Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-07


into the city. The American loss was
heavy, some estimating it at 500 killed
and wounded.
HENRY WHITEFIELD, alias Charles
Perkins. and &. B. Brooks. both col
pred, paid the penalty OF their crimes
On the gallows within the stockade of
the United States Jail at Muscogee, L.
T.. on the 1st. Whitefield was hanged
for murder and Brooks for an assault
On white girl
NINE negroes were drowned near
Plaquemine, La, by the upsetting of a
skiff. The drowned were Randolph
Johnson and eight children. Young
Richard (white) and three colored men
we're saved by holding on to the skif.
A FIRE was started at Philadelphia
by the ignition OF coal oil with which
Mrs. F1annery was bathing her arm to
:elieve rheumatic pain. The flames
spread rapidly and child was burned
20 death before it could be rescued and
Mr.. FIannery was fatally burned. Mrs
Flannery became crazed by the loss
Of her child and, while wandering
through the streets. was struck by a
trolley car and was thought to be IA
tally injured.
States for the six months ended June
80 numbered 6. 4e9, according to Brad
streets report, being eight per cent.
fewer than the same time last year.
The liabilities aggregated S72. 100, BAL.
% per cent. smaller than the same
time last year.
HENRY WILLIAMS, the negro arrested
at Macon. mo-, charged with assault
in an al iy1 ruoc han
by a mob to the Wabash railway bridge
at 1880 a. m. on the 3Oth. He died pro-
testing his innocence. The sheriff and
his deputies were overpowered and dis.
armed and the jail door was broken in.
EDWARD FENDER, prisoner in the
New York Tombs prison awaiting trial
for the killing of Richard Bennett in
April last, committed suicide on the
30th by hanging himself in his cell.
He made a rope of medical bandages
and carefully soaped it in order that
the moose should slip readily.
MAIL advices from Japan stated that
the tax on tea imposed by the United
States will cause 5000 tea firers in ia
pan to be thrown out of employment.
A terrible storm visited the district
surrounding Yokohama, washing away
hundreds of houses, drowning several
persons and damaging the wheat and
millet crops.
AT Cincinnati on the 3Oth Pink Coat
and Han dor, the two derby winners,
were defeated in the Himyar stakes
at Latonia by the three-year-old colt
John Bright. The race was / q miles
and was run in the remarkable time
of 1888.
A ut Vor
rem, O., from John Muldoon, who is
now in the Alaskan gold fields, said
that of the 1O1 men who left Seattle
Two were drowned and the others per-
ished from cold and hunger.
FLOODS in the Trinity river washed
away 1000 feet of track of the Texas
Trunk railroad between Dallas and
buildings were submerged in East Dali
las and one of the large sewers burst,
causing much damage.
INTERCEPTED dispatches from Admi-
raj Cervera on the 3Oth showed a criti-
cal state of affairs at Santiago Both
food and ammunition were reported
to be getting very short and the latter
will soon be exhausted.
sas City. Mo-, have united in circular
to their customers stating that after
July each receipt for package must
bear a one-cent revenue stamp. The
companies further remark that this
stamp must be affixed and paid for by
the person sending the package.
A RUMOR was in circulation at Mad
rid on the Goth that there had been a
i
sulting in favor of the Spaniards.
authorities had not heard
of it.
THE pope of Rome was said to be
greatly affected by the course of the
Spanish-American war, and in view of
his age and nervous prostration for
some time past those surrounding him.
were anxious, although his physicians
declared there was no cause for alarm
JOHNNIE ANDERSON, siX-year-old
colored girl. was shot and killed at
Tex, by Garfield Jor
dan, also colored, aged IL. The
mothers OF the two children had dis
pute and the boy afterwards waylaid
the girl with a revolver.
GAUNT want was reported stalking
about the streets of Madrid, and men.
women and children were said to be
starving. The cause of this terrible
condition of affairs was attributed di-
rectly to the war with the United
States.
Tom SHARKEY, the sailor pugilist OF
California, knocked out Gus Rubin,
the Ohio giant, in one round before
the Greater New York Athletic club
at Coney Island on the goth. Time of
round, 2:17.
The first state convention of the So
cialists of Kansas met at Fort Scott
and nominated full state ticket The
platform demands a speedy termina-
tion OF the war; that wages of soldiers
be increased and salaries of army Off