Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17

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6ENERAI.
GREAT anxiety was felt at Berlin on the
Sd regarding the health of Prince Bis
marck.
TIE Petit Journal OF Paris states that .
meeting OF Panama Canal bondholders
have addressed letter to N. De Lesseps
Offering him the Craftsmanship of a new
canal company to be formed. The com.
pany will have a capital Of several million
francs and will take over the concern from
the old Panama company.
THE weather on the St Lawrence river
was SO pleasant on the 9Th that an excur-
sion was given by steamboat from Kings
ton to Cape Vincent, Ont. Nothing like it
has ever been known in January.
IT is announced that the salaries of all
employees of the Missouri Pacific earning
500 per month and over will be cut ten
per cent, excepting engineers, conductors
and those employed in the mechanical de-
partments.
A PETARD was exploded in the rear of
the building occupied by the Spanish In
terror Department in Madrid recently but
no particular damage was done.
ARTIST SToTT, who resides principally
in Paris, created much excitement in the
rooms of the Hogarth Club, London, the
other night, by denouncing his brother
artist, Whistler, as a liar and a coward.
Whistler retorted with blow, and rumors
Of prospective duel existed.
THE strike on the "Q'' system was
formally declared to be at an end on the
7th, by agreement between the brother
hoods and the railroad company.
MACKENZIE, the agent of the British East
African Company in Zanzibar, on New
Years day presented hundreds of slaves
with papers giving them their freedom.
III:
THE National Zeitung. of Berlin, says in
the Samoan troubles there are traces of
envious meddling on the part of rivals to
the German power in Samoa, especially
Americans. The Government is advised
to demonstrate with the authorities at
Washington.
The Alexandria mills at Oldham, En-
gland, have been destroyed by fire. The
loss is ESQ, 600.
A BRANCH of the Primrose League has
been established at Hawarden, England,
Mr.. Gladstone's country home.
Ex-Governor GENvUILLE, of Senegal,
has been fined 600 francs in the Paris
courts for manslaughter in sending four
negroes to an island where they died Of
starvation.
THE owners of the steamer Gulf of
Guayaquil, wreckage from which was re-
Gently found on the coast of Wales, have
given up all hope of it's safety.
PIERRE BLANC, senior member of the
French Chambers of Deputies, recently
delivered an effective speech, in which he
urged that Boulangism be suppressed with
the utmost severity of the law and ap-
pealed to the Repu blicans to unite against
all kinds of dictatorship.
VEsUvIUS is showing increasing activity.
A new cone which had formed has been
rent open.
AN epidemic of diphtheria was reported
raging at Mayo, Hungary. Twenty chill
dren were dying daily. The schools were
closed and panic prevailed.
VoUDooIsM is reported increasing alarm
ingly in the interior of Hayti. due prin-
cipally to the civil war. Near Jacmel q
young girl was sacrificed and the frenzied
crowd made a greedy fight for her half
cooked flesh.
A PETARD was exploded on the 9Th at
the Royal Palace, Madrid. No one was
hurt. This explosion followed others in
several parts of the city and created much
excitement.
THE British steamer Macedonia, Balti-
more for Hull, after sinking the Boston
schooner Lavina Campbell, the other
night, near Bodkin Point, in the Chess
apeake, went ashore.