Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
Hon. J. s. GARRISON, ex-post-
master general, arrived at Hot Springs,
Ark, on the ed accompanied by his
wife and C. T. Meek and Charles Nc
Alter, of New York.
Hon. ROGER @ MILLS was elected a
senator of the United States from
Texas. almost unanim ouslv on the ed.
DR. AGNEw. who attended President
Garfield, at Elberon, n. J., is dead.
BRITISH troops have been repulsed
in Senegambi a-
THE local option bill has been de.
feated in the Iowa legislature.
THE Wisconsin supreme court has de-
clared the reapportionment bill un-
constitutional.
COUNT ZEDLITz has refused to with
draw his resignation from the German
cabinet Chancellor Won Caprivi has
not resigned.
Col ]. Fl. EsTELL has resigned his
executive committee in which body he
represented the state of Georgia
M. RIBoT, minister of foreign affairs,
and M. Ricard. minister of justice,
have submitted to the French cabinet
the United States
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the Esd sent
Lord Sails bury's refusal to renew the
modus vivendi to the senate. which
held an executive session on the mat
ter.
Mr. GORDON, of British Colum bia.
has given notice of his intention of in
PRODUCING bill amending the Chinese
immigration act by increasing the poll
tax on Chinese immigrants from $50 to
500 per head.
HERO BAUER, editor of the Leipsic
5Tagesanser. has been expelled from
that country by &rder of the Saxon
ministry for slandering Minister Schel-
linn Bauer is Russian.
TEE Bishop of Rimouski, Canada,
has cited three priests from the county
of Rimouski to appear before him to
answer to charges of undue influence
in the recent provincial elections.
THE chairman of the state executive
committee of the peoples party of Tex
as has issued call for conventions to
be held in every county throughout
the state to elect delegates to the state
convention at Waco, May 8.
1T is announced that Premier Abbott,
of Canada. will beSlxnighted shortly by
Queen Victoria
MINISTER REID made a farewell
speech at a banquet rendered him in
Paris on the Gath.
THE Behring sea matter was dis
cussed by the senate committee on for
eign relations on the Gath at a special
meeting and it was decided to recon-
mend the ratification of the treaty.
THE president on the Gath sent to the
senate the following nominations:
Stanton j. Peele. of Indiana, Judge of
the court of claims, vice Glenn V. SEQ
field, retired; United States district
judges, William K. Townsend, for the
district of Connecticut; John B. Rector,
northern district of Texas; John n.
Baker, district of Indiana; Ellery P
Ingham, United States attorney, and
Alexander P. Colesberry, marshal for
the eastern district of Pennsylvania
ENGLISH liberals have assailed Lord
Salisbury's policy in the Behring sea
matter.
GERMAN bankers express a disap-
proval of free coinage of silver.
EX-SECRETARY OF STATE BAYARD
proposes to visit ex-President Cleveland
in New York in a few days. 1t is I'M
derstood the conference will be of a
political nature.
The navy department has received
information of the arrival of the United
States steamship Newark at La
Guayara. She was ordered there to
look after American interests during
the revolution said to be in progress
but in the dispatch no reference is
made to any trouble.
The Dockery worlds fair Investigate
ing subcommittee of the house COM
mittee on appropriations will not leave
Washington for Chicago until after the
silver question is disposed of in the
house.