Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-10-27

mutation of rations when they are
granted leave of absence, the rate to
be the same as that of enlisted men on
furlough, that is. 25 cents per day.
GENERAL NEWS
DIR. WILLIAM r. BROOKS, director of
the Smith observatory at Geneva, n.
Y, has discovered a new comet. Its
position is right ascension, IA hours, 33
minutes, declination north 60 degrees,
20 minutes The comets motion is
southe asterly. Its appearance is de-
scribed as large. round and bright.
IT was reported that Gen. Blanco
had planned a revolution in Havana
against Spain's sovereignty, then to
proclaim a republic with himself at
the head and, after the republic had
been established at Havana, reach out
after other portions of the island held
by the insurgents. He thought it pos
sible that the republic would get the
recognition of the United States.
CATHERINE DE GRAUGHFT, aged six
years, was run over by cable car at
Kansas City, Mo-. and instantly killed
while crossing the tracks on her way
to school
Roy S. KENDALL, aged Is years. at
tempted to follow a rabbit into an
opening under a stone weighing many
tons near Colorado Springs, Col. The
stone had lain there for centuries. but
it fell on the boy, crushing him into a
shapeleSs mass
CHARLES KUGADT was hanged by the
sheriff of Washington county. Tex,
for the murder of his half-sister, Jo-
hanna Kugadt.
ROBERT SHERRoD and wife, living
near Pembroke, KY, are both dead
from the effects of having eaten toad
stools by mistake, thinking them
mushrooms. Finding them in the
woods, Sherrod had them cooked for
dinner and soon after eating them
both he and his wife became violently
i'll and soon died in great agony.
AT Clairville, Cal, hotel was burned
and five persons were suffocated to
death while asleep
GREAT havoc has been caused by
floods in Fiume, Austria-Hungary.
The torpedo boat Davis, while on its
trial trip in the Columbia river, 20
miles above Astoria, Ore, had her
boiler tubes burst and eight of her
crew were badly scalded, seven dying
soon afterwards. Excepting for the
havoc wrought in the boiler room the
boat was unin jured.
Col. w. J. BRYAN asked the war in
vestigating commission at Jackson
Vile. Fla, to excuse him from testify
ing before it for certain obvious
reasons and to examine his lieutenant
colonel instead. The commission
granted his request.
EVERY life insurance company in
Japan is said to be in difficulties.
A FRENCH missionary and several
Chinese Catholics were massacred by
a riotous mob at Paklung. China. The
French government has demanded
PREPARATION from the Chinese govern.
meut
The bank examiner has closed the
First national bank, of Neigh, Neb
CHARLES FARNswoRTH, OF Massachu-
sets, who recently arrived at Tacoma
Wash. from Kotzebue sound. stated
that there were 500 needy prospectors
at that place living in tents, not one
in ten having money to get away and
not one in so having supplies for the
winter. He thought the Red Cross so
ciety or the government should send &
steamer and rescue them.
JOHN WILSON, IA years old. was
caught in cane crusher on his fathers
farm near Hillsboro, Ill, and literally
crushed to death.
AT Murfeesboro. Tenn, Mrs Ton
McUin committed suicide, after frs
poisoning her two-year-o1d child. Ths
means used was laudanum.
THE venerable Henry O'Neill, o
Louisville. KY, veteran of both the
Mexican and civil wars, is at 92 year.
of age the father of his first child
He was married two years ago to Mis-
MoIlie Lanahan, but before that ne
had been the husband of two wives
both of whom died without leaving
children.