Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-31

II IL stated that all tn Eneaish 1eeel ran
makers have agreed to forpRA trust and
that the French, German and Belgian
makers consent to join th<ting. It lex.
pected that the movement, IL successful,
win cause an advance in prices OF 10to .
per cent.
TIE Canadian Pacific and the Grand
Trunk railways have arrived at an under
standing and viii hereafter work in har-
mony.
MIR. GLADsrosE's decision not TO go to
Rome caused general regret among Home
Rulers. Cardinal Manning and other en-
inent persons pleaded that an audience
with the Pope would result beneficially
for Ireland, but Mr.. Gladstone was OBJ
durate.
CAPTAIN WIssxAN, the agent of tho Ger
man Government in East Africa. will also
act as Consul General at Zanzibar.
Ar st Patrick's Church. Montreal, re-
Gently, Father Dowd condemned the Cath
Ollie Order of Foresters of Illinois, and
cautioned the members of his congrega-
ton to have nothing to do with the order.
The Earl of Lucan has offered his ten
ants in the County Mayo, Ireland, re-
lease from all arrears Of rent If they pay
one years back rent fts.-.
BERLIN students belonging to the Anti
Jewish Association had demonstration
on the 22d. atf -
"a
5000 of the Mahdrs followers left there
in December fast for a final attack upon
Egypt 81
ADvIcEs from West Africa say that
eleven native policemen headed by a Brit.
ish officer. in q conflict with party of
war boys at Sulyma, killed 131 of the
enemy with a Maxim gun and the rest of
the party fed in dismay. .fag;.
WILLIAM Ross. collector OF the port Of
Halifax, N. s., has resigned because he
exceeded his authority in Transmitting q
shipment Of fish to Boston contrary to the
claims of Canada.
The remains of lima di Murska the
prima donna, have been cremated at
Gotha, Germany. a----=..
The Spanish Government has issued q
decree granting amnesty to all press and
political offenders, including the soldiers
who took part in the rising in Madrid n
1856. yfT< -, .sfft 2 >.ft'E'
A SENSATION has been created through.
out Holland by a pamphlet by Tindal en-
titled, ''The Netherlands in Danger" The
author condemns the country's defensive
organization on both land and sea, and
regards the $7,5O0,0OO spent yearly as
wasted. - rs
The Czarina of Russia is affected with q
kind of palsy which began at the Borki
railroad wreck and has been steadily
growing worse. - -
The anniversary of the Polish emeute OF
1868 was observed in Poland on the 23d
with numerous banquets at which hopes
for the future freedom of Poland were ex.
pressed,
A TELEGRAM from Stornoway, in the
Hebrides, on the northwest coast Of Scot
land says the derelict American schooner,
w. L. White, abandoned off Delaware bay
March Is last during the great blizzard
had gone ashore. The crew had been
rescued at the time of the blizzard and the
abandoned vessel had been drifting ever
since. "a ',te
THE Lord Mayor of London gave BAN
quet on the oath in honor of Mr.. Phelps.
the United States Minister. There were
25O guests, including Lord Roseberry,
Lord Salisbury, Lord Coleridge, Sir James
scientific celebrities. '1'-3
The trial of William O'Brien COM
menced at Carrick-on- SUR, Ireland, on the
oath. O'Brien made start for the door
during the proceedings, when riot fol-
lowed. O'Brien's supporters carried him
through the town in triumph. Many per-
sons were injured and a warrant was
issued Cor O'Brien's arrest D.,a
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
absorbed the Union Palace Car Company,
which had absorbed the Wagner Company.
The only other palace car company beside
the Pullman is. the Wagner, which runs on
the Vanderbilt lines
THE Norwegian bark, Alt, Captain
Bach, which sailed from Demerara Oc-
tober 81, for Philadelphia with a cargo of
sugar, has been given up as lost e.