Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
Personal AND poL1r1CAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE senate on the Goth ratified the
Behring sea arbitration treaty and on
the same day the cabinetdaccepted Lord
Salisbury's proposition.
THE senate has made the following
combinations: John II. Baker, United
States district judge for the district of
Indiana; Daniel L. Hyndman, agent for
the Indians of Sisseton Agency, s. ID.
THE German government suffered an
other defeat in the reichstag.
Col. INGERsoLL, according to the wish
of the poet, has been asked to deliver
the grafton at the grave of Walt Whit
man and it is expected that he viii ac-
cept.
OYER 5000 persons listened to Chaun-
cey M. Depew's grafton on the occasion
of the memorial services in honor of
Gen. w. T. Sherman, under the auspices
of the Legislature of the state of New
York, which was held on the goth in
Blocker hall, Albany.
A REPORT from London says that the
result of negotiations in the Behring
sea controversy is regarded there as a
triumph for English diplomacy. It is
stated that the charges that the posi-
ton of the United States was entirely
due to political considerations are re-
newed with added arguments.
THE report lately sent out from Okla
homa that United q States Marshal
Grimes, of that territory, had been in
dicted for perjury is without foundation
in fact. A prominent citizen of that
territory, entirely worthy of credit, says
there is not word of truth in the state
ment.
SENATOR CULLoM has withdrawn from
the presidential race ir favor of Presi-
dent Harrison.
EX-SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hamp-
shire, has announced himself a candi-
date for the republican presidential
nomination.
THE Kansas peoples party convention
will meet at Wichita June Is.
DICTATOR PALACIO, of Venezuela, Eas
issued a fiery proclamation.
Col. r. g. INGERsOLL delivered an ora
ton over the remains eff Walt Whitman
on the 30th.
CYRUS w. FIELD is OF the opinion that
his son is insane.
The German reichstag on tbs seth
passed the bill allowing the goSesr-
ment t. declare a state of sisgG in
Alsace-Lorraine in the event OF wGr
The house also passed a credit for tha
construction of a complete systesa of
strategic railways.
r EX-CONGREssMAN WILLIAMS, registrar
of the land office at Watertown, s. D.,
died on the Both ult. He represented
the Racine, Wis, district in congress for
ten years and was a brilliant orat8r in
his day.
THE Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times asserts that Prince Bismarck
told a friend recently that he had
warned Emperor William when he
quilted the office of chancellor that the
artisans whom the emperor desired to
degenerate would prove more migrate
full than courteous; that he might see
even a repetition of the sceles OF 1S4S,
when the Prussian sovereign was forced
to fee from the rioters.
Hon. CHARLES d. DRAKE, late chief
justice of the Unitea States court of
claims, was found dead in his bed at
Washington, d. c., on the morning Gf
the list, at the advanced age of eighty
one years. His death, was wholly un-
expected and without warning.
THE Delaware county, Pa, democratic
convention has Endorsed Cleveland and
Gov. Pattison's administration.
THE democratic and peoples pastv
committeeman have decided upon esali-
ton in the Second Kansas congressional
district.
Mrs. MARY RIoRDAN, mataaer of Arch
bishop Riordan, of San Francisco, s&ea
on the 1st of old age. Sac was SO and
was one of Chicago's Oldest settlers.
THE bishop of Viviers havia- gone -
Rome without first obtaining permits
mission from the Fresaca eoyern1aeat
has been deprived of bis salary saerins
his absence.