Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-07-14

to be strongly in favor of speedy peace
as the only salvation for Spin and the
newspapers recommended the inter-
vention of Europe to compel a cessa-
| ton Of hostilities
STEELvILLE, the county seat of Cravy-
| ford county, Mo-. was almost wiped
out by waterspout early on the sth.
Thirteen bodies of victims were re-
covered and groans of anguish were
heard on all sides as searchers looked
among the debris for sufferers. Few
buildings were left standing and no
communication could be had with the
town except by courier.
| THE armistice at Santiago de Cuba
was extended until noon of the 9th by
Gen. Shafter in order to allow Gen.
Linares, the Spanish commander in
he city, to communicate with Gen.
| Blanco and with Madrid. 1t was
| thought the Spanish general was
| weakening and wanted permission
from his superiors to surrender.
! THE signal corps balloon used for
observation purposes with Gen. Shaft
er's army was hit by the enemy's bull
let's and injured, but not beyond re-
pair.
| RICHMOND P HOBsON and his men, the
heroes who went into the harbor of
| San tlagO de Cuba and sank the collier
Merrimac to prevent Admiral Cervera's
| fleet from escaping, and who were
taken prisoners by the Spaniards after
performing the daring deed, were ex-
changed at Santiago and taken within
the American lines, where cheer after
cheer went up for their liberation.
KERN CITY, Cal, had So blocks of
buildings in the center of the town
swept away by fire. The Southern Pa
cific buildings were saved.
OF the 568 Rough Riders" who land
ed in Cuba only $50 were fit for service
On the 18th, 209 having been killed or
wounded.
The firemen Of Kansas City, Mo-,
were kept busy on the Fourth, the
total number of fires being %. The
total loss was small.
A DISPATCH to the Washington Even
ing Star stated that after the destruc-
ton of the Spanish fleet some 45O of
the men upon the Maria Teresa were
placed as prisoners upon the Harvard.
| For some reason, not yet ascertained,
these men mutinied and the mutineers
were fred upon. Six Spaniards were
killed outright and IL were wounded.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON, in answer to a
cablegram from Secretary Long, stated
that 1T might be possible to raise the
Crlstoba1 Colon and possibly one or
| two other Spanish ships that were re-
Gently sunk.
SEVEN of the Spanish guerrillas who
have been shooting from trees into
passing ambulances and pack trains
have been captured and are under
heavy guard at Gen. Wheeler's head
quarters near Santiago Tt was
thought likely they would be executed.
A FIRE started at the Bear creek oil
plant of the Standard Oil company at
Marcus Hook, Pa. and three tanks,
containing nearly $4,000 barrels of oil,
were destroyed. Several crude oil
tanks were blown up to prevent the
spread of the flames.
LLOYD PUCKETT. aged ten, of Hills
boro, and Roscoe Sawyer, aged nine.
of Taylorville, Ill. who were injured
on the Fourth, have since died The
boys were shooting firecrackers and
one Of them accidentally threw a burn
ing match into an open can containing
about ten pounds of blasting powder
Sawyer and his wife were badly burned
while trying to save the children.
GooDE GRAY, colored, charged with
the robbery and murder of Bart Fred
ericks, white man, near Kingsland,
Ark. was taken from the Rison. Ark.
Jail by mob early the other morning
and hanged from a telegraph pole at
| the scene of his crime.
A DISPATCH from Cleveland, O., stated
that collision occurred on the lake
early on the 9th, the big whaleback
steamer Henry Corte crashing into the
passenger steamer State of New York.
sweeping away the latter's upper
| CO.
| lost. but the passengers were terribly
excited until they were taken off by
| a tug.
HENRY NJ. FLAGLER, the Standard
Oil magnate, has offered to build a
SIS, 900 hospital for the wounded, Just
north of the Royal Palm hotel, Miami.
Fla. and his offer has been accepted
by the Red Cross society and work on
the structure will be begun at once.
| A KANSAS CITY packing firm recent
ly sent out two train loads of export
beef for Liverpool The trains were
made up of new patent refrigerator
cars which will require but one icing
between Kansas City and Philadel-
phia. The run to Philadelphia was to
be made in the remarka BILE fast time of
70 hours, as against AZ days. the usual
| time.
| THE Spanish feet, commanded by
Admiral Camara, was notified by the
Egyptian government on the 9th that
it must leave Suez within "a hours.
The government also notified Admiral
Camara that he would not be allowed
! to coal there.
THE Chicago daily papers resumed
in an abbreviated form on the 9th,
after four or five days total suspen-
sion from the strike of the stereo-
| typers-
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