Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
PERSONS supposed to be well informed
say the United States will not recognize
the Gillian insurgents.
GEN. ALGeR says the republicans of
the west are for Blaine for president
A LARGE meeting of prominent Phila-
delphia Irishmen decided to affiliate
with the new Irish federation of Amer
| lea, which is against Parne1l.
TURKEY has signed the Brussels anti
slavery African convention.
DISPATCHES from Zanzibar state that
Emin Pasha and his party are travel
ing toward Albert Edward Nyanza,
from where Emin will send scientific
expedition to the Mountains of the
Moon.
IT is officially announced that Lady
Macdonald, widow of the late premier
of Canada, Sir John Macdonald, has
been raised to the peerage as an &C
acknowledgement of her husbands long
and distinguished public service.
ARCHBISHOP TACHE, who for two de-
cades has been the head of the Roman
Catholic church in the Canadian north
west, was reported lying at the point of
death at Winnipeg.
THE British Official Gazette announces
| of Sir William Gordon Cumming has
| been struck off from the list of the dep
uty lieutenants of Elginshire, Scotland
PROF. w. R. BALLENTINE, formerly
of Rutgers college, was installed as
president of Oberlin college, Ohio.
Mr. GLADSTONE has been suffering
from influenza and a bronchial affec-
ton, but is now improving rapidly.
PROE I. r RRJCCS haC oSSurod <bo
duties of dean of Harvard college, vice
Prof. C. L. Smith, resigned
IT is understood the president will
appoint William E. Simmons, of Hart
ford, Conn, to be commissioner of pat
ents, vice Mitchell, resigned. Mr.. Sim
mons is member of the firm of Sim
mons & Burdett, of Hartford.
De LEssEPs is in bad health, caused
by the Panama canal troubles.
GEN. JUBAL A. EARLY will deliver the
GRAFTON at the unwilling of the monu-
ment to Gen. 'Stonewall' jackson at
Lexington, Va, July 81.
COMPLETE returns of the election for
New South Wales show So opposition to
81 supporters of the ministry, 26 labor
and independent Grouped according
to the tariff policy rs are for protection
and 81 for free trade.
| Iowa republicans were in conven-
ton at Cedar Rapids on the 1st. Hon.
Hiram c. Wheeler, of Odebolt, Sac
county, was nominated for governor.
CALVIN S. BRICE, chairman of the
National democratic committee, has
written letter of warning and advice
to his fellow members of the national
committee. The letter embodies adj
vice in regard to the association of
democratic clubs and the necessity of
| the national committee cooperating
with them.
THE president has left Washington
for Cape May, n. j., and for the next
five or six weeks will transact all the
public business requiring his attention
at that place. Private Secretary Hal
ford will establish an Office near the
presidents cottage with Geographic
connection with the executive depart
! ments.
THE Irish Roman Catholic bishops
have reaffirmed their former declara-
ton that Mr.. Parnell was unfit to be the
leader of the Irish people and unworthy
the confidence of Roman Catholics and
calling upon Catholics to repudiate
him.
DIR. SILVA JARDIN, Brazilian trav-
| y
the crater of Vesuvius. alighting on the
glowing lava
! CONFLICTING reports continue to be
received of Mr.. Blaine's health. His
friends admit that he is by no means in
strong health, but will be when the
cool days of autumn arrive.
CAPT. IRA H. OWEN, one of the most
prominent of the vessel owners on the
great lakes, died in Chicago recently.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's health is almost re-
stored and he daily takes long walks
about Lowestoft, England.
ADvICEs from Surinam, Dutch Guiana,
convey the news that Father Palkir,
the Redemptorist father who had de-
voted his life for the past twenty-five
years to nursing the lepers of that col
ony, had died of leprosy.
EDWIN S. HENRY, Of Kansas, has been
promoted from fourth to third assistant
examiner in the patent office, at 81, 400
salary, and David K. Naylor, of Mis-
souri,, has been promoted from model
attendant to copyist in the patent Office
at 5000 salary.
A SPECIAL from Coquimbo. Chill,
dated June %, says that the provinces in
South Chill, all under Balmecada's con-
troll, had voted for president of the gov
eminent party. AS was foregone
conclusion, Balmecada's candidate,
Vicuna, was chosen as his successor.
THE silver jubilee of the RI Rev.
Joseph Kaine, Roman Catholic bishop
of Wheeling. w. Va. was celebrated in
magnificent style on the I'd. Among
those present were Bishop Phelan. Of
Pittsburgh, and Bishop Van Dever, of
Richmond, Va; Vicar-General Tierney,
of Richmond, and Mngr. j. T. Sullivan.
REV. E. Ross, who was only recently
ordained as Congregational minister
in East Jaffrey, was drowned in Long
pond, Peterboro, n. H., by the capsiz-
ing of yacht Mr.. Ross attempted to
!. swim to the shore for help and was
drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Four men were killed by the explo
sion of a locomotive boiler on the Cen
trail railroad of New Jersey.
SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR JOHN WAR
FIELD. of Desha county, Ark, is miss
: ing and has failed to make settlement,
with the treasurer. He is short in his
accounts at least $25, 600.
; AN immense lake is forming in the
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