Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
GENERAL

The Supreme Lodge knights OF Pythias
adopted the report of the committee on the
endowment rank. authorizing the board OF
control Of that department to levy assess
ments in addition to one per month as here
tofore when necessary. The lodge adopted
a resolution declaring explicitly that no
authority had ever been granted for the
creation OF lodge of colored Knights, and
that no colored man can lawfully be ad.
mitted to any lodge.
THE board OF directors of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad has ratified the sale of the
compaDy's sleeping car equipment and
franchises pertaining thereto to the Pull
man Palace Car Company, the contract to
run for twenty-five years, and the Pullman
Company agrees to furnish the Baltimore
q Ohio with the sleeping and parlor Car
equipment it requires.
ANOTHER French journalist who has
written articles about German affairs,
having obtained ''hint" to depart from
Germany, departed accordingly.
THE appeal of John Dillon from the sem
tence to Six months Imprisonment for vio-
laton of the Crimes act was heard at
Dublin on the Goth. The sentence was con-
irmed.
DIR. LEUrHoLD has been appointed chief
physician to the German Emperor. DR..
Leuthold was one OF the late Emperor
Williams physicians.
THE Kreuz Zeitu,sg says: THE Empress
Victoria, under the will of the Emperor
Frederick inherlts Charlottenburg Castle
and the palace in Berlin occupied by the
late Emperor when he was Crown Prince"
THE Rock Island has decided to pay
dividend OF IL per cent. this year. The
usual dividend has been seven per cent.
The decrease is due to falling OF OF West
ern business.
PRINCE BISMARCK has notified the pow
ers, including Russia and France, that 1t is
Emperor Williams most sincere desire to
maintain friendly relations with them.
DR.. j. II. ZURKERToRT, the distinguished
chess player, is dead.
AN alarming rebellion has broken out
among the people made destitute by the
floods in Honan and Hantung, China 1t is
reported that the troops have joined the
rebels and murdered the Government OIL
Gals.
DETAILED accounts of the gales which
show that 400 French fishermen were
drowned and thirty vessels wrecked.
ADvICEs from Zanzibar state that no
news has been received there i'll confirma-
tion of the report of Henry NJ. Stanley's
death. The report was discredited.
THE expulsion from Berlin of Depuyver-
der correspondent of the Gaulois, and
Jules Bansom, correspondent OF LIE Mdf.ss,
has greatly incensed Parisians. L'Ln'rdr-
sigeant and other papers demand that the
French Government make reprisals.
PRINCESS ALBERTA, of SAKE Altenburg,
eldest daughter of the late Prince Freder-
lex Charles (the Red Prince) whose crit
ical illness was reported recently, is dead.
BILLY PORTER and Frank Buck, well
known American burglars, were arrested
in London recently on warrant for a bur-
glary committed in Zurich, Switzerland.
A COMMUNICATION from DR.. Mackenzie
shows that all hope of further prolonging
Emperor Frederick's life was abandoned
the night of June Is. "Throughout his
complaint and gave no signs of Impotence.
him will always cherish the memory of his
grateful acknowledgements of service that
ordinary patients exact as their right"
MRS. BoUCICACLT, wife OF the WELL
known playwright, has obtained a divorce
in London. Mrs. Bouc1cault was award ed
the costs.
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY and Mrs. lisa
belle Beecher Hooker, upon reading the
Repu blican platform as adopted at Chicago,
which had no reference to the woman SUI
frage question, published an earnest az
peal for the convention to atone for the re-
mssness of its platform committee.
PRINCE BISMARCK said in the Bundesrath
recently that Emperor William woulI
discharge the duties of his exalted cali
ing with the sama fidelity that had been
shown by his father. The Anti-Socialist
law, as renewed by the Bundesrath, in
cludes provision empowering the police
for another year to expel Socialis'E FROM
Leipsic.