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

SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, has
been reelected by the silverites in the
| legislature
CLEVELAND has made the announce
ment that he intends to appoint only
business men to Office during his admin
| istration-
| In the caucus of republican senators
| it was decided to favor the admission of
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah as
states
| IT is now accepted as certainty by
the politicians that Bayard will again
be secretary of state.
IT is denied that Robert Louis Steven
son is dying of consumption in Samoa.
| Col. THOMAS OCHILTREE will leave
England soon for home.
The nomination of Frank c. Part
| ridge. of Vermont, to be minister to
Venezuela, has disclosed the resigna-
ton of Minister Scruggs-
COMMANDER HENRY L. JOHNSON, of
the United States navy, has been dis
missed from the service for gross neg
lect of duty.
ACTs to remove the Roman Catholic
festivals of the Immaculate Conception,
st. Peter and St Paul and Corpus
Christi from the list of statutory holt
days in Quebec, Canada, have been
+ passed by the Quebec legislature.
THE Connecticut legislature has re-
fused to confirm the appointment of
Simeon Baldwin to be judge of the
court of errors.
THE senate has confirmed the APP
pointment of Judge McComas, of Mary
land, to the supreme bench of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
THE cardinal arch bishop of Lyons,
France, is dead.
THE Kansas legislature in joint ses-
sion elected John Martin for United
States senator. Republican members
refrained from voting and attempted
afterward to elect Ady, but failed for
want of a quorum.
THE republican factions of Spain have
formed coalition with the object of
overthrowing the monarchy
THE Farmers Alliance at Waco, Tex,
has resolved against wildcat banks.
In the Wyoming legislature the popu-
lists cast five votes for Mrs. Bartlett for
United States senator.
THE senatorial contest in Wisconsin
| came to an end when Mitchell defeated
Bragg for the democratic nomination.
THE remains of the late Phillips
Brooks were inferred at Boston on the
Goth and were followed to the grave by
many thousands of his admirers.
THE temper of the present house of
congress seems decidedly against all
bills of the class to which the Kansas
| City public building $500, O00) belongs.
The signs of the times are against it's
passage.
The Blaine family are much annoyed
by newspaper touts hanging around
the premises
THE president and all the mem ers of
his cabinet had large group photo
graph taken, preparatory to their Off
cial separation in five weeks time.
The Tennessee legislature is looking
after the fee grabbers. All fees will
| have to be turned into the treasury.
SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCoURT,
chancellor of the British exchequer, has
declined to advise the government to
adopt the decimal coinage, believing
that the humber classes of society
would suffer during the transition.
| THE funeral services over the body
of the late Justice Lamar were OBJ
served at Macon, Ga, on the 27th and
were largely attended.
| JUDGE WILLIAM LINDSAY, of Frank
fort, is to succeed Carlisle as senator
for Kentucky.
| BY decision of the Indiana supreme
court, it becomes necessary for the pres
ent legislature to make a reapportion-
ment of the state for legislative pur-
poses.
Gov. REYNOLDS, of Delaware, has ap-
pointed Alfred P. Robinson, of George
town, Sussex county, chief justice, to
|
tirement of Chief Justice Joseph p
Comegys.
JOHN RIGas, a famous Indian fighter
under Custer, and who claimed he
killed the Chief Black Kettle, died re.
Gently near Denison, Tex.
THE committee on rules has reported
favorably Congressman Dockery's reso
luton for general investigation o.
the departments of the government.
THE French government again tri
umphed in a vote in the chamber o.
deputies over the Boulangists and roy
alists.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE Grandview hotel at Fort Hamil
ton, n. Y, was burned to the ground
It had rooms for 500 guests and wa!
well known as summer resort
ONE fireman was fatally and two
badly injured by the fall of the wall:
of E. W. Frost's planning mill in Chi
cago. Loss, 900.
AN ex-convict who committed
double murder at New Orleans tn,
other night was lynched by an infuri
ated mob.
The London Fun has been compelled
to apologize in court for slanderou
article published against Grace Haw
thorne, the actress.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKEl
has issued an order which is intended
to greatly benefit substitute letter car
rierS.
FIRE destroyed the upper portion o
the building in Boston occupied by thu
Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Co as
stove and steam heating apparatus fac
!: tory and ware rooms. Loss, 100000
insured.
BRITISH underwriters of Halifax, n
s., are greatly alarmed over steps being
taken to overthrow the insurance com
bine.
THE defense in the Beatty case (Home
stead poisoning) was startled when tn
state produced as a witness Charles Nc
Kinney, whose evidence was very dam
aging for the prisoner.