Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERsoNAL AND POLTrICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
WAYNE McVEAGH and Judge Thoma
M. Cooley, it is said, will join Judg
Gresham in DESERVING the republican
party for the democratic this election
the cause of the change being the tariff
question.
| DIR. DOUGLASS, the famous throa
specialist, who abandoned his practic.
and devoted his whole time to Gen
Grant for six months, died at Washing
ton from the same disease as the ex
president.
1T is reported that Bismarck will ap
pear in the German reichstag when i
reassemb les, October %, as bitter OPP
ponent of the present ministry A grave
crisis is expected
GEN. WEAVER insists that the state
ments of the outrageous treatment re
ceived by him in Georgia were true.
The japanese government is nego
tiating a treaty with Nicaragua
GREAT BRITAIN will no longer sus
tain the East African company after
three months. It is probabl Uganda
will be abandoned.
BENJAMIN M. THOMAS, secretary and
acting governor of New Mexico, is dead.
Hon. ROBERT J. LINCOLN, minister to
Great Britain, will return home on a
short visit.
GEN. JAMES G. FIELD, the peoples
party candidate for vice president, who
was billed to speak at Huntington, w.
Va, failed to arrive. The peoples
party managers did not know what had
become of him.
MINISTER PATRICK EGAN has returned
from Chilli, bringing money with which
to pay claims Of American citizens.
A CABLEGRAM has been received at
the navy department from Adm. Walk
er, on the United States steamer Chi
cago, at La Guayra. Venezuela, stating
that all was quiet there.
THE Florida election went in favor of
the democrats by about 25, 900 majority.
COUNT EUGENE SATfNEs, formerly
French ambassador at Rome, is dead
He was born in 1909.
CHARLES R. MURRAY, of the Price
Current, was reelected superintendent
of the chamber of commerce of Cincin-
natl.
SENATOR ROGER @. MILLS has almost
entirely recovered from his recent in
disposition and expects to fill his Illinois
appoin tments.
The Russian Pamir expedition, under
the command of Col Yanoff, has re-
turned to Ferghana, in Turkestan.
The election for state officers occurred
in Georgia on the 5th. The democratic
ticket was elected over the peoples by
about $4,000 majority. A negro named
Horton was shot dead near Augusta for
interfering with some democratic ne
groes going to the polls.
ALFRED TENNYsoN, the English poet
laureate, died on the 9th.
EDWIN BOOTH, the actor, had a seri-
Gus attack of vertigo at Lakewood, N.
j., recently.
GABRIEL DUBRAY, the French sculp
tor, is dead.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has presented the
City of Ayr, Scotland, with a library
building.
CBEsPo won a desperately-foug bat
tie at Los Teques. Venezuela. 1t was
thought the government was as good as
overthrow in consequence
In the famous Sharon case the Cali
fornia supreme court has decided that
the marriage certificate of Sarah Althea
Hill is forgery.
The national council of the Choctaws
has declared that Jones was elected
governor.
The straightout democrats in conven-
ton at Topeka, Kan, adopted resolu-
tions repudiating fusion.
BEFORE the Young Mems Republican
club of Baltimore, Hon. Albert Griffin
recently made strong address on the
political situation in the south.
MR. MORLEY is having trouble from
different sources in carrying out his
new Irish policy