Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-16
GREAT BEND KANSAS, THURSDAY MAY 49, 1885,
GENERAL.

THE anti-slave conference will meet II
Brussels in August
A CONFLICT has occurred between the
strikers and the military at Essen, Ger
many. The soldiers fired upon the strikers,
killing three men and wounding five
others.
IT is reported that Sir Charles Russell's
fee for acting as counsel for the Parnell-
ties is 10000
THE games of the international chess
tournament resulted as follows: Mason
beat Blackburn; DeImar beat Judd; Del
mar beat Mason; Lipschutz beat Tauben-
haus; Burn beat BurrilIe; Showalter beat
Gossip; Martinez beat Pollock; j. W.
Baird drew with Hanham- Drawn games
only were played
THE commander Of the British cruiser
Rapid has hoisted the British flag over the
Suwarrow islands, in the Southern Pacific
Ocean.
THERE is complaint from all quarters
that lake business is dull beyond every
expectation.
THE British House of Lords has again
The Prince of Wales voted with the minor
ity. The vote was 147 to 40.
FATHER DAMIEN, the famous leper
priest of the Sandwich islands, died April
10. He gave up all to Christianize the
lepers.
FIFTY thousand miners have struck in
the Dortmund Germany mining district,
causing all iron furnaces to shut down.
THE stock of F. Giroux & Co., perfume,
patent medicine and wine importers Of
Montreal, Can, has been seized by the
Canadian custom officers IN charges of un-
dervaiuation.
JAP ANKsE papers of April % state that
fears are expressed at Chez Foo, China,
for the safety of the United States steamer
Palos, which wintered at Tientsin, and
when the port opened in the spring left
for Chez Foo Though long overdue moth
in has been seen of the PaloS by any
vessel that made the trip between the two
ports up to the Goth.
AT Yeko. Corea, on the 18th of April
four hundred people surrounded a house
occupied by one Boku, dragged him out
and beat him to death. The Corean Gov
ernment had imposed tax on the towns
people which they were unable to pay.
The enraged townspeople arose en- masse
and attacked the constables. killing many
and wounding the survivors. The mill
tary were dispatched to the scene and
quelled the riot
THE net earnings of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern railroad durin g
| the year 1888 were S717I I446
The Window Glass Workers Associa-
ton has issued an order boycotting and
oiackilStlng all foreign glass " or kerS VINO
come to this country hereafter.
DURING a conflict at Bochum. Vest
phalia, between military and striking
| miners, the other day, two men were killed
by the troops.
THE steamship Rugia, which sailed from
New York May for Hamburg. put into
Plymouth, England, on the 18th. On the
night of May 6, cotton, which was stored
| in her afterhold. took fire from spontaneous
combustion, and a desperate fight at sub
DUNG the flames lasted for two days until
they were finally subdued by steam.
SEsoa DUBLAS. Mexican Minister of
Finance. has directed the placing of funds
| in Berlin for payment of the July coupons
| of Mexican bonds.
| CLEARING house returns for the week
| ended May ii showed an average increass
| of Is compared with the correspondent g
| week of last year. In New York the in
| crease was A2.
| THE report that band of Kurds re-
| Gently attacked wedding party al
| Mouch. Armenia, and outraged and MUIR
| dered the bride, is declared by the Arme-
| nian authorities to be entirely without
| foundation.
| THE military fred on the Schleswig
| rio;ous miners on the 11th and killed six
points in Germany where miners were or
| strike.
| THE Field Club, an aristocratic gam.
| bling institution of London, was raided
the other night Earl Dudley, Earl Pau
| lett, Lord Lurgan and other noblemeu
| were captured