Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-12


AsHARP shock OF earthquake was felt in
the City OF Mexico on the morning or the
I'd. During the last three months there
have been seismic disturbances throughout
Mexico.
COUNT DE SPENNEcK, secretary Of the
Danish legation to St Peters burg, has been
appointed Danish Minister to the United
States.
THE ice on the Rhine has broken the
bridge of boats at Cologne and caused the
suspension Of navigation IN the river.
THE Birmingham .(Eng and) canal burst
the other day at point near Dudley. Hun
dreds Of families were rendered homeless
by the inundation.
BARON PAUL SENNEY, President OF the
Hungarian Oberhaus, is dead.
EDWARD McKEowN, dealer in dry goods
and millinery, Toronto, Ont, has assigned
with S4O, OO0 assets and liabilities.
ERARD's piano factory at Paris. France,
was burned recently.
The total loss by fires during the year
1887 reached the enormous sum or $129, 1884,
OOO an amount which has not been exceed
ed since the great Boston fire, and was
about SIS, Coz, OC0 greater than the losses OF
1856
AN eighteen hundred ton bark, believed to
be an American vessel, has been wrecked
at the entrance of the Waterford Qreland)
harpor. Her crew, consisting of twenty
012QC persons. were Hi QTONHcQ
THE Prince of Wales gives an absolute
denial of the report that he was member
of a committee on the banquet to Smith
and kilrain.
A SECRET tribunal has condemned to
death the Nihilist, Tschernof, and seven
other prisoners, charged with an attempt
on the Cars life during his journey to the
Don Cossack country.
DISASTROUS floods are reported in Seville.
persons have been injured. The damage
by the floods in Malaga is estimated at
$200,0 GOO.
Two express trains on the Dutch State
railway came into collision near Meppel on
the 4th. The engines and cars were totally
wrecked and twentv-six persons killed.
The number of injured was not exactly
known but it was very large.
THOMAS SEXTON, member of Parliament
and lord mayor-elect of Dublin, who has
been suffering from an attack Of typhoid
fever, has had relapse and was reported
in q dangerous condition.
MRS LEoNoRA NJ. BARRY, the general IN
vestigator of the Knights of Labor, has is
sued a circular letter to the female men,
bers OF the order wherever found. 1t deals
with the subject of the condition of work
ing women and girls, and strongly advo-
Gates the expenditure of money for educa-
tion instead of strikes.
HANLAN, the oarsman, after filling his
engagements in Australia, will visit En-
gland and will issue challenge to the
world for race in September.
The marriage of Prince Henry of Prussia
and Princess Irene of Hesse, will probably
take place at San Reno, during the first
week in April, as the queen is to be present
at the ceremony, and it would not be posi-
BILE for her to attend if it were celebrated
at Berlin, as was originally arranged.
THE sales of Clydesdale horses to go
abroad have been unprecedente1ly large
during the last year. There was an in
crease in the exports 10 North and South
America of about $50 head as compared
with 1886.
THE KING OF Portugal, who has been Sc
riously i'll for several weeks, is suffering
from diabetes.
LORD MAYoR-ELECT of Dublin, Thomas
Sexton, who has been i'll with typhoid fever,
is pronounced out of danger
ADMIRAL KRANTZ has been appointed
Minister of Marine OF France and Admiral
Gervers chief of the naval staff.
AT National League meetings throughout
nounced by the Land Commission have
been declared insufficient.
THE vessel wrecked at the entrance of
night, was the American ship Alfred D.
Snow Ten of the bodies Of the crew were
recovered.
ABBE CHATBERT, charged with assaulting
a fourteen-year-o girl in Montreal was,
upon the advice of two physicians, sent to
an asylum by the police magistrate.