Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
HERE Won BRANDT, German ambassa-
dor to China, has resigned. He is &C
cused of intriguing to prevent certain
railway concessions
INFORMATION comes from Zanzibar
that the natives have attacked a Ger
man station and murdered several peo-
pie.
THE United States supreme court has
held the Miner electoral law of Michi-
gan to be constitutional
JUDGE GRESHAM has written a letter
to w. Ell. Calkins denying the truth of
the story that he intends to vote for
Cleveland.
GROVER CLEVELAND wrote a letter de-
Ginning to be present at the worlds fair
dedicatory exercises and giving his rea-
sons
THE London Times, referring to the
question of the appointment of poet
laureate, says that it may be taken
for granted that successor to Lord
Tennyson will be appointed. The Times
thinks that the objections raised against
Swim 5urne no longer exist.
| GEN. DANIEL SICKLEs has been NOM
mated for congress in the Tenth dis
trict of New York.
MIKE MCDONALD, the Chicago gambler
politician, threatens to bolt the head of
the democratic national ticket.
Mrs. M. E. LEASE writes that she
never advised any one to vote for Har-
rison, whom she considers as objection
able as Cleveland.
WHITELAw REID, republican nominee
for vice president, has sent out his let
ter of acceptance.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND will speak
at Madison Square garden October 90.
THE French chamber of deputies has
| appointed NJ. Loubet, prime minister,
and M. Viette minister of public works,
arbitrators of the CarmauX labor and
political disputes.
THE porte in brief note in reply to
an obligatory request from the Russian
government some time ago virtually re-
jects Russia's demand that the sultan
of Turkey shall not give audience to NJ
Stambouloff, the Bulgarian premier.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND denies pos
itively that Gray Gables will be sold.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL HENsEL, of Penn
sylvania, declares that he did not say
that President Harrison superin tended
the purchase of votes in Indiana in 1888,
but reiterates his charges that the state
was carried by shameless corruption.
EDWIN BOOTH, the actor, staying at
Lakewood, N. j., is reported better.
PROTESTANT Episcopalians at Balti-
more, Md, passed resolution against
giving government support to denomi-
national schools for the Indians.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in
Santiago del Estero, Argentine repub-
lie. Several persons have already been
killed
LONDON Truth is authority for the
statement that the late Lord Tenny-
son destroyed a mass of his letters and
manuscripts a few years ago in a fit of
alarm caused by his reading Prof.
Froude's "Reminiscences of Thomas
Carlyle
MARQUIsE DE BLOCoUEvILLE, French
authoress, is dead, aged 70.
MRS. Lucy WHALEN, niece of Joseph
Smith, the Mormon prophet, died at
Burlington, Ia, aged SO. She was a
firm believer in her uncle's inspiration.
Politics in Hawaii are still unset
tied.
The London Chronicles Vienna cor
respondent says the days of the Hun
garian cabinet are numbered.
The ameer of Afghanistan is endeav-
oring to secure British help in having
his iIegitimate son recognized as the
successor to the throne, which his sub
jects violently oppose.
FRANCE has gained many important
concessions from the sultan of Morocco
Mr.. BLAINE paid a visit to republican
headquarters in New York and had
conference with the leaders.
The infant King Alfonzo of Spain is
i'll.
Hon. E. III. STILES is in Washington on
law business before the supreme court
JUDGE E. E. THAYER, of Iowa. was
made chairman of the national roads
convention held at Chicago during the
Colum bian celebration.
The New York Herald's La Guavra
special says: United States Minister
Scruggs has formally recognized the
government of Gen. Crespo as the legal
government of Venezuela. The steamer
South Portland, which left New York
recently with d cargo of arms and mu-
nitions of war, has arrived at La
Guayra.
MRS. HARRIsoN'S condition on the
21st was such as to excite the gravest
fears, but toward evening she rallied
somewhat and DR.. Gardner said that he
did not think she was in immediate
danger.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The will of the late George Fowler,
the millionaire provision packer and
merchant of Liverpool and Kansas
City, has been probated. It contains
requests of 1925, 900 TO the Salvation
army and the same amount to other