Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-19


THE Emperor of Brazil has completely
recovere from his recent illness and will
sail from Europe for Brazil, August 5.
DURING election riots in Belgium the
other day gendarmes fired on q mob and
bayoneted several persons.
THE report of the German physicians on
the death of Emperor Frederick censures
DIR. Mackenzie for his faulty treatment of
the case. DIR. Mackenzie declares the re-
port tissue of falsehoods.
ADvIcEs from Auckland say that the
Tahiti natives rejected the friendly over
lures of the French and attacked the
launch of the war ship DEGREES, whereupon
the French shelled the native villages.
PARNELL recently expressed an opinion
that the agitation of home rule would
eventually end in the federation of the
British empire.
THE trunk line passenger agents have
fixed special rates of one fare for a round
trip to all clubs of twenty persons or over
who visit New York to welcome James G..
Blaine on his return to America on July 81.
THE Berlin police have arrested five So
cialists for posting seditious posters over
copies of the speech from the throne.
+ Two Generals and a number of other
officers have been degraded and impris-
oned as a result of the recent fight among
the soldiers stationed at the Yieldiz Pal
L
O'LEARY, the ex-Fenian, has written a
letter to the Freendn's Journal in which
he says he does not approve of Mr.. Par
nell's proposal to retain the representa-
ton of Ireland in the British House of
Commons, as it would simply keep open
the sore between England and Ireland.
THE Portuguese Government is prepar-
ing an expedition to go to the country
north of the Zambesi river to secure and
"a N + hat
region. The expedition will be under the
command of Governor Guitiman.
THE Sultan Of Turkey is much concerned
about the approaching visit of Emperor
William to the Car and fears that the re-
suit of the interview between the two
monarchs will be detrimental to Turkey.
THE Austrian and Greek Consuls have
complained to the Bulgarian Government
that brigands had raided the railway sta
ton at Bellova and seized two Austria11s
and two Greeks and held them for ransom.
ONE more iron and steel manufacturing
firm has signed the Amalgamated Associa-
ton scale.
THE italian Chamber of Deputies has
passed bill giving ELECTORAL rights to all
able to read and write and paying mini
mum taxes.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town, Africa, of
the 18th says that the Zeebers coal mine at
Kimberly had caught fire and five hundred
miners were entombed and thought to have
persisted.
THE st. James Gazette says: sit is semi
officially stated that the report published
in the Pail Mall Gazette to the effect that
Dowager Empress Victoria is virtually
under arrest at PotSdam is abomina-
BILE felton,
A TERRIBLE storm was reported off the
New England coast on the night of the
18th. Many wrecks occurred, accompanied
with loss of life.
THE crop prospects in India are said to
be improving with the cessation of the
drought. All fear of a famine has passed
away except in Orrissa, where the drought
still prevails.
THE French Chamber of Deputies was in
an uproar on the 18th. Boulanger called
Floquet liar and then resigned his seat,
anticipating the censure about to be pro-
noanced upon him by the President of the
Chamber. 1t was thought that a duel
would follow.
A REPORT has been received that an in
surrection has occurred at Port au Prince,
Hayti, and that the insurgents have burned
500 houses, including most of the public
buildings.
THE exports of breadstuffs from South
ern Russia during the coming autumn are
expected to be enormous. Reports from
Odessa indicate a harvest of immense
promise.
In the British House of Commons on the
18th, Mr.. w. H. Smith, the Government
loader, agreed to a motion for the appoint
ment of committee to inquire into the
Times Parnell charges.