Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND po,,r,c,,


SENATOR CHANDLER has Introduced a
resolution in the senate for an investi
CATION of the late election in Alabama.
w. II. Skaggs, chairman of the Kolb
committee, telegraphed him that he
could furnish conclusive evidence of
the most stupendous frauds ever com
mitted on the American continent.
Dallas county, Senator Morgan's home,
gave $500 majority for Oates. We have
a list of the votes polled in that county
in every precinct and the total is less
than 2,O0o.'
JOHN Quincy ADAMS, eldest brother
of Charles Francis Adams and member
of the great family of statesmen, died
at his home at Mount Wollastin, Ouin-
cy, Mass, on the 18th
BLUEFIELDs has been retalxen by p
900 Nicaraguan troops, who arrived
from Rama and Graytown on trans
ports, flying the United States flag. On
their approach the United States ma
rines, who had been on duty ashore,
returned to their vessel. The resident
Americans, being thus abandoned, be-
came very indignant, and many of them
removed the national flag from their
houses and stamped it in the streets.
They then hoisted the British flag.
The conference committee of the two
Houses have concluded the considera-
ton of the sundry civil appropriation
bill and will report an agreement.
THE National Colored Democratic
league met in indianapolis, Ind. on
the 14th and were to be in session for
several days. President C. II. ]. Tay-
lor delivered his annual address. Be
tween thirty and thirty-five states are
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president.
THE house committee on pensions
has agreed to the senate bill to pension
Mrs. Ada j. Schwatka, the widow of
| Lieut.. Frederick Schwatka, the Arctic
explorer, at $50 a month
| A PRIVATE telegram from Yokohama
says that seven Chinese vessels were
sunk in recent engagement with the
japanese.
A PRETORIA, South Africa, dispatch
said the rebels were numbering the
Boer farmers and were burning their
homes. A body of 100 Beers proceeded
| to the relief of the occupants of the
government buildings of Agatha, which
were besieged by the rebo ious Caffirs.
THE Tooth anniversary of the birth
of William Cullen Bryant, the poet,
was celebrated at Cummington, Mass,
his native place, on the 10th.
THE senate has passed the house bill
authorizing fourth-class postmasters to
administer oaths to pensioners.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND left Washing
ton on the 10th for Gray Gables for
few days absence under the advice of
his physicians, in the hope of shaking
off malarial attack from which he
has been suffering for several days.
| Az y hos
pointed receiver of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railway in place of j.
w. Reinhart, resigned.
THE necessity OF immediate and thor
ough organization to push bimetallism
to the front was discussed at special
conference of the American BIN etallic
league, which convened at Washington
on the 10th. Thirty or forty mem hers
I of the league from various states were
present. Gen. A. J. Warner, president
of the league, acted as chairman, and
among those present were Senator
Stewart, of Nevada; Congressman
Pence and Bell, of Colorado; Judge
Shelton, of Connecticut, and c. S.
Thomas. of Colorado.
RECENT dispatches announced the
death of the king of Siam. The British
war ship Rather has been dispatched
! TO Siamese waters to anticipate posi-
, BILE trouble over the succession.
PRESIDENT A. c.. FISK, of the Pan
American Bimetallic league, on behalf
, of that organization, has sent a notable
statement to the special committee OF
the United States senate Investigating
the industrial depression and the rem
edy. He said the views submitted ex-
pressed the sentiment of 10000 mem
berS of the association.
REPRESENTATIVE BAILEY, of Texas,
desiring to rid congressman of all com
, plicity in office seeking, has introduced
the following bill: That from and after
the passage of this act no senator nor
representative congress shall
directly or indirectly solicit or recon-
, mend the appointment of any person
to Office under the United States; pro
!, vided that this act shall not be con
strued to apply to the offices of the
house or the senate.
THE Missouri republican state con
vention at Excelsior Springs nominated
Judge William Robinson, of the
Twenty-eighth judicial district, for the
supreme court; John B. Kirk. of Jack
e son county, for superintendent O.
= schools, aI,si.Joseph Flory, of St Louis
for railroad commissioner. The plat
= | form declares Tor d system Oh prOtec
tive duties and the enactment of law:
L to prohibit the immigration Of anarch
lists; favors a free and impartial ballot
extends sympathy to Hawaii in at
n tempting to establish republic; favor
Y the largest possible coinage of silve
= and against monometallism, either o
a gold or silver, and condemns the pen
a sion policy of the present national ad
: miniStration.
N FULL official returns of the election
L for supreme judge in Tennessee hav
= been received by the secretary of stat
u from every county as follows: Demo
Il Gratis, 145, 15S; fusionists, 131,2s9; demo
a cratic majority, 1860, gain of $3.50
over the aggregate opposition vote 70
e governor in 1892.
THE ways and means committee vote
- ON the 18th to present fifth tariff bi
a making silver lead ore free of duty
The Wilson bill made these ores free
:. but the senate put duty of q of a cen
n a pound on them.
n MISCELLANEOUS.
IL MARSHALL Boston, a negro brute
: was taken from the Frankfort Ky