Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-09

THE Czarewitch and Czarina of Russia
are going to Cannes. in the hope that tho
health of the Czarowitch will be benefited.
|. Mr. GLADSTONE recently, replying to q
letter from Dr. Parker, asking whether the
English Church establishment did not de-
pend upon its usefulness for duration, ex-
pressed the opinion that she establishment
should not be continued unless 1t should
prove useful in maintaining the higher life
of the nation.
THE British troops in Burmah in recent
encounter with the forces of Boshway
killed 143 of his followers without losing a
soldier But three of the British troops
were wounded
A STRONG shock of earthquake visited
Tashkend. Turkestan, on the 29th, causing
considerable damage in the Russian quar-
ter.
THE Russian party threaten another at
tempt at revolutionin Bulgaria
ADvIcEs from New Zealand state that n
company has been organized to construct
Pacific cable to cost s1O,0O0,00o from
Brisbane, or some part of New South
Wales, to North Cape, New Zealand, /, 800
knots; to the FIJI islands, 1,24O knots; to
Tanning islands, 2,7O0 knots; to the Sand
witch islands, 1850 knots; to Vancouver
island, 2, 730 knots; across the island and
Straits of Georgia to Vancouver City, on
the mainland, the terminus of the Cana
dian Pacific railway, 100 knots. An an.
nual subsidy of $4,000 is expected to be
obtained from the colonial and imperial
governments jointly.
DISPATCH from Hong Kong says that
the French steamer Saghalien, for Shang.
hal. from Marseilles, has been cut to tho
waters edge by the Pacific mail steamer
City of Pekin.-
voted the extra credit'o of S45, OOO, 900 to i'm
prove the navy. The principal part will
be devoted to 'the purchase of torpedo
boats and cruisers. The money is to, be
raised by the sale of state forests and other
Government land. $50
The Property Defense Association of
Ireland is arranging plan to compel ten
ants to, pay rents held by tenants trustees.
THE Superior of the Obiate Fathers at
Montreal has announced that no Knights
of Labor will be allowed to partake of the
sacrament.
PRESIDENT FITZG ERALD, of the Irish Land
League, has issued an appeal for funds tn
aid the fight against the British Govern
ment in Ireland.
FRANCE and Mexico have concluded
treaty of commerce.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the Madagascar credits by vote CT
$50 to leo. Il
Pirates have captured and killed tho
French civil agent accompanying the Con
quin frontier commission.
THE Hungarian delegation finally passed
all the items OF the imperial budget on tho
Both and closed its session.
IT was believed in Belgium that this
thieves who stole the registered mali in
that country are hiding i'll England.
BARON. SEEKENDoRF, professor in, the
Austrian College of Agriculture, commit.
ted suicide recently by shooting himself ID
the mouth.
TIMOTHY D. SULLIVAN has been reelected
Lord Mayor of Dublin. O'Keefe, che solic-
itor, has been elected mayor of Limerick.
Both pledged themselves to refuse any
honor offered by the Queen during the
jubilee year.
THIRTY men were instantly killed Sy an
explosion in the Lemore colliery in Dur
hap, Eng, on the ID.
SIX men were killed and thirteen 5seri-
ously injured by a cross which broke
in the deck of the steamer Western Land,
seven days out from Antwerp. and bound
for New York.
IT was rumored ON the I'd that the steam:
ship Chandernager$ with. 1900 French
troops on board, had foundered during a
cyclone, and that all hands were lost. The
report was denied by the French Govern
ment.
IT was reported in Berlin that the Stand |
ard Oil Company of America was trying
Co secure control of the Russian Naphtha
Company's works.