Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-04
GENERAr.S

GENEnA1.#
S A EuNUcH in the Sultan's palace ct Com
stantinople was. hanged recently for KILL
ing comrade. The chief eunuch and
eight other eunuchs have been exiled for
having neglected their duties.
Ia the Court of Queens Bench at Mont
real, on the oath, Chief Justice Dorain
decided that the money found on Pitcher,
the defaulting teller of the Union National
Bank, of Providence, when he was ar
rested must be restored to the bank.
JOSEPH BARBERIE, son of Hcn..J. 81. Bar
berie; George Edwin, son of Louis Edwin,
and Lawrence McHugh, an orphan lad,
were drowned Off Dalhousie, N. B., the
other night by the overturning of their
boat
PRINCE BISMARCK questions the authen-
ITCHY of the diary of the late Emperor
Frederick recently published.
MALIGNANT typhoid fever was reported
prevalent at Kingston, Ont.
The Allan line steamship Grecian was
reported fast ashore of the coast Of Ayr
shire, Scotland, and all efforts to release
her failed.
A FORCE under Colonel Graham has to-
tally defeated the Thibetans at Jelapa
Pass, capturing their camp. Four hundred
Thibetans were killed or wounded. Col
onel Promhead lost his right arm and
nine Sepoys were wounded. Colonel
Graham was advancing into Thibetan
territory.
A LATE dispatch from Zanzibar says
that three men were killed by natives at
Kellivi. The Germans killed ten of their
.assailants. The insurgents seized the
town and rehoisted the Sultan's flag. It
is reported that all Germans in Lindi have
been murdered and all the Europeans ON
the coast are in imminent danger.
The French court has adjourned the
hearing on the petition to wind up the
business of the Paris American Exchange
to enable the concern to 60 into voluntary
liquidation which will be arranged under
the supervision of the court.
THE French wheat harvest is declared
by the French grain congress to exceed all
expectations.
SEVEN hundred Italian laborers created
q riot in the village Of Sawyerville, Que,
near the Hampshire line recently, in which
five persons were killed. The 1aborers had
been defrauded by contractors who had
decamped with the cash. Much alarm
prevailed, the place being pillaged and the
rioters threatening to cross into the United
States.
1T is reported that an extensive con-
spiracy between ticket agents and con-
dnctors has been discovered by which the
Union Pacific has been greatly defrauded.
1t is claimed that one conductor held up
many sixteen tickets a single
trip, which were returned to a confederate
ticket agent for resale.
In shipment of wool from Canada TO
Philadelphia which was seized recently
were found several fine English blankets
on which heavy duty is e1acted.
The Spanish Government has ordered
the construction of six cruisers and four
torpedo boats.
CAPTAIN ANGUS HOLMES, ofthe schooner
Eddie Pierce, laden with $4,000 worth of
sardines from Eastport, Me-, for New
off Cape Cod and the vessel was aban-
doned.
THERE was another cut all around in
east bound passenger rates on the 9th,
and the figures were: st. Louis to New
York via Vandalia, $14.5O; Bee Line, s$13;
Wabash, $12; Ohio & Mississippi, $11.
FIRE in q hotel at Cronstadt, Russia. the
other day caused the deaths of fourteen
persons.
ADvIcEs have been received from Samoa
that the partisans of King Malletoa have
had an engagement with the army of
King Tamasese and that the latter's forces
were totally defeated. King Tamasese's
army was under command of the German
officer Branders. {9
EIGHTY cases Of dynamite exploded on a
wharf at Carthagena. Spain, recently, do
TWENTY-FIVE thousand British miners
have decided to strike October % unless q
general advance of 10 per cent. in wages
should be made.
MICHAEL DAv1rT's Irish Woolen Com
pany has declared dividend of seven per
cent.
THE LATEST.
FIRE at Louisville, KY, on the 2Sth de-
stroyed the Ohio Falls oak leather factory.
Loss, $125, 700.
REPORTS from the Peace river district.
in the extreme British Northwest, state
that the Crees, Beavers and Chippewa
Indians are starving to death because OF
the scarcity of small game. Cannibalism
was reported in one instance.
BEN B. GRANT, of Newark, O., q yellow
fever refugee from the South, died OF
black vomit at Louisville, KY, on the 2Sth
the first death from the plague reported
in that city.
GOVERNOR GUY, of Che Chickasaw Ma.
ton, has elected Byrd and his followers
from the seat of government. Trouble was
Expected when the adherents of the latter
heard of his forcible dispossession.
THE Kansas City Baseball Club Cow
boys) he- been elected permanent mem.
Der of the American Association.
IT was reported at Pittsburgh that a
steel rail combination, comprising the
chief mills in all the world, had been
formed to advance prices.
THE yellow fever bulletin from Jackson
vile on the 2Sth showed marked decrease
in the number of cases. There were thir-
ty-five new cases and five deaths. The