Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-24
PERsONAL AND POLITICAL.

1HE blS0Op OF IimorlCk mas severely
censured Dillon, the Parne1lite member
of Parliament, for impugning the in
tegrity of the Pope.
DR. N. w. MITCHELL, pastor of the
Broadway Presbyterian Chure1, Fort
Worth, Tex, has been arrested for
forgery He victimized nearly all the
banks in the city, and the money
obtained by forging checks amounted
to something over So, 500. OF this
amount he made good $500.
CHAIRMAN CANNON, of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, denies that
the appropriations for thap current fiscal
year will exceed the revenues. He
claims that the revenues, even with the
Mckinley reductions, will be $57, 497, 600
above all but the new pension law needs.
CONGRESSMAN HALL. OF the Third
Minnesota district, has been renomi-
mated by reclamation by the Repub-
licans.
THE President has nominated Allured
B. Nettleton, of Minnesota, to be Asa
sistant Secretary of the Treasury;
James Russell Solely, Of Massachusetts,,
to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
THE Interstate Commerce. Commits
sion has decided that it will issue an
order making reduction in grain rates
from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri,. to ST. Louis and the Mississippi
river and to Chicago. Food product
rates east of the Mississippi, and not
involved in other suits before the Como
mission are not found to be excessive.
LIEUTENANT DONALDSON, of the army,
was drowned with Miss Lottie Spur
geon recently at Santa Ana, Cal. The
Lieutenant had rescued two persons
carried out by the current, but persisted
with the third
WILLIAM HASTINGS, a delegate to tae
Democratic State convention at Nash
Vile. Tenn, from White County, walked
off the second story of the State Capitol,
falling about thirty feet. He was al
most instantly killed.
WARREN S. LURTY, United STATES
marshal for Oklahoma, rendered HE
resignation at Washington on the 18th
and it was promptly accepted.
RICHARD CROKER, Tammany1 chief
sachem, has sailed for Europe with his
family.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and Private Sec
| rotary Halford left Washington on the
18th for Cape May for few days
In the school board election in SaIs
Lake City, Utah, the Liberals elected
seven members and the Mormons three.
ADMIRAL HOLTHAM has arrived al
Esquimault, B. c. He says he has re-
ceived no orders of the warlike nature
in press dispatches.
EUGENE SCHUYLER. the American
Consul-General at Cairo, Egypt, is
| dead.
THE Alliance and Labor parties OF
Minnesota have united on State
| ticket with S. M. Owens, editor of the
! Farmers Stock and Home, of Mime
| apolis, for Governor.
THE Department of State has received
| dispatch from the American Minister
as The Hague, stating that the Neither.
lands Government has abolished the
| tolls on the North sea canal.
| Hon. JOHN P. BUCHANAN has been
nominated fol-, Goveruor by the Tennes
see Farmers Alliance.
THE House Com mittee on Elections
has decided two more contested cases in
favor of the Republican contestants
| They were the Florida case of Goodrich
VS.. Bullock, decision in favor of Good
rich, and the West Virginia case of Nc.
Ginnis VS.. Anderson, decision in favor OF
McGinnis-
| HENRY NJ. Stanley was reported i'm.
| proved in health.