Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

| EUGENE HALE was reelected United
6tates senator by the concurrent vote
Of the two branches of the Maine
1t will be his fourth term
in the senate.
| DIR ANDREW J. BLACKWELL, for
whom the town of Blackwell. Ok, was
named, and one of the best-known men
in that part of the country. has died.
He was familiar figure in the mimi g
towns of sou Invest Missouri and south
east Kansas in the early days
COL JAMES A SEXTON. commander
| in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, was reported seriously i'll in
Washington on the 18th.
THE detail for the court-martial to
try Commissary General Eagan was
made public by Adjt- Gen. Corbin on
| the 18th.
JUDGE PETER S. GRosscUP. of Chica-
go, United States district judge. was
nominated by the president to succeed
the late Judge Showa1ter as United
States circuit judge for the Seventh
district
The Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don Daily Graphic said on the 10th
| that one of the princi pal chiefs of the
Carlists informed linn that everything
| was ready for rising in Spain, that
Don Carlos was absolutely resolved to
take the field and that all were wal T.
ing for the signal.
A wARSHIP has been ordered to
Samoa on account of the trouble grow
ing out of the election Of a successor
to the late King Malietoa. A special
dispatch said that the British and
| American consuls were compelled to
forge the doors of the supreme court
| at Apia,~Samoa, in which the German
consul had established himself, and
push him into the street. The situa-
ton was reported grave in the islands
and may embroil the United States
and Great Britain with Germany.
GEN. EAaAN was served with legal
| notice of the ordering of a court
martial for his trial just before the
.lose of Office hours on che 10th and
his office was placed in charge OF
Lieut.. Col. George B. Davis. who had
been on duty there for some time as
| assistant to the commissary general.
A WASHINGTON special to the Brook.
EIyn Eagle said that Maj. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles, commanding the United
Estates army. is to be court-martialed
as soon as the Eagan court-martia al
submits its findings. provided it is
found othat the utterahces of Gen.
Miles contained any provocation for
| the assault made upon him by Gen.
! Eagan.
PORTER J. MCCUMBER, republican,
| was elected United States senator in
the joint asse mbly at Bismarck. n. D.
| O Tue Paris Gaulois said there were
rumors that the court of cessation will
order that Dreyfus be retriedB by the
senate sitting as high court
ST. LOUIS Mormons are opposed te
seating B. 81. Roberts in congress-
! GREAT BRITAIN has proclaimed q
protecsDrate over the Soudan portion
of Africa
JAMES R. SCOTT. commercial editor
of the Herald at Dubuque. Ia, died or
the 23d, aged 20 years He was the
| oldest newspaper worker in Iowa. hav
ing been employed con tinuously over
40 years on the Herald.
IT was reported at Washington thai
Gen. Eagan will plead guilty to the
charges at his court-uartial and say
! that he was so much exasperated and
mentally distressed by the statements
of Gen. Miles and the newspaper criti
| cisms resulting from the ''embalmeC
BEEF charges as to be scarcely respon
sible for the language he used anG
will throw himself on the mercy o.
the court, hoping thus that it will
recommend executive clemency.
A MASS meeting was held in New
York on the 92d for the purpose of pro
testing against the policy of lin
perialism and entangling alliance!
with European powers" Resolution.
were adopted against the permanent
annexation of the Philippines
Speeches were made by ex-Ambassa
dor Eustis,e Samuel Gompers and
Bourke Cochran. Letters of sympathy
with the object of the meeting were
read from ex-President Cleveland. Viii
liam ]. Bryan and Bishop Potter.