Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-18

A REPORT has been received that an in
surrection has occurred at Port au Prince,
Hayti, and that the insurgents have burned
800 houses, including. most of the public
buildings.
THE exports of breadstuffs from South
ern Russia during the coming autumn are
expected to be enormous. Reports from
Odessa indicate a harvest of immense
promise.
In the British House OF Commons on. the
18th, Mr.. w. II. Smith, the Government
leader, agreed to motion for the appoint
ment of a committee to inquire into the
Times Parnell charges.
Two hundred natives and twenty-five
whites were killed in the recent mine dis
aster at Kimberly, South Africa.
THE residence of the Queen of Servia
was raided by German police at wies-
baden on the 18th and the Crown Prince
forcibly taken from her. Much sympathy
was expressed for her ON account of this
harsh proceeding.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended July u number for
the United States, PIG; Canada, "a; total,
240; compared with 21i the previous week
and 179 the corresponding week last year.
THE Italian Chamber of Deputies has
voted down by a narrow majority pro-
posal to give the franchise to women.
MCHUGH, mayor Of Sligo, Ireland, and
editor of the Sligo Chdmpioa, was arrested
recently on a charge of publishing land
grabbing articles which advocated intimi-
dation and melted to violence. Hewas re-
leased on. bail.
A DUEL between Minister Floquet and
General Boulanger occurred near Paris on
the 18th. The General was quite seriously
wounded in the neck. Floquet was only
scratched.
a BRITISH regiment now in Egypt has
been ordered to Zululand, as serious trouble
is expected in South Africa.
THE English Government will appoint an
independent tribunal of judges to examine
fully into the charges of the London Times
SIX of the employees of the Eau Claire
Lumber Company were drowned in the
Bow river, near Calgary, N. w. T., re-
/ Gently,
Discount was weak in the London money
market during the week ended July IA.
: Berlin was buying largely of American
securities. In Paris Panama shares showed
an advance, Government rentes decline.
+ Business was quiet at Frankfort.
! CLEARING house returns for week ended
! July II showed an average decrease of
40 compared with the corresponding week
/ of last year. In New York the decrease
/ was g..
PRESIDENT BRAND, of the Orange Free
! State, South Africa, is dead.
| THE Kerry moonlighters have been sem
fenced to terms ranging from seven to
/ fifteen years.
j. HARVEY BRIGHAM, Consul at Jamaica,
| is dead. He was Consul at Paso del Norte,
Mexico, when the Cutting incident oc-
! Cured.
The ninety ninth anniversary of the
| fall of the Bastile was celebrated on the
! 18th and 10Th. In France Boulanger and
anti-Boulanger demonstrations were made.
The demonstrations evidenced that Bou-
LANCER was declining in popularity.
IT is said that Queen Natalie will take up
her residence in Florence, Italy.
AN official of the British Government
states that the ''White Pasha" threatening
the Mahdi at Khartoum is really Stanley,
whose expedition was intended not so
much for the relief of Emin Bey as for the
rescue OF the European prisoners held in
| slavery at Khartoum since the death of
| General Gordon.
THE Government of India has adopted a
scheme for the State education of the peo-
pie.