Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
LIEUT.. PEARY has obtained leave Oh
absence and will return to Greenland
T. v. PowDERLY was reelected gen
eral master workman of the Knights Oh
Labor.
THE president has recognized Carlos
F. Pasalagua, the Mexican consul at
Nogales, Ariz; Alberto Leila, Mexican
consul at Rio Grande City, Tex; Alex.
sui at San Francisco, and Herman Wei
ison, consul of San Salvador at San
Diego, Cal
THE socialist congress has unanimous
ly passed a resolution condemning anti
Semitic prosecutions.
The president has appointed Willard
G. Stanley, of Oklahoma, as register OF
the land office at Beaver, Ok.
PHILADELPHIA Typographical Union
No has Endorsed George Chance. its
president, for the position of public
printer under the Cleveland admins
tratiOn.
A RECIPROCITY congress will be held
in St Paul in January, at which dele
gates from all the northwestern states
and Canada will be present. It's object
is to promote commercial intercourse
between the two countries.
THE new French press bill empowers
the government to seize foreign papers
either printed in France or abroad.
GEN. NETTLEToN has taken official
leave of his associates in the treasury
department.
REPRESENTATIVE OATES. of Alabama,
wants an extra session.
AN authoritative denial comes from
Rome regarding the pope's health. His
health is good
THE French troops under Gen. Dodds
have conquered Dahomey and are now
in the capital, King Behanzin having
fled.
PRESIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND has left
New York for a two weeks hunting
and fishing trip and will be lost to the
sight of Office holders.
THE official count of the Rhode Island
vote shows the following result: Bid
well, 1865; Harrison, "a ,343; Cleveland,
21,6O9; Weaver, 227; plurality for Har-
rison, 2,T34.
SENATORS PERKINS and Higgins, OF
the senate committee, are in the Ind ian
territory Investigating the intruder
question
THE official vote of Illinois for presi-
dent and governor is as follows: Presi-
dent, Cleveland, democrat, 426, 574; Har-
rison, republican, 1877, 401; Bidwell, pro-
hibitionist, 1880; Weaver, populist. 2.
6s5. Governor, Altgeld, democrat, 1885,
2SS; Fifer. republican, 1922 1853
FULL returns show that the populists
hold the balance of power in the Cali
fornia legislature.
WILLIAM O'CoNNoR, champion oars
man of America, died at Toronto, Ont.
of typhoid fever. O'Connor held the
American championship from 1888, when
he defeated John Teemer. He was de-
feated for the worlds championship by
Searle, the Australian, in 1889.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER thinks an ex-
ira session is dependent upon the con-
dition of the treasury.
WILLIAM E. CURTIS, who has recently
returned from his mission to Spain and
Italy in search of Columbus relics as ar
attache to the United States commits
sion to the Madrid historical exposi-
ton, reports to the state department
that most of the exhibits there will be
sent to the worlds fair.
THE reports that the illness of Mr.
Blaine is very serious are emphatically
denied by his physician, who says that
his distinguished patient will soon be
all right again.
JOHN w. SCOTT, father-in-law of Pres
ident Harrison, was reported danger
ously i'll at the White house.
SIR JOHN ABBoTT's resignation az
premier of Canada has been accepted by
the governor-general. Sir John Thomp
son was called upon to form new
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