Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-21

| we're under arrest at the Presi do
| reservation at San Francisco on the
| 10Th for burning down a saloon just
outside the reservation. The trouble
vas caused by the brutal beating of
| ,omrade at saloon the previous
| night.
| POPE LEO participated in q thanks
giving mass at Rome on the 10th.
THE Missouri river was reported as
being very high on the 18th in North
Dakota At Williston many miles of
railroad track was washed away and
in Fort Pierre people in the lower
part were compelled to abandon their
homes.
THE celebration attending the re-
turn of the United States cruiser
Raleigh from Manila occurred at New
York on the 10th. The weather was
intensely disagreeable. cold rain
falling. Mayor Van Wyck extended a
| formal welcome to Capt. Coghlan and
the Raleigh then led a naval parade
/ to Grants tomb, where the vessel fred
a salute of 81 guns and then returned
| down the river amid much cheering
and whistle blowing.
R. A. DORST, an old-time river cap
| tain, has died at st. Louis. He navi-
gated both the Missouri and Missis-
sippi rivers and was the first to take
steamboat up the former to the
Rocky mountains. Although in his
eighty-frst year, he kept employed up
to the time of his death.
IN 81 provinces of Russia a famine is
| raging and the sufferings of the in
| habitants are reported as being fright
full. Typhus fever has broken out
| among both humans and beasts, due
| to the bad food eaten.
The barge Vidalia turned complete
| ly over near Louisville, Ky, and
emptied her valuable cargo of Russian
| iron into the water, which will be
| total loss.
The Cuban army muster rolls, which
were delivered to Gov. Gen. Brooke at
Havana, show on their face As, 600
names-6. 900 commissioned officers and
$4,000 non-commissioned officers and
privates- The whole statement was
considered an orderly arrangement of
regiment and company scores
GEN. MILES has issued a general or
der to the army promulgating the law
passed at the last session of congress
in relation to the sale of intoxicating
liquors in army canteens or on mill
tary reservations. The recent opinion
| of Attorney General Griggs constituting
the statute is given in full and is &C.
companied by special instructions for
the enforcement of the law as thus
construed.
A TRAGEDY took place at Deview,
Ark, between a mum Der of citizens of
| that place, in which d. C. Ashburn
was instantly killed; A. ]. Black and
his son, Lee, were fatally wounded,
and several others were more or less
seriously wounded. The trouble arose
over perjury trial
The Samoan high commission will
sail for Apia on the United States
naval transport Badger, leaving San
Francisco on che 25th inst. The early
sailing OF the commission is regarded
| as evidence that the recent collision
at Apia will be automatically settled.
A NEGRO named George Waystaff,
who had killed another negro near
Marion, Ala. and escaped from the
custody of two officers, whom he had
badly assaulted, was tracked by a
posse with bloodhounds to tree and
shot to death.
A PRAIRIE fire in Greeley county,
Col, resulted in the destruction of a
large amount of property and the fatal
burning of j. j. Lepper and his son, of
Brayton.
A CABLEGRAM received from London
announced that w. S. Stratton had
sold his famous Cripple Creek mine,
the Independence, to the Venture COM
pany, of London.
THE Truax block at Victor, Col,
was destroyed by fire and a miner,
who was sleeping on the top floor,
persisted in the flames.
The executive committee of the ma
R., failed to elect a commander-in-
chief and passed a resolution that the
senior vice commander shall perform
the duties of chief until the meeting
OF the thirty-third encampment.
AN attempt to poison Cora Tanner,
the actress, was made at Omaha, Neb..
by some one leaving a box of candy
and a handsome bouquet, both poi
sOned, at her hotel The actress was
said to have been made death1y sick
THE British steamer collided with
the Greek coaster Maria in the Mediter-
ranean and 45 persons on board the
latter were drowned when the vessel
went down
On Mrs. Sorrenson'S return from a
visit of few minutes to a neigh Dor
at Sycamore, Ill, she found her baby
had set it's clothes on fire with match
and in trying to put the fire out she was
badly burned. The child was literally
roasted alive.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 14th
mum bered 24S, according to Dun's COM
mercial report, against 215 in the cor
responding week of last year.
AT Avilla. Ind. Walter Goodrich,
| aged 10, fatally shot his brother Wal
lace, aged So, and then blew his own
brains out They quarreled about a
horse.
WILLIAM KINNEMAN, of Deerfield
township, o., has disappeared, after
havipn baon farrad and foathorod NV