Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-04-28

spanish pT1SOnSTS near Dd10T.
J. r. SCOTT has been appointed re-
ceiver of public moneys at Perry, Ok.
GENERAL NEWS.
GEN. Otis is making determined eff
fort to prevent the spread of disaffec-
ton among volunteers under his COM
mand in the Philippines by censoring
dispatches sent to them by opponents
of the policy of expansion of the ad
Ininistration in the United States, es-
pecia1ly in Boston. The dispatches
which the general has suppressed de-
clare that the volunteers are entitled
to Immediate return home and make
the volunteers feel unwilling to re-en-
list or to stop until they can be spared.
On the night of the 23d the Missouri
river was raging torrent at Omaha,
Neb., the flood conditions being more
alarming at this point than for Is
years. Over 200 people were driven
from inundated homes, little of their
household goods being saved.
Four men and a boy lost their lives
by an explosion in a coal mine at Mad
rid, n. NJ, on the 21st.
ARMED with pitchforks, Horace Scott,
colored, and Edward Edmond, a young
white man, fought duel to death in
the alley at the rear of 1880 Indiana
avenue, Chicago, on the 21st. Scott
was stabbed in the breast and died
after few minutes. Zikmond surren-
dered to the police.
HIRsCH CoPPELMAN, who pleaded
guilty a month ago to swindling Jacob
Bernstein, of Cincinnati, out of $13, 900
by means of the gold brick scheme, was
sentenced by Judge Newberger at New
VOI.ly TO -,
the penitentiary. Saul Jacobs is now
serving sentence of ~ years in Sing
Sing for the crime committed by Cop
pelman.
ADMIRAL SCHLEY will visit Omaha,
Neb., about May 1 as the guest of ex-
Senator Henderson.
THE Chicago & Alton Railroad COM
pany increased the wages of 800 section
men in Illinois, on the two divisions be-
tween Chicago and Bloomington and
between Dwight and Peoria, from 81. 10
to $1.25 per day.
A SCOUTING party of volunteers en-
countered 200 Filipinos near Taguig the
other day. They engaged the enemy
and stood them off until reinforcements
arrived. The Insurgents were then
speedily repulsed. The Filipinos lost
II killed and a number wounded. The
American loss was three wounded.
SEVERAL tenement houses belonging
to the Virginia Coal and Iron company
were burned at Stonegap, KY, and
Grant Rose, a Tennesseean, was Gre
mated Charles Stuart was fatally
burned. It was believed Rose was muir
dered for money and the fire started to
cover up the crime.
Gov. GEN. BROOKE, in the distribu-
button of the $4,000, 900 to the Cuban
soldiers, has determined to accept the
Cuban lists as correct.
THE wrecking steamer Rescue is be-
ing fitted out at New York for a trip to
Santiago de Cuba to tow the raised
Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, of Ad-
mira1 Cervera's fleet, to Norfolk, Va
In factional fight between rival COM
panies of Chinese highbinders the other
night at Fresno, Cal, three men were
killed and two others fatally wounded.
More trouble was feared in Chinatown.
A THOUSAND Toledo CO., carpenters
will strike on May 1 unless their de-
mands for IS cents an hour and eight
hours work are agreed to by the con-
tractors This decision was reached at
a meeting on the Goth attended by 200
men.
SERGT. MAJ. ALBRIGHT, was arrested
at Bromberg, Prussia, on the Goth and
taken in chains to Spandau, where the
state prison is situated. The prisoner
is charged with high treason in fur
nishing Russian agents with detailed
plans of German Notifications and plans
for mobilizing the German army.
1t was authoritatively announced at
New York that Speaker Thomas B.
Reed had accepted the offer to become
a mem Der of the law firm of Simpson,
Thatcher & Barnum, in that city. Mr..
Reed wilt resign his seat in congress
and remove to New York. Before set
Ting down he will make visit to
Europe.