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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A RECENT report from Topeka stated
that there existed secret political So
ciety, with branches all over Kansas,
membership in which could only be OBJ
tanned by those of negro blood, which
proposed to found negro State, in
which the white man would be toler-
ated as a necessary evil but to whom no
political honors would be given.
ANDREW CARNEGIE gave dinner to
the members of the International Amer
lean Congress at the Arlington Hotel,
Washington, on the 25th.
THE funeral of the late John Jacob
Astor was held in New York on the 25th.
THE Canadian House of Commons re-
Gently defeated a resolution to place on
the free list all grains and seeds not
grown in Canada.
The French Government has accepted
the invitation of Germany to take part
in the Berlin labor conference.
THE Ohio House of Representatives
has passed the redistricting bill, giving
the Democrats fifteen out of the twenty
one Congressional districts.
M. b. WRIGHT has been renominated
for Congress in the Fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania district,
ALBERT PoLLATZ GALLATIN, son of
Albert Gallatin, who was Secretary of
the Treasury under Madison and one of
the earliest and greatest American
financiers, died at New York on the 26th
in his ninety-first year.
The President has nominated Henry
c. Caldwell, of Arkansas, to be Circuit
Judge of the Eighth district, vice David
J. Brewer.
GEORGE B. WHITE, chief of the bureau
of yards and docks, Navy Department.,
died suddenly at Washington recently.
He was Commodore in the navy.
The Rome Riforma declares that En-
gland and Italy are in perfect harmony
| on African affairs.
REPORTS of the death of Minister Lin
coins son at Paris on the 9th proved to
be unfounded.
GOVERNOR BoIEs was inaugurated at
Des Moines, Iowa, on the 27th, the first
Democratic Governor in thirty-four
year.
AUSTRIA, Italy, Holland, Switzerland,
Denmark and Sweden have accepted the
invitations to the Berlin conference.
Neither Prince Bismarck nor Count
Herbert Bismarck will attend.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
a NAVAL TrRAnr.

ThoEup>rssnso a O0coru and Grow - to
Var snip Entsrpelss VIA . Iyranlsa1
Captain.
New YoRx. Feb salThe Tribune
says: mot since the days when the
brig Sommers came into the port OF
New York after Captain McKinzie had
hanged Spencer. the son of the Secre--
tary OF the Navy, has . ship Of war in
time Of peace arrived here that has beelA
the object Of SO much general interest,"
rs the Enterprise, which came in yes
terday after cruise of two years and
seven months on the European station
Commander Bowman II. McCalla Is
her commanding officer and this is his
first command afloat It will be MEM
orable one in naval history. The vessel
left the navy yard in Brooklyn with q
we'll selected crew and officers picked
out by Captain McCalla himself. She.
returned yesterday, the most UNI
happy ship probably that ever
came into port. During the cruise.
assertions had been frequent and
nearly every officer in the ward room
had been under suspension one or many
times. Life aboard the Enterprise for
officers and men was described by one OF
her ships company yesterday as having
been one continual round of from hell
to breakfast and back again
Among the incidents of the cruise,
which will illustrate the state of affairs
on board. is as follows: . -.
"When the ship was at Christina g.
fireman named Walker got drunk, came,
on board and was put in irons Captain
McCalla had him brought to the mast
When the officer of the deck Questioned
the man, Walker replied that he was
drunk and glad of it. Thereupon Cap
tain McCalla ordered the officer Of the
deck to cut the man down with his.
sword The officer refused. Captain
McCalla going into the cabin buckled on
his sword and had the man brought
on deck again The man was brought
up in irons and the Captain, drawing
his sword, cut him down, deluging
the deck with blood and SO severely in.
juring the man that the surgeon had to
be Immediately summoned to attend to-
his wounds A hasty bed of tarpaulins-
was rugged upon the deck and on this
the man lay for some time. The mem
bers of the crew declare that he was.
there for day or two. but it is hardly
probable unless there was some god
reason for it, which has not yet besn
made public. When Captain McCalla-
makes his report to the authorities at
Washington this will doubtless all be-
explained
'The whole history of the complaints
of officers and men on board the Enter
prise and the various unusual incidents.
of the cruise would fill a volume. Many
may be without foundation and others
rest deep on the truth. When an inves--
tigation takes place the whole truth
will probably come out"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

