Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-22
AN earthquake of unusual strength

AN earthquake OF unusual StfeaHt tn
and duration aroused the people of
Hurley, S. D.. at four o'clock on the
morning of the 10th It caused houses
to tremble and dishes to rattle on the
sheises for about so seconds. It seemed
to travel eastward. At Yankton the
shocks were unusually severe and last
ed a minute.
FAILURES for the past week were ia
in the United States. against 204 last
year, and % in Canada, against 40 last
year.
A DISPATCH from Camp Meade. Pa,
said a majority of the men are becom-
ing more and more restless and unless
the war department acts promptly
there may be mutiny in some of the
commands.
THE transmississippi exposition at
Omaha is success financially. The
receipts thus far are more than S3s. 900
in excess of the expenditures There
is balance in bank of $15,0 900 over
and above expenses and obligations.
A CREAMERY company at Belvidere,
Ill. claims to have discovered pro-
cess of manufacturing from milk what
is claimed to be a perfect substitute
for eggs in all cooking.
ALL IT00 soup houses III f1dVdud.
which had been feeding the needy over
10000 rations daily. were closed by
order of the governor general. 1t was
predicted that additional distress
would follow the closing.
The boundary dispute between Chilli
and Argentine will be unlimited to the
arbitration of Queen Victoria
A MADRID dispatch said the queen
do;1 ~ 81 &c N
sick soldiers who have returned from
the colonies. She ordered that the
convalescents be conveyed in the royal
royal park, and she was paying from
her own purse for proper food for the
invalids-
THE third and last day of the ma
tional currency convention at Omaha,
Neb., began with paper in support
of an unlimited issue of irredeema BILE
currency by the government by Gen.
A. j. Warner, president of the Ameri-
can Bimetallic union. A reply was
made to him by Congressman Fowler,
of New Jersey, who supported bank
currency. Mr.. Fowler said the only
logical position the silver men could
take was that of Gen. Warner; that if
they could legislate value into silver
they could legislate value into paper
and make it redeem itself.
The steamer OLDHAM sailed from New
York on the 18th for Ponce, Porto
Rico. having on board the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania regiment, which will do
garrison duty in Porto Rico. The OBJ
dam also carried $4,000 worth of deli
cacies for the army hospitals.
A sEMI-oFFICIAL note issued at Paris
on the 14th said Capt Dreyfus would
be gran ted new trial
The almost universal expression in
the public press of Japan is in favor
of the United States permanently hold
ing and governing the Philippines
THE council of the so-called pro-
visional government of the republic of
Cuba met at Santa Cruz and issued a
manifesto ordering that an assem- bly,
be convened to decide upon plan for
an independent government for the is
land.
GEN. LAYTON received a report at
San tiago that Gen. Gomez had rendered
his resignation as commander-in-chief
of the Cuban army, being dissatisfied
with the action of the Cuban govern
| ment in yielding control of the island
to America
REV. JOHN T. REYNOLDS, the Illinois
soldier preacher, who recently married
nurse at Chickamauga while having,
it is alleged. two living wives, one OF
whom he married in Colorado. the
other in Springfield. Ill, underwent a
preliminary examination at Spring.
field on charge of bigamy, which re-
suited in his commitment to Jail.
ONE of the most dis tinguished gather
| ings of financial students and authori
ties that ever assembled opened a
three days session at the Nebraska
building on the Omaha exposition
grounds on the 18th to debate the cur.
| rency problem. The gold standard
was represented by Editor Horace
White, of New York; Edward Atkin.
son, ex-senator Carey, Gov Shaw, Con-
| gresham Fowler, j. Sterling Morton
and other prominent statesmen, while
| the silver standard had such repre-
sentatives as ex-Congressman Towne
| James B. Weaver and Gen. A. j. War
ner.
GEN. CHARLES F. HENDERSON, of Ne
braska, declined the proffer of place
on the army Investigating board.
THE post-mortem examination o.
| the remains of the late empress o.
| Austria, who was assassinated a
| Geneva by an anarchist, has revealed
| that the weapon completely trans6xet
the heart, penetrating 37s inches ane
making a wound one-sixth OF an incl
wide. The fact that her majesty
| walked so yards to the steamer is as
| cribed to her remarkable will powel
| and natural energy.
| OCTOBER 10, the date of the fall o
Yorktown, will be recognized in al
the schools and colleges Of the Unitet
States as Lafayette day, when exer
| cises will be held and collections mad
| to raise funds for the Lafayette monu