Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-05
DIR MAcKENzIE expresses himself as
quite pleased with the Crown Princes con-

DR. INACCESSIBLE expresses himself as
quite pleased with the Crown Princes con-
dition.
THE bark George Treat, Captain Steele,
from New Orleans for Spanish port with
a cargo of slaves and heading, arrived at
Nassau recently in a leaky condition
THE revolution in Guatemala is reported
to have been suppressed by President Bar
rillas The fighting was very sanguinary,
the revolutionary Generals, except ex-
President Castano, being captured and
shot.
CAPTAIN McK1xNoN, of the schooner
Ada NJ. Hall, from the Grand Banks, re-
ports that on, December he boarded the
schooner Cordelia- unmasted, waterlogged
and abandoned She is supposed to belong
in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, as a vessel by
that name was lost on the Grand Banks in
the gale Of August last with all her crew.
ADvICEs from Massowah state that King
John, of Abyssinia, is advancing upon that
place by rapid stages. He has under his
command three bodies of troops The first
column is marching via Antalo and Algrab,
and the second via Adowah, while the
route of the third column was unknown.
The residence of F. L. Guy, Canadian
Pacific conductor at Winnipeg, Mann, was
destroyed by fire the other night and he
was burned to death.
LIE CdptuTCu IuO TcCcnJ Oh6llC
Athletic Club meeting IN Dublin. and the
Nationalists and priests withdrew and de-
cided to hold separate meeting.
A FIERCE hurricane and snow storm
swept over Greece recently. Twenty-Five
vessels were wrecked
THE Dublin Gazette publishes an order pre-
scribing reduction Of judicial rents through
out practically the whole of Ireland, rang
ing from six to twenty-five per cent. The
, t0 ic fad or
OO0. CO.
LORD LANsDowNE. Governor-Genera1 Of
Canada, was painfully hurt about the head
recently at Ottawa, Ont, by a fall while
skating.
AGUDULLA, a small port of Porto Rico,
has suffered by huge wave. Fifty three
houses were destroyed. The solid ma
sonry in the cemetery and many bodies
were washed out to sea and lost Many
vessels were storm bound. The wave was
due to a norther.
THE British Foreign Office has semi
officially announced that Lord Randolph
Churchilrs visit 10 Russia is outside the
knowledge of the Government.
ADvICEs from Auckland, New Zealand,
say that the French have annexed Raiateu.
The native chief refusing to submit, the
gunboat Scorpion bombarded the villages.
A DESPERATE fight between Orangemen
and Catholics occurred at the village of
Killybearne, near Cookstown, County Ty-
rome, Ireland, recently. The battle was
finally stopped by the police.
SENIOR LEON Torres, who was seized by
bandits in Cuba and held by them for
ransom, has been released on payment Of
50, OO0
DIPHTHERIA and typhoid fever have been
causing great mortality in and about Otta-
wa, Ont, owing to the polluted condition of
the water. The epidemic may cause the
postponement of Parliament's opening.
The Mexican Government has granted a
concession to a California capitalist for a
great railroad TO tap the mining regions on
the western coast and connecting with the
Southern Pacific.
FRANK FULLER, who killed Archbishop
Seghers on the Yukon river in Alaska in
December, 1886, has been found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to ten years.
Imprisonment and to pay fine of $1,000.
THE losses by fire in the iron works Of
the country during the past year were
placed at 81, 3S1, O00, against s., All, 800 in
1886.
The presence of English and American
men of war at Honolulu, it was stated in
private letters, was the only thing that
prevented native uprising in Hawaii.
CAPTAIN PAINTER and his second mate,
Fischer, have been arrested in Sunderland,
England, charged with gross cruelty to
their crew, causing three to commit sui
eide and another to die from his injuries.
The vessel was the British bark Embleton
from San Francisco.
THE Austrian railways were reported
blocked by heavy SHOWS on the 29th.
GLADSTONE had an interview with Presi-
dent Carnot, Of France, on the 10Th.