Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-11
GENERAL.

HANLAN, the oarsmnn, after filling his
engagements in Australia, with visit En-
gland and will issue a challenge to the
world for a race in September.
The total loss by fires during the year
1887 reached the enormous sum or $129 364,.
900, an amount which has not been exceed
ed since the great Boston fire, and was
about $13, OOO, 90 greater than the losses Of
1886
AN eighteen hundred ton bark, believed to
be an American vessel, has been wrecked
at the entrance of the Waterford Qreland)
harDor. Her crew, consisting of twenty
eight persons, were all drowned.
The Prince Of Wales gives an absolute
denial Of the report that he was a member
Of committee on the banquet to Smith
and kilrain.
A SECRET tribunal has condemned to
death the Nihilist, Tschernoff, and seven
other prisoners, charged with an attempt
on the Cars life during his journey to the
Don Cossack country.
Disastrous foods are reported IN Seville,
Spain. Six lives have been lost and many
persons have been injured. The damage
by the foods in Malaga is estimated Of
500, 600
EDWARD MCKEowS, dealer in dry goous
and millinery, Toronto, Ont, has assigned
with 80, 600 assets and liabilities.
THOMAS SEXTON, member Of Parliament
and lord mayor-elect Of Dublin, who has
been suffering from an attack Of typhoid
fever, has had relapse and was reported
in dangerous condition.
Two express trains on the Dutch State
railway came into collision near Meppel on
the 4th. The engines and cars were totally
wrecked and twenty-siX persons killed
M inir rod In
known but it was very large.
Mrs. LEoNoRA NJ. BARRY, the general IN
vestigator Of the Knights OF Labor, has is
sued . circular letter to the female mem
bers OF the order wherever found. 1t deals
with the subject OF the condition of work
ing women and girls, and strongly advo-
Gates the expenditure Of money for educa-
tion instead OF strikes.
LORD MAYoR-ELEcT Of Dublin, Thomas
Sexton, who has been i'll with typhoid fever,
Is pronounced out OF danger.
ADMIRAL KRANTz has been appointed
Minister Of Marine OF France and Admiral
Gervers chief of the naval stan.
AT National League meetings throughout
Ireland the reductions of judicial rents au-
nounced by the Land Commission have
been declared insufficient
The vessel wrecked at the entrance OF
the harbor OF Waterford. Ireland, the other
night, was the American ship Alfred ID.
Snow. Ten Of the bodies OF the crew were
recovered.
ABBE CHATBERT, charged with assaulting
. fourteen year-old girl in Montreal was,
upon the advice of two physicians, sent to
an asylum by the police magistrate.
GENERAL HERMANN KANzLER, formerly
commander Of the Pontifcal army, died in
Rome recently.
Rro Fosl
seven days ended January numbered for
the United States, 256; for Canada, %; to-
tai, 279, compared with 263 the previous
week and 30 the corresponding week OF
last year.
AT Middleton, N. W. T., recently two
freight trains on the Canadian Pacific met
in collision on a bridge. Four men were
killed. The damage was great, being esti-
mated At $4,000
TIE body of Archie O'Neal, the noted
English sporting authority, who disap-
peared while on his way to report the
Smith Kilrain fight. has been found on the
beach at Boulogne, France. There were
many evidences that he had been murdered,
RERSAI. the noted Mexican bandit, was
killed recently near Cosala, Sinalna. He
and his band were attacked by Mexican
troops when short but desperate fight fol-
lowed. The loss was said to be heavy on
both sides,
THE rubber trust has advanced prices
about five per cent. The trust has COM
bined capital OF about So, OOO,O0o.
SIxTY Montenegro brigands have been
dispersed by gendarmes with a loss OF
ten killed.
The 'kickers" OF the knights of Labor
have resolved to bring the general officers
Of the order into court aud compel them to
give an accounting of the funds.
ACCORDING TO q private dispatch from
Valparaiso, Chill, cholera had increased at
thar port to an alarming extent, The num-
Der of cases daily reaching Isl Of which
eighty TO ninety proved fatal
FIsUExMKH from Newfoundland deny