Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
Personal AND POLITICAL.


ington for the purpose of smoothing
over the difficulties concerning the in
auguration of President elect Cleveland
PoRTo Novo dispatch announces
the submission of the coast towns of
Ivarale, Godomey, Abomey and Kalav,
Dahomey, all of which have been occu-
pied by the French troops.
THE final session of the Fifty-second
congress commenced on the 5th At
tendance was unusually full. In the
house bill was introduced to change
the meeting of congress to the first
Monday in March succeeding election.
PREsIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND re-
turned to New York on the 5th from
his hunting trip to Virginia.
GEN. DUMONT, of France is dead
The repu blicans of Wyoming threaten
to use force to eject Gov elect Osborne
from the state house.
REV. JOHN S. HANLEY, bishop of the
Roman Catholic diocese of North Da-
l1ota, emphatically denounces prohibi-
ton, which, he says, is worse than open
saloons.
THE remains of Jay Gould were laid
to rest in his mausoleum at Woodlawn,
New York, or. the 9Th. The services
were simple.
CABINET speculation engrosses the at
tention of democrats who are now in
New York to the exclusion of almost
everything else.
Dr. c. w. SIEMENs, the well known
engineer and electrician, died recently
at Berlin.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don News says that it is reported that
Prince Albrecht has resigned the regen-
cy of Brunswick, owing to i'll health.
| 1T is reported that Senator Hill has
been offered a remunerative position
with a life Insurance company and that
he is giving it favorable consideration.
| THE president, in answer to u resolu-
ton, transmitted to the senate a report
holding that the agreement between
/ the United States and Great Britain
concerning armament on the great lakes
was still in force.
| THE minister of marine has given no
tice of the adhesion of the Spanish gov.
eminent to the conclusions of the
Washington maritime conference with
regard to the prevention of collisions at
| sea-
IT is officially announced that there
will be no social events of any kind at
| the executive mansion, Washington,
during the present winter.
| AMONG recent senate combinations
was that of Ed C. Little for consul-gen-
eral at Cairo, Egypt
! G. NJ. LAMBERTsoN. of Lincoln, Neb.
has been appointed as assistant secre-
| tary to succeed Mr.. Nettleton-
JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United States
supreme court, will sail for Europe
about the Goth OF this month, as one of
the arbitrators in the Behring seal fish
cries dispute.
HERBERT SPENCER, the English phil
osopher, was reported very ill in Lon
don on the Sth- He was in his 73d
year.
PROF. ]. S NEwBERBY. the geologist,
| died at New Haven. Conn, on the nth.
/ He was born in 1922
THE army bill is ready for the house
It makes an appropriation of sa4, a02,
/ 139.
THE Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says the French republic
was barely saved from destruction dur
| ing the recent exciting events over the
Panama scandal
Dr. 7. b. Hoy, noted physician and
naturalist of Wisconsin, is dead
The election of senator in Montana
| depends upon the outcome of contest
which is now being wagcd before the
supreme court