Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
Personal AND POLITICAL.


John Henry Hammond, of Boston.
The wedding was brilliant one, 200
ultra-fashionable people partaking of
the wedding breakfast. The bride was
the recipient of many costly presents.
THE president has appointed j. Blair
Shoenfelt, of Douglas, Wyo., as agent
for the Indians of the Union agency in
the Indian territory, vice d. M. Wis
dom, resigned.
DRs. LAPPoNI and Mazzoni issued an
other formal denial at Rome on the
5th of the disquieting stories circu-
lated about the pope's health. They
declared that he followed mis- usual &C.
,upations. granted audiences daily and
celebrated mass every morning.
THE United States delegation to the
cars disarmament congress, which
will meet at The Hague in the latter
part of May, consists of Andrew d.
White, United States ambassador at
Berlin; Mr.. Newell. United States min
lister To the Netherlands; President
Seth Low, of Columbia university,
New York; Capt Crozier, ordnance de-
partment, U. S. A, and Capt A. T.
Mahan, retired, U. S. N.
A CHICAGO dispatch stated that Will
liam j. Bryan is to publish a book en-
titled "Repub bile or Empire-the Phil
ippine Question, ?" in which he discusses
territorial expansion from every stand
point, his argument being supplement-
ed by chapters dealing with the vari-
Gus phases of the subject by other
statesmen and scholars.
The Cuban generals met at Marianao
and officially decided to reinstate Gen.
Gomez as commander-in.ch chief.
JUDGE r. T. PETREE. the nestor of
the southern Kentucky bar, dropped
dead at Hopkinsville. KY. on the eth
after concluding a three-hours' argu-
ment in court.
TANUMADILI MALIEToA has been
crowned king of Samoa
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND had a parting
| interview with the pope at Rome and
received an autograph letter from his
holiness to convey to President Nc
Kinley.
THE situation in the Philippines was
discussed at the cabinet NEE citing at
Washington on the 18th and telegram
was read to the effect that Aguinaldo
was recognizing his army north of
his late capital.
REPRESENTATIVE lands, of Indiana,
has been urging upon representatives
of the administration at Washington
| the desirability of publicly declaring
| its antagonism to trusts. In. a talk
with Secretary Gage and others he
| said that the people in the middle
west were aroused in antagonism to
| the trusts and that the trust question
| promised to make a more exciting is
sue in Indiana than the money ques-
ton did in the late presidential cleo
| ton.
SECRETARY ALGER left Porto Rico
| for New York on the 9th. While in
the island the secretary received many
| petitions from municipalities asking
financial help and relief from excess
/ sive taxation.
| JUSTICE STEPHEN J. FIELD, of the
United States supreme court, retired,
died at Washington on the 9th of kid
ney complication, aged SO.
GREAT BRITAIN'S queen is having a
steam yacht built which will cost So,
900, 900.
| AGUINALDo, the Filipino leader, is
sued a decree declaring that Spanish
shall be the official language through
out the Philippines.
GEN. LAwToN started from Manila
on the night OF the 9th with an expe-
dition to capture the city of Santa
Cruz and sweeping the country south.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AN ice gorge in the Yellowstone riv-
err at Anaconda, Mont, swept away
three spans of the steel bridge and
drowned four people. A family OF
eight were also reported missing and
were thought to have been drowned.
Mrs. JOHN DONAHUE and her son,
Timothy, were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed their home at
Wakefield, Mass
ONE man was killed and two others
wounded in fight at negro dance at
Vanderbilt, Pa, on the night of the
Sth.
THE baseball season of 1899 opened
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th be-
tween the Chicago National league
team and the Kansas City Blues, the
former winning by score of 90 to T.
MINERS in the Copper river district
of Alaska are suffering from scurvy.
MATTHEW HANCOCK, colored, who
shot and killed Ticket Broker George
Horton in front of the Union station
was hanged in the Jail yard at ST. Loui:
| on the Sth.
JEROME PLAYsEE was run down by /;
train while walking on the Belt lin,
at Kansas City. Mo, and instantly
| killed.
RAJAH, the big elephant in Lemon
!, Bros circus at Argentine. added tbs
ninth man to the list of his victim:
| when he crushed out the life of his
| trainer, Frank Fisher. The trainer
, was said to have been intoxicated and
J caused the elephant to get mad b,
: teasing him.
!, ABOUT 5000 cotton mill operative
J were idle, according to dispatel
from Providence. r L. on the sth, a
the result of the many strikes in tina
: state for higher wages