Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28


of their order on the 18th with demonstra.
tions in most Of the cities of the country.
JAY GOULD, on account of ill health, has
retired from the dictatorship OF the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western.
The Rothschilds propose to form linn
tied liability company in England to work
the great ruby mines in Burmah.
The Eiffel tower in Paris has reached q
height of 935 feet and will be completed to
1000 feet in fortnight
THE report that Herr Brandeis, the adj
wiser of King Tamasese OF Samoa. has
been recalled to Berlin has been confirmed.
GLADSTONE left Cannes on the 10Th for
London with his health better than for q
long time.
= The reception given to Sir R. D. Morier,
the British Ambassador. at St Petersburg
was attended by the Gear and Czarina,
who were accompanied by imposing suites.
Twenty Russian Grand Dukes and the
Grand Duke of Hesse were also present
PREMIER MAcDoNALD, of Canada, de-
MES positively that there is any intention
to urge the British authorities to send a.
member of the royal family to Canada
this summer to counterfeit the annexation
agitation.
IT is talk among railroad employees that
the Rock Island will soon change the runs
of conductors, and continue to do so at
least four times year, to prevent their.
becoming too well acquainted with the
travelling public.
THE Germans in Samoa were reported
to be furious over the escape of the Amer
lean (Klein) to San Francisco. 1t is
claimed in Berlin the white book contains
evidence enough to convict Klein of re-
peated acts of overt hostility to Germany
and the naval forces at Samoa.
THE British ship St. Joseph, which left
England for New York October last with
twenty-six men on board, has been given
up for lost. ....t...st $3.50.
LUKE W. EMERSON, the Missouri horse.
dealer who recently while drunk shot into
a crowd in London, Eng, and killed a man
named Robinson, has been committed to
take his trial for murder.
GERMAN papers assert that Klein, the
American who is charged by Germany
with having led the Mataafaites in Samoa
when the Germans were repulsed in De-
cember last, was born at Lahr, and serve1
as a sergeant In the German army during
the Franco-Prussian war. He was, so it
is stated, subsequently compelled to leave
Germany and went to America. 'ea
THE Spanish mail steamer Isle de Cuba,
ply ing between Spain and Cuba, has been
wrecked off Corunna and is total loss.
All the officers, crew and passengers were
saved. ssi~ s * = :ss.
M. TIRARD has formed a new French
Cabinet, with De Freycinet for Minister of
War.
The British Parliament assembled on
the 21st. The Queens speech contained
nothing of especial moment.
THE much talked-of Parnell letters were
produced in court by the witness, Richard
Pigott, on the 21st
CARDINAL NEWMAN observed the eighty.
eighth anniversary of his birth on the
22d by celebrating q Pontifical high
mass.
JAMES c. FLOOD, the California millions
aire, died at Heidelberg, Germany, on the
22d. .efI Fy
THE LATEST.
| HE PresIden. zlu signed the bill
admitting Washing on, Montana and
North and South Dakota as four new States
into the Union. .ft.t 81
| MAX BERNSTEIN, a candidate for tho
Office of Rabbi, has been sentenced in Ber-
| lin to imprisonment for three this for
drawing blood from Christian boy.
FOUR German ironclads at Genoa have
been ordered to sail for Samoa immedi-
ately.
MISS MINNIE MARsEALEs, young lady
OF Norwalk, O., died in a dentists chair
the other day. She had taken chloroform
preparatory to having her teeth drawn,
| and it caused her heart to cease beating.
I
Ind, on the 22d for the arrest of Colonel
w. w. Dudley, of the Republican National
| Committee. -s ttt.s
The birthday Of Washington was cele-
brated on the 22d by a general cessation
OF business in financial quarters. At the
celebration at Chicago Henry w. Darling,
of Toronto, advised against the agitation
OF any annexation scheme. but spoke
favorably Of unrestricted reciprocity.
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Wesleyan College building at New Middle
town, Conn.,, recently by some fooihardy
student. Doors and windows were shat.
tered and SON of ex-Congressman Hub
bard, of West Virginia, was seriously in
jured.
The Senate on the pod disposed Of the
Sundry Civil and Agricultural Appropri-
alton bills. In the House Mr.. Randall
carried a motion against the Mills consti-
utional resolution having reference to the
Senate substi, ute for the House Tar fl bill,
being supported by a number of Demo-
Gratis with the solid Republican vote A
strained feeling existed in consequence
and fiibusterIng followed. Later the pen.
sion bill of Mrs. Sheridan was passed, also
the bill to retire General Rosecrans.
FEBRUARY 2 great fire broke out in
Shidsnoki, Japan, extending down streets
and destroyed 1000 houses, including
temples, schools and hospitals. On the
following day fire at Yokosuka ruined 500
houses and burned to death three men.
On the same day ten houses were de.
stroyed at joshua and fifteen at Toxic.
JUDGE CLARK JuLsoN. of the First
Southern Worcester Mass district court,
has closed his inquest on the body of Lilla
Hoyle, begun nearly q year and a half
ago. His return is as follows: ''She
came to her death as the result of the UNI
lawful act OF some person other than her
self"
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDER-
LII, of the Knights Of Labor, has issued
his second call within year for per capita
contributions from members OF the order.
AvALANCHES in Switzerland recently
have destroyed many houses and caused
/ n number Of deafhss