Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-16

IT is announced that Mary Anderson
had signed contract with the late
Lawrence Barrett to star under the lat
ter's management next seas~-
a GIGANTIC g copper trust Is proposed.
an article In the Economic Res
view, Mr.. John Rea contends that an
experience of twenty-five years with
the eight hour system in Victoria, Aus
tralia, shows that it has not affected
| wages or profits, but that it has given
| better home life to the working men.
AMERICAN MINISTER FOSTER was
given a banquet recently at Madrid,
Spain, by the Spanish premier.
THREE men were blown to pieces by
an explosion of nitro-glycerine at PEI
trolia, Ont.
The Argentine cabinet has signed a
decree suspending until June next the
payment of the deposits in the national
and provincial banks and offering de-
positors the option of taking internal
bonds in exchange for their deposits
In consequence of the Russian mass
ing Of troops on the Galician and SHE'S
ian frontiers the German government
has decided to strengthen the eastern
frontier garrisons.
executive committee of the National
league of republican clubs it was de-
cided by a vote, after bitter fight,
that the efforts of the league should be
devoted to the denomination and re-
election of President Harrison
ANOTHER sensation has been caused
at ST. Petersburg by the suicide of a
hussar officer, who, it is rumored, was
involved in the plot against the car.
The case is Shrouded in mystery.
The liberals won a sweeping victory
in Prince Edward Island.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended April num-
bered 243, compared with 243 the pre-
vious week and 200 the corresponding
week of last year. General trade was
not satisfactory.
DETAILS from the seat of the civil
war in Chilli are to the effect that Gull
eric Malta, the Gillian minister at
Buenos Ayres, has declared his allegi-
ance to the rebels and as CONSEQUENCE
he has been publicly denounced as
traitor.
CAPT. BOILEAU, the senior survivor
of the Manipuri disaster, denies that
the British provoked the outbreak by
any i'll usage. He says the Manipuris
fred the first shot.
The late Thomas Charles Barring has
left the bulk of his fortune at the abso-
Lutte disposal of the Barring company,
until that company RECEIVERS from it's
present difficulties.
IN his speech at the Marine academy
at Klel, the German kaiser said that the
navy would exercise the chief offensive
part in this next war, and should en-
deavor to annihilate the enemy by a
grand coup, its duties in this respect re-
sem bling those of cavalry ashore.
THE Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says that the pope has
urged upon Archbishop Walsh the adj
visibility of founding a Catholic uni
versity in Ireland.
IN the Gestermunde district, where
Prince Bismarck is a candidate for the
reichstag, his success is very uncertain.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April IL showed an average de-
crease of O.4 compared with the CORE
spoding week of last year. In New
York there was an increase of OF.
THOMAS B. REED, ex-speal1er of the
American house of representatives,
passed through Paris without seeing
anybody. He did not even call at the
United States legation. He spent only
a few hours in the city and went to
Italy.
The British and continental money
markets were reported buoyant during
the week ended April II. The ap-
preaching great strike for eight hours
in Belgium was watched with some APP
prehension.
PARNELLITEs and McCarthyites had
desperate encounter with blackthorns
at McCrook, near Dublin, on the 18th.
Several Of the combatants were serious
ly injured.
THE Australian federation conven-
ton has resolved that the draft of the
constitution which it has been consider
ing be submitted to a popularity elected
convention in each Australian colony,
and that if three of these colonial con-
ventions approve the constitution the
imperial government shall be asked to
take steps for its establishment