Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-08

THz condition Of tho King Of the Neither
laIlds has grown worse, and IL declared to
bz critical.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul de Loanda
says that tho first section Of tho Trans
African railway from St Paul de Loanda
to Ambaca has been inaugurated-,
NEWS has been received lately OF
tho Stanley expedition in Africa. Tho
expedition had suffered considerably while
crossing . morass. Forty mon were
drowned while crossing . great river how-
ing east and west. One white man had
died. :
TIE imprisoned whalers in tho Arctic
sea are reported all safe. timely gale
having dispersed tho ice.
THE Fremdenblatt, Of Vienna, says the
Vatican fully approves the Emperor's
censure of Bishop Strossmayer, whose
letter to Mgr. Rampolla, Papa1 Secretary
Of State, has not removed the painful inn
preston experienced by the Vatican re-
garding the pan Slavist message which
the Bishop sent to Kie6.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November 1 numbered
275 as compared with 254 the previous
week and 245 the corresponding week last
year.
p DURING a tOrchlight procession at Bel
grade recently stones were thrown at the
Austrian Legation and several windows
were broken. A number o. arrests wero
made. The authorities made apologies to
tho Austrian Minister for tho outrage.
TIE steam barge Sampson and tho
schooner Zach Chandler have not been
heard from since the recent storm in
Saginaw bay.
Ar New Brunswick customs office re-
Gently duty was collected on q coffin con-
tanning a body sent from Boston to Can
ada for burial.
The Norwegian bark Nor, Captain
Bjonnes, from New York, October 2, for
S.iettin, collided with and sank the
steamer Saxmundham of Cowes, England,
the other day. Twenty-Five persons were
missing and were supposed to have been
drowned.
BERLIN journals deny the existence of a
concerted plan to misrepresent Emperor
William, and declare that tho municipal
authorities have no influence over the
press. They express regret that the
Kaiser did not distinctly specify the often
sive articles in his remarks to the munici-
pal delegation.
The German Government proposes to
resume the building of large ironclads,
which was stopped after the wreck of the
Grosser Kurfurst. A bill providing a
credit for the building of eight will be sent
to the Reichstag.
A, TERRIBLE explosion occurred recently
in the Champagne coal pit in the depart
ment of Aveyron, France. Eighty miners
were killed.
WooDCoCK and Hendry, the American
favorites of the King Of Wurtemburg, left
Nice suddenly on the Sd. The King Local
ted them in a pretty villa opposite his ho-
tel. Woodstock, who was seen by re-
porter before his departure, refused to
deny the charges against him.
THREE children Of DR.. F. S. N. Reid were
playing on the banks of the Grand river
at Gait, Ont, recently when one of them
fell into the water. The others in trying
to rescue their companion also fell in, and
before assistance could reach them two of
them, girls, were drowned.
A 'BLUE' BOOK" on the Minister Sack
vile affair is being prepared for the Brit
ish Parliament.
THE Roman Catholics of Australia and
India have sent the Pope s., 200, 600 in pres
ents in the past year. &. ~
The affairs of the American Exchange
in Paris have been ordered wound up UNI
der the supervision of the courts.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
November showed an average decrease
of 81, compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the de-
crease was 49,
Mr.. MONAGHAN, United States Consul
at Portsmouth, England, died at that place
recently.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent says
that the Gear blames himself mainly for
the recent railroad accident, he having or
dered increased speed to make up for pre-
vious delay.