Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-22

aENERAI.
PRHMIrR CRIsPI of Italy has notified
the French Government of Italy's desire
to remove all causes of Misunderstanding
Ex-QUEEN NATALIE Of Servia has pur-
chased an estate near Warsaw, Poland,
for Zoo. 900 roubles.
SIN RICHARD BAGALLAY. formerly Lord
Justice of Appeal of Great Britain, is
dead, aged seventy-two years.
THE trunk lines have announced an open
cut between New York and the West on
all classes of freight, and reduced rates
nearly one-half. The cause of the trouble
and the originator were not definitely
known, but it was credited to the Wander
bilt lines.
THE Canadian Council has increased the
export duty on pine logs one-third.
THE Canadian Government has let tho
contract for the construction of q canal at
Sault Ste. Marie for 81 200, 600.
A REPORT was in circulation in Vienna
on the 18th that an attempt had been
made to assassinate Prince Ferdinand, the
ruler of Bulgaria
Saxony, has been burned to the ground.
The castle physician, his wife and child
and two servants were burned to death.
JASPER DOUGLAS PYNE, member of Par.
lament for West Waterford, fell over
board the other night from one of the
steamers running between Holyhead and
Dublin and was drowned.
THE French committee of revision of the
Constitution of that country has adopted
a resolution favoring the abolition of the
Senate and Presidency.
MESSENGERS who have arrived at Wady
Halfa report that the mysterious White
Pasha in the Behr ell Gael district had
fought great battle and killed many
dervishes.
By an explosion in a mine in Belgium
recently thirty two miners were killed.
Three escaped alive but badly injured.
EXPORTS of the principal articles of pro-
visions during October past aggregated in
value So Gi1, 7O6, against 81, O59, $40 in Octo-
Der, 1887.
A WARRANT has been issued in Canada
for the extradition of De Baum, the New
York forger.
The great German ironclad Kaiser with
Prince Henry of Prussia on board went
aground in the harbor of Copenhagen on
the 18th. The Prince was taken ashore in
King Christians yacht
THE British steamer Black Watch
foundered between Naples and Odessa
November 6. The fate of the crew was
unknown.
AN Irish bailiff named Lynch has been
shot and killed by moonlighters near Kill
barry.
The Tagus, Douro and Ligo rivers in
Portugal have overfown their banks and
done much damage.
A ZANZIBAR correspondent says the
Southern mail brings news that the ports
are filed with insurgents and that the
anti German feeling is undated. The
burning of Minengani Tunghi is con-
firmed. The Governor of Mozambique is
proven ed from returning to his capital by
a hostile chief of the Zambesi.
MISS FRANCIS E. WILLARD denies that
the National Woman's Christian Temper
the Prohibition party. The members are
left free as to political affiliations.
DUKE MACMILLAN, of Bavaria, was
stricken with apoplexy a few days ago
and is dead. He was eighty years of age.
THE Mexican National Railroad Com
pany has refused to receive Mexican Ma
tional Bank notes.
EFFORTS to unite the federal and pro-
gressive republicans of Spain have failed.
THE body of the late shop Seghers, of
Alaska, has been brought to Victoria, B.
G., by the United States man-of-war
Thetis.
CLAIMS for over 800. O0O. 900 against the
Mexican Government and in favor of the
estate of the late Charles Butterfield have
been presented by ex-United States
Minister John Foster.
The people of Denmark celebrated the
twenty fifth anniversary of the accession
of King Christian on the 18th.
/ THE frearm factory at Chatelle Rault,
France, where the Lebel rifles were being
made. has been destroyed by fire; loss,
ST, OOO, 900 francs.
THE LATEST.
A RECn..r letter from Port au Prince
says that seven American vessels are un-
dor dafo s1@@
all over Hayti. and the necessity for mem
of-war to protect the foreign residents was
urgent.
THREE young girls were caught on q
bridge by train at Circleville. O., the
other day. Two were killed. The third
escaped by clinging to the stringers.
RHODE ISLAND adopted the Constitu-
tlonal amendment in the recent election
abolishing property qualification for suf-
frage.
The plurality of Francis for Governor
Of Missouri was 1921; for Cleveland,
1862.
A HEAVY shock of earthquake was expe-
rienced at Guayaquil on the 10th. Thou
sands fed from their houses.
The strike of the brakemen on the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago railway has
been compromised, the men getting in
creased wages.
1T Is positively denied in Washington
that ex-Minister Foster presented claims
for $50. OO0,O W against Mexico on his re-
cent visit to the City of Mexico.
The coasting steamer Vonvairo, which
left Clutch, India, November 6 with 900 ma
tives on board, was reported overdue and
it was feared she had foundered in q re-
cent storm.
ED MCDONALD, the most famous of the
Chicago boodlers, has secured reversal
of his case by the Illinois Supreme Court
and it is thought that he will never go to
the penitentiary.
farmer living near st. Cloud, Mimi, were
drowned recently while skating over thin
ice.
THE men from Live Oak, Fla, claiming
to represent the relief committee of that