Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Man
Personal AND PoLIrICAL.

he "a CAAO4oAOP VI OA4tss
has cabled to Hon. Edward Blake. NJ.
P, the SUM of ES00. being the first in
stallment of subscriptions to the cause
of home rule
THE Brazilian minister in London
has received tie following dispatch
from Rio de Janeiro: There is abso-
lntely no truth in the statement that
prisoners have been executed without
trial
A DISTINGUISHED company assembled
in the senate chamber on the 2Tth to
witness the funeral ceremonies over
the body of tk5e late Senator Colquitt,
OF Georgia At the conclusion of the
services the committees of the senate
and house followed the coffin to accom-
pany it to Georgia
THE marriage of NJ. Jules Patenotre,
French ambassador to the United
States. and Miss Eleanor Louise Elver-
son, daughter of James sElverson, the
Philadelphia publisher, took place on
the 27th, Cardinal Gibbons performing
the ceremony.
COMMANDER VERNAY LovETT GAMER
ON, the distinguished African traveller.
while hunting with Baron Rothchild's
hounds at Leighton Bedford
shire, Eng, was thrown from his horse
and died four hours later
The remains q Senator Colquitt were
inferred in the Risehill cemetery at
Macon, Ga, on the 2sth, with impress
sive Ceremonies.
THE pope cabled the apostolic bless
ing to the newly welded NJ. Patenotre
and his wife, nee Miss Elverson.
THE car of Russia is reported suffer-
ing from a liver affection.
THE anti-insurance-combi bill has
passed the Iowa senate. 1t makes it
unlawful for insurance companies to
combine to keep up rates and provides
penalties and fines from $40 to $500.
BILL to provide for the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver has been in
troduced in the senate by Mr.. Stewart
(rep.), of Nevada, and laid on the ia BILE
for the present.
PREMIER CRIsPI opened the interna-
| tional medical congress at Rome, Italy.
in the presence of the king and queen,
on the goth.
COMMENTS by the silver men in the
senate and house make it evident that
free coinage bills will be introduced
| and attempts made to pass them as a
result of the seigniorage veto.
THE Iowa house has passed the
woman suffrage bill giving women the
right to vote for city, town and school
officers and on the question of issuing
| bonds
Gov. NORTHERN, of Georgia, has ap-
| pointed Speaker Crisp as senator to fill
the place of the lately deceased Sen
ator Colquitt-
GEORGE TICKNoR CURTIS, the noted
| lawyer and writer on political econo-
my, died of pneumonia on the 2sth al
New York, aged 81.
SIR JAMES HAMMER, one of the most
learned and able of England's judges,
is dead, aged 73.
The president sent a message to the
house on the Goth vetoing the bill for
coinage the silver seigniorage.
Gov. JONES has presented his mes
sage to the two houses of the Choctaw
council He recommends the appoint
ment of two commissioners to meet
the United States commissioners abou
territorial government and lands in
severalty for the people of his nation.
| SPEAKER CRISP has notified Gov.
Northen by telegraph of his declination
of the appointment of United States
senator for the unexpired term of the
late Senator Colquitt In his telegram
| speaker crisp says very large major
ity of the democratic members of the
house have united in the request that
he continue to serve as speaker for the
remainder of the session, and sense OF
duty impels him to decline the appoint
ment.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, ha:
issued card to the effect that he left
the republican party more than two
years ago because that party was in
favor of the single gold standard an6
is now populist-
RUMoRs that the silver men will at
tempt to secure an amendment to the
tariff bill by adding a provision fol
free coinage were denied by senators O.
all shades of opinion.
JUDGE DALLAS fled an opinion il
the United States circuit court at Phil
adelphia. holding that Cinnamon can
not be naturalized.
CONGRESSMAN WILSON was at tn,
ranch of Congressman Ben Gable, a
San Antonio, Tex, on the 3Oth, wher,
he will remain until able to resume hi
work at Washington. He was reporte,
well enough to drive out