Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
personal AND POLITICAL.


CAR ALEXANDER III. left document
TO be opened nine days after his death
When the document was opened 1t was
found to contain an entreaty to Gar
Nicholas to marry Princess AliX direct
ly after the funeral. Hence the wed
ding was fixed to take place on the
Goth.
On the 22d Alderman Charles Parks
of the ''Tenderloin district" New York
city, convicted of keeping gambling
house in the most fashionable part of
Asbury Park, n. j.. was sentenced by
Judge Connover to pay fine OF $500
and serve five months in jail.
PROBABLY among the earliest commu-
nications to be sent by President Cleve-
land to congress when it assemblies IN
December, will be the new commercial
treaty with Japan, which Secretary
Gresham and Minister Kurino have
been negotiating during the past few
months.
HE belief is expressed IN circles
close to the vatican that Mgr. Lo-
renzelli will eventually be appointed
apostolic delegate to the United States
to succeed Mgr. Satolli.
J. 2. HOWE, of st. Louis, an attorney,
racy against the Fidelity Mutual Life
association, arrived in Philadelphia, on
the 22d, and surrendered to the police.
THE trial in London of Sidney Ben
nett, young American lawyer who in
july last fred a revolver at Miss Edith
Andrews, of whom he was anamored,
ended, on the 22d, in his acquitta1, on
the ground that the shooting was acct
dental.
On the 22d the remains of Gen. John
C. Fremont We're finally inferred in the
| presence of friends and relatives to the
number of $50. on the crest of high
hill near Sparki1l, n. Y, commanding
a view of the Hudson river and the
country to the west of it for many
| miles.
! WILLIAM p. HAZEN, chief Of the Sc
| cret service of the treasury depart
| ment, in his annual report shows that
during the year the total number OF
arrests made was 657, nearly all of
| which were for violations of the stat
utes relating to counterfeiting United
States money.
BUsTs of Vice-Presidentss Stevenson,
Geo. M. Dallas and Elbridge Gerry
| have been placed in the vice-presi-
Dental inches ia the senate gallery at
the national capitol. The Aaron Burr
statue has been placed in one of the
gallery corridors preparatory to trans
ferring it to it's permanent quarters in
side the senate chamber.
! The chief of the Chinese imperial
customs at Tien-Tsin, De-Ting, who
was recently summoned to Pekin in or
der to confer with the government as
to means for raising money for the
war, has left for Japan in order to ar
1 range terms of peace
EVERY bell in Tiffin, O., at $3.50
o'clock on the night of the 22d, rang
out a knell, notifying all that Gen.
| William Gibson, the statesman, soldier
and Christian citizen, had passed away.
Gen. Gibson had been ailing for some
time, but took to his bed only few
| days prior to his death. He was 7s
| years of age.
D. Morrison, one of the most promi,
| nent lawyers of Baltimore, Md, was
| stricken with paralysis and died on the
23d.
On the Esd for the second time with
| in week, the cabinet meeting was
postponed on account of the absence o.
President Cleveland.
On the 23d the proposed treaty be
| tween Japan and the United States
was signed by the secretary of state
and Minister Kurino It will be sent
to the senate for ratification on it's re
assembling, December 3.