Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-09-08

on the hospital ship SOlace.
Gov. POINTER, of Nebraska, refused
to honor the requisition papers of Gov.
Stanley, of Kansas, asking for Mrs
Rachel Jones and George Jones on the
charge of kidnapping.
WHILE bathing in the lake at Fair
mount park, Kansas City, Mo-, on the
Sd Roy Wren, the 17-year-old son OF
George W. Wren, manager of the
Southwestern Mutual Life association.
was drowned. The boy lost his hold
on a log, which had carried him into
deep water, and before assistance could
reach him he had sunk from sight
THE thirty-third annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
convened at Philadelphia on the 4th-
Admiral Sampson with his fleet of
fighting ships arrived on the Sd. and
this event marked the beginning of the
weeks celebration.
BECAUSE his son married girl who
posed as living picture on the EXPOSE
ton midway. A. NJ. Free, a wealthy
citizen of Omaha, Neb., fled suit to an
null the marriage. Miss Dora Farr is
the young lady in the case. She is very
handsome and has been one of the liv-
ing pictures in the artists studio on
| the midway for some time. She says
her young husband is being restrained
of his liberty.
SENATOR MORGAN, dem, of Alabama,
prophesies expansion will be the sal
| walton of cotton, and is about to start
crusade in the south to spread the
new gospel. In his prophetic vision he
sees Manila the great cotton market of
the world instead Of Liverpool. In
stead of paying toll to British brokers,
spinners and ship owners, he predicts
the time is coming when Americans in
| an American city, in the Pacific isles,
will handle tvvo-thirds of the cotton of
the world and save billions to the cot
ton growers of America.
A SPECIAL train bearing Cooper's cir
Gus was wrecked at TONER'S Station,
Tenn, by the bursting of an air brake
hose and 10 persons were more or less
injured and circus property and ami
mails scattered in all directions.
SIX HUNDRED lives were lost by the
flooding of a copper mine at Besshi,
Japan.
ONE man, three girls and one boy
| were drowned at BlaclroclS, Conn.,, on
the LIST while sea bathing.
The annual report of 81. Clay Evans,
commissioner of pensions, shows that
the pension roll 40, 229 names and 49,,
| 1SS were dropped, "a. 345 of these by
reason of death. The annual value of
the entire pension roll amounts to $751;,
617, 961, being 500. 1876 more than it
ever was, due to the higher average
annual value of pensions. The roll is
made up of 753, 451 surviving soldiers,
237, Ais widows and dependent rela-
| tives and 653 nurses. During the year
| 1O7, 919 claims of all classes We're re-
| jected, a large percentage of this being
claims for increase.
A GIGANTIC company capitalized at
SO, 900, 600 is organizing at San Fran
cisco to control the bn1z Of the trade
of China. The company, it is said, has
the encouragement of the Chinese gov
eminent, which seeks to form a COM
mercial alliance with this country to
prevent total humiliation as a nation.
YELLOW fever broke out at Key West,
Fla, and the health officials instituted
q rigid quarantine against the place.
IT was reported that Aguinaldo, the
Filipino leader. has ordered the rebel
generals in the province of Cavite to
close in on an attempt to take the
town of linus. The Americans were
said to be entrenching the town and
they have no fear of the result of any
attack by the rebels.
THIRTY-FIvE hundred persons were
at the ceremonies at the rein terment
of the bodies of John Browns follow
ers at the John Brown farm at North
Elba, n. Y. The date is the forty-third
anniversary of the battle of Osawato-
mic. Rev. Joshua Young, of Groton,
Mass, who preached John Browns
funeral sermon 40 years ago, made an
| address.
| AMERICAN troops under Col. BaylesS
attacked band of natives in the hills
about Cebu. The rebels were en-
trenched, but were driven back with
heavy loss. There were no Americans
killed, though several were Frustrated
from the heat.
| YOKOHAMA, Japan, experienced the
greatest fire in her history recently,
square mile of the town being burned
| over. Sixteen lives We're lost and prop
erty to the value of nearly Sc, 600, 900
| destroyed.
THE congress of blind people. in ses-
sion in Kansas City, Kan, decided to
ask the next congress to establish uni
versities for the higher education of
| the blind and make liberal appropria-
tions for their support.
THE boiler in Chapman & Sargent's
bowl factory at Copenish, Mich, ex-
ploded the other day, killing three men
and fatally injuring four others. The
building was totally wrecked.
| THE Employers association, repre-
senting from $1,000. 900 to 50, 600, 600 of
local capital, has been organized at
Spokane, Wash. to resist any unjust
demand of organized labor there
SECRETARY Roof says the hospital
facilities at Manila are inadequate for
an army Of 63, 900. Five hundred hos
pital tents will be forwarded for i'm
mediate use and the number of sur
peons and female nurses will be great