Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-11-04
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
HANNIs TAYLOR, recently American
minister to Spain, viii soon address an
elaborate communication to the people
of the United States on the Cuban
question. He has reached the convic-
ton that Spanish craftsmanship is i'm
potent to solve this problem.
THE agricultural department has is
sued pamphlets on asparagus culture
and the marketing of farm products
which can be secured free of charge
by sending request to the secretary
of agriculture at Washington.
The commissioner of the general
land Office has submitted his annual
report to the secretary of the interior.
He estimates the number of acres OF
vacant public lands at the close of the
fiscal year for the different states and
territories, the amount in Kansas be-
ing 1,O46, $50; in Missouri. 497, 1854; in
Nebraska, 10, 66S, S53, and in Oklahoma.
6,1O5, 23S. The commissioner also
touches on many other subjects be-
longing to his department and wants
ample appropriations for protecting
forest reservations
PROF. HENRY S. PRITCHETT, of st.
Louis, astronomer and chief mathema-
tician at the Washington university,
will probably be appointed chief of
the coast and geodetic survey, to sue
coed Gen. Duffie1d, whose resignation
is said to have been demanded by the
president.
The next move of the government
toward final settlement of the whole
bond aided railroad question, it is
said, will be the institution of proceed
ings against the Central Pacific road.
The Central Pacifics debt to the gov
ment amounts to nearly S62, 600, 600 I'M
paid interest and principal
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the goth
stated that the offices of the supreme
council of the A. p. A. had been closed
on a mortgage deed of trust for $3.50.
Many of the state councils of the order
had refused to pay their per capita tax,
which had left the supreme council
bankrupt.
THE president has appointed James
Longstreet, of Georgia, commissioner
of railroads, and Henry S. Pritchett,
of st. Louis, superintendent of the
coast and geodetic survey.
A MEDAL of honor has been present.
ed to Maj Gen. Daniel Sickles, u. s. A.,
retired, for most distinguished gal
laptry while in command of the Third
army corps at Gettysburg, Pa. July 2,
1862
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has issued a
proclamation appointing November pa
as a day of thanksgiving.
GENERAL NEWS.
GEORGE LAvIGNE whipped Joe Wal
colt in IL rounds at San Francisco on
the goth. The pace was terrific from
start toofinish.
FLOODS have washed away every
building in Ahumada, Mex. The town
had population of 1000 persons, and
they are all homeless and suffering.
Eduardo Linss, wealthy merchant
and grain buyer of the place, lost $4O,-
600 worth of property, including 5000
bushels of wheat.
The manufacturing plant of the
Woe1fel Leather company, at Morris,
ILL.,, was partly burned, the loss amount
ing to about $500, 900.
A STAGE, drawn by six galloping
horses, was upset near the mining
town of Grand Encampment, .Wyo.,
and three men were fatally hurt and a
dozen more badly injured. The acct
dent was due to careless driving.
Mrs. LAURA HUNTER, living near Ell
bert, Col, visited a neighbor and in
returning home lost her way and was
frozen to death in a blizzard. Her
body was found only 500 yards from
home.
A CROSS tie was recently placed on
the Cotton Belt railroad near Waco
Tex, and the locomotive of a passen-
ger train was derailed. No other dam
age was done.
JUDGE JOHN r. THOMAS, of the United
States court, recently in session at
Vinita, I. T., ruled that the pub1ica-
ton of warning notices to non-resi-
dents in divorce proceedings were null
and void, and that actual service must
be had on such defendants The de-
cision. if sustained in the higher courts.
to which an appeal will be taken, will
set aside any number of marriages
contracted by parties who have OBJ
tanned DEGREES of divorce from the
courts on the default of nonresident
defendants
ARTHUR FERGUSON and Walter Price,
living at Jasper, Tenn, quarreled over
castigation given by Price to a
younger brother of Ferguson and
fought duel with knives. Finally
Price sank to the ground from loss of
blood aud wound in the side which
had paralyzed him. and Ferguson bled
from a dozen wounds. Physicians
pronounced Prices injuries fatal and
Ferguson was arrested.
DIR. HELEN DENsMoRE, who has been
engaged for four years in trying to
get the release of Mrs. Florence May
brick, an American woman confined in
an English prison for the murder of
her husband. stated at Chicago that
the woman would soon be released, as
sympathy for her had increased in
England, although it had died out in
America
THERE was a row in the st. Louis
iail among NEGROES the other dav and