Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AN address of Balmaceda on the re-
bellion in Chilli has been published
The cause of the war he declares to be
due to the ambition Of his opponents
THE cause of the death of Congress
man Houk, of Tennessee, was q strong
of arsenic which he took in
mistake for other medicine at drug
store in Knoxville.
JUDGE MCALLIsTER, removed from
the judgeship Of Alaska in President
term. has been refused re-
dress by the United States supreme
court
SENATOR CALL was reelected by the
Florida legislature in joint session He
fifty-one votes out of the fifty
four present, the anti-Cau men alb
senting themselves.
SENATOR w. NJ. STEWART proposes a
amendment making the
president eligible for one term only.
Gov. WINANs, of Michigan, has We
toed bill appropriating $50, 600 for the
of the G. A. r. at Detroit.
GEN. JAMES G. LoNGsTREET is in very
feeble health He has been SO i'll that
he has given nD work on his history of
the confederate war. The book is near
~ finished and will contain much that
no history has yet published.
THE decree granted to Capt OShca
in his suit for divorce from Mrs Kate
O'Shea six months ago has been made
absolute.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's speeches made
during his recent southern and western
tour are being prepared for book form.
They will be used as campaign litera-
ture. Each speech will have an intro
duction giving the circumstances of the
visit and the details of the reception.
The German kaiser has telegraphed
the pope that he is greatly pleased with
the encyc1ical on labor. Cardinal Glib
bons has cabled to the pope that it pro-
duced an excellent impression in Amer
lea.
A MONUMENT to the late Gov. Luke s.
of Kentucky, was unveiled
at Frankfort on the 9th.
A QUESTION has been sprung as to
whether the arrival of foreigners to as
sist in the worlds fair displays is not a
violation of the alien contract labor
law.
The French war ship stationed at the
French shore of Newfoundland has re-
fused to allow American vessels to buy
or take bait The American consul has
telegraphed to Mr.. Blaine for instruc-
lions.
The Ohio farmers convention refused
to indorse the third party idea, contrary
to expectations. The vote stood "a to SO.
The Marquis di Rudini has had an
important interview with Mr.. Porter,
the United States minister, and the
New Orleans question has assumed a
fresh phase.
News from Lourenzo Marquizee,
South Africa, reports another battle
between the British and the Portuguese.
This time the scene of the engagement
was on the banks of the BENT be river
The British were victorious.
THE Prussian authorities have or
dered the strongest measures on the
Posen frontier to keep Poles out of
Germany. The roads at the boundary
are patrolled by troops and the rail-
ways are carefully watched.
ARCHBISHOP CROKE is afraid that the
cause of home rule is lost, so many
friendly persons believing that 1--WE
are at present utterly unfit for home
rule" @s
JUDGE BRECKENRIDGE, of st. Louis,
an elder and a delegate to the Presby-
terrain assembly, suddenly fell dead
while addressing the convention at De-
troit, Mich, on the legal aspect of the
Briggs heresy case. The sad event
caused an immediate adjournment
THE Pennsylvania senate has agreed
to the house amendments to the ballot
reform bill and the bill now goes to the
governor.
The Canadian senate has passed the
bill renewing modus vivendi for the
fishing season of 1891
THE case of Rev. D. P. Robinson, of
Knoxville, has been finally decided by
the Southern Presbyterian general as
sembly standing by. the action of the
judicial committee in doing nothing
further in the matter.
The statements that secret clause
exists in the commercial treaty with
the United States relating to Cuba and
Porto Rico and that a hitch has oc.
untrue.
IT is not generally known, but it is q
fact nevertheless. that Prof. Briggs
resignation is in the hands Of the
trustees of Union seminary. 1t is be
lieved that Prot Briggs has now unde,
advisement an invitation to join the
faculty of the Cam bridge divinity schoo
connected with Harvard university.
HENRY STRAIN, of South Carolina
the colored messenger in the treas
| ury department who was connected
! with Green B. Raum, Jr.. in securing
| appointments and promotions in thu
pension office for pecuniary considera
ton. has resigned on the request of Sec
rotary Foster.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The action of Eugene Kelly, of New
York, in transmitting SIS. 900 to justin
Mccarthy for distribution among tn
| evicted tenants in Ireland is to be re
| viewed in court