Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-31
GENERAI-

GENERAL.
RICatLIEU DEvoY dropped from bal.
! loon at Wolverhampton, England, re.
| Gently, making the wonderful perform
| ance of ascending II. 200 feet and success
| fully dropping from that great height
holding to a parachute.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia,
uncle Of the Car, is dying from . cancer
Gus trouble OF the ear.
| THE Jesuit missionaries have been ex.
PEELED from Unyamyembe, Zanzibar and
! their mission destroyed.
The miners of Belgium have demanded
/ a 20 per cent increase in wages, with .
| strike as the alternative.
| EIGHT tenants are threatened with
eviction at Falcarragh. County Donegal
Ireland.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH. the English rad
| ical and free thinker, was reported crit
ically sick on the 22d
| The office of general manager of the
Union Pacific has been abolished.
THE German Reichstag was opened on
| the 22d. - ff
| THE Government bonds supposed to
| have been stolen in the City or Mexico
have turnee up all right
| IT is stated that Kossuth will be natu-
| ralized as an Italian.
| Mr.. GLADSTONE addressed a large
| gathering at Southport, England. recently.
| He was sanguine of Liberal success, but
| did not outline any fresh policy.
COUNT OKUAA. Minister of Foreign At
fairs, Japan. upon whose life an attempt
was made a few days ago, was more se-
riously wounded than was at first sup
posed. The wound, which was in the leg.
assumed such q state that amputation was
necessary.
| IT is stated at Shanghai that the coll
lapse of the railway scheme is due to
French insistence upon the enforcement
of an article in an old treaty emitting
France to supply the personnel and ma
teral for any Chinese railway.
AN alliance is reported between the Chi
cago & Northwestern and the Union Pa
cific systems. The c. & N. is under con-
troll of the Vanderbilts, and the report
gave rise to considerable speculation.
THE King of the Netherlands will abdi-
cate the title of King of Luxembourg in
favor of the Duke of Nassau
Four persons were burned to death by
the burning of the steamer Quinto in the
bay Of Quinto, Canada.
RELIABLE news has been received by
Captain w issman concerning Emin Pasha
and Henry NJ. Stanley, Signor Casati and
six Englishmen. They are all expected to
arrive at Mwapwa at the latter part of
November. Captain Wissman also says
that he defeated force of insurgents
near Somwe and killed seventy of them
video that yellow fever is spreading in
Brazil and is likely to give serious trouble
during the coming summer.
AN explosion of dynamite in Montreal,
Can, the other morning. caused one death
and the serious injury of five other per-
sons.
The Russian Government has offered
prizes of 2. 600 francs and large gold and
several silver medals for the best essays
on the part John Howard took in prison
reforms, to b > delivered at the fourth in
ternational prison congress in Russia next
year. tI
LORD DERBY, in a speech at Liverpool,
Endorsed Mr.. Gladstone's foreign policy.
He deprecated alliances and said England
had no business to assist Germany in
keeping conquered provinces.
TIE Parnell Commissio ion recommended
at Lon don on the oath. 1855.
ADvICES from Bellc Isle and Labrador
show continued restitution.
PARTICULARS shocks were felt over a
large part of Mexico the, other day, but 10
damage was done.
THE traders and manufacturers of En-
gland are up in arms against the unjust
charges of the railroads and the high
handed treatment accorded shippers
A CONSERVATIVE defeated the Home
Rule candidate at Brighton, England. 1ha
vote was :. 1872 to 4. 625.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter of the
ex- Confederats President, will spend the
winter in Europe
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October "a numbered,
including Canada. 225. compared with 25a
the corresponding week of last year.
The negroes concerned in the fatal riot
ing on Navassa island. West Indies, have
been landed at Baltimore and jailed.
JAY GOULD thinks that the combination
of railroads, as often mooted, is not al
present feasible.
A BATTLE is reported to have taken place
on the island OF Savaii between the forces
of Malietoa and Tamasese. Which party
won was not known.
MICHAEL DAv1TT asserts that the Pigott
forgeries were known to be forgeries by
Mr.. Houston, secretary Of the Loyal and
Patriotic Union, before they were pub
lished in the London Times.
THE Japanese Cabinet has resigned.
THE LATEST.