Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PuRsoNAL AND POLIrICAL.

| STA, who has been SICK, mas na0 a relapse
| and is again critically i'll
Ex-DIcTAToR PALAcIo, of Venezuela,
has arrived in France.
In recent battle in Morocco 300 OF
| the combatants were killed.
ROSE TERRY COOKE, the well known
authoress, is dead. She was born sixty
five years ago at West Hartford, Conn.
WIN. WEIHE, the retiring president of
of the Amalgamated Association OF Iron
| and Steel workers, it is said, will be the
democratic candidate for congress in
Twenty-second district of Pennsylvania,
in opposition to Hon John Dalzell
AN extra session of the Argentine
congress has been called.
ADvIcEs from Zanzibar say the natives
have revolted against German rule.
THE president has nominated George
Shiras, of Pennsylvania, for associate
justice of the supreme court.
chill has paid s75, 900 damages for
the Baltimore seamen, victims of the
Valparaiso riots.
GLADsToNE's majority in the British
house of commons is 40.
THOMAS Cook, founder of the we'll
known Cook system of travel, died in
London recently, aged So He had
aIndSS6Q wealth.
JEM MACE, of London, England, the
retired champion pugilist of the world,
and the only man who ever held the
title, has made applicati ton to the board
of governors of the Chicago Athletic
association for the position of boxing
instructor to the club.
The Chickasaw legislature has adj
journed. The election for governor
N@1f fI,n FL
blooded candidate, it is thought, will
win.
SECRETARY NOZZLE has appointed Ell
bert D. Weed, Fred III. Foster and Eel
lows d. Pease, all of Montana, to be
commissioners to negotiate with the
Crow Indians for modification of the
agreement concluded with these In
dams, December %, 1891.
THE democratic convention of Dallas,
Tex, split in row and two sets of
state, congressional and legislative del
egateS were appointed.
Hon. JONES FoUTZ, well known in
Illinois alliance circles. died recently
in Switzerland, of which country he
was native.
THE notification of the democratic
candidates for president and vice presi-
oShC piSbCC dO 4iAoAtASOI1 Aoe1 oebi
den, New York, on the Goth and was
scene of unexampled enthusiasm.
THE democrats of Missouri have nomi-
mated the following state ticket: For
governor, William J. Stone; for lieuten-
ant governor, John B. O'Meara; for sec
rotary of state, A. A. Lesueur; for au-
ditor, James NJ. Seibert; for treasurer,
Lon v. Stephens; for attorney general.
MI Wo11xov.
sioner, James Cowgill; for electors at
Thurmond.
MExICO'S consul at Chicago will be
transferred to st. Louis.
Mr.. CUMMINGS of New York, chair
man of the library committee, has re
ported resolution for the purchase of
the library of the late George Bancroft
for 5,OO0
Gov. SEAY, of Oklahoma, is reported
to have prevailed upon the COMPRESSION
al committees in favor of an election.
w. F. HARRITY, of Pennsylvania, has
been chosen chairman of the national
democratic committee.
THE president has issued proclama-
ton making October 81 next a legal
holiday, being the four hundredth an
niversary Of the discovery of America.
IMPORTANT reforms, it is said, will
follow the new term of office of Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SIX months ago Henry Garrett muir
dered man in Clay county, Ala. He
and his wife fed on foot all the way to
| Yukeen, Ok, where they have been ar
rested.
The recent floods in Japan destroyed
over ZOO houses and 700 bridges
| YELLOW fever is spreading rapidly at
Vera Cruz, Mexico.
THE inmates of the woman's prison
and girls reform school at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, made an unsuccessful attempt
| to burn the building recently.
AT Shun King and Shang, Japan, a
mysterious epidemic is carrying off
thousands of people.
THERE were riots of harvest men and
women at Bebar, Hungary, owing to
the refusal of a demand for higher
wages. The gendarnes fred on the
mob, killing twelve and wounding
many others.
THE apex of Globe hill, near Cripple
Creek, Col, is said to be vast placer
of phenomenal wealth.
THE war between the city of Pine
Bluff, Ark, and the water and light
company has been declared Off
ROBERT DUNCAN, leather, has as
signed at Woburn, Mass. Liabilities
100000.
THE postmaster general has received
letter from Charles NJ. Fox, the agent
in Washington of the Graves Elevator
Co., of New York, in which he charges
Superintendent Davenport, of the post
office department, with having divulged
the bids for putting in hydraulic lift
elevator for the use of the supply de
partment.
THE decree of the lower courts ha:
been affirmed in the Omaha bridge case
The little child of A. P. Sengel, o.
East Dixon. Ill, was scalded to death
He was near the table and turned the
teapot over on himself.
FIRE broke out in the opera house a.
Pocatello, Idaho. Fourteen bushes:
houses were destroyed and 500, 900 los:
caused.
VARIOUS points of North Dakota were
struck by severe storm on the 10th
At Gettysburg a woman was killed and
her child fatally injured.
Gov. PArTIsoN said he would stay Al
Homestead all summer and spend every
dollar in the treasury sooner than allow
the law TO be violated