Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-12
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President has Informed the Cincin-
natl Exposition Committee that on account
of the pressure of private business he can
not accept its invitation to attend the Ex-
position at this time.
The House Committee on Elections has
decided by party vote in favor of Elliott,
the sitting member in the Seventh South
Carolina contest.
TIE Commissioner of Patents refused to
grant patent to De Banssett for his air
ship on the ground OF its being visionary,
although the House Committee on Ventlla-
ton had recommended an appropriation of
$50, 600 for the inventor to develop his idea
THE Senate Committee on Judiciary has
decided to report without any recommend
alton the nomination Of Melville w. Fuller
to be Chief Justice.
INFORMATION having been received at the
Treasury Department of the existence of
contagious disease among neat cattle in
Grey County, Ontario, Assistant Secretary
Maynard has, instructed the collectors OF
customs at Buffalo and Suspension Bridge
to refuse entry and Importation of cattle
from that district.
The public debt statement for June
showed a decrsase during the month of
$14, 429 sos. For the fiscal year ended June
80 the decrease was SIS, S44 $50.
The Postmaster General has telegraphed
instructions to the postmaster at Plant City,
Fla. to fumigate all outgoing mails on &C
count of reported presence there of lnfec-
tious fever.
TIE Senate has confirmed the nomination
Of James g. Jenkins TO be United States
Judge for the Eastern district Of Wiscon-
sin.
PosTMAsTER-GENE DICKINSON objects
to the proposed subsidy for carrying mails
to South America. He says that it is IN
like the British subsidy system which per-
mits foreign vessels to compete, and that
in view OF the limited American shipping
going to South America the parties to
whom the money would go might as we'll
be mentioned by name.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was reported on the
Sd to have taken relapse, while on board
the Swatara.
THE Postmaster-General has written a
letter to the President formally protesting
against the proposition made by the Civil
Service Commission to extend the classt-
fed service so as to include the railway
postal service.
The end of National sen sation was
reached when the celebrated criminal libel
case of x-Postmaster-G General Was
against William WEIGH, was discontinued.
The alarming symptoms in the sickness
of General Sheridan were reported the
next day to have subsidized.
ATToRNEY-GENRRAL GARLAND has re.
turned to his residence in Washington from
a brief visit to the lower Potomac He is
improved in health but is still too weak to
resume his duties at the department.. He
will probably leave In a day or two for
Rock Springs, Va.
THE President vetoed another private
pension bill on the 9Th, and in doing so re-
marked that the abuses perpetrated in pri-
vate pension Legislation were an Injustice
to the worthy veterans and q waste of pub
lie money.
THE EAST.
RUTHERFORD TRowBRIDGE, a well-to-do
merchant OF New Haven, Conn, has sued
Jonathan Ingersoll, clerk of the Superior
Court, for $25. 600 for alternating the affec-
lions OF Mrs. Trowbridge.
WHILE driving in a buggy across the
tracks of the Western New York & Penn
sylvanis Railroad at Carroliton, Pa, re-
Gently, Mr.. and Mrs. q. R Stokes were
killed.
A CRANK named Flack with his phantom
boat went through the rapids at Niagara
Falls on the 4th. The boat turned upside
down three times in passing the worst spot
and stayed in the pool upside down. Flack
was undoubtedly killed, as he was strapped
In the boat
The courts at Erie, Pa, have adjudged
Simon Bolivar Benson insane. Benson was
at one time the assistant chief to the Sc
cret Service Bureau, and was active in the
ferreting out of the Belknap and whisky
frauds aud the celebrated Tom Ballard
and other connterfeiting cases from 1870 to
1870. ts+
GOVERNOR AMEs, OF Massachusetts, is
Feriously i'll with acute bronchitis. He and
LGs family will move shortly to their sum