Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall.
PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A TELEGRAM announces the resigna-
ton of Consu1-General F. T. Sweeny,
now at Constantinople, Turkey. He
| will again enter the ministry. having
accepted call to church at KokOmo,
| Ind.
THE natives of Portuguese Guinea,
| west coast of Africa. have revolted and
have hoisted the French flag. The gar
rison on the island of Bissao has been
| overpowered and all the Portuguese
| officers and soldiers have been mas
sacred
GEN. SHERMAN's daughter Elizabeth
says she and her sister will accept the
| fund being raised in their behalf as a
tribute to their fathers memory.
| Hon. JOHN A. KAssoN, of Iowa, at
| Baltimore states that it is no excuse for
the United States in the Italian matter
| to represent that interior laws prevent
the government doing what it ought to
! do.
| AN anonymous pamphlet, of which
Prince Bismarck is supposed to be the
author, has been published in Dresden.
The pamphlet is entitled ''The Ruin of
Austria" and among other things it
suggests that Germany's truest policy is
an alliance with Russia and Italy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MILLER was able
| to be at his desk for short time on the
22d.
BOTH houses of the Wisconsin legisla-
! ture have passed a bill appropriating
1914, 600 for a worlds fair exhibit
BRIG.-GEN. Ruger has taken command
of the division of the Pacific.
SECRETARY TRACY denies that Com
mander Refers assignment to duty on
| the Thetis meant any modification of
the censure given after the Barrundia
| affair.
Col. CELSIUS PRICE has returned to
St Louis after mysterious absence of
four years. He refuses to talk of the
whereabouts of his two companions,
Quintius Price and DIR. j. C. Nidelet,
and speaks mystifyingly of some new
religion with which he seems possessed
| AT the election for a member of the
house of commons from the Wood
stock division of Oxfordshire, England,
Mr.. Morrell, the Entertainments candi-
date, was elected, he receiving 4, 44s
votes, as against 3,760 cast for Mr..
Benson, the Gladstone liberal candi-
date.
A CORRESPONDENT at Madrid says that
grave anxiety is felt there over the
state of affairs in Portugal He ex-
pressed fears that a revolution is about
to break out, in which event, he says,
the lives of foreign subjects will be en-
dangered.
The Republican league ended its con-
vention at Cincinnati on the 22d. elect
-
dent. Indianapolis was favored for the
next meeting.
MISS GABRIELLE GREELEY has been
married to Rev. Frank Montrose Glen
DENIM, an Episcopal minister.
| ACCORDING to Rome advices the
Italian premier gave Baron Fava a cool
had made a fiasco and is anxious to
throw the blame on Fava.
PHILIP L. MoEN, the barbed wire
magnate, is dead.
Ex-TREAsURER HUSTON has left Wash
ington for his home.
MAJ. JOHN G. KINNEY, postmaster Of
Hartford, Conn.,, died of pneumonia
aged 70 years. He wrote series Of
articles on the battles and leaders o.
the civil war for the Century company
which attracted general notice.
A PORTUGUESE newspaper, in com
menting on the recent incident on the
Pungwe river, urges the government te
speedily conclude a treaty with Great
Britain, good or bad, in order to avoi6
further complications. Other paper:
give similar advice.
| WILLIAM HENRY HURLBURT is coming
to America to find Murray, who he say:
forged his name to letters to the EvelyI
woman.
GUSTAV CoQUELIN, a brother of the
actor Coquelin, of Paris, will marry
Marian Boyd. wealthy lady of New
York.
Hon. ALLEN Ross, father of Treasure;
Ross, of the Cherokee nation, and
leader among the Indians for thirt,
years, died at Tahlequah, I. 7.
IT is stated in Paris that Baron Hirsch
the great Jewish banker, has purchase
an immense estate in Pennsylvania
where he will establish colony of Rus
sian Jews.
BULGARIA in curt language has re
quested the Turkish government t
recognize Prince Ferdinand and warne
the sultan that in the event of refusa
Bulgaria will proclaim her indeper
T dence.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL udS LEI
e London for South Africa.
LATE advices from Chill say tina
European residents there think that tn
insurgents will succeed in overthrow
= ing the Balmaceda government.
COUNT Won MoLTKE, the renowne
German field marshal, died suddenl
e at Berlin on the night of the oath. II
L was born in Mecklenburg, October q
e 1900.
e BOTH houses of the Ohio legislator
y have agreed to the Australian ballt
= bill.
THE Connecticut gubernatorial cas-
d before the superior court of New Have
e has been postponed to May s.
o THERE was an unfounded rumor Q
the oath that Secretary Blaine had bee
assassinated by an Italian.
70 Miss PHOEBE COUzINs will take ht
worlds fair dispute before the treasur
department.
y THE British advancing on the Man
:: puris have burned twelve villages occ
pied by the rebellious tribesmen. tt
insurgents retired to the hills, whel
y they were shelled and many were kille
- and wounded.