Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-14
GENER AZ


The London standard says that the Irish
Land bill has been abandoned by the Gov
eminent, and that q land commission, to
continue in session for three years. will be
substituted. The sums advanced under the
Ashbourne act will be increased.
WHEN the Presbyterian General As
sembly met at Belfast recently the retiring
moderator declared the Presbyterian
| Church soundly Unionist in its views.
Gladstoneism, he said. implied Gripping
| of the Church's resources, a transfer
| of education into the hands of the Cat holic
| Church and perhaps the expulsion Of
Presbyterianism from a great part OF
Ireland
THE town OF Hull. Que. opposite Otta-
wa, Ont, was devastated by fire on the
afternoon OF the 5th. About $50 families
were rendered homeless. The loss was
estimated at 500, 600.
AN earthquake was reported at Buenos
Ayres on the morning of the 5th.
HENRY WILLARD writes confirming the
expedition to the South Pole. DR.. Meumery,
director of tue Deutsche Seewafte of Ham
| burg will cooperate with him.
TROOPS recently pursuing Cuban banditti
twice came up with the fugitives in the
province of Santa Clara and killed six. It
is thought now that there can not be an or
ganized band in existence.
a mOuIEcdl INC
ooh. Telegraph and telephone wires were
much demoraliZed.
A sEMI-PASIC occurred in the market for
diamond mine shares at London on the 9th
owing to the banks refusing to make ad-
vances with the shares as security. Some
shares fell five per cent.
TERRIFIC thunder storm accompanied
by rain, hail and wind swept through Lam
ark, Ont, on the 9th, unroofing dwellings
and leveling fences, barns and almost
every thing else. Some farms were left
without fences or outbuildings-
THE Sultan of Muscat is dead.
The Italian Consul at Zanzibar has hauled
down the Italian flag and suspended rela-
tons with the Sultan.
EDITOR FEDERoFF of the St. Petersburg
Novoe VreInyG, has been sentenced to six
weeks imprisonment for libelIng General
Won Scheltendorf, the Prussian War Min
lister.
THE schooner Blanche of Colsorne Ont,
which left Oswego Mav2S for Brighton has
not reported, and there is no doubt she has
sunk with all hands. The superstition is
that she was struck by a steamer.
THE old directors of the Chicago & North
western have been reelected.
THE whole line of the Nicaragua canal
will be located in few days. including
complete through surveys of the two posi-
BILE locations on the east end known as the
lower route, surveyed by Commander Lul
in 1928, and the upper route, surveyed by
Mr.. Monveal in 1885.
THE Doncaster (England) spring handi-
cap, a straight mile, was a dead heat be-
tween Lord Ellesmere's Felix and Lord
Arlington's KING Fisher. The stakes were
divided.
THE destruction caused by the recent
storm in Canada was widespread. Enor-
nous damage was done to crops just peep
iofr from q
orchards in nearly every locality were de-
stroyed. Hundreds OF barns were demol-
ished and outbuildings in scores of cases
were blown away. The loss can not fall
short of $780, 900. Three persons were re-
ported killed and large number seriously
injured.
Destructive forest fires are raging on
the south shores of Conception bay. New
found and. At Colbers, nine houses; at
Harbor Grace Junction, seven, and at Seal
Cove seven houses have been burned. At
Little Bay North twenty-six families were
burned out, and one woman and two chill
dren We're burned to death.
KING LEOPOLD opened the international
eXhl biton at Brussels on the 18th. In his
address he congratulated the people on the
pro ,ress of their industries.
The law providing for quinquennia1 ses-
sions of the Prussian Diet has been offici-
ally p n blished.
SILVER has turned up in South Africa to
a degree to produce new mining fever.
THE LATEST.
RHEUMATISM al ,ne U4cK Continues to al.
6ict General Sherman
KoLAsINsKI, the deposed Polish priest,
has returned to Detroit, Mich, where his
followers Threatened trouble If he were
not reinstated by the new Bishop.
IN Bloomington. Chasmix County, Oak,
the other night. two young farmers, Bailey
and Wilson. euarreled over an old grudge,
when Bailey fired at Wilson. but killed his
own father. Wilson in turn shot young
Bailey dead.
KEW. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, the noted
Unitarian divine, died at Jamaica Plains,
Boston. on the sth, aged seventy-eIght.
ALICE WooDHALL, extradIted for forgery
and taken to New York for trial was &C.
Quilted OF the charge but detained IN
custody on another complaint Her coun-
sci compl in III bitterly CT her rearrest,
asserting that she was under the protection
or the British Cover" ment, the charge for
which she was extraiIted having fallen
through.
The commissioners OF Allegheny County
Pa. have been notified by County Comp
tr"ler Speer that there was a deficit of
ga, $50 in the accounts OF ex-Sherid Joseph
Gray.
business FAILURES GUMS report) TOT tue
seven days ende1 June numbered for the
L III ed States, 207. Canada, p; total, 235;
compared with 2u5 the previous week aud
lI3 the corresponding week last year.
THE Khedive of Egypt has dismissed
Premier Nubar Pasha and summoned Riaz
Pusha to form a new Cabinet.
WILLIAM LITTLE, a lumber merchant of
Montreal. has failed with 81, $50, 0O0 habili-
les and Sl2j 90 assets.
BY a cyclone aud thunder storm at Mant-
sell, Nicaragua, the other night eighteen
houses were wrecked and five persons
killed.
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