Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PRINCE GusrAvE, duke of Vermeland,
eldest SON of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and Norway, and heir apparent to the
throne, is dangerously i'll with infiu-
enza-
THE jury in the baccarat scandal at
London returned q verdict adverse to
Sir William Gordon Cumming.
GEN. JOHN MCNEIL died suddenly at
St Louis recently. He will be remem-
bered as ordering the so-called massa-
ere of confederates at Palmyra, Mo-,
during the war.
IT is reported that Minister Porter
has been instructed to quietly leave
Italy.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER is at home at
Cleveland. O., suffering from nervous
prostration-
The Portuguese senate ratified the
African convention with England and
the king at once signed it.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUNNING, the
hero of the baccarat scandal, was mar
ried the day after the trial to Florence
Garner, daughter of Commodore Viii
liam Garner, of New York City.
IT is now admitted in all quarters
that Senator Abbott is to be the future
premier of Canada
JAMES 81. CANFIELD, late professor of
history in the University of Kansas, has
been elected chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska
w. j. PENROsE, editor of the Mining
Journal and member of the legislature,
has been assassinated at Butte, Mont
THE president has appointed the court
to adjudicate land claims. Joseph r.
Reed, of Council Bluffs, Ia. is the chief
justice.
BANK EXAMINER DREW, of Philadel-
phia, has been suspended by Secretary
Foster. His dismissal will doubtless
follow. This step is due to his careless
ness in allowing the Keystone bank to
conceal its real position.
Much excitement has been aroused
in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, by
the news that the French have seized a
part of the Liberian coast near Cape
Palmas. An appeal will be made to
the United States.
w. III. PRESCOTT, of Toronto, Ont
has been elected president of the Inter
national Typographical union.
ACCORDING to a special from Wash.
ington, it is reported that Presi
dent Harrison has decided to send ex
Governor and ex-senator G. A. Pierce
of North Dakota, as representative tc
China.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR may get the japan
mission. The salary is the same-$12,
600 year.
STANwOOD DODGE, a brother of ''Gai
Hamilton died at Beverly, Mass.
aged IS years. He was engaged in the
| smoked fish business all his life.
Col JOHN ALBERT MOORE, a veteran
| of the civil war, died at Providence, R
| l., of hemorrhage, caused by cancer il
| the jaw. He commanded the artillery
camp of instruction at Washington.
| JUST before final adjournment tn,
Illinois house passed the senate bill
giving women the right to vote il
school elections.
| j. w. HARRIS, superintendent of tn
| soldiers orphans home at Knights
| town, Ind. committed suicide in New
Orleans.
| JOSEPH C. SExTRo, of Cincinnati, ha
been elected president and Henri,
Rikoff, of Cincinnati, secretary an
treasurer of the National Furnitur
Makers association.
JACob cCdAEFEh, Iilc CAdLAplou OAl
HARDEST, and Miss Lillian Kammerer
with whom the champion has been &C
quainted for fifteen years, have bee
married.
INDIGNATION in middle class Englis
circles is reported increasing in volum
over the gambling scandals affectin
the prince of Wales. Radicals deman
that the prince and his cronies be off
cially reproved.
| SAMOAN advices say that there is COZ
siderable agitation among the native
with a view to unseating Malietoa an
putting Mataafa on the throne.