Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-14

Tine Pesther Lloyd sfateR that tHo ros
port that Arcnduke Charies Louis had re-
nouncod the succession 20 the throne Of
Austria was q pure invention.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended February 2 showed an average In
crease Of 60 compared with the correspond.
ing week OF last year. In New York the
increase was 6 G.
BIZ the terms OF the win of Mr.. Ed
ward Sartoris, father Of Algernon Sar-
tire fortune, valued ut E45, 200. is be-
queathed to his SON during his life, and 1t
his death to his wife absolutely.
TwENTY-FOUH persons were drowned re.
Gently by tho collision Of the Nereid with
the Killochan OF the English coast
A CRISIS in the anthracite coal trade
was reported imminent on the Sd.
tbs pig iron trust has been perfected
under the name of the American Pig Iron
Storage Warrant Company. Certificates
will be issued on iron in store, and will bs
negotiable. like Standard Oil certificates.
IT is semi-oficially announced in Paris
that France will follow Great Britain's
lead in recognising Legitime as President
of Hayti.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
confirmed the right to the seat from the
charged, was an American citizen.
THE severity of the winter is increasing
the distress caused by the famine in Shan
Tung and Lanchritia, China 1t is esti-
mated that $50, 900 persons are starving in
Chen Kiang.
ADvIcEs from Burmah announce that
Mandalay has recently been visited by
two Immense CONGREGATIONS. In the first
the flames destroyed 6S2 houses, bazaar
and Buddhist monastery. In the second
500 houses were burned. Both conflagra-
tions were of accidental origin.
THE British bark Largo Bay, bound for
was towed to Spithead on the
9th in q sinking condition. She reported
that she had bsen in collision with an I'M
known four-masted steamer off Beachy
Head, and that the steamer was sunk with
all on board.
ADvIcEs from Shanghai state that a riot
has occurred at Ching Kiang Foo, and
that the British Consulate and seven
houses belonging to foreigners have been
wrecked by the rioters.
THE report that General Boulanger had
applied to the Pope for divorce is denied.
It is stated that he will continue his suit
in the Paris courts.
AT Little Trent Ont, the other day
Tresten Golosh was murdered by five In
dams and then literally torn to pieces.
Two Of the murderers were lodged in Jail.
THE death is announced at Rome of Car.
dinal Ledochowski, formerly Primats OF
Poland and Archbishop OF Posen, who
was imprisoned by Prince Bismarck but
who was relea led on his promise to reside
abroad.
THE police of Wilma have forced Polish
tradespeople to sign a declaration that
they will not speak Polish among them
selves or customers on pain of the closure
Of their shops.
ALL the railroad trains in Central Canada
were either delayed or abandoned on the
9th because OF blizzard raging there.
Two editions of the Allgemeine Zeitung
have been conf1scated in Vienna because
they contained illusions to Rudolph's let
ter to Herr Won Zoegenyi
GENERAL SALAMANcAha has been appointed
Captain-General of Cuba in place of Gen.
eral Marin, who has resigned.
The Budget Committee of the German
Diet has adopted the bill increasing the
Emperor's allowance 3.5Oo,00O francs.
FATHER Coventry. of Dunmanway, Ire
land, denies positively landing the killing
of Inspector Martin at Gweedore.
LIE CARoN, alias Beach, on the It'll before
Justice Hannen's commission, offer ed sem
sational testimony connecting many of
the leading National Irish Leaguers in the
United States with the faction engaged in
dynamite outrages.
1T was the steamer Glencoe that was
sunk off Beachy Head, England, after
collision with the Largo Bay. Fifty-two
lives were lost
KUHN, the Wisconsin murderer, arrested
at Queenstown. Ireland, some weeks ago,
has been brought back to the United
States.
TIE LATEST.