A LATE dispatch from New York
stated that an English syndicate, repre-
senting $25, 900, 600 was making an effort
to form school book trust in this coun-
try, and had thus far been given an op-
ton on six of the largest school book
publishing houses in America
A HEAVY wind storm passed over the
section of country round Memphis
Tenn, on the 25th. doing an immense
amount of damage to buildings Only
one life was reported lost as far as
known.
By the terms Of the will of John Jacob
Astor St Luke's Hospital receives $780,
600, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000, the New York Cancer Hospital
100000. the Astor Library $3.50, 600,
Alexander Hamilton $50, 600 and James
Simmons Armstrong $50, 600. All the
residue and remainder of his estate goes
to his son, William Waldorf Astor. The
executors are William Waldorf Astor
and Charles F. Southmayd.
CANADA Is reported about to increase
its protective duties on flour, beef and
pork with lower duties on wheat and
corn.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's residence at Oak
view, near Washington, was sold re-
Gently for Sl40, 900, netting him hand
some profit on his purchase
WILLIAM SrEINwAY. the noted New
York piano manufacturer, hasxEsub-
scribed sc. 600 to the Chicago Worlds
Fair.
The Enterprise with the remains OF
ex-Minister Pendleton on board, arrived
at New York on the AFTERNOON of the
9th.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
GOVERNOR sOIES.

Inauguration Of the First Democratic Gov
ernor of Iowa in Thirty-four Years.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 2s--Gov-
ernor Boies was yesterday afternoon in
augurated in the hall of the House of
Representatives, as the first DemocEa tic
chief executive of the State elected in
thirty-four years. As became the occa-
sion the Capitol was gaily decorated
with flags and patriotic emblems-
There was an attendance of a vast
concourse of visitors. The military
parade, conducted by Adjutant-General
Beeson as marshal, comprised the Ma
tional Guards of Burlington, Sioux City,
Ottumwa, Dubuque, Des Moines, and
was one of the most imposing pagents-
ever witnessed in Iowa In his inaug-
ural address Governor Boies compre--
hensively reviewed those questions
which at present attract the attention
of the people of the State.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES,

ARMED factions were dlSputing the
possession of the Greek Church build.
ing at Shenandoah, Pa, on the I'd. A
riot was prevented by the police.
CLEANING house returns for the week
ended March 1 showed an average
increase of 1877 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the increase was 1871.
THE public debt showed a decrease
during the month of February of s., 1884,
1856.
THE French Government has decided
to prosecute the paper L'Egalite for adj
vising the German Socialists to shoot
Emperor William.
A DISPATCH from Brisbane. Queens
land. says the steamship Quetta, which
recently foundered at sea on her voyage
from Cook town. Queensland, for Lon
don. had on board $50 persons. OF these
liz were saved, including the captain
and several other officers of the ship.
REroRrs from Northern Texas say
that hundreds of range cattle were
frozen to death during the recent cold
spoil.
RENEGADE Apaches are reported MAX
ng themselves troublesome along the
Mexican border of New Mexico.
NJ. CONSTANS has retired from the
French Cabinet
RUBBER goods are likely to be still
further marked up.
EX-GOvERNoR ENGLISH, the we'll
snown Democratic leader of Connecti-
ut, died at New Haven on the I'd. He
vas seventy-eight years of age and left
between s., 600, 600 and s., 600, 900.
Both Lieutenant Steele, of the army,
md Commander McCalla, of the navy,
re likely to be tried for cruelty-the
irst for striking Private Wild and the
after for cutting down sailor with .
:utlass.
THE long overdue missionary steamer
lad Tidings has arrived at Port Simp-
on, b. C.
WARRANTS have been sworn out
against the owners of the huge glucose
works at Marshalltown, Iowa, for main
aiming a nuisance in polluting tho
iowa river.
TRAIN hands disguised as bandits re-
emily robbed q train near Palermo,
sicily. The robbery was little too
heatrical and ended in the masque-
aders being lodged in Jail.
REV. FATHER FER0N, of Baltimore,
led in Philadelphia recently. He had
vidently been severely beaten and was
edged in the police station while un-
.onscious-
BEN BUFFERS famous dropping eye
i'd has been removed by surgical
operation
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

