Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-25

ANITA and Miriam Boges maiden sisters
living in Jackson County. Va, committed
suicide the other day by taking arsenic.
They left letter signed jointly saying
that there was nothing in life for old
maids and that they were tired of it They
were in fair circumstances. but had no
relatives living.
THE Little Kanawha valley in West
Virginia was swept by a cloudburst on the
night of the 18th At Norristown several
lives were lost.
GENERAL.
THE International Socialist Congress
| was opened in Paris on the 18th with 16e
French and 169 foreign delegates. OF tho
latter 80 vaere Germans, and included
eleven members of the German ReichstaR.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette says that Vis-
count Dunloe. aged twenty, the heir of the
Earl of Clancardy. has been married to
Belle Benton, q music hall artist.
THE proposed international salt trust
| will have a capital Of $50 000 900.
| THF ship Premier from Santos has ar
| rived at Saguenay, in the Gulf Of st. Law
renee, with yellow fever on board.
| TIE counsel for Parnen have Withdrawn
| from Judge Hannsn's Commission.
The body Of fearfully mutilated wom-
an was found in Castle alley. White
| chapel, LONDON, on the 10Th, eFloenIIy the
| work of Jack the Ripper"
SIX THOUSAND lives have been reported
| lost by further floods in China.
GENERAL BoULANGER has been inter-
| viewed concerning the Indictment found
| against him in Paris. He declares that
the statements made in the Indictment
| are a tissue Of falsehoods.
| HOUSES were violently shaken and
much damage done on the isle OF Arran
l he ;vJa Of = S.h
The first seven clauses of the Grace
British bondholders' contract with Peru
have been approved by the Chamber of
Deputies OF that country and the accept.
ance of the entire contract is now thought
to be assured.
A CRANK recently shot at the Emperor
of Brazil at Rio de Janeiro without effect.
THE demands of the engineers of the
Pittsburgh & Western railroad for an ad-
vance in wages were acceded to and the
threatened str ke was abandoned.
In the British Hou of Commons Mr..
Gladstone agreed to compromise the mat
ter of award to the royal family. under
| the terms of which the Prince of W ales is
| to be allowed f40, 000 a year a substi-
| tute for all the claims of his children.
The anniversary OF the death of ex-
President Juarez was celebrated throug b.
| out Mexico on the 18th by imposing dem
| onstrations of the Liberal party. In the
| capital there was an immense procession
and considerable excitement among the
people. A bitter factional feeling pre-
| vailed and yeils, death to Conservatism"
| and ''Death to the clergy" were heard
| everywhere. There was no serious dis
| order.
| The Egyptian Government has notified
| the French Government that the latter's
| refusal to accept the conversion scheme
will cost Egypt f200 0]O yearly.
| Two hundred houses were destroyed by
fire at Constantinop!e the other day.
| THE Irish team won the Echo challenge
| shield at Wimbledon with a score of $50;
the English, 1.6s4; Scotch, 1.626.
| THE rum0r that Jay Gould was prepar.
ing to buy the Chicago & Alton was de-
clared to be a Wall street fake.
RUMORs were prevalent in Europe that
| the widow of the late Emperor william
of Germany had joined the Catholic
| Church.
| THE Cologne Gazette publishes a dis
| patch from st Petersburg stating that the
Gear has expressed the intention of meet.
| ing Emperor William on the German
frontier. The Car is averse to going to
Berlin.
NJ Rouv1kR, the French Minister of
Finance has dismissed FIVE treasurers
general collectors of inland revenue)
| for being active members OF the Boulang-
trist party.
| MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN returned from Eu-
rope recently on the steamer Trave.
HE Tory candidate was elected in
Marylebone, London, on the 10Th, receiv.
| ing $50 votes to his opponents :, OS6.
CHAIRMAN WALKER, of the Inter State
Commerce Railway Association. has is
sued a new decision restoring rates on
| bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver
to Missouri river points to the former basis
of s. and 81 respectively.
Mr. PARNkLL addressed &c, 600 of his fol-
lowers at Edinb urgh, on the 10Th, and was
| received with great enthusiasm.
A MAN supposed to be Jack the Ripper
| was arrested in the Whitechapel district
on the morning of the Goth He had just
| killed a woman and had the knife on his
person with which he had committed the
| deed.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July Is numbered 2O3
compared with 205 the previous week and
22S the corresponding week last year.
THE LATEST.
ELLIS JACOBS, colored, of Washington,
was drowned at Beach Haven, N. J.. re.
Gently while bathing.
MRS HOGAN, wife of the missing aero
maui, believes her husband was drowned.
TEE Washington Sunday Herald again
| reiterates the story that Blaine will retire
from the Cabinet and says its informa-
ton comes from the best authority, and
fixes the date of his resignation as Octo-
Der l. so as to give the President time to
| select q successor before the extra session
; OF Congress.
| CLEARING house returns for the week
ended July 20 showed an average increase
OF Il. 8 compared with the corresponding
. week of last year. In New York the in.
| crease was 13S
The excursion steamer st. Nicholas
struck the Tybee railway bridge on the
Savannah river on the night of the 10th