Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-24
GENERAL VIEWS NOTES.

through Kansas.
There are now 1920 dranu Army
men in Kansas. The net loss during
the year was %.
An order has been issued by the
captain general of Madrid suspend
ing the publication of the RepuDllcan
newspaper, FL Pals.
General Miles has about 10000 men
i'm Porto Rico. They will be sutffcient
for the occupation OF the island, and
perhaps more than are needed atter
the Spanish evacuate.
e. j. Phelps, ex-minister to Eng
land, who has been seriously III at
bennington, VT, suffering from hVer
arrangement, returned 10 ms nome
5n Burlington on Saturday. He is inn
proved in health.
The governors general of Cuba and
Porto Rico have acknowledged the
receipt of the news of the suspension
OF hostili'ties between the United
States and Spain and announced the
carrying out of the orders.
In a swimming race, Sunday, at
San Francisco, X. V. Cornell, the CAL
ifornian champion, was defeated by
SYDNEY Cavill, of Australia, who
made 220 yards in two minutes and
twenty seconds. 4 has is said to be
new worlds record.
Senator George G. Vest, of Mis-
souri,, whose impaired health has
been source of anxiety to his many
personal and political friends, is inn
proving rapidly. lie expects to re-
main tat Capron Springs, w. Va, until
the LIST OF September.
No more troops will be sent to
General Merritt unless he asks for
them. 1t is believed at the war de-
partment tlrat the 10000 men now
there are sufficient to garrison Ma
Mia and the ground which the United
States for the present will occupy.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, re-
ceived a telegram Sunday night from
Adjutant General Corbn assigning
the two independent colored compa-
MES at Camp Mount, under colored
CAPTAINS, to Santiago for garrison
duty. The companies are anxious to
go.
Father" Bill DAILY, the well-known
horseman, was badly injured Sunday
might in a runaway accident at
Sheepshead bay, near New York city.
The center pole of his surrey broke,
throwing him to the ground. His left
shoulder was dSslocat ted and he sus-
tanned internal injuries.
Colonel John Atkinson, a promi-
nent Lrish-American of Michigan, died
guflH lv nf Trio Of hn hon =
at Detroit, Mich, Sunday. Colonel
Atkinson was one of Governor Pin
gree's most prominent political sup
porters in the last legislature, in
which he was representa- tive.
Advices from Melbourne report
that the American bark c.. C. Funk,
Captain Nissen, which sailed from
Tacoma May % for Melbourne, has
been wrecked on Flinders island,
Tasmania. Eleven of those on board
the bark, including Captain Nissen,
his wife and two children, were
drowned.
News of the ccssa ton of hostilities
between the United States and Spain
was received at Hong Kong Saturday
The British steamer Australian
bound for Sydney, n. s. w., was char
tered to carry the news to Manila,
No other vessel was available for the
purpose, owing to the prevalence OF
typhoons.
Emperor William, while riding al
Wilhelmsrhue Sunday, was approach
ed by two ladies carrying bouquet is
which they offered to his majesty
The emperor reached down to accept
the bouquets, when his horse reared
and unseated him. His majesty was
uninjured, sand, joking about the ac-
cident, mounted fresh steel and re-
turned TO the castle.
Two young farmers, James Nichol
son and John Terrill, were drowned
in the west side rayine near Ottawa
Ill.,, at 2 o'clock Sunday morning
They missed the road and drove of
the bank of the ravine, landing il
the water twenty feet below. They
were pinned in the water by the
horse and buggy, which fell on them
They were drowned in two feet o.
water.
All of the troops that were will
General Shafter in the Santiago cam
paign will be out of Cuba by Frida
of this week. General Shafter will
accompany them to Montauk Point
There will remain at Santiago five
regiments of immmes TO do garrison
duty. 1t is yet possible that bat
ferry win be sent to Santiago to tak'
the place of the batteries which ar,
10 be removed.
Twenty-Five picnickers riding on {
dray and returning from the coun
try to Duluth, Mimi, Sunday night
were thrown out as a result of the
rig running the horses down the
eteep hill of Fourth avenue east. The
brake refused to work. August Tidt
was killed and William Clement i.
dying. Other members Of the party
sustained broken bones and more Oh
less serious injuries.
Mr.. Jarvis, vice-presidenh and Gu
ban manager of the North American
Trust Company, who has been a
Santiago for the last ten days estab
fishing Santiago office, will go t.
Havana. where he will establish head
quarters for the whole island. IN,
North American Trust Company act!
as the fiscal agent of the United
1'NS w N'und- AIT USNeillltLS. UlII -.
and taxes passing through ,theil
hands.
The sloop yacht Leoua, with seven.
teen men aboard, while anchored out.
side Of Boston light, was run into b,
barge in tow of the tug Honey.
brook, and five men were swept from
the deck by the heavy tow line. Tive
of the number, c. w. Sellman and Al
bert Nordell, were drowned; another
Augustine Casperson, was killed b,
being jammed between the tcw line
and the deck, while two others, Pete,
Nelson and John Parkinson, al
though sustaining injuries, were res
pueu' - s-.t - ~ 49,
The fight of the state officer again
st the Western Union Telegraph Co
having for its object the forcing of tn,
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