Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-06-09

| Sd, 600 BritonS and Americans holding
regular love feast the former being
the host and the latter the guests
Many famous men and women were
present.
Col. WooDs' regiment of rough riders.
officially known as the First United
States volunteer cavalry, went into
camp on the Sd at Tampa. Fla. The
men, fully armed and equipped, made
| a magnificent appearance and many
| favorable comments were passed by
| veterans who watched the westerners
| as they rode by on their bronchos.
The London weeklies dwell upon the
difficulty of following the war opera
tions through the maze of uncertain
ties. All agree that a prolongation of
war means Americas ultimate triumph
and SPANS utter ruin.
AN Atlanta, Ga, dispatch stated
that State Senator Carter will lead
company of giants in the war against
Spain. The senator says this company
will be the tallest in the United States
and physically will hold distinction
similar to that of the queens horse
guards in England. No person under
six feet will be taken.
| THE business failures in the United
| States for the week ended the Sd num-
bered IFS, according to Bradstreet's
commercial report, against 1872 for the
corresponding week in last year.
| PRIVATE ROLAND MCDONALD, COM
pany NJ. First Missouri regiment. was
drowned in Chickamauga creek, half a
mile from the regiments camp at
Chickamauga Park, Ga. The body was
recovered.
| BRAINERD, Mimi, was recently Wis
tied by a tornado, accompanied by
rain and hail, which did thousands of
dollars of damage to property. The
wind swept through the residence por-
ton of the city, wrecking outbuild-
ings, uprooting shade trees demolish-
ing glass store fronts and tearing of
roofs. No fatalities were reported.
| LOUIS MARTELs, who was released
from Jail on the Sd at Alfred, Me-, hav-
ing completed term to which he was
sentenced for misdemeanor in which
Mrs Joseph Glendon was involved.
was shot and probably fatally injured
as he was leaving the Jail by the hus-
band of the woman. Glendon then
placed the revolver against his own
| breast and fred a bullet through his
heart. dying instantly.
| THIRrY-NINE Spanish prisoners, cap
tured on the Spanish steamship Rita
off Porto Rico on May 8. arrived at
New York on the Sd on the Clyde line
steamship Seminole. They were
turned over to the Austrian consul for
shipment back to Spain.
| A DISASTROUS freight wreck occurred
on the Illinois Central railroad five
miles south of Ashley. Ill, g cars and
contents being demolished, consisting
of oats, hay and whisky. Several men,
| beating their way. were injured.
In a quarrel over a 5O-cent pocket
knife at Galveston, Tex, Pete Peter
son shot and killed Henry Williams. a
| negro fisherman.
The tug Record, one of the stanchest
on the lakes, was run down and sunk
on Lake Superior. near Duluth, Mimi,
and three of her crew were drowned.
JUDGE SUTHERLAND, of the Wisconsin
| superior court, decided that specifi-
cation in contract requiring the con-
tractor to use only union labor is void
ONE thousand men of the Singer
sewing machine works at South Bend,
Ind, struck on the 31st for an advance
in wages.
The Woman's National War Relief
| association has been organized in New
York with Mrs. U. S. Grant as presi.
dent.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
tar paper factory of Tobias, New &
Co., at New York, in which a mum Der
of persons were seriously injured, tn e
| entire plant wrecked and thousands of
dollars of damage done. No one was
killed, but it was feared that some OF
the injured may die. The 6remen
think the explosion was caused by &C
emulation of tar gas.
A SPECIAL from Victoria, B. c., said
that the schooner Lady Jane Grey
| foundered 80 miles west of Cape Flat
terry on May 90. Only % out of 81 pas
sengers were saved.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad completed its line into Fort
Smith, Ark, on the LIST.
The car barn and $50 cars of the
Consolidated Railway company at Bal
timore, Nd, was burned, entailing a
loss of $3.50. 600; fully covered by in
Surance.
JAMES REID, who shot and killed his
sweetheart, Susie Blakely, at Kansas
City. Mo-, was sentenced by Judge
Wofford to be hanged July IS. Both
parties were colored.
INDIAN AGENT WISDOM, of Muscogee
I. T., who was instructed by the in
terror department to investigate the
reported restitution on account of the
recent floods in the Arkansas and Ca
madam river bottoms in this territory
stated that an appropriation of SIC. 00(
will be required to relieve the want:
of the stricken people. Near Red
land. 1. T., at least $50 people were il
destitute circumstances and for 81
miles west of Arkansas along these
rivers there were many people whs