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

Newport, off Cabanas, was brought to
Key West. Fla, on the 29th. She had
On board crew of seven men and a
cargo of fish. The officers of the New
port said the capture was an impor-
tant one, in view of the fact that the
little vessel was attempting to carry
into Havana news of the movements
of the United States feet.
BULL" MCCARTY, of Philadelphia,
died at Sacramento, Cal, on the goth.
He was knocked out in the twentieth
round in a contest with Critic the pre-
gious evening aud did not regain con-
sciousness after.
THE London Times on the 3Oth said
that English ''sympathies on the main
question are with the United States,
as they are held to be in the right But
On the matter of form we are not so
clear or unanimous"
The American liner Paris arrived at
New York on the 30th. Fears had
been ente rtained that the valuable
vessel had been captured by the Span
iards.
| KEY WEST dispatch said that
sailor on the moni tor Puritan had been
convicted of treason. He was a Span
lard with a family in Matanzas. He
was caught fling the lock of maya
zine and was found guilty by drum
head court-martial and sentenced to
be shot A later dispatch, however,
denied the truth of the report.
| JOHN AsQUITH, rs years old, and his
wife Margaret. 20 years old, were
found dead in bed in their rooms at
Chicago recently. The old couple had
evidently committed suicide by as
phyXiation.
THE cornerstone of the head Office
building of the Modern Woodmen of
America was laid by Head Clerk c. w.
Halves, assisted by the directors of the
order at Rock Island, Ill, on the 2Sth.
The event attracted about so. 600 stran-
gers to the city, and the parade pre-
ceding the exercises at the building
was participated in by 5000 Woodmen.
| A PROCLAMATION was to be issued to
Gen. Gomez and the insurgent army
over the signature of 7. Estrada Palma,
delegate from the republic of Cuba to
this country, and Gonzales de Quesada,
secretary of the junta in New York,
urging the insurgents to place them
selves under the stars and stripes as
soon as the American colors shall be
raised on Cuban soil and to have abso-
lutte confidence in the fair Intentions
| Of President Mckinley and his ad-
| ninistration.
The New York correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette cabled his paper that
| ne learned from an especially trust
| worthy source that agreements
| already exist between the United
! States and Great Britain which, if the
present British cabinet continues in
office, must lead in the future course
Of events to an alliance"
| GALENA, H.. the home of Gen. u. S.
Grant, on the 27th celebrated the
seventy -seventh anniversary of the
great leaders birth.
JOHN GoNGRoN paid the death pen
atty at New Castle, Pa, the other day
for numbering his sweetheart, Jessie
Corrine.
. ANNA BURDA, a Bohemian woman,
accused of numbering her husband by
shooting him with a shotgun, was
found guilty in the district court of
Lincoln county, Ok. and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life. The husband
and wife quarreled over the marriage
| of their daughter, which resulted in
murder.
AL TINGREY, boy Il years old. at
tempted to kill E. e. Bower, school
teacher, IL miles southwest of Chan
Her. Ok, by shooting him in the back
of the head with shotgun loaded with
wire nail heads Bower had repri-
| nanded the boy at school. at which
the latter became greatly enraged.
THE feeling between the Americans
and the Mexicans around San Angelo,
Tex, was running high. 1t was re-
| ported that 134 MeXicans were armed
and drilling'16 miles south of the city.
| A mass NEE ting was called to organize
| a home guard.
FIFTEEN freight cars of an extra train
on the Flint 81 Pere Marquet railroad
| were wrecked in collision at Flint,
Mich. Four tramps were believed to
have been caught in the wreck.
| ANDREW NELSON and wife. aged II
and sc, of Black Earth, Wis. were
robbed of $500 and then brutal1y MUIR
dered and their house set on fire. The
bodies were rescued by neigh bors-
| WILLIAM SEXTON, who ranked in 1876
as the greatest of all American bill
| lard players, died suddenly while sit
| ting in a chair in front of a hotel at
New York. Death was due to heart
| disease.
| a SUMMER resort owned by Peter Stein
| on Lake Laura, Wis, was burned, to-
gether with all the adjacent cottages,
and Mrs. Stein and her four children
| were burned to death. The cause of
| the fire was unknown.
| Two brothers, John and James Rod
dy, were hanged at Somerset. Pa, on
| the Goth for the murder of David Ber-
key. a farmer. They both protested
| their innocence
LIEUT. RAMON DE CARRANZA, of the
Spanish royal navy, until recently
naval attache of the Spanish legation
at Washington. has challenged Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee and Capt. Sigsbee to
fight duels because they stated before