Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


1--WE propose TO continue recruiting
until Aguinaldo is captured said Sec
retary Root when asked if the provi-
sional army of 35, 600 men would be en-
listed. Secretary Root telegraphed the
governors of all states, asking them to
recommend officers who had served in
the Spanish war, with a view to Off
cering the additional - regiments
which will be organized.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY delivered an
impromptu address at the Catholic sum-
mer school at Lake Champlain, n. Y,
on the 18th.
SENATOR M. L. HAYWARD was
stricken with apoplexy at Brownville,
Neb., just as he was going to deliver an
address at the Modern Woodmen picnic
on the 18th. The doctors reported him
in a very precarious condition.
Mrs. LILY LANGTRY, the actress,
was recently married at the island of
Jersey to Hugo Gerald de Battle, the
eldest son of Sir Henry Percival de
Bathe, Bart. The ceremony was pri-
vate. The prince of Wales is said to
have been in the confidence of the pair
and sent telegram of congratula-
tions.
BoLTING democrats from every coun-
ty but nine of the 119 composing the
state of Kentucky met at Lexington
and nominated full state ticket,
headed by John Young Brown for
governor in opposition to the regular
democratic ticket, headed by William
Goebel, 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 indorsed the democratic
ticket. The only populist on the ticket
is w. H. Calhoun for railway commits
sioner.
REPREs ENTATIvE 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 amica BILE relations now exist
between army headquarters and the
war department at Washington. Off
,ial documents, orders, recommended
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 a fever, was better on the
10th and in the morning he remained
IN the deck of the Olympia at Lephorn.
italy.
A SHARP engagement between Gen.
| MacArthur's command and the insur-
| gents was reported to the war depart
mcnt by Gen. Otis on the 10th. The
enemy'S SintrenchmentS on the outskirts
| Of Angeles were attacked and the
rebels, estimated at $500, were driven
north with a reported loss of 200 killed
and wounded. The American loss was
two killed and 12 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 insurgent
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 nomination 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