Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
pERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

BoLTING democrats from every coun
ty but nine of the 119 composing the
state of Kentucky met at Lexington
and nominated a full state ticket,
headed by John Young Brown for
governor in opposition to the regular
democratic ticket, headed by William
5oebel, which was nominated at Louis
vile in June.
THE democratic state convention at
Des Moines, Ia, nominated a ticket,
headed by Frederick e. White for gov
ernor. The populist state convention
also met and Endorsed the democratic
ticket. The only populist on the ticket
is w. 81. Calhoun for railway commits
sioner.
REPRESENTATIVE WARNER, of Illi-
nois, at Washington on the 10th ex-
pressed his belief that Thomas B. Reed
will stay in congress, although he will
not be speaker.
WITHOUT heralding his policy Secre-
tary Root has practically placed Maj.
Gen. Miles in actual command of the
army and amicable relations now exist
between army headquarters and the
war department at Washingto Off
cial documents, orders, recommends
tions and suggestions are daily sent to
the major general commanding and
Gen. Miles responds and co-operates in
every official detail.
ADMIRAL DEWEY, who has been suf-
fering from fever, was better on the
10th and in the morning he remained
on the deck of the Olympia at Leghorn,
Italy.
A SHARP engagement between Gen.
MacArthur's command and the insur-
gents was reported to the war depart
ment by Gen. Otis on the 10th. The
enemy's intrenchments on the outskirts
of Angeles were attacked and the
rebels, estimated at 1850, were driven
north with reported loss of 200 killed
and wounded. The American loss was
two killed and IL wounded.
AN order was issued by Secretary
Root at Washington on the 18th di-
recting that ten additional regiments
of infantry volunteers be organized for
service in the Philippines.
EIGHT hundred Filipino insurgents
attacked Angeles on the 18th, but the
Twelfth regiment drove them into the
mountains. Three ditched locomotives
were captured. None of the American
troops was injured. The insurgenJ
loss was not known.
RECENTLY a statement was published
that Gov. Roosevelt, of New York,
would be McKinley's running mate
next fall. The governor was shown
the statement and he said he could not
be induced to take the nomin alton for
the vice presidency under any consid-
Grafton.
The Suffragio Universal at Havana
the other day said: "When the United
States government makes Cuba state
of the American union, then will be
fulfilled the solemn promise declaring
that the Cuban people ought to be free
and independent. This would be in
accordance with the American consti-
tuition, under which each state is, with
respect to its own affairs, independent
of the Others"
PRINCE HENRY, of Prussia, who COM
mands the German squadron in the Pa
cific, will soon visit San Francisco on
his flagship. He may also visit Presi-
dent Mckinley at Washin gton.
JOHN A. LOGAN, JR-. has received an
appointment as major in the volunteer
army and will soon leave for the Phil
ippines.
A WASHINGTON dispatch said the real
reason for Thomas B. Reeds retire
ment from congress was because he did
not agree with the presidents policy
of territorial expansion.
GEN. JACOB S. CoXEY, who led the
tramp army to Washington five years
ago, has just struck run of zinc ore
ten feet thick in his mine near Joplin,
Mo-, and his fortune is made.
GEN. CHARLES w. BLAIR, a widely
known old-time Kansan, whose personal
history has been intimately intertwined
in that of his state for the past 40 years,
died at Coronado Beach, near San Die
go, on the Goth. He had been i'll for a
year and his journey to California was
made in the hope of recovering his
health.
THERE were rumors in Paris on the
Goth that the French government would
order the case against Dreyfus for
treason to be dismissed and prosecute
the authors of the forgeries
CAPT. ALFRED T. MAHAN, one of the
American members of the peace con-
ference at The Hague, arrived at New
York on the 10th. He expressed the
belief that the result of the conference
! was substantial step in the direction
of arbitration.
MAI. RUSSELL B. HARRISON, inspector
general, was reported critically ILL with
! yellow fever at Santiago de Cuba.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Afro-American council, which
was in session at Chicago, favored ar
ranging for a state to be occup pied by