Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-08

section, and S. M. Patton. leading ar
.hitect, lost their lives. The total loss
was about 100000
A MADRID dispatch stated that Gen.
Ruis Rivera, the Cuban insurgent COM
mander, would be taken to Havana for
trial before an ordinary court-martial,
The Spanish government SO directing.
1t was said that it was not likely that
the death penalty would be imposed
upon him.
ALL records for long distance horse
back riding were broken on the Sd by
Harrison K. Gamer and Tristan Colket,
Of Philadelphia, who rode about 100
miles on relays of horses from New
York to Philadelphia in hours and SO
minutes.
THE 54th annual boat race was rowed
by the Oxford and Cambridge universe
ties on the Sd over the course from Put
ney to Mortlale. AZ miles, the Oxford
crew winning by barely two lengths
in 10 minutes and IL seconds.
A CHINESE Equal Rights league has
been formed at Chicago to Americanize
Cinnamon in the United States and get
them the rights of citizenship.
A BATCH of II convicts was working
in field at Waynesboro. Ga, when a
storm came up and the keeper strung
the convicts on a chain and secured
them to a tree. Lightning struck the
tree and shocked the convicts. killing
one named Dent, who was the 18th and
end man.
COUNT RADENI, prime minister of
Austria, rendered to the emperor on
the I'd the resignation of himself and
the entire cabinet. The reason was
that Count Radeni found it impossible
to maintain liberal majority in the
recently-elected reichsrath.
The four members of the Button
gang" named Francisco Gonzales y
Borrego, Antonio Gonzales y Borrego,
Sauriano Alarid and Patricio Talencia,
condemned to death for the murder of
ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez, were hanged
together on one scaffold at Santa Fe.
n. M, on the Sd.
IT was stated at New York that all
the kinetscope pictures of the Carson
Fight were practically ruined. They
were developed at the Edison works
and were so defective as to be useless.
THE steamer Griggs struck an OBJ
struction on the Chattahoochie river
near Co1um bia, Ala, on the night of
the 1st and soon sank. The engineer
and four deck hands were drowned.
There was panic among the passen-
gers and some jumped overheard be-
fore the boats could be lowered.
THE oldest veteran of the G. A. R.,
William Harding, celebrated his Tooth
birthday recently at his farm near Wa
seka, MINI. He is also veteran of both
the war of 1912 and of the Mexican
war, and in 1862, when over IS years of
age, he enlisted in the Fifth Minnesota.
AT Houston, Tex, A. j. Holman and
his wife, Bertha Holman, who were
married two weeks ago, committed
suicide by taking morphine. They
left letters in which they asked to be
buried in the same coffin, but gave no
reason for the tragic ending of their
honeymoon.
THE diplomatic representatives OF
the powers at Constan tinop1e have re-
eeived instructions from their respec-
tive governments to open negotiations
with the porte for definite with
drawal of the Turkish troops from
Crete.
HUGH MILLER, 25 years old, under ar
rest for setting fire to a four-story
brown-stone apartment house in Brook
Ign, admitted that in 1891 he had fred
eight houses in which ten people had
been burned to death. Miller coolly
related the details of his awful crimes
and then declared that he was victim
of pyromania, caused by excessive ciga-
rette smoking.
THE model for the statue of Francis
Scott Key. the author of THE Star
Spangled Banner" has been completed
at New York and it will be cast in
bronze and erected at Frederick, Md.
1t will be unveiled on June Il, 1888,
Flag day"
THE full-blood Cherokees held
mass meeting recently ten miles above
Fort Gibson, I. T., on the Grand river,
for the purpose of uniting the full
bloods in a new political party to OPP
pose the Dawes commission in any
agreement looking to change in their
present form Of government. They are
to have another meeting to decide on
their course of action.
HEAVY rainfall on the 31st added
to the horror of the flood situation be-
low Memphis, Tenn. Several breaks
in the banks of the Mississippi river
were reported. Gunnison, Rosedale
and other towns in Mississippi were
under water and the outlook at Vicks-
burg was gloomy. kilograms also re.
ported the situation on the East Car.
roll and Madison front, Louisiana, as
critical.
Mr.. FLICK, a well-to-do farmer, his
wife and two children were drowned
in foC r1v,, he, Il