Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.
THINGS are ripe for a revolution in
Hayti and the enemies of Hippolyte are
plotting artfully.
THE English parliament was opened
on the 31st with the reading of the
queens speech.
In debate in the Canadian house of
commons the conservative ministry was
sustained by vote of 103 to SO.
COL RICHARD w. THOMPSON, ex-sec-
rotary of the navy, denies that a cent
of the Panama Co.'S money was ever
spent in this country for the purposes
of bribery.
THE officers of the Irish land league
are not satisfied with the new home
rule bill and have issued an address to
the Irishmen of the United States
The Official Gazette, of Spain. an
nounces that the king has scarlatina-
No serious result was apprehended by
his physicians
THE speaker has appointed Messrs
Chapman fdem-) and Lodge (rep.) as
tellers on the part of the house during
the counting of the electoral vote.
THE repu blican senators in caucus
have decided to add Arizona to the
statehood bill
OPPONENTS of the anti-options bill
will make a determined fight against it
in the house.
Mrs. w. G. WHITNEY, who has been
dangerously i'll at her residence in New
York, is reported to be improving.
HENRY PRESERVED SMITH, having
been vindicated by the trustees of Lane
seminary, now talks of offering his
resignation.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has sent to the
senate the nomination of Howell jack
son, of Tennessee, as associate justice
of the supreme court to succeed the
late Justice Lamar. The new judge is
democrat
M. lola has again been an unsuccess-
full candidate for the French academy.
Mr. S. III. III. CLARK, president of the
Union Pacific and first vice president of
the Missouri Pacific. has retired from
the position of general manager of the
Union Pacific, which he has held active
ly since the retirement of the Adams
regime.
THE Independence Beige publishes an
interview with n Award, Belgian
delegate to the monetary conference,
in which he says that the conference
certainly will bes re-convened next
June.
THE Neue Freie Presse, of Vienna,
describes the home rule policy of Mr..
Gladstone as the first step toward the
Americanizing of the whole political
constitution of the ancient British en-
pire, and expresses the belief that such
a policy must end in failure
THE lower house of the Wisconsin
legislature has adopted joint resolu-
ton providing for the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
STRONG opposition to the confrma-
ton of Judge Howell Jackson as justice
of the supreme court has developed,
which may defeat it.
Col. A. c. DAWES, the well known
Burlington passenger agent of Kansas
City, died at Tampa, Fla, on the Sd.
Gov. BoIEs, of Iowa, is said to have
been rendered the agricultural portfolio.
MR. CLEVELAND has openly declared
himself in favor of the repeal of the
Sherman act for the purchase of silver
bullion.
THE widow of Mr.. Blaine will seek
rest in some southern resort.
THE Archdulze Ferdinand, of Austria,
has arrived at Calcutta on his tour in
the east
j. S. GARRISON, the republican lead
er, now sick in New York, is declared
in no danger whatsoever