Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-25
GENERAL.

one OF the police assistants.
GENERAL
The Grown Prluce of Germany is con-
fined TO his rooms at San Reno by cold
ROBERT ORME, farmer living near
Lucan, Ont, was murdered and robbed py
unknown highwaymen recently.
The Bulletin. of the American Iron and
Steel Associat on, says the total produc-
ton OF pig iron in the United States in 1887
was 3, Az, l4S gross tons, aud was much the
largest In the history OF the country The
next largest production was in 1856, when
5,6S3329 gross tons were produced. Only
3Ol, Az gross tons remained unsold in the
hands OF the makers or their agents at the
close OF December last
The trial of Cunningham Graham, men,
Der of Parliament for Lauarkshire, and
Burns, the Socialist leader for participa-
tlon in the riots near Trafalgar square,
London, ended January Is, when the pris-
oners were declared not guilty OF the
charges of rioting and of assault, but
guilty OF the charge of taking part in an
unlawful assemblage and both were SEN
fenced to SIX weeks Imprisonment without
hard labor.
The new Manitoba Ministry headed by
Greenway took the oath of Office on the
18th.
The first Of new line OF vessels to carry
petroleum alone from the United States to
Europe has been launched at Greenock,
Scotland.
FATHER RYAN, on his release from i'm
prisonment at Limerick, was received with
immense enthusiasm. His speech was bel
hgerent, spiritually and temporarily.
CONVOY OF prisoners while being taken
from South Russia to the Caucasus recently
mutinied and attacked the engine driver.
The train was stopped and desperate
night ensued in which eight soldiers, two
gendarmes and thirty-one prisoners were
killed Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
A CRISIS between France and Iialy was
reported existing on the 10Th. The French
Consul at Florence had placed his Official
seal on certain Russian documents which
the local authorities claimed they had a
right to open. Paris newspapers demanded
an apology Tor the alleged insult.
s. c. KANADAY q Co, lumber dealers of
Toronto, Ont, have failed with $4,000 LA
bilities.
POLISH landowners are in despair over
the RAPID depreciation in the value of their
estates. They complain that the Govern
ment avoids buying army supplies in Po-
land, preferring to buy elsewhere at en-
HANGED prices.
Gently by their boat upsetting while they
were trying to smuggle themselves into
this country from British Columbia.
The sanitary condition of the Russian
troops massed along the Galician borders
is reported to be bad, principally from
typhus fever. Much privation existed from
the cold weather
FOUR thousand workmen were engulfed
recently while constructing a breakwater
on the Hoang Ho, China, caused by a sud
den rush Of water. Only few escaped.
BUSINESS failures for the seven DAYS
ended January 10 numbered for the United
States, 21S; Canada 80; total, 3l6, COM
pared with 2SS the previous week and 3Ol
the corresponding week of last year
THE TIfbu',d, of Rome, announces that
the Florence incident has been settled.
The Italian praetor will be reduced 10 the
fourth grade and the French Consul Will be
reproved by his Government.
THE Djd, of Madrid, asserts that the Unit.
ed States Government claims heavy COM
pensation from Spain for the alleged i'll
treatment of DR.. Nddal by the authorities
in Porto Rico
THE Spanish Government has given or
ders to English houses for camp equipage
and hospital and other stores sufficient for
a force of $4,000 men.
BUSINESS on the London Exchange was
limited with a tendency to rise during the
week ended January 81. The same condi-
ton was reported from Paris. In Berlin
the bourse was quiet; at Frankfort it was
firm and rising.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN, of Philadelphia pre-
sented the copy Of the American Consiitu
ton from President Cleveland to the Pope
at Rome on the 21st
CLEARING house returns for week ended
January 81, showed an average decrease of
SO compared with the corresponding week
Of last year. In New York the decrease
was las,