Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-18
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UP TO September "a, when Emin Bey was
last heard from, no news had been received
OF Stanley's progress.
OVER 2, OOJImmigrants have reached Win
nipeg, Man, since March 5.
THE Spanish Chamber OF Deputies has re-
Jectsd by a vote Of 154 10 - the proposal TO
grant amnesty TO political exIles.
By the bursting OF boiler on the San
Lorenzo estate, province of Havana, Cuba,
recently the engineer and fireman were
killed and sixteen other persons injured.
IT is report ed that all the doctors recents
ly engaged at Warsaw for service in the
medical corps in the event OF war have
been notified that their services will not
be needed. The Gar has ordered that
work be stopped on the Notifications at
Llban.
SENIOR GALINDEz, the wealthy merchant
who was recently kidnapped at his estate
in Santa Rita, Cuba, by bandits, has been
released on payment of $4,000 in gold.
The TemesYar (Austria) assassin who
upon being released on ticket-of-leave,
murdered the wife of the Judge who con,
demned him, and afterwaSd killed Deputy
Notamy and split open the skulls of his
own wife and children, has been captured
and lynched.
The first execution in Madrid, Spain, in
five years took place on the 18th, when
girl, her lover and an accomplce were
garroted for murder. All three were exc
cuted on the same platform in view Of 90
900 people.
On March is the steamer Hyakkan Maru
was burned in the inland sea of Herimas
NADIA, Japan. Out of sixty seven passen-
gers sixteen lost their lives. The captain
and several Of the firemen were severely
injured.
THE Pope celebrated a special mass in St.
Peters, Rome, recently for 10000 French,
Austrian and Slav pilgrims.
GENERAL BoULANGER has recommended
to the electors Of Dordogne ex-Minister
Fourtou, who wanted Marshal MacMaho1
to become Dictator, as stepping stone 70
a monarchist regime. This is considered a
blunder on the part of Boulanger, Fourteu
being regarded with aversion throughout
the country.
A CRANK fired three shots from a re-
volver at the gates of the Elysee Palace,
Faris--the Presidents residence-on the
18th. Upon being arrested he said that he
wanted M Carnot to attend ~ grievances
Of which he was the victim
MIR. MIDDLETON, an Englishmau, who
killed gypsy guide in the MAUI. s'''--
dral in self-defense some time ago. has been
acquitted.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reportl for the
seven days ended April 12 numbered for
the United States, 200; Canada, %; total,
222; compared with 227 the previous week
and lI5 the corresponding week Of last
year.
THE American Exchange Henry F. Gill
lig, manager), so well known to travellers
ia Europe. has suspended with liabilities
OF S4,OOO,OO0 A provisional manager was
appointed in London pending the liquida-
tion Of the concern,
The court at Malaga, Spain, has sen.
fenced Senior Villa, a Spanish pastor, to
twenty-eight months Imprisonment for
publishing pamphlet condemuing Roman
Catholic dogmas.
In the elect on on the 18th for the depart
ment Of the Nord, General Boulanger re-
ceived l72,272 votes; Foucart 70 ISL, and
Moreau, 9,6I3 Great excitement existed
throughout France.
ONE OF the walls OF the former convent
Of San Fernandino, City Of Mexico, which
was In progress Of demolition, fell the other
morning, buryIng many workmen In the
ruins. Three dead bodies were recovered.
Fifteen or twenty persons were wounded
NOSE or Jess seriously.
THE London money market during the
week ended April IA, was much Influenced
by the conversion OF consols, in expectancy
of a demand from sellers. The Paris
Bourse was dull and listless. The German
bourses we're quiet
CLEARING house returns for weeE ended
April IA showed an average decrease Of l6. :
compared with the corresponding week OF
last year, In New York the decrease was
ala
BooNvILLE, No., April 16-News has
just reached here Of fatal shooting that
occurred in Howard County a short
distance above this city yesterday
afternoon. There was a dispute be-
tween two negroes, Mrs. Samuel Watts,
a widow, aud a man named Storm, over
a division fence. Yesterday afternoon
Storm went over TO see Mrs. Watts about
It and during tho interview Mrs. Watts,
becoming very much enraged and when
Storms back was turned toward her,
p.ck0d I'D q shotgun and shot him through
the small or the back, killing him instapts
ly. The deceased was married aud leaves
u wife and family OF small children.
TOPEKA, Kan, April 16. "A large and en-
thusiastic farmers 'trustn meeting was
held Saturday afternoon at Meriden, JEFF
ferson County. and was inaugurated by
Hon Walter n. Allen, the originator Of
the movement Captain J. u. HUBER pre-
siding, and the meeting was addressed
by Major J. X. Hudson, J. c. Hibbard
and Rev W. ?. Fife, OF Topeka and Others
Earnest resolutions were adopted looking
TO the development Of large Interstate
meeting At Topeka on Tuesday. May l, IN
the interest Of this movament. The Gov,
eFnoFs OF the States and Territories In the
valley Of the Mississippi were asked to ap-
point each eight delegates.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, April 15.-Yes-
terday an ice gorge, thirty feet high and
half mile long, was formed a short
distance above this city. The logs
and ice were packed solidly together.
In the evening il luOvsa some distance
and lodged against the Omaha rail-
road bridge. Judicious use OF dynamite
during tho night made a channeI, and about
hve O'Clock this morning the whole mass
broke Loose. No great damage was done
TO bridges, and lumbermen feel easier. No
logs will be lost, as they viii 90 into Dells
Pond, near Eau Claire. The river STAYS Mt
eight feet
NAsuISGToS, April 15.-The Legislative.
Judicial and Executive Appropr alton bill.
as agreed upon in the House comm.it--
makes total appropriation Of so AZ 800
which is $937. eos less than the estinatss
and Ss09, 2i5 less than the current appropr1
alton for the same seryie., The whole
number Of salaries provided for Is s.565.
being AZ less than the number estimated
Tor and ffty-fve more than the number
provided FOR al present
WASHINGTON, April 1b--In answer to the
House resolution calling upon tie heads OF
departments 8. for estimates OF the amounts
necessary to pay claims arising under the
Eight hour law, the Secretary Of War says
that 8 0,00o VIII be required By tbs ord.
nance Department. and TIE QAarlermaster-
General, Commissary General and Chief OF
Engineers have no data upon which 70