Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

REV. ALEXANDER MCKAY, the famous
missionary in the Uganda country,
Africa. has died from fever.
THE Tageblatt of Berlin says that
Chancellor Won Caprivi has forbidden
o officials to furnish any communications
to the newspapers. All intelligence
which it is deemed DESTROYS should be
published will appear in the Reichs An
zeiger, the official paper.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND was stated
to be under treatment by DR.. Gibbs, of
New York, with view to reducing his
flesh. He had been advised that his in
creasing bulk might become a source of
danger. He was otherwise in good
health.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has
conferred the first class decoration of
the royal Order of the Crown upon Mr.
Charles Gibson, an attorney of St Louis
HE President has approved the act
to admit free OF duty articles imported
for the St Louis Exposition from Cana
da, Mexico and other American repub-
lies.
The funeral services of Mr.. Randall,
ex-Speaker of the House, took place in
Washington on the 18th, after which the
body was taken to Philadelphia and
buried in Laurel Hill cemetery, many
distinguished persons being present at
the ceremonies.
THERE was rumor that on Stanley's
return to England he would again be-
come British subject, resuming his
nationality which he relinquished
twenty-five years ago in America.
PRINCE BISMARCK is preparing his
memoirs. He will be assisted in the
work by Dr. Schweninger and Herr
Young. prominent writer of Hamburg.
whom the ex-Chancellor has known in
timately for many years
A LATE letter from Brazil said that
the discomfort among the military was
growing. The Government did not dare
to enforce the order that was issued to
three battalions Of infantry to embark
for the southern provinces. The mutt
nous battalions resisted the order and
during the nights of March % and %
the barracks were guarded. Finally the
authorities yielded. On the Goth plac-
ards bearing the words "Down With the
Dictatorship were posted throughout
the city.
THE Massachusetts Senate has adopted
resolution addressed to Congress de-
claring in favor of thorough revision
OF the tariff and the reduction of duties
upon the raw materials of manufactures
and upon the necessaries of life as far
as the same can be made with due re-
gard to laboring and manufacturing in
terests
AMONG the passengers on the steamer
Trinidad, which sailed from New
York on the 18th for Bermuda.
were ex-President R B. HAYES and
his daughter, Miss Fannie b. HAYES
The ex-President appeared to be in the
best of health.
HERR HEUsNER. Secretary of the Ger
man navy, has resigned because of heart
disease.
The King of Dahomey, Africa, with a
large army. is now at Lagos. West Afri-
ca, ready to attack the French Eight
villages have been burned.
EDITOR GoDKIN of the New. York
Evening Post has been arrested for the
third time in connection with the Posts
biographies of Tammany leaders.
A SENSATION was created at St Peters,
burg by the announcement that the
young woman arrested recently for at
tempting to bride a. Government official
to surrender copy of the Governments
mobilization schemes and the plans of
the Russian frontier Notifications acted
under the orders of Baron Won Plesson.
naval attache of the German Embassy.