Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15

EIGHT hundred marole workers OF boston
have struck for nine hours work at ten
hours nav.
The Territorial miners convention at
Helena denounced the Northern Pacific.
MCCLELLAN & Co., insolvent Minneapolis
stove dealers, schedule shows assets, So
262 and liabilities, a, 296
The Springfield, o., Manufacturing Com
pany has been placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver.
TIE American Newspaper Publishers
Union held its annual meeting in Iudlanap-
oils, Ind, on the Sth.
THE National Convention was in session
in Cincinnati on the Sth.
THE Manitoba railroad bridge across the
Missouri river at Great Falls, Oak, has
been completed. 1t is 30 feet long
ID. X. LOCKE, Petroleum V. Nasby,n of
the Toledo (O.) Blade, was reported on the
9th to be dying OF consumption.
A DISASTROUS cable accident occurred at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the night OF the Sth.
on the incline at the Union Depot, caused
by the grip breaking. Two persons were
fatally injured and seven others were
hurt, one quite seriously The incline
had been noted for several bad accidents
previously 20 the late disaster.
AGENT kINNET's Dakota blizzard stories
have been again contradicted.
PHASE in the railroad war on the Sth
was cut OF $500 in the passenger rate
from Chicago to Kansas City.
amos .. SMELL, a capitalist worth s. OOO-
600, was murdered by burglars in his resi-
dence, 425 Washington boulevard, Chicago.
on the morning Of the Sth. One arrest was
made. What the robbers succeeded in
tisklng away was not known, excepting
that with the property was a check for
w i
law.
THE Oklahoma convention met in Kansas
City, Mo-, on the Sth at the Board of Trade
Hall with large attendance, Governor
Morehouse, OF Missouri, occupying the
chair. A memorial to Congress was
adopted as well as resolutions looking to
the opening OF the Indian Territory and
favorIng the Springer bill for the creation
Of the Territory OF Oklahoma
FIRE In Cleveland, o., the other dav.
caused $4,000 damage to J. l.. Hudson's
clothing store. Cause, electric light wires.
BENJAMIN EGGLEsToN, ex.member of
Congress and one Of the most prominent of
Ohio political leaders, died recently in Gin
cinnati, aged seventy-two.
j. c. EVANS, OF Harlem, Mo-, has been
elected treasurer and Parker Earl, of Cob
den, Ill, president of the American Horti-
cultural Society.
The Andrew Jackson Club, of Chicago.
has taken steps TO call a meeting of Demo
cratic Clubs Of America in Chicago June l.
FIVE cases OF trichinc sis have occurred
In the family Of William Man, a resident of
Toledo, o. All five were in a dangerous
condition.
BENsLEY BROS, Of the Chicago Board of
Trade, failed on the 9th. Liabilities were
not definitely known, but were thought to
amount to $4,000.
The Columbia Theater, Of Chica go, Is re-
ported in financial difficulties
GEORGE w. CLARK real estate dealer
OF Duluth, Mimi, formerly a newspaper
writer under the late Daniel Manning on
the Albany Argus, died recently
WOLVES have become dangerously nu-
merous in the vicinity of st. Cloud, MINI.
The other night several made raid on a
pig pen, almost within the city limits, aud
destroyed nearly 1000 pounds of live hogs.
In Liberty township, Wabash County,
Ind, recently J. /. Smith and Joel Hale
were killed by the explosion of the boiler
OF portable engine. The explosion was
caused by pumping cold water into the SUI
perheated boiler.
Two men were recently digging up some
dynamite which had been buried to pro-
tect it until wanted TO use a a gas well
no"A oeAl0Nue, ", Wien one OF Unem StrucK
the explosive material with his pick. The
explosion instantly killed the two men.
WILLIAM DONALDSON & Co., dealers in pic
lures and frames, Cincinnati, have failed
with $75, 900 liabilities and $40 900 assets.
SMALLPOX has broken out in Mandan.
Oak, and the people of that place and of
Bismarck across the river are panic
stricken.
IRoNToN, O., has been swept by fire
which broke out in Dawson's book store
and spread to Mindorf q Gabler's dry
goods, Brumberg's clothing, the Iron City
Odd Fellows lodge and the Iron City
Atheneum and thence to the new opera
house building, in which was the post
office, all Of which were destroyed. Loss,
$50, 600; insurance S4SOOl