Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERsoxAI AND POLIrICAI.


obtained the assent of the British au
thorities who, therefore, declined te
recognize the new cabinet.
| COUNT JOHANN KRAsICKs, the member
of the upper house of the Austrian par
lament, jumped the third-story win
dow of hotel IN Vienna. struck on his
head and was killed instantly. He had
been ruined by speculation.
THE senate finance committee has re-
ported favorably the bill to repeal the
Sherman law for the purchase of silver.
Mr.. Sherman himself reported the re-
peal bill to the senate and it was placed
on the calendar.
GEN. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, express
ident of the United States, died at MS
home at Fremont, O., on the night Cd
the 17tk.
THE house committee on Indian af-
fairs has approved Delegate Harvey's
bill for disposing of the surplus lands
of some of the tribes
THE deadlock in the Oklahoma house
was broken by the detection of nj. L.
Stanley, of Ell Reno, republican, who
said he was sent by his constituents to
legislate and not to keep on uselessly
balloting for presiding officer. T. r
| Waggoner. independent democrat, was
elected speaker.
The senatorial fight in Wyoming daily
! grows more bitter.
! THE Sioux City Journal (republican)
has come out for repeal of the Iowa
prohibitory law.
! GEORGE GRAY (democrat) has been
elected United States senator by the
| Delaware legislature.
PIERCE CROTTY died suddenly at New
York He was 1OS years of age, was
born in Ireland and lived in New York
eighty-two years.
PREMIER RIBoT, of France, will intro
duce a bill providing for the prosecu-
ton of all persons libeling foreign pow
ers, as a result of the lying reports sent
out from Paris by newspaper CORE
| spondents in connection with the Pan
anna scandal
| CHAIRMAN PEEL, of the house COM
| mittee on Indian affairs, feels rather
gloomy over the prospects of getting
any of the treaties ratified at the pres
! the Cherolxees
was elected to succeed FELTON,, repub-
lican, as senator from California.
CONGRESSMAN MANsUR has been in
les to report favorably for passage
| through the house the bill to admit
U tab as a state.
SAM SMALL, the noted evangelist who
was converted by Sam Jones seven
years ago while an editor of the Atlanta
| Constitution, has accepted his old place
on the editorial staff of the paper and
| has given up strictly religious work.
NITuN hi 90 - 81:
has repealed the Miner law by which
presidential electors were chosen by con-
gressional districts. AS the governor
and house are both republican the re-
peal will probably stand.
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD has
been made a paymaster in the army by
President Harrison.
AN effort to unseat the ministry in
Hawaii proved unsuccessful.
| FRANCE has protested against the ac-
| ton of Great Britain in Egypt.
Mr.. CLEVELAND is said to have select
ed private secretary in the person of
Albridge 6. Dunnell, Washington cor
| respondent of the New York Times.
GEN. GoURKo, governor-gener of
Warsaw, Russia, has ordered stricter
censorship over the newspapers pub
lished in the province and those coming
from foreign countries.
Gov. SEAY, of Oklahoma, has sent his
message to the legislature, recommend
ing much needed legislation.
The supreme court of Illinois has
decided that women are entitled to
vote at school elections
The general deficiency bill has been
reported to the house. 1t carries an
apprOp, iation of $40, 956,61O
WITH simple but impressive cere-
monies the remains of the late Ruther-
ford B. Hayes were laid to rest at Ere
| mont, O., on the Goth. President-elect
Cleveland was among those who at
| tended.
JOHN G. CARLISLE has mailed his
resignation as senator to Gov. Brown,
of Kentucky.
STUART ROBSON, the comedian, has
been dangerously i'll at st. Paul, MINI.
LORD ELPHINsToNE, of Scotland, is
| dead.
IT is said that ex-King Milan, of Ser
| via, has become reconciled to his di-
vorced wife, Natalie.
j. d. DUNCAN, editor of the Mail, Col
orado Springs, Col, has become vio-
| lently insane.
| Gov. ALTGELD. of Illinois, has had an
other relapse.
FRENCH newspapers are demanding
the expulsion of M. de Blowitz, CORE
| spondent of the London Times.
GREAT BRITAIN responded to the pro-
test of France by sending two fully
equipped regiments to Egypt
CAPT. A. G. SHARP has resigned the
government position as division super
| intendent of post office inspectors in
| the south. He has been appointed
! southern special agent of the Bell Tele-
phone Co. Capt Sharp held public Of
| fee thirty years
MISCELLANEOUS.
NEAR Providence, R. l., a freight
train ran into sleigh loaded with peo-
pie, at a grade crossing, and many were
killed and badly hurt.
THERE was a large attendance at the
| Guthrie convention, and a great deal of
enthusiasm was manifested over the
opening of the strip and statehood for
Oklahoma and the Indian territory.
HANNAH PETERSON, girl, was frozen
to death near Minonk, Ill She had
been put off a train and met her death
while endeavoring to walk to Bloom
ington, where she lived.
Two men, it is said, were concerned
in the dynamite outrage at Dublin