Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.
THE North German Gazette says that
it learns from reliable sources that DR..
Won Ho1leben, at present German min
lister to japan, will be transferred to
Washington. where he will represent
Germany in place of Count Arco Valley,
who died some time ago.
GEN. THOMAS ALLCOCK, inventor OF
the porous plaster. died at New York
recently. He was born in Birmingham,
England, q years ago
THE congress Of India met at Nagpur
on the Goth. The addresses were
couched in friendly terms of the Brit.
ish government.
SENATOR WAsHBURN denounces as a
pure. fabrication the interview pub
ished in the Boston Record that he
said Mr.. Blaine told him that he would
accept the republican nomination for
the presidency.
THE New York court of appeals de-
cided the senatorial election contests,
giving the democrats two seats and the
republicans one and declaring an
elected republican Ineligible. The SEN
ate will be 16 to Is.
Mr. GLADSTONE celebrated his SD
birthday at Biarritz on the goth.
THE terms of the reciprocity ar
rangement between the United States
and the British West Indian colonies
have been made public.
GEN. GARCIA was murdered by his
troops who afterwards fed into Texas
to join Cara aud the revolutionists.
The situation was quite serious.
MISS RACHEL SHERMAN, daughter OF
the late general, was married at Wash
| ington on the 3Oth to DR.. Paul Thorn
dixie, of Boston.
BISHOP JOHN LoUGHLIN, of the Catho-
lie church, died recently at Brooklyn.
| Flags of the city were displayed at
| half mast
BRITISH conservatives affect to be.
lieve that the Dublin castle explosion
| was the work Of fenians. McCarthyites
lay it to Parnellite adherents.
SENATOR STEWART. of Nevada, has
written to Senator Hill, of New York,
asking him to define his exact position
on the silver question.
! IT was reported from Santiago that
Chilli was ready to do her utmost te
terminate peacefully the trouble with
the United States.
! THE Rome Messagero, q political
newspaper, states that Sig. Ferraris,
minister Of justice, has resigned, and
that the Marquis Di Rudini, the prime
minister. will fill the office ad interim.
AN engagement occurred between
United States troops and Garza's men
on the Texas. Mexico border, but the
result was not known on the 1st
| GOVERNOR HUMPHREY of Kansas has
appointed ex-Congressman Bishop W.
Perkins United States senator to sue
coed Senator Plumb. The appointment
will hold until the next Legislature
shall meet in January, 1893.
THE president and cabinet and theil
ladies held the usual New Years re-
ception. There was little out of the
ordinary.
IT is reported that the United States
supreme court has agreed to render 6
decision declaring Governor Boyd o:
Nebraska citizen and entitled to The
governorship.
| UNITED STATES CONSUL BEDLOE, o
Annoy, China, reports the situation il
the Flowery kingdom as serious. Amer
leans were especially warned
Ex-CoNGREssMAN THOMAS B. WAR;
died at Plainville, Ind.
THE continued illness of Arch bishol
Kenriclk, of st. Louis, has caused tn
priests to agitate the appointment of ,
coadjutor.
JAMES P. COOPER, proprietor of the
Adam Forepaugh show, died at his resi-
dence in Philadelphia of inflammation
of the stomach. He was born in Phila
delphia November 4, 1882.