Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-06

against the Queen & Crescent system has
ended, both the New Orleans and the
Texas & Pacific and the Southern Pacific
having decided to take the Cincinnati bus
mess offered by the Queen & Crescent
system.
TIE Presidential party caught twenty
five bass on the Jasnes river near Glen
Allen, Va, on the 30th.
The Republicans of the Sixth Virginia
district have nominated Patrick Mccall
for Congress.
SEVEN warehouses at Steinwarde, Ger.
many, filled with cotton, rice, sugar and
saltpeter valued at 1000, 200 marks, were
destroyed by fire recently. Six persons
were burned.
The London Daily Ne,cs ridicules the
argument that President Cleveland's mes
sage relative to the fisheries question is
to slap Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
THE admirers of Robert Browning will
hear with delight that the poet has recov-
cred his health and strength in the remote
Tyrolese village where he buried himself
from the world. After this he will reside
in Venice. where he has purchased the ia
nous Rezzonico Palace, situated on the
Grand canal.
THE Russian Court Minister Worenzof is
scandals which are reported about his
wife, which the Czarina can not long ig-
more.
THE London 7Smes-further commenting
on the fisheries question, says: Americans
have a traditional respect for legality,
and if the rights of the case be made clear
to them they are not likely to be tempted
into a policy of aggression for the sake of
either Cleveland Or Blaine"
THE Gdulois has advices from ST. Pc
tersburg which state that another Nihilist
plot has been unearthed there. The con-
spirators, who had quarters near the Inn
perial palace, were raided by the police,
who captured twelve men and three women
and secured number of bombs. 4
THE British court of inquiry into the col
lision near San Francisco betweer the
steamers Oceanic and the City of Chester,
by which fifteen persons lost their lives,
has exonerated the officers of the Oceanic
and attributed the disaster to the fact that
the Chester was caught in q strong tide.
CHARLES CRocKER's will, recently filed,
appoints the widow as executrix and dis
poses of an estate worth something over
$50. 25O,O0
A MAN named GARNER, who claimed that
the Franco German war had caused his
ruin, called at the German embassy at
Paris the other morning and fired shot
from a revolver at the porter, exclaiming
as he did so: CAT last have killed one of
them" The porter was not hurt. CARRIER
was insane.
Two hundred Dervishes attacked an
Egyptian fort near Wady Halfa and cap
tured portion of it. The Egyptians re-
ceived reinforcemepts from Wady Halfa
and finally succeeded in driving out the
Dervishes, killing more than one hundred
of them. The Egyptian loss was sixteen
killed and twentyjseven wounded.
The English and French Ambassadors
to Turkey have made a united demand on
the Sultan to sign the Suez canal conSen-
ton. g
lii reported that the King of Abyssinia
has massed his troops on the Crem table,
land to resist possible Italian invasion.
ADvICEs from Lorenzo MARQUEE, Por-
tuguese town in Africa, says that a mutiny
had broken out among the soldiers of the
garrison and that marines had been landed
from the war ships to quell it. sFighting
was expected.
A DISPATCH from Puebla, Mexico, says
that the German Consul nothat city had
committed suicide owing to financial
troubles.
ADvIcEs from Matamoras state that the
Texas authorities having raised the quar-
7antine against Mexico, Mexico will raise
it's quarantine against Texas.
HERR LIEBKRECHT, Socialist, has been
elected to the German Reichstag from the
Sixth district of Berlin.
A NATIONAL assembly of Knights of
Labor brass workers will be formed in the
next two weeks. 1T will have q, 200 mem
becs.