Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-20

L MISS ANNA M AK hOEh GCHlEf,
Years old, daughter of the late Col.
William Louis Schlev, poet, lawyer
and veteran of two wars, and second
cousin of Rear Admiral Sch1ey. COM
mitted suicide in her home at Balti-
more, Md. Since the death of her
father month ago Miss Schley had
been inconsolable.
| The bishop of Havana, recognizing
that under American rule the Catholic
church cannot be supported out Of the
public revenues, issued a circular let
ter to the priests of the different par
ishes, directing that the church be
hereafter maintained by private con-
| tri but tons.
TwENTY-sEvEN thousand Spaniards
still remained in the vicinity of Glen
| fuegos, Cuba, on the 18th, and it is
! mpro bable that the evacuation will
be completed much before the middle
of February. The Spanish troops.
who are thickly quartered in the ware
! houses and along the wharves.
swarmed through the city day and
night. The soldiers were poorly fed
| and have had no pay for months.
Ell PoRvIENE at Santiago recently
published an extra giving cable mes
sage from DR.. Joaquin Castillo. then
| in Washington with Gen. Wood in the
! interest of the Santiago board of trade.
DIR. Castillo said that complete auton-
omy will be granted to the province.
The whole city was talking of demon
stration to celebrate the prospect.
A JURY at Fort Scott, Kan, found
that, under the Kansas law, school
teacher has no authority to lay hands
on pupil for the purpose of inf1icting
i o0rnoro1 iSh and FRANZ
Hedges was found guilty of assault
and battery on one of his pupils in the
Redfield schools for having punished
him.
| Two negro murderers, Nolen and
Bias, who had been senten ced to hang
at noon on the 18th at Ardmore, L T.,
were gran ted stay of execution until
| next June. The scaffold had been built.
| THE mayor and the entire city coun-
I'll at San Juan, Porto Rico, have re-
| signed. This action, they asserted,
| was taken because of their inability
to raise sufficient funds under the pres.
ent tariff They were not satisfied
with the so-calIed abrupt commands
of military government and besides
alleged they had insufficient liberty.
| NEARLY all the business men of Chi
| cago have been invited to a banquet to
be given by the Merchants club for
| the purpose of considering in detail
the question of establishing municipal
pawnshops in that city. By the pas
| sage of such a measure, it was said,
the large number of Shylocks, who
make loans at exorbitant rates, will
be forced out of business.
AN epidemic of meningitis was re-
ported raging in Albany. Ga So far
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among the negroes. The officers of the
Second Missouri regiment said that
the epidemic will cause the troops to
be moved from there much sooner than
was at first anticipated.
The business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th
mum bered 394. according to Bradstreet's
report, against 323 for the correspond
ing week last year.
| FIRE broke out early the other N orn-
ing in the ive-story Menkin building
at Memphis, Tenn. and destroyed the
building and con tents, valued at $3.50,
600. The insurance was 1915. 900.
No homeseekers' excursions will be
run after February by the roads in
the territory of the Central Passenger
associations. At a recent meeting OF
the association held in Chicago, at
which 40 of the roads were repre-.
sented, all of them with four excep
tons, decided to discontinue home
seekers excursions and in lieu thereof
to sell after this mon tn regular win ter
tourist tickets
EARLY the other morning burglars
broke into the main building Of the
Iowa State university at Iowa City and
blew up the safe with dynamite. The
| e.
It was not known how much they got.
MRS MARGARET PLUMMER, a widow
residing one mile south of Lowell,
Ark. was struck by Frisco freight
train while crossing the track and in.
,tantly killed.
GREAT battle has been fought iu
the Yamen division of Arabia The
Turkish troops stormeds and captured
;he insurgent position at Shanel and
1000 insurgents and 1000 Turks were
killed or wounded.
HENRY BANTE. a grocer and saloon.
Keeper at Hamilton. O., shot his wife
.wice and then blew out his own
Drains. The woman, though seriously
INJURED. has a chance for recovery.
| JAMES De LONG. the horseman, died
1t Niles, Mich, of the grip.
A NEGRO named Henry Jones was
hanged by crowd near Richmond,
N. c., for numbering a woman.
ELMER KING and his bride, of Fruit
port, Mich, were both drowned in
Spring lake while skating.
AN epidemic of grip was prevailing
in Oakland, Cal, on the 18th. Health
Officer Dunn said he thought there
were at least 1000 cases in the city
and, if weather conditions do not aid
the health department in checking the
disease. repetition of the epidemic OF
eight years ago was feared.
! THE Tennessee legislature reelected
William B. Tate (dem.) to the United
Cfatos Sauata