Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27

north or huntington. w. Va, was burned
to the ground the o her night, and Reg ans
burned to death.
GENERAL.
PRINCE ALEXANDER Of Hesse, uncle of
the Grand Duke OF Saxe-Coburg, is dead.
A NAIL bag containing $3.50 in cash and
several letters of money was stolen from
the railroad station at Ottawa, Ont, 10.
Gently and not a clew has been found to it.
THE Russian budget shows q surplus Of
Zoo. GOO roubies.
The British stockholders Of the Lake
Superior Copper Company have decided
to voluntarily wind up che affairs of tho
concern.
THE steamer Jasper, from Wellington
for Glasgow, has founderel of the Wig.
ton coast, Scotland. Her crew, number
ing eleven persons. were drowned.
IT is rumored in Berlin that the Emperor
William is medititing the wholesale re-
tirement Of aged Generals, the promotion
of junior officers and a reorganization Of
the mill airy department.
TROUBLES were expected on the isthmus
Of Panama ow ng to the financial diff
culties Of the Canal Company. A French
ship Of war has been ordered to Colon.
ALL parts of Australia are enthusiastic
ally in favor Of the proposed cable from
Australia to Vancouver, British Column
bia.
THE italian Chamber Of Deputies has de-
cided to SPEND 8 DOC. 600 ire in military aud
railway improvements.
lima DI MURsKA. the once famous primn
donna, is dangerously i'll in body aud
mind at Munich, Germany.
GLADSTONE left England on the 10Th for
cheered by great crowds all along the
road.
BASEBALL was PLAYED at Sydney, N. 8.
W., on the 10 b. The score was ALL
America, 6; Chicago, 3.
THE new B. & o. directory. it is said,
will again commence the old aggressive
policy of the road. New extensions have
been mapped out
SIX farmers started to cross the river to
Montreal on the ice during the recent
storm. They were not heard from and it
was feared they broke through and per-
shed.
The lower house of the Austrian Reichs-
rath has suspend ID trials by jury in fif-
teen judicial districts under the Anarchist
law.
The negotiations between tha Norfolk &c
Western and Richmond Terminal Compa-
MES have fallen through.
THE Chittagong Hill tribes in India have
raided the low lands and killed several
persons. An expedition consisting of 1900
mon has started to pun ish them.
SERIOUS storms were repOr ed off the
Pacific coast on the 18th. Fears were ex-
pressed concerning several golfers from
Puget Sound.
CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction was ex.
pressed in England at the action Of the
Prince of Wa;es in securing the dis5and-
ment of the Honorable Artillery Company,
a mill airy company formed $50 year. ago.
THE workmen on he Eiffel tower, which
is being constructed as one of the fea ures
of the exhib ton next year in Paris, have
COMO on strike.
The Wiener Iag6latt says that 200 Aus
trian and German subjec were exp lied
from Warsaw one day recently. No rea-
son was assign ID.
THE London Standard thinks the recent
change in the Bal imo & Ohio manage
ment n conducive to honest man ge-
ment. Several Amer lean new spapers take
the same view.
The Bri ish forces attacked o man Dig
mas trenches investiD Suak m on the Goth
and drove out the Ara ~, kill g 400. The
British and Egv ptian sses were six killed
and abtut thi, tY yHUund n