Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-28
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE President has appointed Thomas
Clay Mcdowell, of Kentucky, to be
collector of internal revenue for the
Seventh district of Kentucky, vice
William Cassius Goodloe, deceased.
Mcdowell is the son-in-law of Mrs.
GOodloe.
PosTMAsTER-GENER WANAMA-
KER has directed that the free deliv-
cry system be established on January
1, 1890, at Jefferson City, Mo-; Green
Bay, Wis; Washington, Pa; Iona,
Mich; Santa Rosa, Cal, and Creston,
Iowa.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
quested and received the resignation of
III. A. Phillips, chief of the middle
division in the Pension Office. He is
one of the re-rated pensioners whose
cases were recently overhauled by the
Secretary.
THE Quinnebaug and Juniata, which
have been condemned by the board of
survey, have been stricken from the
list of vessels of the navy.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has
made new division, of which his son
will have charge.
JAMES W. TANNER and Colonel w.
w. Dudley, both ex-Commissioners of
Pensions, have formed a copartnership
at Washington in the pension claims
business.
THE President has sent instructions
to the POst-office Department that no
more Presidential misunderstanding were
to be forwarded to him until after the
opening of Congress. He has ninety
seven cases before him now.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has
dismissed w. S. Brock and demanded
the designations of J. E. Engel and J.
A. Bond, of Pennsylvania, and &C
cepted the resignation of Hamilton
Reeve, of New York. They held good
positions and were implicated in Tan
ner's rearranging and rerating. There
are seventeen other rerated employees
who will probably be repr0ved.
ST. JOHNS College, Washington, was
dedicated ON the I'D by Cardinal Glib
bons in the presence of large crowd.
THE EAST.
THE annual banquet of the New
York Chamber of Commerce took place
on the 18th. Among the guests were
Cleveland and General
Sherman.
SAwEN s. Co.'S chair factory at
N. Y, has been seized by the
sheriff. The liabilities are $50, 600 and
the assets ample.
HENRY GEORGE will get the bequest
Of $50, 900 left by a New Jersey farmer,
the Court of Appeals reversing a de-
cision of a lower court, Chief Justice
Beasley declaring that Mr.. George had
made valuable contributions to the
study of social and political economy,
and that his books were not contrary
to law, religion or morality.
JAKE BUZZARD, one of the famous
Welsh mountain outlaws, died in the
Eastern Pennsylvania prison recently.
THERE was bad fire recently at
Baldwinsville, N. Y, the Epson block
being destroyed at loss of s25O,OOO.
ISAAC SCHUYLER, the noted coffin
of Amsterdam, NY, has
assigned with $75, 900 liabilities.
FRANK FOSTER, who left wife and
three children, attempted to shut off
an electric light with a wet iron gait at
Gloucester, Mass, recently and was in
stantly killed.
THE Brazilian Consulate is on the
lookout for shipments of arms from
New York to Rio Janeiro. Consulate
officials say that if any fighting occurs
it shall not be with guns from New
York like there was during the Haytian
rebellion.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE KIN
NEY, mother of the New York poet,
Edmund Clarence Stedman, died at
Summit, N. J., recently, aged seventy
nine.
The Crane & Waters Hosiery Manu-
featuring Company, of Millburg, Mass,
has assigned with unknown assets and
liabilities.
STEPHEN PETTUs, secretary and
treasurer of the Brooklyn elevated rail-
road, commission merchant and mem
Der of the Cotton Exchange, was shot
down in Fulton street, New York, the
other morning by Mrs. Hannah South
worth. 1t was stated that Pettus some
time ago drugged and ruined the woman
and then Knocked at her after delaying
reparatiOn until criminal proceedings
were barred by the statute of limitation
THE Tradesmen'S National Bank at
ConshOhOcken, Pa, which was robbed
of $50, 600 by Cashier Cresson, has re-
sumed business with diminished capt.
tai.
WATSON B. DICKERMAN, of New
York, has been appointed receiver of
the Norfolk Southern railroad.
CHARLES H. TURNER, the ice man.
has been nominated as the Tammany
candidate for Congress in the Sixth
Congressional district of New York.
THE general store of E. & T. Fair
banks, scale makers of st. Johnsburg,
VT, was burned the other morning
with a greater part of its contents. Loss,
$75, 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE WEST.
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