Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18

GENERAL

WHOLESALE dealers in eggs have had .
very poor season. Many have lost much
money, and it is questionable whether any
have a profit out of their sales. The
trouble seems to have been an over supply.
ARCHBISHOP PAUL, of Bogota, United
States of Colombia, died suddenly of heart
disease recently.
SPRING emigration to the United States
has assumed large proportions. Four
thousand emigrants, mainly Germans and
Swedes, sailed on the 10th from Liverpool.
ALI available steerage space on several
steamers there and at continental ports
has been taken up for intending emf.
grants.
PAsrEUR's microbe rabbit exterminator
has. been pronounced q failure in Aus
tralia. ~
IT is announced that an agreement has
been reached between England, Germany
and the United States by which one war
vessel of each power will be located at
Samoa.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
colliery at Castrap, Westphalia, recently.
The men were at work in the pit at the
time and twenty were killed.
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Daily News says that Germany has not
protested officially against the appoint-
ment of Mr.. Bates as one of the American
Commissioners to the Samoan conference.
but that the Government would prefer to
have some one else appointed in his place.
SEVENTEEN Boulangists will be indicted
by the French Senate court
KELL & Co., wooden and plush manu-
facturers at Bradford, England, with a
branch house at New York City, have
failed with $500, 900 liabilities.
THE bankers who were receiving SUBJ
scriptions to the stock of the American
ny "a haa
trust, have Withdrawn from the scheme
and the amounts already subscribed will
be returned on application. The collapse
is said to be due to pressure from the
Armour syndicate, which is large GUS
toner of the cotton oil trust
EUROPEAN bourses were depressed on
the 11th because of extensive rumors OF
an attempt on the life Of the Gear, who
was said to have been wounded by shell
thrown at him at Gatchina-
THE American bark G. D. Bryant has
for smuggling.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
adjourned until May Il
OWING to the scarcity Of water the area
of cotton culture in Egypt is much re-
stricted.
IT is stated in London that the Prince of
Wales is an admirer of Parnell and that a
conference between the two will be ar
ranged.
THE last arguments were made in the
s'Q' conspiracy trial on the 18th and the
case given to the jury.
THE Pensacola has been docked, her
hull being injured, and the loss is placed
at $500.
The steamship City of Chester reported
at Queenstown on the 18th that four days
previously she had found the steamer
Danmark, of the Thingvalla line, aban-
doned and sinking The Danmark had on
board about $50 passengers and crew and
grave fears were expressed of their fate.
A BANQUET of Boulangist at Versailles
was broken up on the night Of the 18th by
the military.
BUSINESS was active on the London
Stock Exchange during the week ended
April Ii, American securities receiving a
good share of attention. Prices were firm,
except in coal shares, which fell an aver
age of four per cent Money matters were
buoy yant and prices firm on the Continental
bourses.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 13 showed an average increase
of 14.S compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 16.4.
IT is reported that the Empress of Aus
tria has become insane and is possessed
with the idea of suicide.
AT the request of the Russian Govern
ment Nihilist named Meyer has been
arrested in Turkey and sent to Odessa in
irons. He is charged with being the ring
leader in a plot to assassinate the Gear on
Easter day.