Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-14

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under their hunks and the company
cooks, when preparing meals, stand
| knee deep in water.
TWENTY of the largest cigar factories
| in Tampa, Fla, have instituted a gen
eral lockout which will result in in
definitely cutting off IS per cent. of the
total United States output of clear
Havana cigars. Five thousand CubanS
| were thrown out of employment.
! GALE on Lake Erie on the night of
the Sth caused the schOoners Warming
| ton and Minch and the steamer Sequin
| to go ashore near Ashtabula, o.
DELEGATIONS of Indians from the
Omaha reservation and from some of
the South Dakota tribes held pow
WOW at Decatur, Neb., on the 9th.
They had great time with their in
carnations and dances.
CALIFORNIA experienced an earth
quake shock on the 9th.
THE Atola Coal Mining company is
importing many negroes to work in it's
mines at Lehigh, I. T.
THE committee of the peace dele
gates at The Hague discussed on the
18th, the scheme for mediation and
arbitration drawn up by the comite
deXamine, but as many of the dele
gates had not heard from their respec-
tive governments an adjournment was
taken for a week.
THE Burlington's Omaha night ex-
press from Kansas City was wrecked
in the Missouri river bottoms about 20
miles from Kansas City, near Waldron,
and the fireman, Charles Weltz, was
killed and several passengers were in
! jured. cloudburst had washed away
about so feet of track.
| MAJ. HEATwOLE, chief commissary.
| died at Santiago de Cuba on the 9th of
| yellow fever.
PHILANDER JESTER, of Muncie, Ind,
a brother of Alexander Jester, who
was arrested in Oklahoma and taken
| to Mexico, Mo-, to answer for an
| alleged murder committed in 1871, de-
clared that the sister who caused
Alexander's arrest was of unsound
mind.
| DETROIT, Mich, was said to be sore
| because there were only about 20, 900
Christian Endeavorers when they had
| reason to expect 1000.
| Two hundred negroes from the mines
and quarries in and about Birmingham
Ala, left there the other night for Weir
City, Kan, to take the place of strikers
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uIar movement of these negroes has
been going on for some time and 500 of
them have already been sent thither.
| FRED ROBERTS was shot by his broth
er-in-law, Frank Fouts, near Lead
vile, Col, for abusing his wife, Fouts'
| sister.
| REPORTS from a special correspond
ent of the Galveston News indicated
that, while the property loss by the re-
cent floods has been enormous, the loss
of life has been greatly exaggerated.
According to the News only two lives
| tIave been lost in the lower BrazoS
| food in Texas.
| MEASURES for the relief of the food
| sufferers in Texas are we'll under way
and relief committees organized. At
Richmond it was believed 5000 to 5000
persons would have to be fed.
ALARMING reports came to Houston,
Tex, on the 4th of another flood in the
Brazos valley. The village of Dewey
was washed away and many people
were drowned. Houston and the gov
ernor had been appealed to for help.
| PRESIDENT w. n. BYERS, of the Colo
RADIO state board of arbitration, said at
Denver on the 9th that everything
looked favorable for an early settle
|
smelter trust and-its employees.
| BOYS shooting firecrackers at Scran-
ton, Pa, set fire to straw in the barn
of Jones Bros. and started fire, which
resulted in destroying the barn and
| other ad joining buildings. Ten horses
| were burned.
A TERRIBLE wind and hailstorm on
the 9th devastated the country for
miles around Kendalls, Wis. 1t ruined
large tracts of valuable timber.
A CONVENTION of the stenographers
of the United States has been called to
meet at Chicago August 22-24 to form
permanent organization.
CATTLE are being worried to death by
flies in Cleveland and Pottawatomie
counties. Ok.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado visited the
vicinity of Ainsworth, Neb., on the
5th, killing one woman and tearing
farm buildings to kindling wood.
Elk. Gov. w. J. STONE denied in an
interview at ST. Louis that he would
succeed Senator Jones as chairman of
the democratic national committee and
said that Chairman Jones was not gOing
to resign.
DR.. FRANCIS E. CLARK was reelected
president of the United Society of
Christian EndeavOr at the convention
at Detroit, Mich, on the 5th; Rev. A.
NJ. Reltzell was elected state president
for Kansas and Rev. j. w. Clipringer
for Missouri.
MANY miners have reached Dawson,
Alaska, from the Porcupine river with
out gold. Some said they prospected
all the rivers as far north as Hersche1
island, in the Arctic ocean, without
finding any.
A FRAME building occupied by T. NJ.
Weiss, druggist, and the Whitehead
laundry, at Indianapolis, Ind. was
wrecked by gas explosion the other
afternoon. Six people were injured,
two perhaps fatally.
| RnRERT BONNER nnhliSher of the