Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-12

secretary of the navy. died at the Whit
ney home at Roslyn. L.. l., on the 9th.
She never recovered from the hunting
accident by which in going under a low
bridge she was knocked from her horse
and two of the vertebr3 of the neck
were displaced.
GEORGE CURLEY was sentenced at
Muscogee, I. T., to be hanged for kill
ing Richard Carey, an aged white man.
The federal supreme court refused him
new trial.
THE nitro-glycerine house of the
powder works at Pinole, Cal, exploded
the other day and two men were killed
| and several others injured.
THE powder mill plant located in the
Indian Run valley. near Pottsville. Pa.
blew up on the 18th, destroying Is tons
of powder. Fortunately no workmen
were about the plant at the time. A
gang of tramps, it was believed, set
fire to the magazine.
A VIOLENT windstorm swept through
the western part of ST. Louis on the
evening of the 18th and unroofed a num-
Der of houses, blew down circus tent
and delayed street car traffic.
A TORNADO struck Chickasha, I. T.,
on the evening of the 9th demolishing
81 buildings and doing considerable
other damage Most of the people es-
capped injury by taking refuge in storm
cellars, although IA persons were re-.
ported as being more or less hurt. The
windstorm was preceded by hail and
followed by a flood of rain.
a STORM passed over Canadian coun-
ty, Ok, on the night of the 9th and de-
strOyed at least 20 farm houses and
caused great damage to growing crops.
FLEIsIG's clothing store at Santa
Cruz, Cal, was burned. Loss, $50, 600.
Canadian Bank of Commerce at Ores
without leaving any clew.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th num-
bered 1914, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against 1874 in the
corresponding week year ago.
JUDGE MCMAsTER, at Indianapolis,
Ind, has instructed the secretary of
the Order of the Iron Hall to pay the
final dividend-one-fifth of five per
cent. This will close the receivership
which has existed seven years and
which involved the collection and dis
tribution of So, OOO,O 900. OF the SO, 900
members throughout the country 40, 900
proved their claims. The total dividend
has been 35 LIS per cent.
The final organization of the Rubber
Goods Manufacturing company has
been completed, dispatch from New
York stated. The authorized capital of
the company is $50, 900, 600 of seven per
cent. cumulative preferred stock and
S25, 600, 900 of common stock.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
filed at Trenton, N. j., of the Illinois
Electric Vehicle Transpor tation COM
pany, with an. authorized capital of
$25, 600, 900. The company is authorized
to operate automobiles in the state of
Illinois.
CRACKSMEN blew open the safe in the
Standard Oil company's Office at st.
Joseph, Mo-, the other night and par
TALLY wrecked the brick building.
Several hundred dollars and valuable
papers were taken. Dynamite was
used and window glass in surrounding
buildings was shattered.
THE stevedores at Havana inaugural
ed a strike for an advance of wages to
$3 a day in American money, instead of
So so, and an attempt to supply the
places of the strikers with Chinese re-
suited in severe fight.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has sold out his
entire iron and other interests to his
partners, a New York dispatch stated,
and it is his intention to give his time
in the future to the prosecution of
philanthropical work.
SAN FERNANDO was set on fire and
then evacuated by the Filipino rebels
on the 9Th. Gen. Macarthur then oc-
cupied the burning town. Gen. Law
ton captured over 15O,O0O bushels of
rice and 265 tons of sugar at Balinag.
The street railway strikers and SYM
pathizers in Duluth, Mimi, used dyna-
mite to stop the running of cars on the
night of the 9Th and four cars were
derailed. One man was seriously in
jured and several others hurt.
The recent burning of Wade Hamp-
toms home at Wildwood, S. c., shows
the regard in which the general is held
IN that state and meetings have been
held IN many cities and steps taken to
replace the burned structure.
BLOODY free-for-all fight occurred
at Norton, KY, between Jim Bowie,
Arch Combs, Noah Fally, his brother
John, and three or four other men who
were at the house of man named Cox.
drinking and playing cards. They
fought for several minutes, when it
was discovered that one man had been
killed, two others fatally injured and
three seriously hurt.
The Chicago Chronicle stated that
makers of steel fence wire who are
outside the trust met in Chicago for
the purpose of forming a combination
and erecting a plant at some point
within the Indiana gas belt. The
companies number IA and were com
PEELED to get together in order to COM
pete successfully with the steel and
wire trust
A DISPATCH from New York on the