Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
JUDGE TYxER, formerly Postmaster
General and now Assistant. Attorney
General of the Post Office Department,
was reported critically i'll with congestion
Of the liver.
DIR. DAVID F. DAY has been appointed
to take charge of the subject Of mines and
mining for the eleventh census.
SEcRETARY BLAINE has been informed
BY Minister Childs Of the issue of paper
money by Hong Kong and Shanghai
banking corporation at Bangkok under the
sanction Of the of King Siam. tits predicted
this will be OF great value to the mercan-
tile community OF Siam.
The report of the Civil.Service Com
mission on Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee,
Wis, recommends his removal. tx
TIE Slate Department is informed OIL
cially OF the existence Of yellow fever at
Colon. F
The Postmaster General has opened
proposals for furnishing the Post-ofice
Department with postal cards Tor four
years, beginning October 1 next There
were twelve sets of bids received A ma
terial reduction in prices from the present
contract was obtained. sssits
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed E
Il A Young. of Pennsylvania. chief of
division in the sixth auditors Office; also
William Henry, of Pennsylvania, chief of
division in the second comptroller's office.
THE Government printing Office will is
sue publication entitled Estate Papers
of Grover Cleveland, Z" edited by Lamont.
1t will consist of all Cleveland's messages
to Congress, vetoes and otherwise.
SECRETARY NOBLE has issued a peremp-
tory order to the agent at the Quapaw In
dian agency in the northeastern part of
the Territory to Immediately remove from
the reservation all the cattle unlawfully
herded thereon.
4 WASHINGTON correspondent of the
Baltimore. Sun says that the Government
is disputing with France the possession of
Great Inagua, an island near Hayti.
THE EAST.
WHAT promises to be an important move
In the formation of a railway trust is the
announcement Of a meeting of the West
ern and Eastern managers at New York
Immediately after Gould's return from
Bar Harbor.
MICHAEL BoLAK was hanged at Belvi-
dere, N. j., recently for the murder and
robbery of Michael Bollinshire, his fellow
eountryman.
SIXTEEN men belonging to the fishing
schooner Edith Emery, of Boston, are re-
ported missing, They were away from
the ship Jrawling and were lost in . dense
fog.
PRoF. HOGAN was swept out to- sea in
his balloon at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th.
When last seen he was clinging to the net
ting in the lower part of the car.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, has issued
. call to a call to wealthy Eastern men for
. conference on the advisability Of hold
ing an international exposition in that city
in 1892
President d. b G. PEPPER, president Of
Colby University. Portland, Me-. has re-
tired and Prof. Albion w. Small has been
elected his successor.
The stable Of the Lowell (Mass.) Horse
Railroad Company was burned the other
night with 40 horses Thirty cars and
other contents were destroyed. The Hotel
Belmont was damaged. The loss was
$780, 900.
Two men were killed and several fatally
or seriously injured by an accident on the
Lehigh Valley road near Shamokin, Pa.
recently. Two runaway cars colliding with
. passenger train was the cause.
An epidemic of typhoid fever il re-
ported at Path Valley, near Chambers.
burg, Pa
WHILE w. b. Bristol & Co.'S circus was
exhibiting at Milford Mass., the other
evening q large portion of the entire west
side seats gave way with a crash and let
about GOO people to the ground, badly in
juring and bruising hundreds of them
Five persons sustained broken limbs or
were injured internally.
The captain of the steamer Caroline Mil
Ter, which arrived at New York recently,
declared that when he left all was quiet
in Northern Hayti. He denied that Legi-
time had enlisted female troopa
THE New York Express states that
Archbishop Corrigan has been summoned
to Rome to give an account of his admin
istration of the New York diocese
JAMES CoUPLASD, prosperous resident
Of Amityville, L. l.. visited his sons grave
IN Greenwood cemetery the other day and
shot himself twice in the head. He viii
die. He left q letter saying he feared he
was becoming insane. 'i
THE New York Times recently pub.
lished the outline of a scheme to CONSOLE.
date on An immense scale several trunl
railroad lines with q capital Of 500, 600,
COO The objective point would be Boston
which the promoters intended to MAKE
the great metropolis of the continent
with steamship lines, etc.
CHAIRMAN ABBOTT. of Carnegie, Phi PIP.
& Co, emphaticaily denied that his firm
had reduced the price of steel plates s.
ton, or made any other cut whatever il
the selling price of their products.
JAMES BEGGs, . we'll known mechanics
engineer Of New York. committed suicid,
recently. He had showed symptoms o
insanity.
NcQuADE ON trial for boodleism in tn
Broadway, New York, combine. has beel
acquitted.
IT was reported at New FORK on the 10.
that Claus Spreckels was in with the suga
trust It was believed that the marke
vas cornered and that Q grand coup wa
meditated.
THE WEST.
0ENERAL CROOK, speaking Of the out
look of the Sioux Commission. expresses
his belief that the requisite number o
names would be secured.
FIRE BUGS made several attempts q
Lindsey, O., the other night to destro,
the town by starting flames ut variou
places, but the fires were discovered il
time. ar