Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-02-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
a.eened By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND PoLITICAL
ADELINA PATTI, the singer. was mar
ried to Baron Cederstrom on the 25th
at Brecon, Wales.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, has been i'll in
Washington with the grip.
THE court-martia1 to try Commissary
General Eagan for conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman, for his
vituperative language before the war
! Investigating committee, met at Wash
ington on the s5th. Gen. .Eagan
pleaded not guilty to the charges, but
qualified his plea by admitting that
the specifications set forth correctly
part Of the language ne used.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY gave recep
ton at the white house on the 25th to
the officers of the army and navy and
the marine corps. 1t was a brilliant
affair.
N. B. SCorT (rep.} was elected United
States senator on the 25th by the West
Virginia legislature.
THE territorial statehood convention
at Guthrie. Ok, resolved for a consti-
tutional convention in june and state
election in October on proposition &c
go to congress and demand admission
in Decem Der.
SECRETARY ALGER appeared before
the war Investigation commission at
Washington on the Goth. He denied
positively that he had ever, directly
or Indirectly, been interested in any
army camps or supplies furnished the
government during the Spanish war.
all complaints. he said. had been in
vestigated, and while there were de-
fects they were only those inseparable
from suddenly creating a great army.
THE seat of N. B. Scott, the new re-
publican senator from West Virginia.
will be contested by his opponent.
John T. McGraw, on the ground that
two of the men who voted for Scott
were ineligible because they held
commissions in the United States vol
unteer army.
AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND, attorney gen.
eral of the United States under Presi-
dent Cleveland's first administration,
was stricken with apoplexy on the 10th
while addressing the United States
supreme court and died within ten
minutes. He was 81 years old.
THE lower house of the Nebraska
legislature has gone on record as OPP
posed to the seating Of Brigham Fl.
Roberts, congressman-elect from q tab.
THE court-martial upon Commissary
General Eagan at Washington for his
recent virulent attack upon Gen. Miles
ended on the 9th and within IS min
dtes afterwards the court arrived at a
verdict of guilty and sentenced him to
dismissal from the military service of
the United States. without any recon-
nendation for clemency.
SIMON POKAGoN. the last chief of the
Pottawatomie Indians. died at Benton
Harbor. Mich, on the 25th, aged 80
sears.
WHILE the Porto Ricans do not offer
the least resistance to the military adj
ninistration by Americans they make
40 secret of the fact that they do not
1esire it's continuance. but earnestly
wish for a civil government in some
form
BRIG. GEN. THADDEUs 81. STANTON.
xnown as the ''Fighting Paymaster,"
was retired from active service on
reaching the age limit on the 30th.
THE National Farmers party was Or
ganized in Warren county, Ill.
THE president nominated William
= Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan, to be
United States judge for the district of
Kansas, to succeed Judge Cassius G.
Foster