Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-19


west, which is to include a visit to Sen
ator and Mrs. Henderson at their Ne
braska home. He will probably accept
a number of invitations he has re-
ceived from western cities.
GENERAL NEWS.
AT Hancocx's Mill, near Mount Yer
non, Ga, pistol duel took place be-
tween John Letter ON one side and
James Morris and George Mcleod on
the other, in which Letter was killed,
Mcleod mortally wounded and by
stander dangerously hurt.
Gov. STONE, of Pennsylvania, cut
down the school appropriation $1,OO0,-
900 to be applied on the floating debt of
the state.
Much excitement was caused at New
York on the 14th by a rumor that ex-
President Cleveland had died suddenly
at Middlebass island, in Lake Erie,
where he was on a fishing excursion.
The rumor turned out to be false.
The Manitou Park hotel and casino
at Colorado Springs, Col, which were
to have been opened for the season on
June L, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50, 900.
THE feed house of the United States
sugar refinery at Waulxegan. ILL.,, was
burned. Loss, $50, 900; insured.
GEN. OTIS cabled on the 18th that
Gen. Lawton had taken udofonso and
San Miguel, driving out considerable
force of Filipinos. Aguinaldo had
also expressed wish to send COM
mission to Manila for a conference
with the United States commission to
arranged terms of peace.
Rev. DIR. CHARLES A. BRIGGS, who
was suspended for heresy by the Pres
byterian assembly, was ordained a
priest of the Episcopal church by
Bishop Potter at New York on the 18th.
A STREET car at Pittsburgh, Pa, hor-
ribly mangled Katie Three, Polish
child, three years old, and while the
body was being taken from under the
car, big crowd, principally Poles. be-
came so incensed that they attacked
the motorman and conductor, with the
intention of lynching them. A squad
of police prevented the lynching, but a
riot took place in which several persons
were hurt and five of the ringleaders
We're arrested.
HEAVY rains and severe hailstorms
did considerable damage throughout
Nebraska on the 18th and 14th. At
Plattsmouth, Nebraska City and Omaha
many windows were broken by the
hail, some of the stones being q inches
in diameter.
0PROF. SCHURMAN, president of the
United States Philippine commission,
gave a farewell luncheon to Admiral
Dewey on the 14th at Manila.
ACTING under orders from the ma
tional democratic committee, 100 Chi
cago platform democrats met in New
York and took steps to organize the
city at once and later the state of New
York to defy Tammany hall. James
II. Brown said that contesting dele
CATION of Bryan and Chicago platform
men will be sent from that state to the
next national convention.
ARTICLES of incorporation were re-
Gently fled with the Secretary of state
at Trenton, N. J., by the American
Bicycle company, with an authorized
capital of $50, 600, 900.
Soon after the muster out of the
Forty-ninth Iowa volunteers at Savan-
nah, Ga, they charged small army of
pie, soda water and lunch vendors and
confiscated their goods. Between 100
and $50 of the volunteers were after
wards arrested for disorderlya conduct.
Four hundred laborers were arrested
at Nicolaieff, Russia, for vrecking the
shops and houses of Jews. Over 90
Hebrews were killed and injured and
scores of graves of Jews were desc
Grated.
THE Catholic Knights of America
finished its labors at Kansas City. Mo-.
on the 18th by selecting st. Louis as
the permanent headquarters of the or
ganization and electing the officers. P.
j. O'Connor, of Savannah, Ga, was made
president; J. c. Carroll, of Norfolk
Va, was reelected secretary; Girard
Reiter. of Vincennes, Ind, was re-
elected treasurer, and William A. Kelly
of Kansas City, was chosen supreme
trustee for long term.
A CHILD of John HUI ffiey, of Pates
vile, KY, fell into a soap vat and was
boiled to death.
on the Colorado river, 120 miles above
Yuma, Ariz., are to be reclaimed this
fall by aocolony to be brought from the
east by William 81. Martin, of New
York. Large irrigation bitches are t.
be constructed from the river to the
colony lands.
AT Okolona, Miss. Charles Clark,
quarreled with DIR. humphrey over {
doctors bill and Clarke cut the doctor.
throat. The son OF the victim ther
shot Clarke to death. a brother O.
Clarke rushed up and pistol duel be
TWEEN the Doctors son and Clarke.
brother ensued which ended in tn.
killing of both.