Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-26
GENERAL.

THE Government of India has adopted a
scheme for the State education of the peo-
pie.
THE New Zealand Government has pro-
posed new tariff bill slightly increasing
the ad valorem duties on goods principally
imported from the United States and dim
inishing the large free list of such goods
now existing. Among the articles affected
are: Provisions, drug goods, leather goods,
dried, sailed or packed fish, oysters, vege-
tables, woodenware, patent medicines,
earthenware, carriages and wagons.
COMMANDER REA, of the G.. A. R., has
issued an order against members partici-
pating in political matters as Grand Army
men.
A REVOLUTION is reported in Venezuela
with DR.. Juan P. r. Paul leading the vic
torious forces.
A GERMAN merchant has been secretly
tried and condemned to fifteen months
imprisonment at Vienna for making in
sulting remarks about the Dowager En-
press Victoria
CALvINS. BRICE has been selected chair
man of the Democratic National Campaign
Committee.
ADvICEs from Shanghai say that after
an enormous sacrifice of money and labor,
all efforts to close the breach in the banks
of the Hoang Ho river proved futile.
CANADA at present has no murderers I'M
der-sentence of death. The fact is almost
without precedent.
A VOLCANIC eruption has occurred at.
Makmats, Japan, by which 400 persons
were killed and 900 injured.
FROM May to July, 1854 Chinese landed
in British Columbia, ON their way to the
United States, provided with fraudulent
return certificates.
AN American, who gave the name of
Miller and claimed to be the son of a
United States Judge and part owner of
the steam yacht Electra, passed $1,000
worth of bogus checks in Halifax, N. s.,
recently and decamped with two girls who
were deserted at st. John.
THE Earl of Erne has been elected grand
master of Orangemen throughout the
world.
IT is reported that the North German
steamship Fulda run down a fishing
schooner on the banks of Newfoundland on
her last trip from Europe. Twenty lives
were thought to have been lost, attempts
at rescue being frustrated by the dense fog
which prevailed at the time.
THE IrOnmasters' Association is reported
to have fallen to pieces, the combination
being disrupted by breaches of faith in
signing the Amalgamated scale.
THE Emperor of Germany and the Gear
of Russia met at Cronstadt on the 18th.
IT is reported that all the members of the
Holy Synod of Servia except two opposed
the granting of King Milan's petition for
divorce from Queen Natalie.
GENERAL BoULANGER is making rapid
progress towards recovery. Friends who
have made speeches in Ardeche in behalf
OF Boulanger have been received with
great hostility. When NJ. Laguerre at
tempted to address meeting, his voice
was drowned with groans and Kisses.
THE shooting contest for the Elcho shield
at Wimbledon resulted in favor of the
Irish team. The score was as follows:
Ireland, 1852 points; England, 1,642; Scot
land, 1868.
THE tercentenary of the destruction of
the Spanish armada was observed at
England, on the 10Th.
BY an explosion of petroleum on the
Spanish steamer Asturiano at Rouen re-
Gently eight sailors lost their lives.
TWENTY lives were lost by the wreck of
the Star of Greece near Adelaide, South
Australia. recently.