Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Man.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


lie league, has issued call for con-
vention at Chicago August 1. The idea
is then to move on to Washington.
THE work of congress at the extra
session may not be confined to financial
questions, but appropriations may also
be taken up.
FHE president has created something
of a stir at the interior department by
showing desire to hasten the opening
of the strip.
that the king of Greece had abdicated
and that republic had been pro-
claimed. The report was pure fake.
THE Kentucky legislature, after a
phenomenal session of 531 days, adj
journed on the Sd. Hereafter the ses-
sions will be limited to 60 days.
JULIA MARROW, the actress, is said to
have married her leading man, Robert
Tabor. Rose Coghlan is also said to
have married her leading man, John T.
Sullivan.
THE marriage of the duke of York,
son of the prince of Wales, to Princess
May, daughter of the duke of Teck,
took place at London on the 9th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has had
another attack of rheumatism.
THE duke of Veragua is in straitened
circumstances and his friends in Amer
lea will make an effort to help him out
THE army bill has been introduced
into the German reichstag.
JUSTICE SAMUEL. BLATCHFoRD, of the
United States supreme bench, died at
Newport, r. l.
GUY DE MAUPAssANT, the noted
French romancist of the naturalistic
school, who had been confined in pri-
vate asylum, died the other morning,
He was born August 5, 1850.
SECRETARY CARLISLE is figuring on a
new money system which will create a
great stir in the financial world.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's physicians
say that the reports sent out about his
illness have been greatly exaggerated.
AT a large meeting of the chamber of
commerce of Pensacola, Fla, resolu-
ton asking the repeal of the Sherman
bill was unanimously adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE American Amateur Press asso-
citation began it's eighth annual session
at the Auditorium in Chicago on the
4th. President j. c. Spencer delivered
the annual address.
THE Russion steamer O1ofons, plying
in the Volga river, exploded and TWEEN
ty-six of her passengers were killed.
The new German reichstag was
opened on the 9TH with formal speech
by Emperor William, who dwelt espec-
tally on the Importance of the army
bill.
THE police of Madrid arrested man
carrying bomb under his coat in the
immediate neighborhood OF the house
of ex-Premier Canovas del Castillo.
ALEXANDER TRAz, Patrick DAILY,
James Morris and ]. A. Carlson were
drowned in Lake Tahoe, New, by the
upsetting of small boat in which they
were sailing.
The Costa RIGA and Venezuela build
ings have been dedicated at the worlds
fair.
THE bank panic reached Pueblo,
Col, on the 5th, when three institu-
tions dropped the blinds.
The break in the Erie canal at Roches-
ter, N. Y, is more serious than it was
at first thought to be. The three mile
level is dry and $50 men are at work.
FIVE persons were burned to death
at the Grow farm house near Gagetown,
Mich, which had been set on fire by
lightning.
DURING a drunken riot at Kirkwood
Del, William Benton, a bystander, was
shot and killed by a stray bullet.
AT Little Falls, Mimi, Fred Debney
and his entire family were drowned
while attempting to cross stream.
A TERRIFIC hail and rainstorm visited
the region about Reading, Pa, doing
an immense amount of damage.
THE Choctaws condemned to die July
were given a new lease of life by Gov.
Jones, who postponed their execution
for one month.
AT conference between the secre-
tary of the interior and the commits
sioner of the land Office it was decided
not to make the proposed changes in
the Kansas land offices at present.
GREAT excitement prevailed in the
city of Seville, Spain, over discovery of
extensive anarchist plots.
News has been received of a horrible
crime at Bardwell, KY. Two young
ladies, daughters Of ]. w. Ray, re-
spected farmer, left home to gather
berries. An hour later they were
found along the track of the Illirois
Central railroad with their threats cut
from ear to ear.
AT Tarpon Springs, Fla, City Mar
shall Whitechurch was shot and slxilled
while trying to arrest drunken man.
He fatally wounded the man who
killed him.
ONE man was killed outright and
eight others injured by collision of
trolley cars at Bay Ridge, n. Y.
SEYMOUR, the mind reader, proposes
to be buried alive in Chicago in the So
called East India fashion.
AN attempt was made to assassinate
NJ Pobiedonoszoff, a member of the
council of the Russian empire and the
supreme tribunal. An ex-Seminiarist
named Ghiazintoff tried to stab the
minister with dagger at his residence,
but was placed under arrest.
COLLECTOR BLACK, of Portland, Ore
examined twenty-five out of the Chinese
who came on the steamship Haytien
Republic, from Victoria, British Column
bia- Eight of the number were rejected
and seventeen landed.
THE Dithridge Bros, leading glass
factory of Marion, Ind, was destroyed
by fire. Loss. $50, 600; insurance. s16, O90
THE negro fiend who mutilated a
young woman, killing her and her lit
tie sister near Bardwell, Ky, was
captured across the river at Sikeston,
h,o l- -. L :.