
resolution was adopted rendering the
support of organized labor to the strik-
ing architectural ironworkers for
shorter day and higher wages
SIX large open air meetings under
the auspices of the Chicago Single Tax
club were held in the lake CITY on the
18th.
THE Cunard liner Campania, while
passing up the North river on her way
to her pier at New York, ran into the
immigrant transfer boat William
Fletcher and sunk it. No lives were
lost.
THE Usage Indian country in Okla
homa is overrun by horse thieves.
THE lighthouse and buildings of the
new United States training station on
Goat island, near San Francisco, We're
threatened with destruction on the
night of the 18th by the grass becoming
ignited, but a large force of men turned
out and saved the buildings from de-
Struction.
The attorney general of Indiana will
soon move against trusts in that state.
MUCH excitement was caused by the
discovery of phosphate the other day
near Thompson station, Tenn, and all
the farmers in that section were en-
gagged in digging for deposits. Repre-
sentativeS of fertilizer factories from
all over the country were on the ground
| making efforts to secure options on
lands.
TwENTY-THREE manufacturers of
glass tableware, including representa-
tives of the United States Glass COM
pany, owning 90 plants, were repre-
sented at meeting held at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 9th. It was announced
that 80 per cent. of the output favored
a com bination.
THE Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
passenger train, which left Kansas City
at 7:30 p. M. on the Sth filed with peo-
pie who had been in Kansas City to see
the woodmen's parade, was wrecked
at Grandview, Mo-, two hours later.
More than so passengers were injured
but only two will probably die. The
cause of the wreck, according to the
railroad officials, was the spreading of
| the rails at curve, the roadbed having
been made soft by the recent heavy
rains.
JAMES J. JEFFRIEs knocked out Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons in the eleventh round
in the fight for the championship at
the Coney Island Athletic club in New
| York on the 9th. Jeffries had Fitz-
simmons whipped from the ninth round
and was never at any time in serious
danger.
| BY a vote of % to I the Associated
L y
which are represented so cycling or
CARNATIONS of Chicago, decided to run
all it's races under sanction of the
League of American Wheelmen, the
National Cycling association getting
| the one vote.
NINETEEN persons died of the heat in
New York on the Sth and 80 others
were FRUSTRATED.
DESPITE the drilling rain which at
times swelled into a downpour, the
| Modern Woodmen of America gave a
parade on the Sth at Kansas City, Mo.
which was credit to the order. The
parade was one hour and ten minutes
passing given point. There were 80
| bands in the line, dozens of Forester
teams, scores of carriages and hundreds
of men. w. ]. Bryan made speech
| on ''Woodcraft'' in the afternoon, be-
| ing brought from Liberty on a special
| train. William A. NOrthcott, of Green
vile, H.. was reelected head consul.
| ENGINEER JOHN T. GREGG died sud
denly in his cab near Fox Lake, Mich.
His death was not discovered until his
| fireman had spoken to him once OF
| twice and received no response. The
engineer was at the time sitting on his
seat with his hand on the throttle.
| AUGUSTA, Ga, experienced one OF
| the largest fires in its history on the
| 18th. 1t started in the drug store Oh
Davenport & Phinizy. Loss, $3.50, 900,
| IT was reported that Aguinaldo had
dissolved the Filipino congress and de.
clared himself dictator.
| THE cornerstone OF the new S175, 00(
collegiate building of the state uni.
versity of Iowa was laid at Iowa City
on the 18th. The building stands close
to the old capitol of Iowa and on the
very site of the new structure the In.
dams of the territory held their last
| war dance in 1S43.