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

THE second annual conference of the
Federation of Zionists opened at Balti-
more, Md, on the 18th. Twenty socie-
ties from as many cities were repre-
sented.
MRS KOHN was cleaning some gar
ments with gasoline at Cleveland, O.,
when there was an explosion and the
entire front of the house was blown
out. Mrs. Kohn, her husband and
child were dangerously injured and
were taken to the hospital.
AT a Bohemian picnic at Cleveland,
o., on the 18th a fight was started and
Frank Hadjut was shot and killed.
THE Benbow house at Greensboro, N.
c., was burned. Loss, 500, 600.
WHILE a party of ID young folks
were bathing at Galveston, Tex, the
other evening the undercurrent swept
them out into deep water and three
girls were drowned.
MARCUS DAILY and his associates in
the Anaconda Mining company, of
Montana, have sold their holdings to
an eastern syndicate. headed by John
d. Rockefeller, for 1913, 900, 900.
THE Central Federal Labor union at
New York on the 18th presented a re-
solution instructing its secretary to
write to President Mckinley and the
war department demanding the recall
and trial by court-martia1 of Gen.
Merriam, because of his policy regard
ing the striking miners at Ceur
d Alene, Ida.
Two new dances have been approved
by the National Association of Masters
of Dancing at its convention at Nigga
ra Falls, n. Y. This will be followed
by their adoption in society circles all
over the United States. They are the
Harvest dance and the Princess Louise
gavotte. The music for the cake-wa1lz
quadrille was also received. This is a
new dance somewhat similar to the
waltz quadrille.
JOHN BERRY, cOlored, was hanged at
Marlboro, Nd. on the 10th for murder.
A CALL has been issued for meeting
of officers of the Independent telephone
companies of the United States, to be
held at Chicago June 90 to 90, to per-
feet arrangements for consolidating
the various companies interested and
build long-distance lines, connecting
all cities that have independent sys-
TENS, and organizing for mutual pro-
lection against the Central Union COM
pany.
GEORGE BARROW. charged with kid
naping Marion Clarke, was found guilty
at New York and sentenced to IA years
and ten months imprisonment.
RECENT advices received from east
Africa showed that famine was prev
alent in the German possessions.
owing to the drought, which also pre-
vailed alarmingly in the British pro-
tectorate. Hundreds of women and
children were dying of starvation and
the resident whites were wholly unable
to cope with the distress.
A wELL-DEFINED cyclone came over
| southern Oklahoma the other afternoon
| and would probably have blown away
| the town of Hennessey, it was said,
had not large cannon been discharged
| into the funnel-shaped cloud when it
was within SO yards or more of the
town. The cloud Immediately dissolved.
| That was the second cyclone which had
passed near Hennessey this summer
which had been burst by firing cannon
| into it.
REV. w. Z. Pope, an educated col
ored divine, of Mcneil, Ark, is taking
| the initiative in the organization of a
| league whose object is to elevate his
race and help solve the lynching prob
lem. The name of the organization is
| to be the Cooperative League OF
| American Citizens, and white people
are invited to become honorary mem
bers.