Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

of New York, died in Paris the othe
day of pleurisy and heart disease super
induced by the scandal in which hi
daughter. Mrs j. Coleman Drayton
| figured.
JUDGE GRESHAM, it is reported, vii
be asked to accept the peoples part.
nomination for president.
THE editor of the Moniteur de Rom,
is authority for the statement that thu
mission to Rome of Arch bishop Ireland
of st. Paul, Mimi, has been a complet,
success. All the questions upon which
his mission had bearing have been de
cided in his favor.
c. o. WHITMAN, professor of zoology
in Clark university, Worcester, Mass.
has accepted call to the head profes
sorship in the department of biology in
the university of Chicago.
THE democrats of the Thirteenth Hi
nois district unanimously re-nominate6
William M. Springer for congress.
PRESIDENT HARRISON laid the corner
stone of the Grant monument in New
York. Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered
the grafton.
THE annual banquet of the Americas
Republican club, of Pittsburgh, in com.
was held at the Monongahela house.
and was one of the most successful ever
given by that organization. Covers
were laid for 400 and every seat was oc-
cupied. Among the prominent guests
were Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio; Gen.
Alger, of Michigan; Judge Thurston, OF
Nebraska; Hon. John Dalze1 and Hon.
William A. Stone.
THE Illinois democratic convention
made the following nominations: John
P. Altgeld, for governor; N. Ramsey,
state treasurer. A. E. Stevenson, A. w.
Green, G. E. Crafts, B. T. Gable, n. E.
Worthington, Walter I. Watson, John
A. King and S. P. Chase were elected
delegates at large.
Mr.. BLAND has introduced a resolu-
ton in the house instructing the COM
mittee on ways and means to report a
bill imposing an income tax sufficient
to meet all the expenditures for pen
sions; and alsoa bill to repeal all taxes
imposed upon currency issued by au-
thority of the states.
A BILL has been reported to the house
appropriating $685. 600 for the erection of
a monument to William Henry Harri-
son, the grandfather of President Har-
rison at North Bend, o.
HON. WHITELAw REID presided over
the New York state republican conven-
ton, which Endorsed President Harri-
sons administration. Senator Hiscock,
Thomas c. Platt, Chauncey NJ. Depew
and Warner Miller were elected dele
gates to the Minneapolis convention.
THE following state ticket was nomi-
mated by the Ohio republicans: For
secretary of state, S. M. Taylor; for SUI
preme court judges, William T. Spear
and ]. F. Burkett; for supreme court
clerk, Josiah B. Allen; for member of
board of public works, E. F. Lybarger:
national convention delegates are Will
liam Mckinley, j. B. Foraker, A. w.
Bushnell and Mr.. Kahn.
MAJ. WILLIAM WARNER, of Kansas
City, has been nominated by the repub-
Hcans of Missouri as their candidate for
governor.
NINE. NORDICA, the singer, has been
badly hurt by being thrown from a car
rage in London.
T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, of Massachu-
sets, has been nominated to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary Of the United States to France.
ADJUTANT GENERAL KENNEDY, of Col
orado, has been elected department COM
mander of the Colorado and Wyoming
Grand Army of the Republic.
CONGRESSMAN ALLEN, of the house In
dian committee, declares that the Cher
okee strip cannot be opened before next
spring, but that it will be done then.
THERE was strong suspicion among
"a =
toned at Halle that the men were being
approached by socialists with view to
weakening their allegiance to the gov
eminent and an unexpected search was
made of the barracks. The result verified
the suspicious, for in the mems quarters
there were discovered number of So
cialistic manuscripts setting forth the
wrongs under which the soldier labors
and calling upon them to join the social
lists in effecting a reformation of the
body polite.
THE following is a list of senators
who have been appointed to serve on
the executive committee of the national
democratic campaign committee: NJ.
c.. Butler, of South Carolina; A. II. Col.
quit, Of Georgia; j. S. G. Blackburn, Oh
Kentucky; j. K. Jones, of Arkansas; w
B. Bate, of Tennessee; C. j. Faulkner
of Virginia; David Turpie, of Indiana
Rufus Blodgett, of New Jersey; ]. S
Barbour, of Virginia, and r. @. Mills
of Texas.
SIR ALEXANDER BATEMAN PERM Full
LER ACLAND HOOP is dead.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has consented tx
stand as candidate in the unionist in
terest for seat in the British parlia
ment at the general elections.
REPRESENTATIVE BAILEY, of Texas
has prepared and introduced in tn,
house an amendment to the rules, which
if adopted, will assure a large attend
ance of members at the daily sessions O
the house and relieve that body from
the embarrassment from which it ha
lately suffered. The amendment di
reefs the sergeant at arms to withhold
at the end of each month the pay of
member until he files with the sergean
at arms statement that he has no
been absent during the preceding
month.
UPON invitation of the national demo
cratic committee the standing commit
tee of Washington correspondents hav,
agreed to take charge of the assignment
of seats to the working representative:
of newspapers which will be represent
ed at the national democratic conven
ton to assemble at Chicago June 81
There will be $50 seats set apart for tn,
workingmen of the press These 35