Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-28

A GENTLEMAN recently from Winni-
peg says he travelled from st. Paul to
Winnipeg with w. w. Thompson, who
is reported to have absconded from
Albany, n. T., with his typewriter.
Thompson was the man dismissed as a
special agent of the Pension Office a
few weeks ago.
JUSTICE Day. of the Parnell Com
mission, was run over by cab in Lon
don the other day while on his way to
court and was badly hurt.
The British East African Company
has conveyed to the German Govern
ment, through Lord Salisbury, its re-
grets for the disaster to the Peters ex-
petition and an offer to do every thing
possible to discover and punish the
murderers.
LIEUTENANT HARDEMAN's detach-
meDt of cavalry has returned to San
Carlos, Ariz. He struck some of the
Apache hostiles near McMjllinville and
captured their camp. About twenty
shots were exchanged with his scouts,
but the hostiles made good their es-
cape and the trail was lost in the
mountains near Black river.
MONSIGNOR SATALLI, the Papal
delegate, confirms the statement made
by Archbishop Fabre that Rome would
not raise the ban against the Free
Masons and other secret societies.
BY common consent one OF the
United States Senators was from the
east and one from the west division of
the State of Washington. On the bal
LOT Gov tho Feet C;do CopofOr tho vote
in the House stood: John B. Allen, 46;
George Turner, IA; L. I'll. Brents, l;
Charles S. Voorhees,, 8. In the Senate
the vote stood: Allen, 26; Turner, 6.
THE National Palace of San Saliva
dor has been completely destroyed by
fire. The Government archives were
totally consumed. No lives were lost.
The Provisional Government has is
sued a decree establishing universal
suffrage throughout the republic of
Brazil.
THE Austrian Reichstag has been
called to meet in Vienna December 2.
CAPTAIN WIssMANN telegraphs that
Henry M. Stanley and party arrived at
Mpwapwa OH November 10.
CAPTAIN W1ssMANN, the German
Major in the German army in recogni-
ton of his services.
EXPORTS from the United States for
the year ended October, 1889, were
$79S, 46S, 752 against $679, 428, S44 in 1888,
and imports $765, 413,777, against $780,
9S8, PAS in 1888.
EX-EMPREss FREDERICK of Ger
many and her daughter have left
Athens for Italy.
A PARTY of Arnauts have plundered
the Servian monastery of Detchan. The
monks fled.
THE Governor-Generalo of Cuba dis
claims that he in any way aided the
cigarmakers of Key West.
Many of them, it seems, asked to be re-
turned to Cuba, and for that reason a
gunboat was sent to Key West to carry
them back to their former homes.
Rev. T. DEWITT TALMAGE and his
party were in Athens on the 22d. DR..
Talmage has secured corner stone
for his new church in Brooklyn from
Mars hill, where st. Paul preached to
the Athenians. DIR. Talmage preached
there to many people, taking as his
text Acts xvii. %. Later in the day
DR.. Talmage had all interview with
Premier Tricoupis and All audience
with Queen Olga and ex-Empress Vic
toria of Germany.
CLAUS SPRECKLES again announces
that his new refinery is ready to start.
Raw sugar has been received and every
thing is in readiness.
PATTERSON, member of Parliament
Inf hnd int I,
the Governor-General of Canada re-
speeding the oppressive manner in
which the American Alien Labor act
was enforced at Detroit against resi-
dents of Windsor employed in that city
by railway companies and other cOrpO-
ratiOnS.
The City Council of Quebec unani-
mously adopted resolution favoring
Chicago as the site for the Worlds
Fair in 1892 in preference to New York.
THE LATEST.
EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, wealthy,
aged seventy, shot by an Italian pOacher
on his fine property near Milton, Mass,
is dead.
A REVOLT occurred recently among
the convicts in the Lavoulute prison,
Tunis. The prisoners succeeded in
freeing themselves from their chains
and in procuring firearms and other
weapons. They then made fierce at
tack on the jailers, who were unable
to quell the revolt, and troops were
summoned. When they arrived at the
jail a desperate fight took place and
many of the prisoners and soldiers were
Ei1Iad