Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-12

THE Southern cotton crop aggregate
is estimated at :, 124 600 bales. Texas
leads with an increase of 1000 bales
over last year. Tennessee, North Caro-
lima. Arkansas and South Carolina
show decreases.
THE State Senate of Virginia has au-
thorized the Governor to accept in the
name of the commonwealth the statue
of General Robert e. Lee, soon to be
unvailed at Richmond.
JEFFERSON DAVIS died at the house
of his friend, J. U. Payne, at New Or
leans Oh the 9Th.
THE boiler on the sugar plantation of
a planter named Meredith exploded at
COlfax, La, recently, killing six men
and two women, all negroes, and
wounding several others.
THE boiler in Governor JacksOn'S
sawmill at Marion, Nd, exploded re-
Gently. William Dennis, aged twenty
two years. was killed, and William
Dixon probably fatally hurt. Richard
Martin had foot blown off and two
or three others were seriously injured.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for
the Kennesaw cotton mills at Marietta,
Ga. The financial condition is not
known. %
DURING trial in Judge Blanton's
court room at Marshall, Tex, opposing
lawyers got into a dispute and weap-
Ons were drawn. The result was that
State Representative Alexander Pope
was mortally wounded, dying the same
day, and Senator w. III. Pope, his
brother, was seriously wounded in two
places. Another lawyer was also hurt.
THE trial of MOussa Bey, who was
charged with committing murder,
arson and pillage in Armenia, resulted
in his acquittal.
GENERAL.
THE Sisters of the Visitation in
Washington have sold their convent
and academy property on Connecticut
avenue to J. H. Flagler, of New York
and Florida, for S65O,OOO. This prop
erty contains 114,579 : lare feet on
Connecticut avenue, L, Seventeenth
and De Sales streets, improved by the
convent building, and it is understood
that Mr.. Flagler intends to erect u
grand hotel on the site.
THE Salvation Army headquarters
at London and adjoining property
burned on the morning of the Sd.
THE platform of a theater at Wienhen
in the province of Shantung, China, col
lapsed recently during performance.
Two hundred persons were killed.
HE reports of disturbances at Lis
bon, Portugal, were false.
The largest elephant in Barnum's
show, now in London, fatally injured
its keeper in a fit of rage the other day.
THE President of Nicaragua has APP
proved the treaty forming union of
the five Republics of Nicaragua, Costa
RIGA, Honduras, San Salvador and
Guatemala under the name of the
United States of Central America.
WHITELAw REID, United States
Minister to France and his wife have
gone to the South of France and Italy
ON months tour.
THE bark Christian Schriver, from
BuenOs Ayres, reports that at the Della
ware breakwater she passed nine dead
bodies, eight of them the bodies of men
floating on life raft. The other was
that of woman floating near the raft
with life preserver around her.
AN English company is reported to
have applied for a concession from
France for bridge across the English
channel.
THE Kaiser has wired Stanley and
Emin that he sympathizes with them
and sends congratulations and well
comes them home. Mackinnon, the
chairman of the Emin relief commit
tee, was summoned to Windsor Castle
by Queen Victoria, where he dined and
slept.
EMIN PAsHA had serious accident
at BagamOyO the day after his arrival.
Owing to his nearsightedness he mis-
took the height of railing and fell
twenty feet, fracturing his skull.
THE Brotherhood managers claim
that they have signed all the baseball
players they need.
The house of John Madden at Kings
ton, Ont, caught fire the other night
and while he and his wife were trying
to extinguish the flames their means of
escape were cut off and both persisted.
THE LATEST.
THE Chinese troops recently suffered
a severe defeat from the savages on
OOuCl L vi uIOSo, OOO VI tOO VI LIlcIu Hay
ing been killed.
RECENTLY mob attacked the China
inland and Methodist Episcopal mis-
sions at Marking, China, and destroyed
both chapels and an opium refuge and
stoned the officials who attempted to
interfere.
GENERAL FRANCIS w. PALFREY, the
we'll known historian, died recently at
Cannes, France, aged ffty-eight years.
He was Harvard graduate, lawyer,
and during the war volunteer in
fantry officer, being made Brigadier-
General of volunteers in 1865 for gal
liant conduct.
CONSUL DIHLIER, of Florence, Italy,
incloses to the State Department ex-
tracts from Bologna newspapers in
which it is openly charged that horse
meat is extensively used there in the
manufacture of bologna sausages