Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
NEWS OF THE, WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLIrICAI,

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A DISPATCH from Vancouver says
that parties interested in the Behring
sea fisheries are known to be getting
ready to sail under the German OF
Italian flags in the event of close time
arrangement between Great Britain and
the United States.
CONSIDERABLE surprise is exhibited
in English and Irish ecclesiastical cir
cles at Rome at the failure of the pope
to appoint an Irish cardinal Two no
blemen were sent as special ENJOYS to
notify Monsignor Rotelli at Paris and
Monsignor Gruscha at Vienna Of their
elevation.
DISPATCHES received at ST. Peters
burg from the districts of Samara and
Simbersk state that the peasants re-
Gently revolted against the authorities.
The revolt was only suppressed after a
number of desperate and bloody con-
ficts between the peasants and troops.
PRIME MINISTER DE FREYCINET, of
France, denies that French men-of-war
are interfering with the bait supply in
Newfoundland and discredits the re-
port that a French officer had warned
the inhabitants living near St. Pierre
bay not to sell bait to United States
fishermen.
The pope, in order to provide against
all possible contingencies, has just con-
cluded definite will In this he be-
queaths all his personal property to the
holy see.
A GILLIAN insurgent cruiser recently
defeated the government fotilla-
The peoples party of Iowa has put a
full state ticket in the field, headed by
A. j. Westfal for governor.
The state department has been off.
cially informed by Consul-General Kim
berly of a change in the ministry of the
government of Guatemala and of the
appointment of Senior De Leon as min
lister Of foreign relations.
The confederate monument at Jack
son. Miss, was unveiled on the Sd.
The Connecticut SUPREME court has
decided the ''for'' ballot case in favor
of Morris, the democratic candidate for
governor. This decision favors the
democrats and is a point gained by
them in the contest for the governor.
ship.
JUDGE T. N. EDWARDS, district attor-
ney of Carson, New, committed suicide
by shooting himself He had been suf-
fering for some time from nervous
prostration, brought on by acute i'll.
ness
BISHOP FLAsCH, of the Milwaukee
Catholic diocese, is suffering from can
Ger of the stomach and his recovery is
doubtful.
THERE has been another fight be-
tween an insurgent vessel and the gov.
eminent fotilla at Valparaiso, Chilli
The hotilla was defeated and the
cruiser steamed away.
BENSON j. LOSING, the we'll known
historian, died at his home in Chestnut
Ridge, N. Y, on the Sd of heart failure
at the age of 70 years The deceased
was born at Beekman, February -,
1913.
GEORGE w. TURNER has resigned the
Office of publisher of the New York
World and has been succeeded by Man
ager Dillon, late of st. Louis Post
Dispatch. Mr.. Turner goes to the Re-
corder. in which he is said to have ac-
quired a proprietary interest.
The new Gillian congress convened
by Balmaceda, which is now in session
and in which Balmaceda's friends claim
all but two provinces are represented,
has placed absolute power in his hands.
BARON LUDWIG FISCHER Won NAGYs
SzALATUIAs, proprietor of the great
Weinberg estate in Hungary, is about
to join Emin Pasha in German east
Africa and link his fortunes to those OF
the African explorer.
THE president has appointed William
D. Owen, of Logansport, Ind, superin.
tendent of immigration. Mr.. Owen is
As years of age. represented the Tenth
congressional district of Indiana in the
last three congresses and was the
author of the new immigration law.
He was strongly backed by labor or
CARNATIONS for the position.
THE report has again been started
that Secretary Noble will resign on &C.
count of bad health.