Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
THERE was some excitement in the State
land Navy Departments reported at w ASH
;ington on the 18th consequent upon unsat-
iisfactory reports from Hayti. Nothlng
definite was given to the press.
E. A. BAXTER, of New York, has been
appointed by President Harrison as United
States Marshal for the Western district OF
New York.
The President has said that he will not
favor either one of the Virginia Repub-
iican factions to the disadvantage OF the
other He earnestly desired an end to the
disagreement.
MRS. GENERAL SHERIDAN, who has been
quite ill at Washington, is so far GONZALES
cent as to be able to go out driving.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed John Hughson skilled laborer,
in the Treasury Department, at COM
pensation of $720 per annum. Hughson
was porter OF one of the Pullman cars
caught in the food at Johnstown, Pa, and
it was mainly through his efforts that
Mrs. E. W. Halford and her daughter
were enabled to reach a place of safety in
the mouptains. His appointment is due
to the recommendation of the Presidents
private secretary.
MRS. HARRISON, accompanied by her
father and two grandchildren have left
Washington for Cape May, where they
will occupy Postmaster General Wana-
makers cottage.
PREPARATIONS for the taking of the GEN.
sus of 1890 are assuming shape. The ap-
preparations provide for 175 supervisors,
which is an excess Of twenty five over the
number employed in $780, This excess of
supervisors will go to the South and West
excepting one each to Oklahoma and
Alaska. The bureau estimation of the
population is placed at 65. .0O0 600.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has ap-
pointed his daughter, Miss Ada Tanner,
to be his confidential secretary in place of
George B. Squires.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared a second dividend of ten per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the Fidel-
ity National Bank of Cincinnati.
The grand jury at Washington has in
dicted number of union hod carriers,
.colored, for threatening to leave their en-
ployment if an obnoxious employe was
not discharged.
The President has appointed the follow
ing ConsulS: Wakefield G.. Frye of Maine,
Consul at Halifax; John A. Leonard, of
Minnesota, Consul at Shanghai; Searcy
E. Sweeney, of Indianapolis. Consul at
ConstantinOple; Oliver H. Dockery, of
North Carolina, Consul at Rio de Janeiro;
Oliver II. Simmons, of Colorado. Consul
at st. Petersburg; George w. Roosevelt,
of Pennsylvania, Consul at Brussels; Levi
". Brownem. of Ohio, Consul at Glasgow.
THE EAST.
REPORTS from New Hampshire detail
damage done by the recent storm. At
South Berwick the Berwick Academy,
erected in 1892 was struck by lightning.
the bolt entering the school room affect
ing fifty-three scholars. A great deal of
damage was done to houses and trees.
GENERAL FIrzJoHN PORTER was made
president of the Fifth corps at the reunion
of the Army of the Potomac at Orange,
N. j., and General Butterfield presented
him solid gold corps badge set with dia-
monds as a mark of appreciation of his
viDdication in his late unpleasantness
A HARRISBURG special says Governor
Beaver and his Cabinet have become dis
satisfied with his scheme to take 81, ,OO0 900
out of the State treasury to pay the ex-
penses of clearing away the Johnstown
wreck. Offers to indorse his bonds are
few and far between and he will probably
try to raise enough money to pay the ex-
pense by loans from citizens who will
take the chance that the Legislature when
w
CALVIN 8. BRIcE has been chosen chair.
man of the National Democratic Commit
tee TO fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Hon. w. H. Barnum
THE thirty-fourth biennial session of
the Lutheran Church of the United States
was formally opened at Pittsburgh, Pa.
on the 18th. A prohibition resolution was
unanimously adopted.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, refused
70 hrrS "a
Mcdonald, charged with completely in the
~Cronin murder in Chicago, on the ground
that no direct charges were made
By the upsetting and explosion of a can
.~of benzine in the Bear Greek oil refinery
: at Coleman, Pa, the other evening one
man was burned to death and four others
fatally hurt The buildings were de-
sstroyed
The charge of criminal libel preferred
by O'Donovan Rossa against Patrick Cas-.
sidy at New York has been dismissed by
Judge Smith. Much testimony was drawn
out the evidence tending Ito show that
-Rossa had received various sums of money
which had been misappropriated.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, Of Pennsylvania,
has granted respites to Peter Baronski,
who murdered two women. and James H.
Jacobs, both Of whom were to be hanged
: June 25, to October % It Is claimed that
both men are insane.
The opinion of well-posted people at
is that the loss Of life will be
between 900 and 4, ,0OO
AN unknown woman between forty an,i
nifty years old jumped into the rapids If
Niagara river above the falls recently and
her body was whirled over in a moment
sShe had evidently contemplated suicide
A MRS. KIRoCHNoR and her erandchild
were suffocated in a tenement house fire
Sin Norfolk street. New York, the other
evening. An oil stove exploded.
FOURTEEN thousand people are still un.
registered in the Conemaugh valley, Over
g, 900 bodies have been recovered. There
was an overpowering odor of burning
flesh. How many lives were lost will
therefore remain a matter of conjecture.
THERE were many cases of prostration
sby heat at New York on the 18th.
THE Kearsarge left the Brooklyn navy
yard on the 10th for Hayti.
AN estimate of the deaths at Johnstown
by Colonel Rogers puts the number at
II, 125.
THE WEST.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are reported
salong the Iron Range railroad in Minne-
ssota-
OVER 400 teamsters at Duluth, Mimi,
were reported on a strike. The men tried
ito prevent others from vvork IN o. hut xvere