Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-04
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IRREDENTIsTs at Trieste, Austria, ere
ated a disturbance in the theater by
clamoring for the Italian national
hymn.
| IT has been formally announced that
| A. A. Robinson, late second vice presi-
| dent and general manager of the Atchi-
son, Topeka e Santa Fe railway, has
been chosen president of the Mexican
| Central railway.
THE German emperor was being driv-
en- in carriage to the railway station
at Frascati, Italy, when the carriage
was overturned at a curve and the
horses fell. The emperor was not in
| jured-
! CAPT. WILTsIE, who commanded the
Boston at Hawaii, is dead.
| MANY counties are abandoning their
annual fairs this year because of the
Columbian exposition at Chicago.
OWING to the illness of Lord James
Hammer, one of the British members,
the Behring sea tribunal of arbitration
has adjourned for one week.
PEOPLE generally are dissatisfied with
! the rate fixed by the railroads to the
worlds fair, it being considered toe
high.
| THE whisky trust has determined
| that in future it will control the distri.
button of its products, and has deter
mined to buy out the distributors.
THE British conservatives and liberal
| unionists have decided not to offer any
amendments to the home rule bill in
committee, but to fight it uncompro-
misingly.
THE Grand Trunk has given notice
that it will issue no passes whatever
during the worlds fair.
| A SENSATIONAL report to kill Mr.. Glad
stone was published in London.
MUssULMANs are reported to have at
tackled Christian funeral at Kaisa-
reeyeh, Armenia. Rioting is also re-
ported at Seevas, Asiatic Turkey.
THE wives of the captain and chief
officer of the missing Naronic, who live
in London, have been driven insane by
despair.
Four banAwreckers of Turin, Italy,
have been tried, convicted and sem
fenced to terms of imprisonment rang
ing from two to ten years each.
In battle between bandits and Mex
lean soldiers at San Vicente, the entire
gang of robbers was killed, but twenty
three officers and soldiers also fell.
FROM letter written by the engineer
of the steamer Naronic to his brother it
is now thought probable that her boil
ers exploded.
The Nickel Plate has broken the Cen
trail Traffic agreement on worlds fair
rates. The other day, it announced a
$3.50 round trip rate from Cleveland,
the agreed rate being SIS. The Balti-
more & Ohio promptly met the reduc-
ton.
The committee of the reichstag on
the budget has approved the credit
asked for by the government for the
purpose of elevating the German lega-
ton at Washington to the rank of an
embassy.
AN American named Charles W. Hen
derson is reported by his Mexican COM
panion to have been killed by mount
ain lion in the southwest part of
chihuahua, Mex. An investigation has
been ordered.
The Allan liner Prussian, bound for
Halifax, n. S., with 500 immigrants,
was reported overdue.
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended April 81 showed an average de-
crease of 1.2 compared with the CORE
spending week of last year. In New
York the decrease was S.3.
THE province of Santiago de Cuba,
has been declared in a state of siege.
A telegram from Holguin, in that
province, announces that five of the
bandits concerned in the robberies in
that district had surrendered.
MARY SINCLAIR, an aged and wealthy
American woman, was found wander
ing about insane in the streets of Lon
don.
A PRIVATE dispatch from Belgrade,
Servia, states that dissension prevails
in the new cabinet of King Alexander,
formed under his direction after the
coup d'etat OF two weeks ago.
THE bleach works at Epinal France,
have been destroyed by fire, the dam
age amounting to 100000 francs.
IT has TRANSFERRED that William Town
send, the man under arrest for alleged
attempted assassination of Mr.. Glad
stone, once went to the house of COM
mons with the intention of killing him.