Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
REPRESENTATIVE WILSON, it is said.
Will be on hand to manage the tariff
bill when it reaches the house from the
senate.
The Servian cabinet has resigned,
and Nj. Nicolajevich has formed a new
ministry.
REPRESENTATIVE CAArINETTI, of Cal
ifornia. has introduced a resolution for
the holding of a conference of nations
of the western hemisphere to draft
treaties looking to remonetizing silver.
PRESIDENT TRACEY, of the National
Republican league, has called a special
meeting of the leagues executive COM
mittee, representing all the states and
territories to meet at the Arlington
hotel, Washington, Monday, April. %.
THE naval appropriation bill as pre-
pared by the naval affairs committee
of the house contains provision grant
ing naturalization papers to all for
eigners who served in the navy and
marine corps for five consecutive years
and who have been honorably dis
charged.
REPRESENTATIVE BLAND expects to
call meeting of the coinage commit
tee very soon to consider the free coin
age bills pending before it
The president has approved the joint
resolution making provision for the
salaries and expenses of additional
deputy collectors of revenue to enforce
the Chinese exclusion act
CARDINAL GIUSEPPE BENEDETTo DUs-
MET, archbishop of Catina, is dead. He
was born at Palermo, August Is, 1915.
and was created a cardinal on Febru-
airy II, 1889.
The unknown" commander of the
Coxey forces is said to be Maj. William
Packer Clarke, of the Second battalion,
Colorado national guard
"a. c. FISK, president of the Pan
American Bimetallic league, proposes
to call silver convention to meet in
Washington
The Iowa senate passed the house
bill comforting on women the right to
vote for town, city and school officers
and on all questions of issuing bonds.
PRESIDENT GOMPERs, of the American
Federation of Labor, ina letter to Vice
President Stevenson, enters a protest
against the ratification of the Chinese
treaty.
IN Chicago Sig. L. Mancinelli, director
of the choir of the Abbey Grand Opera
Co., ~as arrested on a charge of pick
ing pockets. The arrest occurred in a
dime museum on Clark street
AFTER clearing up various appropria-
| tions and other bills, both houses OF
the Iowa state legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th.
JUDGE JENKINS rendered his long
looked for decision on the motion
made by the chiefs of the railway or
| CARNATIONS for a modification of his
| famous Northern Pacific strike order.
The judge struck out one clause, but
in all other respects he denied the
motion, thus continuing the strike in.
| junction in full force.
THE senate committee to which the
nominal ion of C. H. j. Taylor to be re
corder of deeds for the District of Col
umbia, was referred, voted to to re
port his nomination unfavorably.
| REPRESENTATIVE FREDERICK has in
| troduced a resolution in the house re
| quiring pension attorneys to submit {
statement to their clients every three
months of the condition of their claims
In the event that this order is not com
piled with the attorney is to receive nc
pay. The law allows pension agent.
to charge S25 as first payment on a pen
sion case, and hundreds of claimant!
had made this payment, after which i
was impossible to hear from their at
tof9eys9s
LATE9 advices from Brazil are to thu
effsA that federal troops had burned
and 5illaged San Francisco de Borja, ;
Brazilian town on the Uruguayan rive
in the state of Rio Grande do Sui Tn
Inhabitants were panic stricken ant
many of them had fed to the forest t.
escape further outrages. 1t was SAT-
that insurgent troops were advancing
against the city of Rio Grande do Sui
MISCELLANEOUS.