Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.

Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A NATIONAL convention Of protectionist
wool growers has been called for Wash
ington for the first day Of the next Con.
gress.
SECRETARY TRACY has decided the
question of two 3, 90 ton cruisers, author
lied by the last Congress. They will be
built by the Norfolk and Brooklyn yards.
SECRETARY NOBLE has ordered the tax
ing of careful measures to protect the
ruins Of the cliff jewellers recently found
In Colorado.
The fourth annual convention OF the
National Medical Association convened in
Washington on the 18th.
TUY CROOK YING, the new Chinese Ann
bassador to the United States, has arrived
from China with a large delegation OF
dignitaries.
ment. reports great Improvement in the
so-called Bad Lands for agricultural pur-
poses.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has COMMITTED the
sentence of DR.. Burke Priddy, of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Of two years for violating
the pension laws to one year.
THE Senate Committee on Irrigation
heard testimony at Cheyenne Wyo, on
the 18th from the Territorial engineer and
ton from each county. The committee
then disbanded and the members left for
their homes.
A CABLE dispatch has been received at
the Department Of State from Consul
Allen, at Kingston. Jamaica, saying that
a riot occurred at Navassa, an island in
the Caribbean sea, In which a number Of
Americans were killed. A British war
ship had left Jamaica to protect the
remaining Americans.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHENOR, of the
Treasury Department., was seriously i'll at
his residence in Washing on and was said
to be threatened with pneumonia.
THE naval court Of inquiry in Washing
ton into the charges of inhuman punish
ment inflicted by Captain Pope on ex-
Marine Harvey, have completely exoner-
ated the Captain.
THE Secretary Of War has determined
to remove from Fort Meade, Oak, all but
one company of the troops to Northwest
srn Montana. This virtually amounts to
the abolition of the fort which was one
of the most important west Of the Mis-.
souri,.
THE annual session of the American
Prehistoric Society convened at Washing
ton on the Doth with thirty delega tes pres
emit Scientific papers were read by DR..
Huber, of New York; DR.. Earle, Of Chi
cago. and DR.. Grille, of New York.
AN extraordinary story comes from
Norwalk, Conn., where a six-year old
child had been sentenced by q justice
OF the peace to fifteen years in the
State reform school, until he shall be of
age. Owing to the indignation which has
been aroused it is not likely to be carried
out f..
THE prosecution in the case Of Henry g.
Ives Unexpectedly rested its case at New
York on the 18th Lawyer Brooke asked
for the discharge Of Ives, but the court
decided that the case should 20 to the
jury and the trial proceeded.
MRS. ELIZABETH s. MCCLELLAN, widow
of DR.. George Mcclellan and mother OF
General George b Mcclellan and DIR. John
II. B. Mcclellan, the distinguished sur
geon, died at Drifton. Pa, on the 18th.
She was ninety years of age.
The John Grouse memorial college fol
women, connected with the Syracuse
University, New York, has been dedicated.
1t cost $500. 600.
THE second trial Of General Lester r
Faulkner, charged with wrecking ths
National Bank of Danville, N. Y. wa,
begun in the United States District Cour
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 10th.
j. B. BARNABY, Of Providence, r. L,
we'll known clothing merchant, with stores
in many Western cities, died recently
BANKER LOUIS STRAUSS. of Is William
street, New York, has assigned and alb
seconded. Liabilities about $3.50, 600.
MRS. ROBERT RAY HAMILTON was con
victed at Nays Landing, N. j. on the 10 Il
of the attempted murder of her nurse
Mary Donnelly, and given two years. i'm
prisonment
THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons ha
refused to release the notorious DIR. Cox, O
New Jersey, convicted of malpractice.
Two miners were crushed to death in
colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa, the othe
day under fall of rock.
REPUBLICAN primaries were held in New
York on the Goth to choose delegates t.
the State convention. They were mostl,
uneventful, but in the famous Eighth As
sembly district the expelled O'Brien mel
caused some disturbance by attempts t
vote and some anti-O'Brien men were as
saulted as they went to the polling place
Mr.. AND MRS. JOHN F. Snow. of Sa
Francisco, celebrated their golden wed
ding in Burlington. Mass, recently
travelling from the Pacific coast for tn
purpose.
JESSE WENTWORTH PAYsoN, the note
penman, author of the Payson. Dunton [
Scribner copy books, died at Hyde Pari
near Boston. recently, aged seventy -foul
THE creditors of e. A. Bachelor & Co
boot and shoe manufacturers of Mort
Brookfield, Mass, have agreed to accet
65 cents on the dollar cash. 5 cents Apr
], 1890. and cents Oct. I, 1890
In letter to Mayor Grant, of Ne,
York, Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania
declares in favor of Chicago a. the plac
for the Worlds Fair in 1892
The stables of John Lynch at Philadel
phia were burned the other night wit
their contents Thirty five horses wer
burned TO death. Loss, about SIS 600
EDWARD g. WooDwKLL and Arthu
Taft young men, were drowned while o.
q cruise down the harbor at Stafford, vt
recently.
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