Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-27
WASHINGTON N0rEa


WASHINGTON NOTE4
THE president has pardoned Theodore
Bonta, q kentucky @ounterfeiter, who is
Hlwith consumpeioas
CHE Secretary % tha Treasury has or
4ered customs collectors to exact discrim-
mating duties againse Costa RIGA vessels
Because favorg granted other nations are
aegused this
a N0MBER 0g svonnen were before the
Ssalate Tariff COMMITTEES on the 18th under
4Ae lead of MRS. q Ellen Foster, president
of Che WoCs T. u Their testimony was
8haB theiy position as wage workers was
aauch superior to ahatof women in Europe,
3hich superiority they attributed to the
Rretectige sys STEM
APPk1CAMoN foT che extradition Of De
Bauma the New York National Park Bank
aefavlSefa Gas been made to the Canadian
Depaftment of Justice.
SHE Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon
4xilway Company has formally given
8otioe to- chs General Land office Of its
Ysithdrawaa OF all claims to the land grant
gpposies che pnconstructed part OF its
soa1
gaa SLED i9s opinion in the case OF the Chi.
oagS Ste Paul & Kansas City, which road
charged n3ors for shorter that for q longer
nA1L iR competition with the Burling ton &
Northwestern. The Chicago road claimed
ahaT the Burlington was carrying freight
4rop terminals at ruinous rates and want.
cd thegOmnaission to order il TO charge
9igher gates OF To allow the Chicago road
Che benefit OF odissimilar conditions" in
She fouEth clause OF the Interstate act.
Che opipioa was that the Commission
aould not take cognizance Of any rates
9aade by competing roads and could not
Siwe the Chicago road the benefit OF dis.
6gitar eaaditions which did not exist
THE EAST.
fHG mayor OF Philadelphia has tele-
a3aphea che Marine Hospital Bureau urg-
iag the necessity ct more rigid quarantine
600 FlaFids, syeas il necessary, . military
oDrduAa
FEE Seass Labor conference at Troy. n.
Y.sFesolyed not 20 support any candidate
aaless he favors the repeal Of the indus-
abe penal code vas agreed upon.
FHE Omitted Typothete (master printers)
net in annuaI convention at New York on
ahe asths
Rxxs Ds. fRAvExIE, Of Sewickly. Pa.
3a9her az the kindergarten system OF
Qmerieas; died recently.
DNvdn SAITH, The 6rst postmaster OF
Gyogsey City, y. J.. and . wealthy citizen,
Died recently Of old age.
1suernseys as che State fair at Emira, n.
Es have been awarded two first prizes,
&wo second prizes and gold medal for the
best herd. With those awarded Mr..
Morton at Buffalo he has so far this season
been givea seventeen prizes ir2 all.
AT New York on the 18th General Sac
Perintendent r. C. Jackson of the Nex
York division of the railway mais service,
and Chief Clerk E. J.. Chapman were re-
moved by the Postmaster General. Both
are Republicans.
In the master printers conference at
New York recently, a communication from
che International Typographical Union
asking for q conference, was reported Suou
and a resolution was adopted to the effect
that there being no quarrel between them
the United Typothetse saw no reason fo1
any conference. %
NEW York will hold great tobacco ex-
Mibitien next winter. There are 5OO, 900 re-
tail tobacco dealers in the United States
and 5Oo, 600 workers interested in the man.
ufaetnre Of smoking azd chewing tobacco
SuFrs have been begun in Boston against
Bowker, Toorley s. Co., marble workers OF
Boston, for importing contract labor from
Italy.
PArRIcK TRAcY. aged sixty, baggage
agent OF the Old Colony railroad at Hyde
Park station, near Boston, was killed th<
other day while trying to save the life Of
Mrs. Mary Young, aged sixty-nine, OF
Sharon, who had fallen in front of a trair
while crossing the track. Mrs. Young yeas
injured in a probably fatal manner and
would have been instantly killed but fol
-Tracy's action.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, was be-
-lieyed to be on his death bed at Boston or
the 10th.
THE silver jubilee of Archbishop CORR
span,s ordination to the priesthood was
celebrated with much pomp at New York
ON the Goth.