THE Senate smelling committee -
which is trying to learn the source from
which newspapers obtain their news of
executive sessions, it was said, would
make preliminary report sett ng forth
the fact that many Of the witnesses
called refused to answer the questions
put to them. 1t was not thought that
the Senate would take any steps to
make these correspondents answer ex-
cept, perhaps, in the case of the corre-
spondent of the New York Tribune,
whose paper published copy of the
British Extradition treaty. There is q
law which is construed by some to war
rant the punishment of any person pub
fishing an executive document Of the
Senate
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

JUDGE PERKINS has been instructed
by the House Committee on Indian At
fairs to report favorably his bill provid-
Quapaw Indians in the Indian Territory
in severalty to those Indians and to
open up to white settlement the remain
ing lands held by the Quapaws. Under
the bill each Indian is to get 200 acres.
The balance of the lands amount to
something like 90, 600 acres and the set
tiers who purchase will be permitted to
occupy regardless of the general law on
the subject which excludes settlers from
the Indian Territory
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

THE general passenger agents of the
Western roads after a two days session
ut Chicago agreed to run series of so-
called home-seekers' excursions to the
West, beginning in April. A rate of one
fare for the round trip was decided
upon. except to points west of the Mis-
souri, river or west of St Paul and Min
neapolis: where the rate is to be the one
way rate to the river or to the twin cit
les plus IS, which is to be the minimum
cts Will be on April %. May 20, Septem-
her Q, 80 and October Ia These excur-
sions will be run to points in South
western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Indian Territory, Arkansas, Texas, New
Mexico. Colorado, Wyoming. Utah,
idaho. Monta7a and the Northwest
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

LONDON. March 1.-Mr. Pauncefote,
the British Minister at Washington, who
may not be quite in sympathy with Lord
Salisbury on important questions OF
policy, will in future be assisted by q
high official, probably Sir Charles Tup-
per, whose mission, however, will be
very temporary. He will probably sail
this week. The difficulty arises from
Lord Stanley, the Marquis of Salisbury
and Minister Pauncefote holding diverg.
emit opinions on the fisheries question
and the situation in Canada This has
caused the dispatches between the three
TO be slightly incoherent
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

THERE is no doubt much of sensa-
tional nature in the reports concerning
the intended management of Oklahoma
by the negroes. For long time it has
been a dream of the leaders of the
colored race to found State that shall
belong to the colored race, and many
have expressed the idea that Oklahoma
would offer the best opening. But it
scarcely seems probable that an organ
lied movement such as that lately re-
ported has been made to bring about the
end they desire.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

ONLY little while ago scientists an
nounced the discovery of worm that
lunchcd on nails and dined on railroad
lron. Not satisfied with this they declare
now that they have found another worm
that is making honeycombs of the big
tcebergs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

THE Russian Government has done
something to alleviate the condition of
the exiles- It has purchased steamer
in which to convey them down tho Volga
more comfortably and quickly than in
the old barges which George KEENAN,
has SO graphically described. But there
is not much consolation in the thought
that the journey to Siberia has been
made easier
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

Bishop RANDOLPH, in an address to
Methodist Episcopal ministers on the
Church. said that forty years ago the
Methodist Episcopalians numbered 7OO,-
900 and now they numbered 5000, OOO
Then there were only three important
educational institutions, while now
there were a larger number connected
with the denomination and the educa-
tional work among the colored popula-
ton alone was greater than all the edu-
cational work of forty years ago.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

