Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-22
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily Now.


WASHINGTON NOTEA.
.CAPTAIN JOHN EATON, Third artillery,
now on duty at the Washington barracks,
is booked for one Of the four staff appoint
ments in the army shortly to be made by
the President.
A. I. BRlTTEN, . prominent Washington
lawyer, has been placed in charge Of the
ceremonies attending the Inauguration Of
General Harrison in March.
THE Supreme Court of tho United States
has denied the application for q writ Of
habeas corpus in the case of Judge David
8. Terry, Of California, who was convicted
Of contempt OF court in which he and his
wife, the noted Sarah Althea Hill, at
tackled the officers of the court in San
Francisco. !,
THE United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision Of the local courts in
the c4se of ex-Alderman Jaehne, of New
York City, and he must serve out his sem
tence.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
has rendered decision in the demurrer
case of the United States VS.. the American
Bell Telephone Company. The decision
was in favor of the United States. The
case came before the Supreme Court on an
appeal from the Circuit Court OF the
United States for the district of Massa-
ehusetts.
I HOW. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN arrived at
Washington on the 18th for the purpose of
wedding the daughter of Secretary En-
dicott
AN attache of the White House says
that the executive mail is very heavy, and
that hundreds of letters are received de-
nouncing the President They are con.
signed by the secretaries to the furnace.
THE twenty-ninth annual session of the
missionary council of the American Epis-
'copal Church began in the Epiphany
Church. Washington. on the 18th.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that any man may insure his life
for the benefit of his family and that his
creditors can not touch a cent of such in
,surance.
FRANK THOMPSON, q bricklayer in the
Washington aqueduct tunnel, recently
testified that a regular conspiracy existed
to deceive the inspectors.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES has received
formal notice from the War Department
of his transfer to San Francisco to take
vice General o. o. Howard, who goes East
to assume command Of the division of the
Atlantic.
The Corean Minister babe farewell to
President Cleveland on the 18th prepara-
tory to his return to Corea on a leave of
absence.
CONFLICTING claims to control of the
House were still being made at Washing
ton on the 18th by leading Republicans
and Democrats.
THE President has directed the return to
their reservation in Dakota of three Crow
Indians arrested at the time Of the Sword
Bearer outbreak and sent to Carlisle, Pa.
HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the we'll
known English politician, was married to
Miss Mary Endicott at Washington on the
18th. The President and Mrs. Cleveland
were present at the ceremony.
THE chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ports that the total values of the exports
of domestic breadstuffs during the ten
months ended October 81, as compared
with similar exports during the corre-
spending period of the preceding year,
were: 1888, $92 .912, S31; 1887, $138, 515, 1888.
THE EAST.
JOHN II. SMALL, assignee of claims held
lby Corwith & Co.. the New York lead
dealers, has brought suit against Gurden
'Corwith, member of the metal exchange,
to recover $3.50, 900 damages. The defend
ant has been arrested.
WATsoN's grain elevator, New York,
was burned on the 18th. The total loss
was $3.50. 600; insured.
WHRELER's elevator, Buffalo, N. Y, was
burned recently. Loss, $40, 200; insured
THE wine cellar of the late Samuel J.
York on the 18Th. Five hundred and
twenty bottles of Steinberger brough,
from $3.50 to 50 per bottle, some double c
Madeira S. 80 and some bluegrass whisky
,forty,years old, $11.50 per gallon. In al
$3.50 bottles were sold.
The Crispus Attucks monument dedi-
Gated to the victims Of the affair in King
street March 5, ITO, which is known to
history as the "Boston massacre" was un.
walled at Boston on the 14th.
By the blowing down of new ice house
at Dedham. Mass, the other day, three
men at work on the structure were fatally
,and three badly injured.
The act Incorporating the Nicaragua
Canal Company has passed the Vernon
Legislature. 1t is the same measure q:
was introduced into Congress last session
MILLIAM SHOWERS, aged sixty-five, wa.
hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on the 14th fol
the murder of his two grandchildren. III,
committed the crime because of a woman
who objected to live with him while b,
had the children.
The .AUerican Turf Congress convened
at the st. James, New York, on the 18th
with CLOSED doors, Charles Green. of st
Louis, presl ding. The business under dis
ocussion, lit was stated, was the question O
of jockeys.
ST. RAPaAEL,s Church, Suspense,
Bridge. N. Y. was destroyed by fire re
Gently. Loss, $15, 600.
PART of E N. Cook & Co.'s distillery
Buffalo, N. Y. was de stroyed by fire tn
other morning Four hundred barrels O
whisky were also lost Loss. $50Oo0.
JOHN VANKORFF was arrested for settiu:
fire to the steam gauge &nd lantern work
near Rochester,, N. Y, by which abou
thirty five persens lost their lives. In
vestigation developed the fact that Van
korf had q mania for setting fire to places
He was engineer at the factory at the tim,
e was destroyed.
TEE liabilities Of w. d. Forbes, expire
sident of the National Bank az Redemption
Boston, Mass. are now placed at $3.50, 90,
and the creditors may not get 25 cents OF
the dollar.
TIE New York Star has been sold q