Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-29
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
THE Santa Fe and other railroads on the
Goth announced their willingness to ex-
change cars with the Burlington. No
trouble was expected in consequence
A DISPATCH from Vienna of the 21st says:
The Ice IN the Danube is breaking up.
There is an enormous humiliation in Gal
Icia and Hungary. In the Lemberg district
many villages have been ruined. Two
hundred houses have been wrecked at
Szottmar. Some of the streets OF Buda are
submerged.
THE Swiss Government is about to estab-
lish Federal bank with a monopoly OF
the issue of notes.
THE French court, in the case OF Mitchell
and Sullivan. sentenced the lighters. in de-
fault OF one weeks Imprisonment, to pay a
fine OF Is and costs, the balance OF their
bail to be confiscated by the State
IT is reported in Ottawa, Can, that a
satisfactory settlement of the Mantle ba
difficulty has been reached.
THE vacant Knighthood of the Garter
has been conferred upon the Marquis Of
Londonderry, the Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land.
LIEUrENANr-CoLoSELG GONZALES, with a
force under his command, had a battle with
band of Yaqui Indians in the Latujo
mountains, Mexico, recently, in which two
Indians were killed and several wounded.
On the same day at point called a qua de
Los Burros, the same officer encountered
another band OF Indians and had quite a
fight, in which he succeeded in routing
them.
REPORTS are being received of great suf-
ferlng among the people in the rural dis
tricts of Spain owing to the severe wealth
er. Many peasants persisted in the snow,
and cattle ana sheep were lost in the drifts.
Thaws have caused serious floods in the
Ebro, Douro and Tagus valleys.
MARoNI Bros, builders and contractors,
of Rome, Italy, have failed. Their liabilities
were e2,0O0,000.
IT Is stated that General Boulanger, irri-
tated at being placed on the retired list,
will commence an active POLITICAL campaign
against the French Government
ADvICEs from Bagdad say that the Ham
avend nomadics have ralded the dis
trict around that city, burning and pillag-
ing several villages and numbering many
Kurdish peasants. The Porte has dis
trou BILE.
THE British House of Commons rejected
Parnell's Arrears of Rent bill by vote of
32S TO 243.
A SHOCKING loss of life occurred at the
destruction by fire of theater at Oporto,
Portugal, recently. Eighty bodies were
taken from the ruins the following day and
ADvICEs from Rangoon say that the town
of Myingyan, an important military post in
Upper Burmah, has been destroyed by fire.
Thousands of persons were left without
homes, and an immense quantity of grain,
hides and other property was destroyed.
1T was thought that the victims by the
recent theater fire a. Oporto numbered at
least one hundred and twenty. 1t was
believed that some English and American
visitors persisted in the disaster.
A LOCAL branch of the National League
in Dublin has passed a resolution condemn
ing Mayor Hewitt of New York for refusing
to allow the Irish flag to be hoisted over
the City Hall on st. Patricl1's day, and de-
claring that such a refusal was an insult to
the Irish race throughout the world.
ALL the countries represented at the
recent sugar bounties conference. with the
exception of France. having sent replies to
the British Government favorable to the
abolition OF sugar bount1es.
The Moscow Gazette in an article discuss
ing the subject of imminent international
combinations. again urges the necessity
of England joining Russia and France.
THE inhabitants of Padas have reyolted
against the British Borneo Company, and
have murdered four policemen and burned
the town of Batu. They also attempted tc
destroy Nam bakul1, but were prevented by
the interference of the British man-o f-war
Rambler. The company recently acquired
Padas, and the inhabitants have since teen
discOntentc l..
a SPECIAL freight train going south and
a freight train going north colided few
miles south of Gravehurst, Ont, recently
Five men were instantly killed ard three
seriously injured.