Mr.. DAWN, member of the Canadian
Parliament for the Northwest Terri
tories, intends to ask the Government
to appropriate $3.50 to be devoted to
inducing Dakotans and farmers in the
Northwestern States to emigrate to the
Canadian Northwest. The request will
probably be granted.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

Ex-TREAsURER constants, Of Newport,
KY, has offered to compromise his $35,
600 defalcation for Sc, 900.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

OKLAHOMA papers say there is suffi-
Gent number of contests already fled in
the Kingfisher land-office to keep the
officers at work for three years.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

The Armenian Patriarch has demand
ed that the Sultan of Turkey restore the
privileges of the Armenian Church and
institute promised reforms.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

The granite dealers and quarry own
ers OF New England have formed an as
ISOLATION foS mutual protection.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

The inhuenza assumes new Importance
In view of the reported Papal decree
abolishing the Lenten fast this year or
at least making it optional because of
the prevalence of the disease.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

THE lower house of the Maryland
Legislature has passed bill granting
the Consolidated Gas Company a mo-
nopoly in Baltimore for fifteen years, on
paying the city $40, 900 year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

GERMANY is again permitting the inn
port of American meat, subject to very
elaborate system of inspection.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

Harold M. SEwALL has been con-
frmed by the Senate as Consul-General
for the Samoan islands.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
Murdered His Som.

BERLIN, Feb. %. Emil Neuman,
known to musicians all over the world
by his History of Music" was arrested
yesterday on charge Of numbering his
son, aged twenty-one, who was found
hanging to a bed-post with all the ap--
pearance of suicide. The motive for the
crime is supposed to be the sons dis
covery of his fathers systematic crimi--
nal conduct with many of his pupils, who.
belong to the best families
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

TIE Portuguese Government has re-
duced the duty on foreign wheat to 16
reis per kilogramme.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

The experts appointed to examine the
designs for the New York Grant monu-
ment have pronounced all submitted to
be failures
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

THE starving" Chippewa Indians of
the La Pointe (Wis.) reservation have
refused the supplies voted by Congress
unless given as gratuity.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

An autopsy performed on New York
man the other day showed that his vital
organs were all in wrong places.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

The Socialists of Germany cast nearly
1,6O0. 600 votes at the late election.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

Dr. E A. KILBOURNE, the noted e1-
pert on insanity. died at Elgin, Ill, re-
Gently Of paralysis.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
The Worlds Fair.

NEW YORK. March 1.-While admitting
that the outlook for a Worlds Fair in
New York in 1892 was not at all encour-
aging, Mayor Grant said that he was
not prepared to say that he had given
up all hope of Congress regaining its
senses and placing the proposed EXPOSE
ton where it properly belonged. There
are possibilities" he said, (which do
not reach quite up to probabilities that,
should Chicago find itself unable to sat-
isfy Congress that there is within reach
a sufficient sum of money with which to
carry on an exhibition suitable to the
dignity of the United States, Congress
may reconsider its action"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
Retaliation.

OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. ga petition
was presented to Parliament yesterday,
signed by $50 steamship and vessel own
ers and masters, mates and engineers
asking that none but British subjects be-
allowed to hold masters, mates and en-
gineers' certificates to sail Canadian
vessels In Canadian inland waters,
and also that no foreigners be allowed
to enter Canada under contract to per-
form any work of that description The
petition points out that this is the law
of the United States and that Canadians
wishing employment in these capacities
must pass an examination and become
naturalized citizens of the United States.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
CURRENT COMMENT.

FROST in Mississippi has played havoc
with early vegetation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
THE READY REVOLVER.

