Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13


TIE Commercial Bank OF Odessa has a.
dered twelve gunboats for the Montene9rin
0ovornment
The Workmen's Congress at Chatelek
Belgium. has decided upon an immediate
and general strike Of the Golfers.
THE report comes from Berlin that an
agreement has been made between the
German and the English steel manufact-
| urers by which they have formed q conn
pact to avoid competition in their respect
! i've territories.
LORD CHURCHILL's resolution adverse
| 70 tho Egyptian policy OF tho Salisbury
Government WAS rejected in the British
House OF Commons on tho 4th by 231 to
i89. Tho Government came near being
defeated, runners being sent out to fetch
in supporters.
excepting Colorado, give Cleveland piu-
rnlity of 1i0,904. In Colorado Harrison's
plurality was estimated At II, 64S. Cleve-
land thus bad . plurality OF the popular
vote Of 1921.
BIZ tho fall OF . wall OF . building re-
Gently burned in Hamilton, Ont, the other
day three workmen were fatally injured
and twelve more or less hurt.
A DISPATCH from Paris says that the
split in the ranks OF the Boulangist party
threatens to become serious.
TEE proposed clearing house plan 20
govern Western railroads il reported to b
dead.
A NUMBER Of men who were on . strike
in Belgium explod ID dynamite cartridges
in the vicinity Of the houses of obnoxious
employers tho other night, but no one was
injured. At several places the strikers
paraded the streets bearing French flags,
which they cheered heartily.
PRINCE KARAGEoRGEvIrCH, . claimant
to tho throne of Servia, is dying IN Aus
| tria.
THE Porto has signed q convention with
tho Seligmans, tho American bankers,
providing for the junction of the Turkish
and Greek railways. It rejected for polit-
ical reasons the English, German and
French tenders to carry out this project.
THE steamer Haytien Republic has been
released.
THE German war ship Garcia has cap
tured q slave dhow OF the coast of Zanzi-
bar.
THE Ashbourne Irish Land Purchase
bill has passed its third reading in the
British House of Lords.
THREE men named Fournia, father son
and nephew. left Gaspe, Que, the other
day in q small boat for their homes on
Dartmouth river. Next morning their
dead bodies were found in the boat. which
| was full of water. Death resulted from
exhaustion and exposure.
among the workmen. Troops were sent to
quell disturbances.
By the wrecking OF the British steamer
Haxtlepool at Egersund, Norway, recently
seventeen of her crew were lost.
Don DOMINGO OLIVIA, criminal Judge for
the district of La Cathedral, Havana,
Cuba, recently received an internal ma
chine in the shape Of a writing desk. In
trying to open it his wife was seriously
wounded by the explosion which followed.
THE Ru ssian railway officials have been
ordered to observe the same ceremony to-
ward ex-Queen Natalie, OF Servia, as il
shown q Or and Duchess.
The Portuguese Government announces
q blockade OF the Portuguese coast in East
Africa.
THE King of Portugal was attacked with
q congestive chill recently and was seri-
ously i'll.
MICHAEL DIVERS house, about three
miles from Blythe, Ont, was burned the
other morning and Mrs. Dryer, her
daughter and three grandchildren were
burned to death.
THE Boletin. the organ Of the postal au-
thorities OF Mexico, brings serious charges
against the American postal authorities,
accusing them of negligence and careless
ness and sending mails on long routes.
A REPORT was current on the 9th that
Jay Gould had obtained a controlling in.
terest in the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe.
The report was discredited at Boston, but
| considerable speculation prevailed about
| il in New York and Chicago.
THE LATEST.
ARTIST WAKE, of the London Grdph.c
has been killed at Suakim by an Arab be-
s'eger of the town.
The drought still continues in Victoria,
| Australia, but fine rains have fallen in
Queensland.
GEORGE w. SEWARD, a brother Of Sec
| rotary Of State Seward, died at Florida,
| n. Y, recently, aged eighty.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended December 6 numbered
3o5, compared with 232 the previous week
and 254 the corresponding week last year.
| HE funeral ceremonies over the re-
mains of thu late General r. B. Ayres,
| U. s. A., were held on the 7th at Trinity
| Church. Washing on.
| SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered three
more vessels to Hayti, instructed to de-
mand the release of the steamer Haytien
! Republic.
| HERMAN, one of the men charged with
attempted robbery and murder of Phil
DAILY, the sporting man, in q New York
fat, when attempting the badger game"
OF blackmail. has confessed. He lays the
chief blame on his confederate Meredith.
"A REWARD OF $4,000 has been offered
| by the Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining
| Company for the arrest of the man who
| set fire to the Calumet shaft Thanksgiving
day. The fire was reported growing
| worse.
The Miners Progressive Union COM
pieted its organization at Columbus, o. !,
on the It'll by the adoption of q constitu
| ton and election of officers.
The Senate was not in session on the
hA Ni<,0 hi hofo hA
| House. Several amendments were adopted.
OWING to q dispute at . recent meeting
OF the Paris Municipal Council, two of the
| members-M. Memorial, a Boulangist, and