Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-16
GENERAL


on Grand river bridge near Cayuga,
Ont, recently. The caboose and nine
teen cars and the locomotive fell
twenty feet into the river. The train
men escaped.
IT was reported at Lisbon on the 9Th
| that Lord Salisbury had sent a sharp
note to Portugal, demanding satisfac-
ton for Major Serpa Pinto's attack on
African tribes under British protection.
THE Louisville & Nashville railway
directors have declared semi-annual
dividend of three per cent.
THE American window glass trust
has advanced prices ten per cent.
EMPRESS AUGUSTA, the aged widow
of Emperor William I. of Germany,
died on the 7th. She had been attacked
with the prevailing influenza.
F. B. CLARKE, traffic manager of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis s.
Omaha, has resigned
SOLDIERS we're on duty in Berne,
Switzerland, to prevent the riot threat
ened by the striking printers Of that
city.
THE Peters pence for 1889 yielded to
the Pope $50, 600 less than in 1888. The
legacies bequeathed to the Pope during
the year amounted to SS0O,O0O.
MANY persons broke through the ice
while skating at Lubbock, Germany, the
other day. Eight were drowned.
The Lick observatory expedition to
South America obtained some good
views of the recent eclipse of the sun.
ACTING UPON hints received from
Germany, the Gar has instituted in
quiry to the end of ascertaining the
truth in regard to the recent shooting
of exileS in Siberia. He has just
learned the details of the affair and Or
dered the culprits tried Immediately.
AN official degree promulgated in
Brazil proclaims the separation of
Church and State; guarantees religious
liberty and equality and continues the
life stipends granted under the mon
archy.
ELLIS q Co., general merchants Of
Smiths Falls and Carleton, Can, have
gone to the United State with $4,000
worth of goods secured from Montreal
merchants.
THE infant King Alfonso of Spain
was dangerously sick on the 9th.
The steamer Iowa, from Boston to
Liverpool, lost $40 out of 625 head of
cattle owing to stormy weather.
IT is announced as a positive fact
that the American Association has de-
cided to play a club in Brooklyn, and
that it does not care whether the move
causes a further disruption in the base
ball world or not.
PRESIDENT HUGHITT, of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, has issued a
public notice, claiming on behalf of
his company the ''mile square" on the
Sioux reservation at Pierre, S. D., over
which there has been so much trouble
lately.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended January num-
bered 373. Last year they numbered
3S1.
DIR. DOELLINGER, the head of the
"Old Catholic" movement in Southern
Germany and one of the famous oppo-
nents of Papal infallibility, is dead.
He was taken with influenza.
JANE SPEERs, an old woman of To-
ronto, Ont, who lived alone, was killed
by thieves recently.
IT is semi-ofiicially stated that Lord
Salisbury regards the reply of Senior
Comes to the last British note, relative
corning territory in East Africa, as af-
fording the basis for an amicable set
Element of the trouble.
THE LATEST.
THE French Government is prepar-
ing to negotiate a loan of 100, 600, 900
francs for the purpose Of constructing
railroads in the provinces.
GOVERNOR BAJAL, of Southern SEN
egal, Africa, has been made prisoner
by the King of Dahomey.
IT is reported that the Cars doctors
have observed in him symptoms of
cutaneous poisoning after wearing his
German uniforms.
THERE is a direct conflict between
the Province of Quebec and the Domin-
ion of Canada as to the right to lease
the salmon fisheries.
THE New York World through a
communication has started an attempt
to have the New York Life Insurance
Company's methods looked into.
By the explosion of a boiler in the
brass foundry at Cuero, Tex, two men
were killed and another seriously
wounded.
A BOILER exploded in the basement
of the Morris Printing Company, Chi
cago. recently. The front of the build
ing was blown out and many of the en-
pl yes were injured, but no one was
killed. The damage was $4,000.
HOBBs, GLIDDEN s. Co., building
materials, Boston, have ass gned with
$3.50, 600 liabilities and large assets
THORsTON NORDENFELDT, civil en-
gineer of London, manager of the
Maxim-N ordenfeldt Gun Company,
has failed with $3.50, 600 liabilities.
THE trial of A. H. Livingston for
killing Henry Summers at West Plains,
Mo-, April 25 last, resulted in an &C
quittal on the ground of self defense.
SPECIAL dispatches report that many
farms in Southern Illinois are almost
submerged with water, the result of
long-continued rainfall Thousands of
bushels of corn in that part Of the State
remain ungathered.
The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings has decided to report bill
for the purchase of two squares of
ground in Washington and the erection
of Supreme Court building; also a
bill for $780, 900 statue of Columbus.