Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-03-12


adopted by party vote, the democrats vot-
ing solidly against it. Business having been
completed the house at noon was adjourned
sine die.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IN signing the copyright bill the pres
ident used large quill taken from an
American eagle sent to him for that
purpose by Mr.. Robert U. johnson, of
New York, secretary of the internation-
al copyright league. The pen was then
returned to Mr.. johnson with the presi-
dent compliments.
THE senate select committee on re-
lations with Canada has decided to leave
Washington for Canada April 80 to re-
sumo their Investigations begun last
summer.
I. P. O'CoNNoR sailed from New York
on the 4th homeward bound.
The Indiana house has passed bill
reducing railroad fares to 2 cents per
mile.
THE legislative council of Arizona has
passed woman suffrage bill by a vote
of 10 to 2.
THE ratification of the Sisseton and
Wahpeton treaty at Washington throws
open to settlement one million acres of
land in South Dakota and Minnesota.
A DISPATCH from Madrid says that in
a discussion of Cuban affairs in the
Spanish cabinet the sale of the country
to the United States was considered.
The weight of opinion was decidedly
adverse to any such negotiation.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Times states on good authority
that recent negotiations carried on at
the courts of Germany, Italy and Austria
insure renewal of the triple alliance.
Gov. FLEMING. of Florida, has decided
to leave the choice of Senator Calls sue
cessor to the legislature.
The election returns in Canada indi-
Gated on the 5th majority of about
twenty for the Macdonald government.
ADvICEs from Chill are to the effect
that the insurgents have been defeated
at Ovalfe and have withdrawn towards
Lacerne.
The president has appointed C. P.
Walker, of Oklahoma, and v. B. Payne,
of Ann Arbor, Mich, special agents to
make allotments of lands in severalty
to the Sac and Fox Indians.
IT is said at the White house that no
more appointments will be made until
after the presidents return from his
SAMUEL M. FAIRFIELD, several times
prohibitionist candidate for attorney
general of Massachusetts,, has been ar
rested charged with having embezzled
So, 900 in 1887.
Gov. HILL, of New York, has been
invited to deliver the address on the oc-
casion of the unwilling of the monu-
ment to Henry w. Grady in Atlanta,
Ga, next summer.
The West Virginia senate has passed
a bill appropriating $4,000 for the
states worlds fair exhibit
THREE was a riot at Kaolem, Austria,
on election day, organized by anti
Semitics, who raided a number of Jew
ish shops and ravaged the Jewish ceme-
terry, where not one gravestone was left
standing. One Jew was killed.
1T is stated on high Washington au-
thority that there is no prospect of an
immediate change in the Office of
United States treasurer.
GEN. GORDON, of Georgia, has Joined
the Farmers alliance.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR HILL,
died at Madison, Ca, recently. He
twice represented his district in con-
gress and was United States senator
from Georgia when the war broke out
and again in 1868.
SENATOR BoRCHER, the private adviser
OF the Count de Paris, proposes to resign
that function. 1t is alleged that ILL
health is the cause of the senator's ac-
ton, but it is believed that his reason
is that he is fully convinced that mon
archism, so far as France is concerned.
is in a moribund condition.
The French Senegal expedition has
won another victory on the Niger with
native troops and French officers. The
natives at Diena were beaten with a
loss of 500 killed and wounded includ-
ing their chief. The French lost eleven
killed and many wounded.
Rev. FATHER GRAFTON, Catholic priest
of Regina, N. w. T., has been found
dead five miles outside of the CITY. He
had left town to assist in the elections.
On the return his team gave out and he
froze to death.
Gen. GRENFELL, commander of the
Egyptian army, read to an assembly
of sheikhs from all parts of the Soudan
the Khedive's proclamation of general
amnesty. The proclamation was re-
ceived with fervent cries of LOYALTY bv
the sheilkhs.>
The panic at Buenos Ayres is again
said to have been ended.
The Canadian parliament viii meet
April 90 and the formal opening will
ensue the next day.
THE president has appointed James
81. Beattie, of Idaho. United States dis
trict judge for Idaho.
The house of the legislature o1
Washington state has agreed to appro.
pirate 500. 600 for its worlds fair ex.
hfbit.
THE ex-empress Eugene is reported
to be in very bad condition physically
and little more than wreck mentally.
There is no allegation of insanity, bu,
her unfriendly reception in Paris, when
she was at first mistaken for the EN-
press Frederick, and afterward insulted
as soon as her identity became known,
! ives q great shelk to her.