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

Cruz, Cal, by explosions thought to
have been caused by Spanish spies.
managers of eight big powder COM
panies, hasing their headquarters in
ST. Louis, have ordered double guards
placed at all points where powder is
stored or manufactured.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the Goth
numbered 245, according to Brad
streets commercial report, against pa
in the corresponding week of 1897.
THE westbound Southern Pacific
passenger train was taken in charge
by four masked men at Comstock,
Tex, at midnight on the Goth and two
miles west of the station the express
car and engine were detached and run
a short distance. The robbers wrecked
the through safe and took the entire
money contents, amounting to $40. 900.
The express car was badly wrecked by
the explosion.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid on
the 10Th stated that the Spanish gov
eminent was upon the point of expel-
ling all citizens of the United States
from Spain.
The Golden Eagle Clothing COM
pany's store, at Kansas City, Mo-, was
almost destroyed by fire early on the
goth. The loss was estimated at from
$4,000 to $40, 600 on the Golden Eagle
stock. The fire entered the store of
May, Stern & Co.. which adjoins on the
south. and did probably S4, 500 damage.
kid" MCFARLAND and Joe Walcott
fought eight rounds on the 2Sth at De-
troit, Mich. The result was draw.
THE large and secure prison at Fort
Adams, r. T., which has been desig-
mated by the war department as one
of the prisons to be used for Spanish
prisoners of war, has been thoroughly
overhauled and made ready for use.
The prison behind the ramparts and
swamp is one of the safest in the
country. The Notifications are capa-
BILE of holding over 1000 prisoners,
the number allotted during the late
war. Not once since its construction
has prisoner escaped.
THE United States monitor Terror
captured the big Spanish steamer
Guido. bound from Corunna, Spain.
for Havana. The prize had on board
a large cargo of provisions and money
intended for the Spanish troops in
Cuba. The capture took place after a
desperate chase. during which the
Terror and the gunboat Machias fred,
almost blowing the Spaniard's pilot
house into the water. The prize was
taken to Key West.
A TELEGRAM from Coeburn, Va.
stated that at the coal mines near
there Paris Suits. a young fellow, shot
and killed a white man and a negro
without cause and Suits was shot to
death by bystanders. His slayers
were not arrested.
ADVICEs from Manila said the Ameri-
can bark Saranac, which was captured
at Iloilo, Philippine islands. by a
Spanish gunboat. was seized after she
had unloaded her cargo of coal at that
port, which was her destination.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans said
that John Waltz, arrested at Port Eads
with a portfolio of plans and drawings.
showing the Notifications of Forts st.
Phillip and Jackson, will face mill
tary commission to be named by Gen.
Graham, and the chance that he will
be shot as a spy was perilously promis
ing.
THE New York, the Puritan and the
Cincinnati bombarded the forts at the
mouth of Matanzas harbor on the 27th.
The object of the attack was to prevent
the completion of the earthworks at
Punta Gorda. There were no casual
ties on our side.
A DISPATCH to the Chicago Times
Herald from Washington on the 2:th
said that Secretary Long, of the navy
department. declared Havana would
not be bombarded until serious danger
from the Spanish fleets was eliminated.
1t might be an easy matter to silence
the guns of Moro castle and the shore
batteries, but in the conflict American
ships might be crippled beyond easy
repair, and the American navy was not
so strong but that the loss of single
ship might prove fatal in naval en-
gagement.
The board of supervisors of Frank
lin county, Ia, adopted a resolution to
pay each wife or widow dependent for
support upon a husband or son who
enlists in the army the sum of IS
month, and to each child under 16,
whose father so enlists, the sum of 81.
A DISPATCH from Manila on the 27th
said that the Spaniards had captured
the American bark Saranac, loaded
with 1000 tons of coal
A RECENT Key West, Fla, dispatch
said that the first pinch of the block
ade was felt in Havana. Prices of
food had gone up so per cent. above
normaI--20 per cent since the block
ade was established. Food was SO
scarce that even at these high prices
it was almost unobtainable. The 81
lent pressure of the Gordon of Ameri-
can warships weighed heavily on the
Spaniards The fate of the reconcen.
trados threatened them. Hunger had
appeared among the poorer classes.
THREE explosions took place at the
dovs Of 20 Vol
the 26th and seven men were killed
and four seriously injured.
The big steamship Panama, which
left New Vorlx