Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07


THE SOUTH
GEnKRAL. RoaxR JoNxs, Iuspector- Gen.
eral of the army, who Was recently ape
pointed to succeed General Baird. retired
under operation of law, died At Fort Mon.
roe, Va, on tho 26th.
SIX prisoners sawed their way ont OF
the Jail at Gainesville. Tex. recently.
One Of them, charged with murder, gave
himself up later.
Several. levees thirty or forty miles
above Shreveport, La, are reported to
have given way, causing the submerging
of q large tract of country. All low lands
on the Red river not protected BY ievees
are under water.
JOHN II. CLAYTON, brother OF Powell
Clayton. and one of the most prominens
Republican leaders in the Southwest, was
assassinated recently at his boarding
house in Plummersville, Ark
The Arkansas Legislature in joint con.
vention has elected Senator Berry to sue
coed himself by q vote OF 103 to IA Tor
Powell Clayton.
JOSEPH CoLEMAH. negro, set fire to tho
house OF his wife's parents near Little
Rock, Ark, tho other night, and when his
wife ran out he shot her through the head.
GENERAL.
Two Swedes named Anderson and Ben
SON were drowned in the Mississippi near
Fountain City, Wis, recently. They
were riding on an iceboat when stiff
gust of wind carried them into an open
channel of the river.
THE report that the CzArina is i'll is UNI
true. She does not intend to go abroad.
THE leading lard refiners have resolved
to brand their product in future as 'scom-
pound" lard because of the criticisms con-
corning the branding of it as refined"
AN international congress of the Roman
Catholic and Anti-Slavery associations
will probably be held in Paris after Easter.
SIR CHARLES UPPER visited the Paris
Exhibition building recently. He ex-
pressed regret that there were no Canadian
exhibitions.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN was arrested at Man.
chester on the 10Th after breakfasting with
the mayor.
SAMOA advices received from Auckland,
N. T., on the 30;h, say that the Germans
have declared war against Mataafa, and
that probably all the Samoans will join
against the Germans.
FIVE of the crew of the British ship Sir
Walter Raleigh were drowned off Bou-
logne, France, recently, by the wrecking
of the vessel.
THE Paris correspondent of the London
Times says he is amazed at tbs number of
people who were formerly waverers, who
are now proclaiming themselves boldly as
Boulangists. This fact dominates all
others and must be faced boldly and be
energetically grappled with.
The Neue Freie Presse, of Vienna, has
been confiscated for circulating the report
that the Crown Prince was shot at Mier-
ling. The death of Crown Prince Rudolph
was caused by a rupture OF the cardiac
walls, with an effusion into the pericar-
dunn.
ACCORDING to the latest reports from
Hayti, President Legitime's forces have
captured five insurgent towns.
TWENTY steamers are now detained at
Glasgow, Scotland, by the strike of the
seamen and firemen.
The National Committee appointed to
inquire into the late British naval
maneuvers state that the ships, with few
exceptions, are unsuitable for modern
warfare-indeed deficient-and that the
existing fleet is unfit to command the seas
against an enemy.
IT is stated in Paris that the Austrian
Crown Prince was shot by the husband of
a lady who was staying ut the Mierling
chateau.
THE French Chamber of Deputies passed
a vote of confidence in the Floquet Minis
try on the 31st by 800 to 200.
IT is officially announced that negotia-
tions are nearly completed by which the
east bound business Of the Gould South
western system will be directed over roads
operated by the Richmond Terminal Com
pany.
The National District Assembly of ma
chinery constructors, molders, pattern
makers. and boiler makers have decided to
withdraw from the Knights of Labor.