Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06
CURRENT COMMENT.


CURRENT COMMENT.
vEsUvIUs has again burst forth in
eruption The lava has reached a vii
1age.
THE theosophical constitution, as re.
vised, amalgamates the American, En-
glish and European sections. Lady
Caithness, by virtue of her millions as
we'll as her enthusiasm, succeeds Mad
anne Blavatsky as high priestess.
A DELEGATION from Mobile, Ala,
who desire that Mobile shall be the
starting point Of a postal aided line OF
steamers for Central America and other
ports, had conference with Post
master-General Wanamaker on the sub
ject-
PROCTOR KNOTT, at one time the most
famous horse on the turf and still the
pride of Kentucky, has been i'll with
lung fever. In making a trip from Chi
go to Saratoga he contracted cold
which developed into the most danger
Gus of diseases.
THE English registrar in bankruptcy
holds that Mr.. ParnelPs objection to
Capt O'Shea's serving the order OF
bankruptcy on him upon the ground OF
his (ParnelPs) non-domicile in England
is untenable. 1t is still open to Mr..
Parnell to appeal the case. Otherwise
he must pay the costs of the divorce
proceedings or be declared bankrupt
SENIOR SALVADOR MENDoNcA, the
Brazilian minister, is the wealthiest
man in the diplomatic corps at Wash
ington- A portion of his fortune he
made in investments in Brazil and a
very comfortable sum came to him as
his wife's dowry. Nine. Maria Men
donca is an American, and the minis
ter's four daughters have spent almost
all their lives in this country.
THE hold of the steamship Utopia,
which was wrecked at Gibraltar few
months ago, is SO charged with gases
that it has become necessary to sus-
pend the work of searching for and re-
moving corpses, of which many still re-
main in the hold. The body of a
woman has been recovered with that
of an infant clasped to her breast and
that of another child clinging to her
clothing.
SECOND COMPTROLLER GILKEsON has
approved bills of the Western Union
Telegraph Co. amounting to $166, 600
for the service of the United States sig
nal bureau, at the rate esta blished by
the postmaster-generaL The company
has notified the secretary of the treas
ury that it will accept payment at the
rates named under protest until the
question of the legality of the present
rate can be judicially determined.
JAMES A. GODFREY, the most dis
tinguished descendant of the Miami
Indian tribe, which for so many years
lived and battled about old Fort
Wayne, is lying at the point of death
sat his home on the Indian reserve, two
miles from Fort Wayne. He was born
at Peru, Ind, in 1910. and is son OF
Chief Francis Godfrey. There are
seventy-two residents on the Miami
reservation, all descendants of the sick
Indian.
SENATOR CHANDLER, in an editorial
to the Monitor, of Concord, N H.,
speaking of the ships of the squad.
ron of evolution, asserts that ex.
Secretary Whitney did his best to
damn the ships and succeeded in ruin
ing and killing John Roach. cit may
be added with truthfulness," continues
the editorial, that the man who did
the most to help Whitney to damn the
ships and kill John Roach was Commo-
dore John Walsh, now in command OF
those very ships"
MAYOR GRANT, of New York, in an
interview reviews the existing ex.
else law. He says it discriminates be.
tween citizens and therefore it is
wrong. If it is right for the hotels on
Broadway and Fifth avenue to sell
liquor on Sunday he says it is right for
the hotels on First avenue and along
Tenth avenue to do the same A law
should be passed which can be en-.
forced 1t would require police force
ten times the size of the present one in
New York City to enforce the law in
vogue there.
FROM two hundred to three hundred
school teachers are wanted in New
Mexico under the new public school law.
The examination of teachers is now in
progress in every county of the terri
tory and in no case have the applicants
been above one-third the required
0um Der. These boards of examiners
consist of the county superintendent mt OF
schools and two citizens appointed by
the United States Judge of the district
where the county is located. In many
cases the boards are publishing sec
Ond call for teachers.
AN officer of the cruiser Charleston
states that there is no money il
1quique, Chilli Every firm issues it.
own currency. The currency of the
country is paper and it has deprecated
to 25 cents on the dollar from a golC
standard. Pill box lids are medium
of circulation in Iquique. A round lie
is good for % cents and an oval box lie
goes for so cents. The mercantile firm
issuing these lids stamps its name upor
them and is supposed to redeem then
IN gold and meanwhile to honor then
with their face value in goods
The governor of Indiana refuses t.
give out for publication the report O.
John w. Coons, who investigated tn.
alleged frauds perpetrated against tn.
state at Washington It is said Coon