Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
CHAIRMAN RANDALL. has called for a
meeting II the House CoRmittee on APP
preparations November 81 td0egin the prep
paratiOn of appropriation bills.
ALLAN d. BROWN will command the
Kearsarge, detailed for duty in Haytian
waters.
AsC. BERRYNAN, First Lieutenant United
States navy, attached to the Enterprise,
las been sent home from Europe under
Uenteuce Of q court martial.
A LETTER kas been sent by the Inter-
State Commerce Commission to the rail-
road and telegraph companies affected by
the act placing the telegraph lines of the
railroads which received Government aid
under thecontrol Of the Commission, call
Ing their attention to the fact that they
have not compiled with the provisions of
the act requiring them to file certain in
formation with the Inter State Commerce
Commission.
THE decrease OF the public debt during
the month Of October amounted to 81, $685.
Hl9.
The Presidents Thanksgiving proclama-
zion was issued on the 1st, appointing No
vember 20 for the purpose
INFORMATION having been received at
a<he Navy Department that the steel cruiser
Boston had arrived at Kingston, Jamaica,
Acting Secretary Harmony decided to re-
woke the orders sending the Kearsarge,
NOW lying in dock at Portsmouth, N. H.,
to protect American interests In Hayti
land to order the Boston there in her stead
THE EAST.
THE case of General Adam Badeau
against the widow of u. s.. Gran. For SO, i.
200 for alleged services on General Grants
2nemoirs, has b~en discontinued On con.
sent of both oaA ties.
GEORGE L. WALLACE. Q well known
vocalist Of Troy N. Y, committed suicide
9ecently by shooting hjrAl elf.
w. J. WILCOX & c., lard rehners Of
New York City, have been bought out by
8he Ameri IAN Cotton SEED Oil Company.
ALL the railroad miners in Western
. Eennsylvania are to receive Ave cents per
@Dn advance in wages.
RIOT occurred at Twenty-sixth street
and Sixth avenue, New York, on the 31st,
between colored Republican PROCESSION
md Democratic mob. Several persons
were seriously injured, one man havins
goth eyes destroyed.
WHILE Amanda Montgomery and Gus
Wineman were out fog an evening stroll
ct Greensburg, Pa, in stepping OF one
track to avoid a train they were run down
by another train coming in tho opposite
direction and killed.
THE seventh annual convention OF the
Woman's Missionary Society was opened
9t Boston on the LIST, with a large attend
ance OF delegates from all parts OF the
country. Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, OF
,Ohio, occupied the chair.
Il. HERMAN, a New York money changer
and banker, has disappeared with SIS, 900
belonging to Polish Jews intrusted to his
@are to be sent to England
FRED !. Marcy & Co.. jewelers., Prov
'idence, Il. l., have assigned with ,%S5. 600
assets and $65, 900 liabilities.
THE principal part of the village OF Dur.
6amviile, Vt, was destroyed by fire the
either night. Loss, 100000
W..B. FORBES, president of the National
Bank Of Redemption, Boston, has made an
assignment for the benefit of his creditors.
he had been dealing heavily in real estate
Of late.
EDWARD 81. GoFF, formerly publisher of
tho New York Graphic, has made an as.
gsignxsent without preferences.
C. w. DURANT. a New York stock
Droker, has failed with unknown assets
:and liabilities.
TIE boiler Of a steam thresher exploded
son the farm Of Joseph Spayd, near Read
ling, Pa, the other day. Five persons
were instantly killed and two or three
settlers shockingly injured
HERBERT l.. CRITOHETT, aged thirty.
fthree, OF the firm of Daniels e Critchett.
zeal estate and auotioneers, Boston, has
disappeared, leaving. a large deficit in his
=. accounts with the firm amounting. it Is
ssaid, tor $25, 900.
Two men were killed and seven injured
My the wrecking of hand-car near Hope
well, Pa, the other day.
Five thousand dollars reward has, bean
offered for the arrest of " lillian R. Foster.
a., late counsel of the gratnity fund of
The New York Produce Exchange. who
disappeared recently with a huge short.
sage.
FISDLRY.Se Bowman, ironsmanufacturers
@f,New Xork'City, have made an assign
'ment Assets and liabilities unknown.
HENRY .. DEWEY, the assignee of Will
liam ID. Forbes, late president of the Ma.
sional Bank of Redemption, Boston, saws
Wharf.-The liabilities canbe placed lat 5000 OOO
and the nominal assets at from $50. 600 To
$4,000, composed largely of Forbes' prop.
erty.
JOSEPH -SPINEnEY, an italian aged
tssanty-two years, fatally stabbed his
mother in the breast at Pittsburgh. Pa.
reees0fJ' because she refused to give him
some money.
In the Kettle Creek Coal Mining Com
pany's dnines. thirty miles west of Lick
Haven. Pa. the other night an explosion
occurred ha a new drift in which TWENTY
,ne persons wene at work. Seventeen of
ee unfortunate nep were killed, most of
them being Hungarians or Italians.
WHILE four young men, James Hayes.
kLMry Gsr.eley. William Sellar and
rCh. Nrles Cogea Mere sailing in Dorchester
hay. near Boston, the other day their boat
AGpsfxed and the three first named we're
ieow ned.
THE NEST
ERE at Alliance, O.. the other morning
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