Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-20
GENERA Ar.

GENERAL.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar SAYS this
natives had again fred upon an Algeriuc
vessel carrying the British flag. After
ward they allowed an interpreter % land
to whom they declared they were banded
together to resist all whites.
PRINCE FERDINAND has sent telegram
Adams Countess of Flanders) letter is {
forgery.
SEVERAL vessels have been driven ashorU
and much other damage done By O Aurxis
cane at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
FLOODS iH the south of Spain have
caused tho loss Of many lives and dono
enormous damage % property.
THE Neue yreie Rresse publishes Queen
Natalie's protest against . divorce FROM
King Milan. 1t 10 dated Versailles, Au.
gust 90 and defends her own conduct 1t
says she will never submit TO . separation,
which she holds to be sinful, and expresses
her intention to plead her own cause in
the coming trial
ADvIcEs from Orizaba, Mexico, state
that the rivers and creeks have overf1owed
their banks and houses been thrown down
and several lives lost. The streams fronl
the City of Mexico TO Vera Cruz are rising.
In the State Of Hidalgo the rivers are over.
flowing their banks and causing damage,
Railroad traffic has been suspended.
MUCH damage has been done at Vistizxa,
Greece, by two earthquakes. Many per.
sons are homeless and destitute.
The French harvest is estimated to be
40, DOC, 900 hectolitres short and famine il
feared in Egypt IS ali hope Of . further
rise in the Nile has been abandoned.
The Duke OF Aosta was married to Prin.
Italy, ON the 11ths The ceremony was con.
Quoted with much pomps Cardinal Ali.
monda officiating.
IT has been discovered that Director
Pulitin. OF the secret police OF st. Peters.
burg, Russia, is in the pay Of bandits and
thieves and has been receiving heavy
tribute.
The Portuguese gunboat Bengo has gone
to Tangiers to support Portugal's claim
against the Sultan of Morocco
EIGHT persons were killed and Eve in.
jured by q threshing machine explosions
near Giron, France, the other day.
THE executive committee Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company has decided to
recommend q dividend OF II per cent. for
the current quarter.
IT is reported in Berlin that the Russian
Government has persuaded General Bou.
LANCER, Of France, not to visit St Peters.
burg.
VARIOUS Central and Northern Dakota
points reported frost on the 18th. Aber.
deem reports corn injured in some localities
and Others far enough advanced to escape.
Flax appears uninjured. At Flandreau
only the vines were injured, corn and fax
being we'll we'll out OF the way.
COFFEE gambling, similar to that at
Hamburg is going on at Antwerp. Meas.
ures are demanded to suppress these op.
erati0ns.
FLOODS in the provinces of Lombardy
and Venice have destroyed q number OF
bridges and done much damage to proper.
ty. Many persons have been drowned.
TIE statement that famine in Egypt 10
feared because Of the failure Of the crops
is officially declared untrue. The Nile is
rising slowly and the crops will be equal
to those Of 1884.
OWING to the illness Of his son, upon
whom q painful operation has been per-
formed, Hon. Carl Schurz will not be able
to return to America before the end Of
October.
BIZ the wreck of the Italian steamer
South America in q collision at the Canary
Islands recently, thirty-six passengers
were drowned and four seamen.
A CABLE message from Rear Admiral
Chandler at Yokohama, Japan, announces
that the United States steamer Monocacy
has been declared unfit for general ser.
vice.
THE LATEST.
Hon. JOHN e. EDWARDS, who went 20
MI