Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-29

drowned between FOidngen ana LII pau,
seaport towns of the province of Cour-
land, Russia
ABOUT 500 applications for pensions
arising out of the war with Spain have
been fled at the pension office. Conn
missioner Evans win create a new di-
vision to adjudicate these claims
The Missouri Pacific passenger train.
which left Kansas City, Mo-, at 9:15 p.
N. on the 23d, was held up by seven
masked men few miles out and the
express car shattered by dynamite and
robbed. It was said the bandits got
very little for their trouble.
BY rush of coal in No. shaft at
Nan ticoke, Pa, three men were en-
tombed and probably instantly illed.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, the Daughter
of the Confederacy," was buried at
Richmond, Va, on the Esd. An i'm
mense number of people followed the
body to the grave.
TWELVE hundred miners quit work
on the 23d in the Dillon and Long Run
mines at Bridgeport. o.. because the
operators would not concede certain
demands of the men.
BUSINESS failures in the United
States for the week ended the Esd num-
D~1OA ~, o~NOi0AAS w III oAS "a Co .
commercial report. against 237 in the
corresponding week of last year.
SOCIETY women took charge of all the
street car systems at Peoria. Ill, for
day and devoted the proceeds to chari-
ty. A rain prevailed all day, making
travel good on the cars, but having
disastrous effect on the pretty dresses
and carefully curled hair of the fair
conductors.
GREAT CONSERVATION reigns among
white intermarried men in the Chicka-
saw nation, L T., over an order issued
by the Dawes commission, saying that
white men who married Indian women
have no right of citizenship and may
be treated as intruders. Under this
ruling the white men who married In
dian women may be ordered from the
territory and separated from their
wives.
ADvICEs from Matanzas stated that
between January 1 and September Is
there were reported 331 births and g.
901 deaths. OF the deaths 80 per cent.
were due to hunger and distress. The
conditions at Matanzas were described
as deplorable.
THE National German Baptist asso-
citation convened in st. Louis with
about 900 delegates in attendance, rep
ting all parts of the United States
and some foreign countries.
For selling or pawning his shoes at
saloon at San Francisco, Private
John d. Sampson. Twentieth Kansas,
was tried by court-martial for stealing
government property and sent fenced to
80 days confinement and to forfeit SO.
Gen. Miller, however, was DISCUS ted at
the Iightness of the sentence. de-
nounced the court. disapproved the
proceedings and ordered Sampson re-
turned to duty.
A FOREST fire ragged on the crest of
Mount Hayden, just south of Ouray,
Col. It resembled volcanic eruption.
and the dense smoke rose mile high
! and the flames 100 feet. The citizens
of Montrose, 40 miles north, wired to
know if the city was on fire. All of
the citizens viewed the grand and
wonderful spectacle.
REPORTS were being made to the Ok
lahoma live stock sanitary board of
horses dying suddenly of strange
disease veterinarians have not been
able to classify or control. Fully 800
horses have died in the territory and
| many farmers have lost most of their
work animals.
THE supreme lodge of the Scottish
Rite masons adjourned at Cincinnati
on the 22d to meet in Philadelphia the
third week in September, 1899. The
report of the financial committee was
adopted. It's balances were all on the
surplus side.
GEN. MILLER, now in command at
San Francisco, will command the rein
forcements ordered to Manila. He has
made applica tions to have the troops
which accompany him armed with the
Krag-Jorgensen rifle.
A MUTINY broke out among the con-
victs at Cayenne, the capital of French
Guiana, and they overpowered and
murdered their guards, then stormed
the military store house and seized the
arms and ammunition there. They
afterwards. besieged the principal pris-
on and it was f,ared they would sue
coed in freeing the 1000 convicts con-
fined in the building.
THE Kansas City club won the pen
nant for 1898 in the Western Baseball
league.
AT the Kansas City stock yards on
the Goth 49, 35 cattle were received,
eclipsing all previous records.
AT a church social at Plainville,
Mich, So persons were poisoned by
eating canned beef. Twenty were
dangerously i'll and four of them were
said to have been given up by the doc
tors.
ACCORDING to Gen. Lawton's report
on the Goth there were 1900 American
troops at Santiago on the sick list. -
A DISPATCH from Naples said that
frightful misery and immense damage
will be caused if the eruption of Mount
! Vesuvius continues on the alarming
scale reached in the last few days.
| Nine new craters were counted on the