Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-30
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GENERAL
LORD SALISBURY, the Drsttsn Premier,
has gone to France for brief vacation.
IT is reported in France that the Hovas
of Madagascar are preparing for an ex-
pedition against the Sakalavas and Antan-
karas, on whose rulers heads prices have
been placed.
A SEVERE storm struck Boston on the
evening of the 21st. Maryland, West Vir-
ginia, New Jersey and Delaware were
also visited by severe storms the same
day.
THE English press thinks the return of
General Boulanger to political prominence
any thing but reassuring to the peace of
Europe
MOORE, the journalist. and Mrs. Norton,
who recently eloped from st. Louis, are
living in a fashionable boarding house in
Toronto. Moore says that a satisfactory
arrangement has been made with regard
to the property which Mrs. Norton took
away with her.
AT the Irish exhibition in London on
the 21st band from Cork refused to play
the National Anthem and was Missed by
the spectators. Members of the band after
ward stated that they would not have
dared to return to Ireland if they had
played the anthem.
JOHN BRIGHT, the noted English states
man, is recovering very slowly from his
recent Illness ana Is SO weak CnaC even
bath chair exercise exhausts him.
THE infanta Eulalie, youngest sister of
the late King of Spain, has been declared
a victim of consumption.
HAIL caused the blockade at nine points
of a railroad in Southern France on the
22d.
THE Turkish Government has promised
TO promote the German officers in the
Turkish army, and those who proposed to
resign have concluded to remain.
CAIRO letters to the Cologne Gazette rid
icule the stories about a white Pasha in
the BAHIA Gazelle province, and say that
the reports are the inventions of Mecca
pilgrims, who are notorious liars.
THE latest semi official returns from
Bandaisin, Japan, of the earthquakes gives
the number of persons killed at 4T6 and
injured at forty-one.
A LOADED boat with cargo of reapers
was capsized during hurricane on Bala-
tony lake, Hungary, the other day, and
fifteen persons drowned.
THE recent gales in the Gulf States are
thought to have damaged property mill
lions of dollars. The storms continued for
several days.
IT is reported in Rome that the Italian
Government has decided to send new
expedition to Abyssinia.
A SHORT time since at Antique China,
according to story brought to San Fran
cisco, a Spanish priest and one other
Spaniard were attacked by horde of ma
tive inhabitants with the intent of putting
the priest to death. His companion fired
at the mob until fifty of them were killed.
DUCATEL, the workingman who enabled
the troops to capture Paris from the Com
munists, has become insane and has been
put in an ayslum.
THE agitation of the workmen in Central
Belgium has become general. A strike is
expected.
A DISPATCH from India says that $4,000
Thibetans are marching upon Sikkim.
THE Northern Pacific recently completed
q sale of $4,000, 900 bonds to a European
syndicate.
THE Berlin police broke up a meeting of
tailors recently because of the adoption of
socialistic resolutions.
Two dynamite bombs were explode in
Paris on the 23d. Much alarm was created
but no damage was done.
THE Emperor apd Empress of Brazil
have arrived at RIO de Janeiro from Eu-
rope, both in good health.
ONE thousand houses have been burned
at Orenburg, Russia. Ten thousand factory
operatives were made homeless by the
fire.
THE latest Afghan uprising resulted in
the overthrow of the would-be Ameer by
his own troops.
Mr.. BRADLAUGH, member of the British
Parliament for Northampton, announces
that he is burdened with debt and that if
he is unable to clear himself by tongue
and pen he must relinquish his career in
Parliament