Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-24

GENERAx
TEE rowing match between Natterson
and Bubear On the Themes, Putney to
Mortiake, London. was wen by Aatterson.
The stakes were E40Q
SR DAsIEL GoocH. the noted British
civil engineer, died in London recently
aged seventy-four.
THE new British Minister. accompanied
by Lady Pauncefote, arrived at Washing
ton on the 18th. ssrs
EN- WILLIAM NAcGEKGoR, Administers
Tor Of New Guinea. with q party OF
twenty-five men, was attacked by natives
on the island of Demarara- The natives
were repulsed, leaving eleven killed and
wounded Several OF the whites were
wounded.
h s. WIcKER has resigned the position
of general traffic manager Of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad.
THREE leading German Anarchists have
been ordered to leave Switzerland.
THE Russian warship Nasr- Shah
has been sunk at Batoum and ali her crew
persisted.
the admission Of MiiIet's picture, IAN
gelus, free Of duty.
LORD FITZGERALD is dead.
WILFRKD BLUNT. well known in the
English Parliament has retired from
politics.
DURING a storm in the Guilty hunk har-
Dor Captain John Flanders, Arthur Bor.
den and Samuel Peckham, of New Bed.
ford, Mass. of the fishing schooner Quilp.
attempted to reach shore. The boat was
capsized and all were drowned.
IN the railway station at Brussels, Bel
GUM, the other day. a passenger train
dashed into buffers at full speed, wreck
ing several carriages and injuring thirty
persons.
The Long Hoi or Red river of China has
been opened to commerce.
FEARS are expressed that the tour Of the
Pam American delegates has been over
done. many OF them being positively weary
of the rushing from town to town and the
endless sightseeing.
An explosion occurred in Stafford
shire (England) colliery on the 18th.
Seventy five miners were entombed. The
first searching parties found sixty dead
bodies.
IT is believed that the African explorer
Monk has been killed by his men on the
Zambesi river.
REAR ADMIRAL " ALKKR expects to sail
with his squadron some time in Noyem-
Der. He will proceed first to Lisbon and
thence to Fayal.
II is announced that Mr.. Gladstone will
deliver an address at Manchester on De-
cember 1t is expected that he will
issue a manifesto on the political situat
in the United Kingdom.
NEWS has reached Constantinople that
Turkish soldiers have mutinied at Canea,
badly beating many of the officers who
endeavored to discipline them.
GERMANY has pub icly announced her
refusal to recognize Mataafa as King Of
Samoa.
THE French Minister of War proposes to
double the army corps at Nancy and to
double the railway facilities from Lille,
Lyons and Besancon to the German from.
tier. so that go 600 troops can reach there
in three days.
PRINCE BISMARCK has expressed himself
as satisfied with the interview he had
with the Gear, who. he says assured him
that he was a man of peace and would not
make war upon Germany.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER says that the
action of the Andrew Jackson League in
Chicago in nominating him for President
was entirely unauthorized. He is well
enough satisfied with his present position.
THE Hungarian Cabinet crisis
is ended and Won Tisza's Cabinet will
continue in Office. Harmony has been re-
stored through the concessions of Emperor
Francis Joseph. who has agreed to the
designations "Imperial Austrian Army"
and Royal Hungarian Army"
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October Il numbered
223. compared with 224 the corresponding
week of last year. The figures include
Canada.
ONE of the scrub women at the Ham
burg Germany geological gardens was
killed recently by a jaguar which man
aged to seize her through the bars of Lis
cage.
chill has abolished many import duties
on tools and material used in agriculture
and the building of railroads, etc.
THE Emperor of China has authorized
the building OF a railroad between Pekin
and Hankow.
MAGGIE MITCHELL. the actres, has mar
ried her manager, Charles Abbott
PRINCE FERDINAND. of Bulgaria. it wat
reported, travelled strictly incognita dur
ing his recent visit to the Paris EXPOSE
ton, fearing that attempts " ould be made
on his life.
IT is estimated that 26. 00O, 600 persons
will have visited the Paris Exposition
when it closes.