Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

the United States.
THE revolution in Cuba is assuming
serious proportions and the govern
ment of Spain is taking active steps to
suppress it.
SENATOR FRYE eulogized the late
Hon. James G. Blaine at a meeting held
in his memory at Boston on the night
of the I'd.
LADY SOMERSET was reelected presi-
dent of the British Women's Temper
ance association against bitter protests.
The minority left the convention III in
dignation. Lady Somerset represents
the faction favora BILE to the introduce
ton of politics into temperance, similar
to that led by Mrs. Ellen III. Foster in
this country.
EX-PREsIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON
was elected by the Ohio commandery
of the military order of the Loyal Lee
gien of the United States as it's COM
mander for the ensuing year.
THE Episcopal convention chose Dean
Lawrence, of the Episcopal Divinity
school of Harvard university (the broad
churchman's candidate), as bishop of
the diocese of Massachusetts,.
THE Cuban revolution came to sud
volt, having surrendered to the Spanish
authorities.
Mrs. PoTTEB PALMER created some
excitement by threatening to resign as
president of the board of lady mana
gers of the worlds fair.
JAMES w. TAYLOR, American consul
at Winnipeg, Man, is dead.
COMMENT is made that ex-President
H-,-
We're not invited to the worlds fair
opening or the naval review.
RIGHT REV. JOHN J. KAN, bishop of
Wheeling, w. Va, has been formally
as coadjutor to Archbishop
Kenrick, of st. Louis.
CLAUS SPRECKLEs, in an interview at
Honolulu, speaks in favor of a republic
instead of annexation.
Hon. RICHARD DALTON has been ap-
pointed collector at ST. Louis.
DR. CHARLES TANNER, the noted Irish
leader and member of parliament for
Cork, is critically i'll in Lon
don.
A RULING by Superintendent Stump
the admission to this country
of alleged contract laborers has dis
closed big loophole in the immigra-
ton law.
The Chinese Six Companies has is
sued another circular warning all Chi
nese not to register under the Geary law
under heavy penalty.
The Italian chamber of deputies has
commenced the debate on the naval
estimates, which the commission on the
subject proposes to increase from co.
700, 900 lire to 1O5, ZOO, 900 lire
MISCELLANEOUS.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the
directors of the Pennsylvania road
AZ per cent. dividend was declared.
INVESTIGATION of the affairs of the
Union Trust Co. at Sioux City, Ia,
shows liabilities of S6,000,0OO.
EIGHTEEN stolzers of the British war
ship Amphion have been convicted at
Malta of mutiny. Five have been sent
to prison for eighteen months each.
The British official report on emigra-
ton for 1892 shows that 81, 900 persons
left Ireland last year, or s,s6S fewer
than in 1891. The total number of
Irish emigrants since 1851 is 3,41S, 1888.
The Grand Trunk railway has paid
into the Maine treasury S1S2, 797, being
the amount of back taxes, payment of
eral years.
SECRETARY SMITH met the Cherokee
delegates on the Sd about the settling
of the strip matters, but nothing was
accomplished at the meeting.
SECRETARY GRESHAM feared an upris-
ing against the Chinese in the western
states, on account of their failure to
with the Geary law, and took
a<.fs i
WORLDS fair guards want S15 a month
more wages.
THE piano and Sunday questions of
the worlds fair were debated by the
on the Sd, but no definite
action was taken.
The great reservoir at Lewiston, O.,
burst during the heavy rains. Great
damage was done, but without loss of
life so far as known. The reservoir
covered 1000 acres.
HONOLULU advices state that the vol
canO Kilauea is active. The lake of
fire that has for some years confined
itself to an area of about twelve acres
in the innermost crater has risen fully
ten feet and now the whole center of
about 100 acres is a mass of molten lava.
NJ. MICHAEL EPHRUssI has given $780,
900 to the poor of Paris in rather
Frenchy way. He was, it is said, inn
PEELED to do SO by Viscomte Breteuil or
fight a duel until one of them died,
for having given advice that resulted
in Russian grain specu-
latiOnS.
THE Hoangho in China has overfiowed
its banks, deluging 400 villages Many
of the people were drowned.
Gov. FLOWER has denied the applica-
ton for clemency for Carlyle w. Harris
and he will die in the electrical chair
at Sing Sing.
EDWARD ATKINSON, of Boston, who
has been Investigating western farm
mortgages, declares that his researches
show that western farmers are not in
numbered SO heavily with obligations
as is believed by>most people.
THERE was a semi-panic on Wall
street on the 4th, caused by the failure
OF three houses owing to the big slump
in National Cordage stock.
The British steamship Khiva, loaded
with Mohammedan pilgrims, was re-
ported to have burned off the Arabian
coast with an appalling loss of life.
"A WELL planned effort to wreck and
rob passenger train on the Lake Erie
& Western, near Lima, O., was discov-
cred in time to Illustrate it.
INDIAN COMMISSIONERS BROWNING has