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

p1ement company at Omaha, Neb., was
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, S17O,-
coo; insured.
In a house near Mount Carbon mine
at Murphysboro, ILL, two women were
found murdered. The house had been
plundered.
FOUR men of the Nebraska regiment,
including Col. Stotsenberg and Lieut..
Sisson, and three men of the Fourth cav
airy were killed and Al wounded in an
engagement at Quengua, near Ma1olos.
The Filipinos retreated with small loss.
The engagement developed into dis
astrous. though successful, fight. The
insurgents had horseshoe trench.
about mile long, encircling a rice field
on the edge of wood. The Americans
retired, carrying their wounded, under
fire with great difficulty, being closely,
pursued, a fog enabling the enemy to
creep up to them.
TIE national headquarters of the
Grand Army of the Republic have been
established in Cincinnati. Business
headquarters and the records will re-
main in Philadelphia.
A TERRIBLE cyclone ravaged the coast
of Queensland during the month Of
March. The official report placed the
loss of life at Ala, while 81 vessels, chiefly
engaged in coral fishing, were wrecked
and 1000, 600 worth of property de-
stroyed. A Japanese steamer which
reached Brisbane reported having
steamed through dead bodies for two
days.
ONE of John b. Glover's dogs went
mad at Dubuque, Ia, the other morn
ing and attacked ex-Alderman Phil
Ryder, as, with his two children, he
was returning home from mass. Mr..
Ryder fought a desperate battle with
the brute. He was bitten in three
places, including his cheek. The dog,
after biting several other dogs, also
child, was finally killed.
The jury at Philadelphia on the 21st
declared Senator Quay not guilty of
the charge of using the state funds in
the Peoples bank. Senator Quay re-
ceived quite an ovation afterwards.
FOURTEEN thousand regulars are to
be sent to reinforce Gen. Otis at Manila
as soon as the necessary marine trans
portation can be provided. 1t was an
nounced that the army in the Philip
pines will be increased to $4,000 men,
whether the Filipino rebels abandon
the field or not.
THE attorney general of Arkansas
has Instituted SO suits for So, 600 each at
Little Rock against the Connecticut
Fire Insurance company, charging it
with being a member of a combine.
The suits are brought under the new
antitrust law of the state.
SEVEN women and one child We're
seriously injured in collision between
State street cable train and an omni-
bus at Chicago the other day. Three
others were slightly hurt.
Gov. LIND, of Minnesota, received the
following cablegram from Manila on
the Goth: 1.-The regiment must be or
dered home and mustered out of the
service at once--Officers of Regiment. -
Gov. Lind said he was unadvised as to
the eXigencies at Manila and was wholly
in the dark as to the real significance
of the message.
NEARLY all the 500 employees of the
Illinois iron and bolt works of Carpen-
terville, Ill, struck the other day over
a reduction in wages and the refusal of
the company to treat with the union.
long t1e-up was expected.
MIRANDA MEEKER aged IS years,
was burned to death at Rockdale, la.
She had lighted her pipe while sitting
in bed and dropped the match on the
bed clothes She was too feeble to
alarm the household.
IRWIN PREvO was killed in attempt
ing to board q moving freight train in
Marshall, Ill, the other evening. Three
cars passed over his body and he was
cut to pieces.
A MEETING is to be held at Atlantic
City, n. j. to form a drug combine to
be capitalized at SIS, 600, 900 to $50, 600, =
900.
GUS MOODY and Bud higgins, farm
ers, met on the streets at GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, and settled an old grudge,
growing out of horse trade, by shoot
ing each other. Moody was shot twice
and Higgins once. Both men were
fatally hurt.
AN engine pulling a Belt train
turned over on a high trestle at Bed
ford, Ind. Charles Meitzer, engineer,
and man named Demoss, a merchant.
were instantly killed and Henry Split
berger was seriously injured.
SERIOUS student riots have occurred
at the University of Kieff, Russia.
The troops were called out and arrest
ed 400 of those who took part in the
disorders.
AFTER killing his fve-year-old son
by cutting his throat with butcher
knife. Emil Eykatra jumped on a
horse and fed from his home in South
Holland, Ill. He was pursued by an
excited crowd but escaped. The MUIR
derer was believed to be insane.
On a refusal of demands for an in
| crease from So. 40 to $500 a beating, the
| Gold Beaters' National union has
ordered a strike. The Chicago union,
with SO members, quit work on the Goth.
GEN. GOMEZ has determined to an
uounce to the people of Cuba his sup
| port of an American protectorate un-
| till such time as stable and independ-
ent government may be founded.
THE secret service department cap
| tured a couple of counterfeiters in
| PHILADELPHIA on the 10Th who were