Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-11
WHE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


zmend Charles s. Morris for Minister to
Liberia Mr.. Morris is recommended for
this place by General Alger, of Michigan;
General Bradley OF Kentucky; General
Knapp, of New York, and by several
State delegations, besides those Of Ken
lucky. 1t was expected that he would get
the appointment.
The Evening Critic. of Washington, has
consolidated with the Sunday Capital
sand appears as the Capital and Critic.
Evening editions of the new paper will be
issued during the week and a morning edi-
-tion on Sunday.
GHooLY KHAN, the Persian Minister,
has declared his intention to quit the
sUnitei States. He was in high dudgeon
over the fiippant criticisms of the Amer
iican press on his royal master and him.
self.
THE EAST.
AN oil fire caused by lightning striking
"a 40 coo barrel tank of the Atlantic &
Western Pipe Line Company. near Wash
;ington, Pa, burned fercely. About POO
yards of the CHARTERS railroad tracks
were destroyed. The loss exceeded
S50, ,0e8.
A PARTY of. four girls and two young
men were boating on Duck creek, near
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th when they
were capsized and all of the party but
one Of the young men were drowned.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was the guest of
n. c. Bowen, at Woodstock, Conn.,. on the
-4th. The exercises were marked by an
address from the President and the read
ling of an original poem by Will Carleton.
TAMMANY HALL, New York, celebrated
dts centennial on the 4th.
AT WATERFORD. Me-, the other night dur
ing a quarrel Rice Smith, forty -four
years old, churned the head of William
Whitten, aged sixty five, against a stone
: step until the old man died. Smith was
locked up
THERE was a furry in the New York
Coffee Exchange on the 5th. Influenced
by an advance of N francs in Havre and
an upward movement in Hamburg the
local market opened from 5 to Is points
higher and 90. 600 bags changed hands dur
ing the first hours business.
A MRS. WARD, a Mr.. Keating, a nurse
and a child were killed at a railroad cross
ing near Long Branch, N. j., recently by
coming into collision with an express
train. The parties belonged to New York.
WHILE celebrating the Fourth at East
Boston a signal bomb exploded in a crowd
of children, killing two and shockingly in
juring ethers.
AN exploding mortar at Salem, Mass,
on the night of the Ath killed two boys and
badly injured several other children.
SERGEANT KAUCHER and Officer Ward
man, OF the coal and iron police. while at
tempting to arrest two tramps at Reading.
Pa, met with desperate resistance.
Wardman was shot and had his leg broken
and Kascher was shot in the head and
terribly beaten. ~ - e
FRANK HoYr, paying teller of the First
National Bank, of Hoboken, N. j., has
been arrested on the charge of having
stolen S18 O00 from the hank
THOMAS E SHERMAN, oldest son of the
&eneral, was ordained sub-deacon in
the Catholic Church at Philadelphia on
rthe 9Th.
THE Goodyear Rubber Boot and Shoe
Company, of Providence. R l., has made
an assignment, the attachment placed on
them by the Sears Commercial Company
being followed up until $4,000 attach
4nents swamped the firm
BY some curious oversight no salute was
fred from the Brooklyn navy yard the
President passed on his return from Con.
snecticut
The tsburgh 4 Western west bound
passenger was wrecked in a cut about two
miles east OF Akron, O., the other evening.
An axle Of the locomotive broke, the en-
sgins being thrown across the track. The
men were badly injured.
THEREwa q wreck on the n. Y, p. &
20, railway near Kennedy, N. Y, recently.
The engineer and baggage-master were
killed.
CLKHRING house returns for the week
: ended July showed an average increase
OF 27.5 compared with the corresponding
,.week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 37.3
PRCy. DAVID p. TODD, of Amherst COL
degs observatory, has received from
"a -
. chief of the eexpedition to observe the to-
ain Southwestern Africa. A large party of
scientists headed by Prof Todd will leave
New York for ST Paul de Loando about
sOctobera.
THE o,her.night party of four young
smen of Buffalo, N. r. took the yacht
sGannet and started for Dunkirk. Since
that time nothing has been heard from
them. The party consisted of Richard
.Tolmic, Leopold Shine and two others
named Joslyn and Winnie, all Of Buffalo.
Ut was feared they were lost.
MISS MILLIE JONES and Miss Nettie
Davidson, aged respectively fourteen and
sixteen years, were drowned in the Sacan.
-dsga river at Conktinville, near Saratoga
N. Y, the other night They were boat
ting with a party OF friends when the boat
was overturned
THE WEST.
THERE was a co lision on the C., B. &
= O., near Fairfield, Iowa, on the 4th. Much
= damage was done and William Black.
burn. express messenger, was fatally in.
ljured.
Hon. EDMUND RICE, a leading st. Paul
citizen and ex-Congressman, lies in a very
scritical condition at the SpauIding Hotel
at Duluth, Mimi. He went there on a
: fishing trip and was taken sick.
ALL the laborers OF Duluth, Mimi.
about 1900 in number. struck the other
day for $1.75 day, an increase of 25
= cents.
Up to June 80, when the Haytian Lega-
tion to the United States received its last
news Hippolyte had not attempted any ad-
vance on Port-au-Prince.
1T Is announced that the German officers
I'm the Chinese service will soon resign.
PROCTOR KNOTT defeated Spokane in
shoiiow style at the races in Washingron
DARK, Chicago, on the 4th.
THE minneapolis -four mills ran a little
stronger last week. The aggregate ont
put was lis. 15.000-averaging 1S 167 barrel
Sagainst los. 800 barrels the previous week.
and 162 900 barrels for the Corresponding
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