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

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
DEMOCRATS of Ohio, in state conven-
ton at GAINESVILLE, nominated John E.
Mclean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
for governor. The platform indorses
free silver and declares for Bryan for
president; denounces imperialism and
the war in the Philippines and is for
the initiative and referendum.
THE middle-of-the-road popu1ists held
a conven tion at Des Moines, Ia, on the
30th. C. o. Lloyd, of Muscatine, was
dominated for governor. The conven-
ton declared against fusion and in
lorsed Wharton Barker, of Pennsyl-
Vania, for president, and Ignatius
Donnelly, of Minnesota, for vice preSi-
dent.
PRESIDENT FIeUEREo, of Santo Do
ningo, resigned on the 31st. With the
fall of Figuereo the revolution is victo-
rious.
FRANK IVES, the champion billiard
player, died at Progresso, Mex, of con-
sumption.
JOHN r. MCLEAN, nominee of the
democratic party of Ohio for governor,
is himself authority for the story that
he is not candidate for president in
1900. but would like to succeed Foraker
in the Enited States senate in 1901.
AT the conclusion of the Dewey cele-
bration at New York, Admiral Samp-
son will be relieved of the command of
the North Atlantic squadron. This &C
ton is to be taken at the request of
the admiral, who has already much
more than his portion of sea service in
his grade.
EX-CONGREssMAN JERRY SIMPSON, of
Kansas talked from an open barouche
to a gathering at Chicago on the Sd on
single tax as the solution of all politi-
cal and economic questions of the day.
He advised his hearers to make Henry
Georges writings the text books of
their political faith.
Pope SOPHRoNIUs, patriarch of the
orthodox Greek church of Alexandria,
Lydia, Ethiopia and all Egypt. died OF
the Sd. aged 103.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ESCAPED Spanish prisoners stated
that the Filipino rebels were short of
food.
THOMAS McVEIeH will not be shot
to death but will serve a life term in
the military prison at Alcatraz island
by the order of President Mckinley.
He recently arrived at San Francisco
from Manila on the Grant and was SEN
fenced to be shot to death by musketry
for making a murderous assault on his
superior officer, Capt d. C. Wright, of
company G, First Wyoming volunteers
A FIERCE timber fire ragged about ten
miles south of Deadwood, S. ID. People
turned out from the immediate vicin-
ity to fight the fire, but their efforts
met with little success. Englewood,
on the Missouri Pacific, was threat
ened with destruction and the inhabit-
ants tried to get their belongings to
places of safety.
JOSEPH MARTIN, half-breed Indian
living on Big creek, in the Indian ter
ritory, became enraged at his 14-year-
old sister because she was engaged to
be married, and kicked her to death.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE has made an
elaborate report on prevailing condi-
tions in the territory of Cuba under his
jurisdiction, and takes strong ground
for an independent government for the
Cubans under an American protecto-
rate. He recommends an independent
republican government, with a presi-
dent, vice president and a congress.
He would have this established soon
and advises the holding of a general
election for the selection of those Off
GERS.
THE Thirty-irst infantry, the first of
the new volunteer regiments, reached
San Francisco from the east on the 1st
and will sail for Manila in a few days.
SIX Mormon elders were conducting
a meeting in a school house at Pine
Bluff, Tenn, when the building was
stormed by a mob of over 100 men.
Eggs and rocks were thrown through
the windows and the building almost
entirely demolished. Those present
fed in panic to save their lives. Miss
May Harden, a popular young woman,
who was leaving the building with the
elders, was hit by a bullet and killed.
Burton Vinson, a prominent young
farmer and superintendent of Sunday
school, wrote confession that he had
killed the girl, but that it was an acct
dent, and that he wished to rid him
self of remorse of conscience. He
then committed suicide.
THE August statement of the United
States public debt showed the debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
81, 157, 500, 555.
FATHER CLUsE, the German-American
priest appointed rector of st. Patrick s
Roman Catholic church in East st.
Louis, Ill, despite the protests OF its
members, has resigned and Bishop
Jansen has appointed Father Harkins
administrator of st. Patrick's- This
was said to be backdown on the part
of Bishop Jansen, who persisted II
appointing a German priest over ar
Irish parish.
MRS. ANNIE RIKERT, of San Francis
CO, the only woman president of a rail-