Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-08

THE Shah Of Persia Eade farewell to the
| Queen of England on the 18th. preparatory
| to his departure from England.
| SEVEN shipwrecked Norwegian sailors
have been picked up by the steamer Mag.
ara and landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico.
| THE full court at Winnipeg Man., has
| given, Judgment that Burke, the Cronin
| suspect, must be returned to Chicago
| THE British Columbia River Gold Dredg.
| ing Company has been registered in Lon.
don with a capital of $4,000 in order to
| purchase Gibson's rights to dredge for
gold in forty-five miles of the Frazer
| river.
| CHOLERA is reported as prevailing at
Bessarabia-
IT is reported from Berne, Switzerland,
that Germany has revoked the recognition
| of Swiss neutrality.
ADvIcEs from Assouan state that the
| advance of the dervishes is continuous.
though slow. A skirmish had occurred
| between Egyptian patrols and dervish
outposts, during which sixty dervishes
were killed
The Spanish Government has advised
| the Pope that in case he finds 1t necessary
| to leave Rome he should find ASYLUM in
Portugal. 1t is understood that the same
advice has been given to the Pope by
Austria.
CAPTAIN l. DUvARGE, who shot Con-
sular Agent v. F. II. Stanwood at Ana
kade, Madagascar, last November. has
been found guilty of manslaughter aud
sentenced to ten years. imprisonment.
THE remains of General LaZare Carnot
grandfather of the President of the
French Republic, have been exhu-aed at
Madgeburg, Germany, where they were
buried. They will be reinforced in the
Paris Pantheon. The body was found in
a wonderful state of preservation.
THE American ferry steamer j. l.. Beck
with has been fined $500 by the Canadian
authorities for doing q coasting trade,
which consisted in conveying some Sum
day school children to a picnic.
DIR. w. A. HAMMOND is experimenting
with DIR. Brown-Sequard's elixir of life.
The elixir is concretion of animal nerve
tissue which is injected into the veins.
DR.. Hammond says the old man on whom
he is testing the remedy seems to be
growing younger.
A MACHINE gun exploded on board tho
training frigate Couronne, at Heyeres.
France, recently. Eight persons were
killed and seventeen injured.
THE Wabash system. as it has for sew
eral years been called has changed its
name and hereafter will be known as the
Wabash railroad. The old officers of the
Wabash Western have assumed authority
over all the lines reaching from Kansas
City to Omaha. St Louis, Chicago, Toledo
and Detroit. The officers of what has been
known as the Wabash East, under re-
ownership, have retired from the service
of the road.
THE Shah of Persia visited Buffalo Bill's
Wild West show in Paris and was much
interested in the performance.
THE treasure, footing up about $500, coo.
lost on the steamer Granada off the west
ern coast of Mexico. has been recovered.
EvARIsro CARAzo, President OF Mica
ragua. is dead.
Snow storms and icy rains prevail
throughout Switzerland and the streams
are beyond their banks.
The island of Crete is reported to be in
a state of anarchy as the result of the
present uprising.
The Algerian, a merchant vessel, sunk
at Aultsville, Ont, the other day. The
crew and passengers were saved.
THE Emperor of Germany arrived at
Dover. England, on the LIST.
THE July sanitary reports to the Marine
Hospital Service from Philadelphia and
Chicago show that the latter leads the
former in POPULATION and is the second
city in the Union. The population is
placed as follows: Chicago, 100, 600;
Philadelphia, 1,040. 245.
explorer, has fallen victim to fever.
The Royal Grants bill has passed the
committee stage in the British House of
Commons, all amendments being rejected
by large majorities.
The price of 1.-The Angelus"-5SO. $50
francs-has been paid to the French Min
lister Of Fine Arts and MiIlet's picture
will soon be brought to America. Several
European artists expressed an opinion
that the picture was any thing but tho
grand work of art as generally thought.
THE miners of Durham, Eng. have
voted by a majority of one to accept the
10 per cent. advance offered by the mine
owners.
In ukase the Gear of Russia has APP
proved the late Count Tolstoi's reform
| policy.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August numbered 210,
| compared with 216 the previous week aud
| ZIG the corresponding week of last year.
| ENGLAND has annexed the Union and
Phoenix groups of islands in the Pacific
| ocean.
THE LATEST.
GENERAL GRENFELL with his Egyptian
forces met the invading dervishes at
Toski on the 81, killing and wounding
L. 500 including the chief, capturing LOCO
and driving the remainder into the desert.
FELIX PIATT, the famous French Com
munist, died at Paris on the 4th.
| THE Black Diamond sealer, recently
seized in the Behring sea, arrived at Vic
Itoria, B. c.. on the Sd. The commander
Iof the Rush put on a seaman with orders
to take her to Sitka, but the captain of the
Black Diamond took no notice of his au-
Ithority and made for a British port.
THE United States cruiser Boston, one
Iof the finest of the new ships. was run
upon a rock near Newport. R. L. recently
land a hole Knocked in her bottom. She
was kept afloat by her water-tight CON-
apartments.
FRED ALLEN and Marcus Howe. two of
Ia pleasure boating party, were drowned
the other aftern DON near Pembroke, Mass.
HENRY BEIGHT was cut to pieces by q
REAPER near Fort Wayne, Ind, recently.
AN explosion occurred on the Grand
Trunk railroad near Montreal on the night
iof the Sd. James Rogers, an express
lagen., was killed and a train of passen-
lgers narrowly escaped destruction. Many
lrumors existed that the explosion was the
work of dynamiters bent upon destroying
1.-THE Victoria bridge.
JOHN l. SULLIVAN arrived at jackson,