Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-05-12

| IHE United States gun boat AunapO-
Ills captured the French liner La
Fayette. which tried to run the Cuban
/ blockade In addition to being a
French steamer it was said she is a
French naval reserve vessel, mounting
runs Grave fears were felt at Wash
ington of a serious international com
plication over the seizure and she was
ordered to be conducted back to Ha-
| vana under escort and released.
Two Spanish fishing schooners, the
Oriente and the Antonio Suarez, were
towed to Key West, Fla, on the 9Th as
prizes, Having been captured off Ha-
vana by United States gunboats.
THREE war balloons are to be taken,
to Cuba A sufficient force of the sig
nal corps will go to operate them. It
| is promised that with these balloons
the army shall be fully informed of all
movements of the enemy within 40
miles.
! Two shoe factories at Cincinnati, be-
longing to Wolf Brothers and the
Manss company. were burned out by a
mysterious fire. The loss on stock by
each firm was about $50, 900. The dam
age to the building was $50, 600; all
| fully covered by insurance.
IN the fight at San Francisco be-
tween Thomas j. Sharkey, the sailor,
and James j. Jeffries. on the 9th, the
| referee declared the latter pugilist the
winner in the twentieth round. JEFF
| fries forced the fighting from the start
THE big siX-story brick block at the
sou theast corner of Bank and Lake
streets, Cleveland, O., was Quilted by
fire on the 9th. The blaze resulted
from an explosion of chemicals in Bee
mans chewing gum factory. Nearly a
dozen manufacturing concerns in the
building suffered damage. The total
| loss was $125, 900; fairly insured.
NJ j. GLIDDEN, a prominent farmer
| and politician, died at Choctaw CITY,
Ok, in the awful agonies of hydro
phobia. He was bitten by dog sew
eral weeks ago and, although his doc
tors agreed that he was not suffering
from hydrophobia, his imagination
| worked upon his nerves to such an eX-
tent that he died with all the symp-
toms of rabies.
Hot roast beef and chicken, radishes,
onions, potatoes, bread, butter, jelly,
bananas. oranges, coffee and cream
| were served for dinner on the 5th to
3, 900 men at Camp Mckinley, Des
Moines, Ia. by the ladies' The weather
was extremely cold and the hospital
corps were taking precautions to pre-
vent sickness
A REPORT reached Muscogee, I. T.,
on the 5th that a skiff containing a
woman and three small children cap
sized and all were drowned in the high
waters of the South Canadian river
near Eufaula. Another report stated
that II families had persisted in the
Ho06s Of <hot
| stream. Both accidents were caused
by excessive rain.
Gov. BLACK authorized the aqueduct
commissioners of New York to appoint
100 special deputies to guard the Croton
aqueduct SO as to prevent any attempts
| that might be made by Spanish spies
to blow it up and thereby cripple the
water supply of New York. The com
missioners told the governor that
| rumors were current that it was the
in tention of Spanish spies in New
York city to destroy the aqueduct.
JOHN GRAMME. a small shopkeeper in
New York. murdered two of his chill
dren, mortally wounded third and
inflicted fatal wounds on himself.
Neigh bors thought he was deranged
from physical suffering.
Ell RENO. Ok. received an appeal
from Duncan, l. T.. asking assistance
for sufferers from the recent cyclone
in which So buildings were totally de-
stroyed and three-fourths of the town
damaged. The suffering at the place
was very great. there having been
much rain since the disaster.
A TELEGRAM received by F. T. Viles,
of Boston. a friend in Singapore, was
read at the banquet of the Electric
club at Boston on the 5th. It said:
Reliable information received here
corroborating news of Dewey's victory
at Manila, and he is now executing
the duties of governor general there"
A DISPATCH from Rome said that the
vatican was considering a request
made by the Spanish bishops to au-
thorize them to sell part of the treas
ures of the church to aid the govern
ment in meeting the expenses of the
war.
A KEY WEST special to the New York
Evening Post dated on the 5th said that
the government tug Leyden success
fully landed scouts and ammunition in
Cuba for the insurgents under the guns
of the gun boat Wilmington. The Span
ish cavalry were repulsed three times.
A BRITISH steam yacht was obliged
to leave Malaga, Spain, because she
was mobbed and stoned.
A CoRoNER's jury at Sacramento, Cal,
after hearing the testimony of persons
who witnessed the Critic McCarty
fight, which resulted in the latter's
death, returned verdict generating
Critic and the trainers from response
bi1ity.
The United States gunboat Castine
70, WoSf Fla the I'D the
Spanish two-masted schooner Antonio
Y Paco, having on board cargo OF
fish, which was captured off Mariel,