Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-21

Drug Company.
THE stock barn of D. Henry Reiman near
Emmettsburg. Nd, in which were several
valuable horses and great quantity Of
produce. was destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss, SO, 900; cause, incendiarism.
Yorktown was made in Delaware bay re-
Gently and was pronounced . success.
'l GENERAL.
DHULEEP SINGH has sent to India proc.
lamation inviting the people to subscribe
the sum OF s. ,000. 600 with the object Of
throwing OF the English yoke.
THE Berlin correspondent Of the London
Chronicle says that Mr.. Pendleton, the
American Minister to Germany, will pre-
side at the coming Samoan conferences.
IT has lately been discovered that the
barbed wire patents are worthless. q pat.
emit having been granted to Louis Janin in
France, April 10, 1855, for the invention,
which is anterior to the Glidden patents
granted in this country, and which. under
the law, makes them OF no value.
ports that the Ameer of Afghanistan has
designs upon Russia. He is simply paci-
flying the province. He will return to
Cabul in the spring and will spend the
summer at Candahar.
THE labor strike in the north of France
is extending. The Socialists are actively
at work among the laboring classes.
THE betrothal of Prince Leopold. the SON
Of the Red Prince, to Princess Sophie, sis
ter of the Emperor Of Germany, is am
nounced.
Lambeth Palace on the 18th before the
Archbishop of Canterbury. DR.. King was
charged with illegal ritualism.
MANY houses at Fleuvier, a village in
the canton of Chatelet, Switzerland, have
been demolished by landslides and the
people are panic-stricken.
THOUSANDS of unemployed men are
wandering along the Panama canal await.
ing the termination of the financial crisis.
De Lesseps' latest scheme is to issue new
bonds, subscription to open March 1 and
close March g.
In consequence of it's defeat on a motion
to adjourn in a debate on the Constitution
revision question in the French Chamber
of Deputies on the 18th, the Floquet Min.
istry resigned.
LATE advices from Samoa say there has
been no change in the situation. There
has been no fighting, and Tamasese and
Mataafa remain in their strongholds. The
British Consul has warned British subjects
not to supply natives with arms and to
maintain strict neutrality. The British war
ship Calliope has replaced the war ship
Royalist. The German and American
war ships remain stationary. Herr
Brandeis, the leading partisan of Tama-
sese, has been recalled to Berlin.
ANOTHER tragedy was enacted at Lake
Stanberg, Bavaria, recently when two per-
sons drowned themselves in it's waters.
Since the suicide Of King Ludwig eleven
persons have drowned themselves in the
lake. d
A LIVELY war on freight rates is brew
ing among the Atlantic steamship lines.
The White Star Company has cut rates
from Europe fifty per cent. and the other
lines are ready to follow. t.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road directors have declared dividend Of
one per cent.
THE Washburn & Moen Barbed Wire
Company, which controls all the patents
in this country, claim that the Janen pat
emit in France does not cover the Gliddsn
patent.
ADvIcEs from Shanghai state that the
famine in Anhui and Kanqsu was worse.
In one province 300 families were starvin z
and altogether several millions were suf-
fering from famine caused by drought two
years in succession.
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