Ex-Congressman TauIbee Assaulted in the
Capitol at Washington and Receives a
Bullet in the Head From the Pistol of an
Irate Newspaper Correspondents.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-Ex-Congress-
man Taulbee was shot in the head by
Charles Kincaid, correspondent of the
Louisville Times, at 1:45 o'clock yester-
day afternoon in the very Capitol itself.
Whether the wound will be fatal can
not now be told.
Both men are Kentuckians and the
trouble was caused by the ex-Congress-
man pulling the correspondents nose
for publishing certain statements in re-
gard to him.
A call of the House had been ordered
shortly after noon when the two men
met as they had done many times be-
fore since the trouble between them
originated, about year and half ago,
in the publication by the correspondent
of a notorious scandal affecting the moral
character of the then Congressman.
Taulbee, who had business engage
ment with Congressman McCreary, of
Kentucky, and several others, came out
of the House while Kincaid was stand
ing in the outer doorway. and walking
up to him said a few words in an under
tone, indistinguishable to the doorkeep-
er only two or three feet away. 1t is
said that the lie was passed. After a
few hot words the two parted.
This quarrel was not generally known
even to the intimate friends of the two
men, when, at about 1:3O o'clock, mem
bers and friends dining in the restaurant
were startled by the sharp report of a
pistol fired very near the personal room
attached to the restaurant. They rushed
out breathlessly while other persons
ran down the stairway and soon there
was an excited crowd surrounding a
man holding his head, from which blood
was gushing in steady stream, while
another man was exclaiming that he
had done the shooting. The bullet was
fred at range not the length of
mans arm.
Kincaid said that Taulbee had been
bounding him for more than a year past
and several times insulted him. He cir
culated stories that he was a coward and
afraid to meet him (Taulbee). These
reports, in his nervous state, so over
wrought him that he hardly knew what
he was doing. He also understood that
Taulbee had threatened him with vio-
lence. Yesterday he assaulted him and
pulled his nose and ear and this was
more than he could endure.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06
Fighting Aeain.

WICHITA, Kan. Feb. 2s-The town of
Ingalls, and the town of Cimarron. In
Gray County, late rivals in q county seat
war, are again fighting. Bonds for -
sugar mill were recently voted in the.
county, and, as Ingalls, is to derive
all the benefits, an injunction against
the issuing Of the bonds was Obtained
by Cimarron, represented by Charles
Gregory Monday Gregory was in In
gals and was forced by threats to with
draw the suit Wednesday party of
Cimarron men attacked some Of the
leaders OF the mob that buildozed Greg
DRY and were in turn hunted out OF
town. two of the number being wounded
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06

dents of Douglas County, with his wife
and daughter attended a reception at
Lawrence the other evening, and he went
home in advance to make a fire. When
the wife and daughter reached home
they found him kneeling before the
stove dead. He had gotten every thing
in readiness to start the fire, and the
kindling was before the stove. It is
supposed that he was seized with q
stroke of apoplexy.
WHEN the receiver for the Kansas
Home Insurance Company, of Topeka,
took charge of the institution. he found
% cents in the treasury and so cents
worth of postage stamps on hand.
A Topeka family was poisoned the
other day by eating canned tomatoes.
Physicians said that the acid in the to-
matoes had eaten into the tin and that
this was what had caused the trouble.
No fatal result followed.
The first conviction under the Murray
law at Emporia was had the other day
when the proprietor of the Palace Hotel
was found guilty of having liquors in
his hotel and giving them away. He was
fined 500 but appealed the case.
JOHNSON JORDAN was recently SEN
fenced to six years in the penitentiary,
from Topeka, for stealing . saddle.
THE Kearney, Hutchinson & Gulf Rail-
road Company recently fled it's charter
in the Office of the Secretary of State.
The company proposes to construct and
operate railroad from Kearney. Neh,
through Kansas to Galveston, Tex.
THE militia of the State numbers
1,62S privates, SeS non-commissioned and
1873 commissioned officers, making a to-
tai of 2, 179. The number Of morgan
lied men available for military duty is
225, 600.
CHENEY yin bore for salt as soon AZ
arrangements can b made.
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