Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-05-26


| their lives in the recent hurricane on
| the North Queensland coast.
THE thirteenth annual convention of
the American section of the Theosophi-
cal society was opened at Chicago on
| the 21st by Alexander Fullerton, of
New York, general secretary. About
so delegates outside of Chicago were in
attendance.
PoRosow, Poland, was destroyed by
fire and IL lives were lost and 5000
people made homeless.
Two military and two civil Filipino
commissioners, appointed to cooperate
with three citizens of Manila in nego-
tiating terms of peace, arrived at that
city on the goth. They submitted no
new proposition, but wanted an armis
tice pending the session of the Filipino
congress. Gen. Otis refused to enter
tain the proposal
ROBERT GILLIAN, general manager
of the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad, died
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 10th of a
complication of pneumonia and appen-
dicitis.
THE representatives of coal trust in
Pittsburgh, Pa, have been at work in
New Orleans for some weeks and have
secured options on all the coal plants
in that city, with the single exception
of that of G. w. Coyle & Co. and one of
the largest concerns. 1t was said the
trust. which has $50, 900, 900 of money,
was at work at numerous other points
in the Mississippi valley and proposes
by next fall to control the coal trade
of that portion of the United States.
IT was announced in special dis,
patch from A1lahabad, capital of the
northwest provinces of India, that 3
serious epidemic of cholera had fol:
lowed in the wake of the plague. AT
Kurracheo, the principal seaport town
of Sinde, there were 81 deaths in one
day from cholera.
The Russian council at ST. Peters
burg was said to be considering the
question of substituting another pen-
atty for transportation to the Siberian
mines for criminals and political pris-
oners.
ETHEN GREEN, II years old, was
dragged to death by COW at Urbana,
ILL.,, the other day. He was leading
the animal from the pasture and had
tied the rope around his waist, when
the COW became frightened and started
to run. The boy was thrown beneath
the animals hoofs.
DAVID /. FIELD, retired capitalist,
shot and killed Robert w. Stratford,
his negro man of all work, in the vesti-
bule of his handsome residence, No.
5345 Vernon avenue, ST. Louis. The
shooting was the result of Stratford
attempting to assault his employer,
who had just discharged him for neg
lecting his work.
JOHN F. POTTER, of anti-slavery
fame and a former congressman, died
at East Troy, Wis, on the 18th from
paralytic stroke, aged 80 years. He
was one of the founders of the repub-
lican party. In 1860, at the close of an
angry discussion with Roger A. Pryor,
he was challenged to duel by the
latter. Mr.. Potter chose bowie knives,
which were promptly objected to by
the other side, and the matter was
dropped From this incident Potter
was given the sobriquet of ''Bowie
Knife Potter.
AT conference held at Detroit,
Mich, on the 18th between Senator Nc
MILAN and &everal of his political
friends, republican leaders from vari-
Gus parts of Michigan, it was decided
that Senator Mcmillan will be candi-
date for a third term as United States
sen ator.
GEN. WADE HAMPTON has written a
card to the people of South Carolina in
which he feelingly and gratefully de-
clined to accept the home that it was
proposed to build for him to replace his
residence recently destroyed by fire.
The peace conference called by the
| car of Russia was opened on the after
noon of the 18th at The Hague. Nj. de
Beaufort, minister of foreign affairs of
| the Netherlands, delivered the inaugu-
raj address and welcomed the delegates
Gov. ROOSEVELT has called an ex-
traordinary session of the New York
legislature to meet on the 21st.
REV. DIR. WILLIAM MAST, the founder
| of German Methodism in America, died
at Cincinnati, aged 90. He came to
| America in 1928. For 81 years previous
to his death he edited the Christian
| Apologist, the German organ of the
| Methodist Episcopal church in America
| IHE schooner Gauges was sunk in
Lake Erie by a collision with the
steamer Presque Isle, about eight miles
OFF Colchester, Ont. Her whole side
was smashed in and she went down in
ten minutes after being struck. The
crew of eight men was taken off and
landed in Detroit, Mich.
COL SUMMERS command encountered
Filipino rebel force, estimated to
number 2,0o0 men, outside San Isidro.
A few volleys from the American
troops put them to flight and the Amer
leans captured the second insurgent
capital. Col. Summers then continued
his advance, pursuing the retreating
rebels for miles
HARTFORD and other places along
the Connecticut river experienced a
slight earthquake shock shortly before
s;15 p. m. on the 10th. Residences in
the elevated portions of Hartford were
perceptibly shaken, dishes ratified on