Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-19
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
The eleventh annual session of the
National Farmers congress met at Sc
dalia, Mo-, on the 10th.
STUART ROBSON, the well known
comedian, was married to his leading
lady, Miss Waldron, at New York
NEWS from Brazil indicated that the
country was splitting to pieces Two
or three provinces had revolted from
Fonseca's dictatorship and declared
their independence.
IT came out in the hearing of the
Sayward case at Washington on the
10th that the government had entered
into treaty with Great Britain to
arbitrate all the differences and which
only needed the ratification of the
senate.
ACCORDING to a letter from China,
the plans of the rebels include many
changes in regard to taxes and other
matters Mason, the man arrested for
bringing in arms, disclosed them.
ASSISTANT NAVAL SECRETARY RAY
MoND acknowledges that the war ships
are being made ready in anticipation
of possible hostilities. The belief was
general in Washington that there may
be war with Chill
SENIOR SILVA has been elected presi-
dent of the Gillian senate and Senior
Luco president of the cham Der of depu-
ties. Both are mem bers of the late in
surgent junta-
CATARINo CARA, who led the recent
revolutionary movement against the
Mexican government, has fed to Cen
trail America
SAN SALVADOR advices state that
conspiracy to assassinate Gen. Antonio
EZeta. the minister of war, the navy
and the interior, brother of Gen.
Carlos Ezeta, the president of Saliva
dor, had been discovered in the city of
Santa Anna
The Pennsylvania senate by party
vote decided that it was without juris-
diction in the cases of the state officials
and adjourned sine die.
IT is said that $4,000 fighting German
colonists were leading the rebellion in
Rio Grande de Sui, Brazil.
In letter to the national bankers
association, in session at New Orleans,
Secretary of the Treasury Foster
speaks in terms of praise of the last
silver law and believes it cannot but
do vast good.
The Gillian junta has surrendered
to the congress of that country the ex-
ecutive authority it had exercised since
Balmaceda's fall
Coz. Don PIArr, the well-known ed
itor, died at his home near Cleveland
O., on the 18th.
The Portuguese government. in view
of the grave state of affairs in Brazil,
has decided to send some warships to
protect Portuguese interests in that
republic.
THE authorities of the Russian war
Office have resolved to construct a line
of forts along the Chinese frontier and
to increase the number of officers in
Central Asia
Fonseca was to be made dictator for
life.
THE Italian government is said to be
preparing to re-establish diplomatic
relations with the United States
THE Brazilian minister at Washing
ton deDounces sensational reports from
England in regard to troubles in Bra
I'll. The bureau of American republics
also declares them much exaggerated.
A PARNELL memorial meeting is to
be held in New York City. Ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland has paid the dead leader
tribute.
SENATOR VEST, of Missouri and Hon.
j. E. Lamb, of Indiana, are reported to
have agreed that Mr.. Cleveland's re-
nomination for president is certain.
THE insurgents of Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, are reported to have captured
the town of Santa Anna
PEDRO V. GANDARILLAs, a mem Der
of the late Dictator Balmaceda's cab
| met, has committed suicide
THERE was report at Washington
| that the government intended to dis
patch feet of nine vessels to Val
| paraiso, Chilli.
EX-CONGREssMAN ABRAM S. HEWITT,
| at public meeting in New York,
charged that in 1876 the electoral vote
of Louisiana was offered to him for
money, but he declined and the Arthur
side bought it.
| ADM. BROWN, of the Baltimore, de-
MES furnishing information to the B al
macedan government Of Chilli
A WIDESPREAD conspiracy to create a
constitutional government in Russia
has been unearthed. and over sixty no.
blemen have been arrested. Special
orders have been issued to officials.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation.
| A NOTABLE reception in honor of the
first anniversary of the presidency Of
DR.. Henry Wade Rogers was held In
Chicago by the students and friends OF
Northwestern university.
THE Kentucky Farmers Alliance ha.
reelected E. T. Gardner president Il
is understood that he is opposed te
politics in the organization
MISCELLANEOUS.
A SCENE of excitement was witnessed
at a meeting of anarchists in Chicago
Police Inspector Hubbard and a force
breaking in and hosting the American
flag among the flaming banners on thu
platform.
C. B. PAUL, wholesale lumber, Louis
vile, KY, has assigned. Liabilities
5000, 600; assets, $1O0, 600.
ARIoN, two-year-old, is reported tx
have trotted mile at Stockton, Cal.
in 2:1OI.
FIRE at Augusta, Ga. destroyed thu
Bee Hive store. the property of S. & F
M. Ryers. Paddock's furniture store
also burned. Total loss. $125, 600.
EXPLORERS reported that the July
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