Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-29
THE WORLD Al LARGE.
!. Summary OF. tho Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


PAX CHUNG YANG, Corean Minister, left
Washington on the 18th for home.
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
'1ued q circular calling attention to the
1act that the retirement of National bank
notes is limited to "a. OO0, 600 month. De-
posts for tho retirement of circulation
will be acted upon according to priority
and within tie limit.
SENATOR VEsr's committee investigat-
ing the beef business opened proceedings
ut St Louis on the Doth.
THERE was a report in Washington on
the 10th that Colonel Lamont would be ap-
pointed Judge Advocate General to sue
coed Swain. Lamont denied the rumor.
THE President-elect has rendered e. w.
Halford, managing editor of the Indianap'
oils Journal, the position OF private secre-
tary. Mr.. Halford is fcrty-five years of
age and came from England when a child
Nth his parents. who settled in Cincin-
nati.
MRS. SHERIDAN, wiAew Of General Sher-
idan, left Washington for Canada on the
21st for the purpose OF securing the En-
glish copyright to the memoirs Of her hus-
band, which q residence on British soil
will give her.
CONGRESSMAN WOODBURY. of Nevada,
was robbed while asleep in his hotel at
Washington recently. A colored boy was
eGIoSVoO 0uU PA4V Oh inc money I0COF0I0O.
THD last volume of the report IN the
tenth census has just been issued. 1t COM
pletes . set Of twenty two volumes, ag-
gregating Is, s04 pages.
THE KAsT3
VERY Rev. ARrauR J. DoNNELEv of st.
1ichaePs, Chuzcn, New York, vicar gen.
eral OF the diocese, has been raised by the
Pope to the dignity of domestic prelate in
recognition of his services to religion.
A MEETING Of prominent parties inter-
ested On base-ballcommenceda at New York
on the 10th for the purpose Of revising the
rules.
JOHN w. KELLY, of motor fame, who was
sent to Jail at Philadelphia recently for
contempt of court in refusing to give ex-
perts, appointed by the court, information
regarding his mysterious motor, has been
feleased on bail.
The 10th annual banquet Of the New
York Chamber Of Commerce at Delmon-
ices on the Doth was a very elaborate and
interesting one. Most of the leading busi-
ness men of the metropolis were present
AID toasts were responded to by General
w. I. Sherman, Hon. Warner Miller and
Hon. Goodwin Smith, of Canada.
An a fire in a tenement on Eleventh
street, New York, recently Mrs. Mary
Lally was burned to death. She was
found near q window out of which she had
attempted to escape.
WHILE running thirty miles an hour the
head car of passenger train on the
BlOomsberg &c Sullivan railroad jumped
the track recently near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
rolled down the embankment and caught
ire and the twenty-five passengers, many
Of whom were slightly hurt were rescued
by being taken out of the windows.
DqoN BOuCICAULr, the veteran actor,
was reported dangerously sick at New
York on the 21st
WILLIAM DEvLIN, who jumped from the
fosrth story of the steam gauge and Ian
tern company's building near Rochester,
IN. Y, on fhe night of the fire, died of his
injuries. He was the thirty eighth known
victim.
TIE New York factory inspector was
Scalled upon recently by the Ohio Inspector
Tor assistance in ferreting out the partici-
pants an encouragement by which chill
dren were sent from a Brooklyn, N. Y,
orphan asylum to Fostoria and Fndlay,
O., to work in the glass factories in those
places. Other Brooklyn ;asylums were
suspected.
TaaE notorious immigration agent, Par
sons, Af Boston, was recently found with
one of his imported laborers-a Pole
chained to his buggy. The Pole told g
story Of being imisused. Parsons said he
was insane.
WGFW HEY. MAURICE "a. wv kLSH, LII. ID.
pastor of st. Paul Roman. Catholic Church
and Wicar-General Of the Archdiocese Of
Philadelphia, died on the I'D.
a8OR0E 8. KNIGHT, the actor was re-
ported suffering from brain trouble a.
New York.
Rev. ARTHUR BROOKS, Episcopal cler
yman OF New y ork created somewhat o
. sensation in the Church Congress re
oenuy by vigorously denouncing the sec
tartan idea advanced in the governmen
q colleges. He thoeght the broader the,
we're and the more daring men the
tnrned out the better. He believed il
Episcopacy, hut not in running colleges
His remarks weresreoeived with consider
aIhae applause.
OVER one lhundred children were hur
see0tly in a panic caused by an alarm O
q re In the First ward school, Long Islam,
CITY, n. T..
TAE WEST.
A. PANIC occurred at the Woman1 Hospi
tai, Rhodes avenue, Chicago, recently
eau seA by the bursting of a steam pipe
No O - was hurt.
Fo. Va men were killed ON the 10Th bv
boiler explosion at the Boston Consoli
dated works. Meaflville, Nent
TIE kauilor at Crawford lumher a. q /, Il