Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
THE SOuTH.

ing three other persons.
THE SOUTH.
THE American Society of Mechanical
Engineers met on the Sth at Nashville,
Tenn, and discussed matters of interest to
the profession.
JACOB MORGAN, an aged farmer living at
Hebron, near Wheeling, w. Va, was at
tackled by three tramps the other night,
who broke into his house and demanded
his money. He refused to give it to them,
and they then attacked him, and after kill
ing him, robbed the house.
GENERAL GEORGE DIBBRELI, for many
years member of Congress from Tennes-
see, died at Sparta, Tenn, on the 9th.
FIRE in Honey Grove, Tex, recently de-
stroyed eight business houses and caused
the death of Ed Burnett.
ALABAMA Democrats renominated Seay
for Governor at Montgomery on the 9th.
The ticket was completed as follows: c.
C. Langdon, Secretary of State; John L.
Cobbs, Treasurer; c. ID. Hogue, Auditor;
T. n. Mcclellan, Attorney General, and s.
Palmer, Superintendent of Education.
WILLIAM WRIGHT and James Turner
were held up and robbed recently by a
gang of four highwaymen who had been
terrorizing Mexia, Tex. A fight ensued in
which two of the highwaymen were killed
Both were unknown.
WILLIAM HOPKINS who stoned stranger
to death at Georgia country church be-
cause he wore 'biled" SHIRT and was to
have been hanged, has been respited by
Governor Gordon.
JEFFERSON DAVIS will probably attend
the laying Of the corner stone of the Con-
federate monument at jackson, Miss, May
20.
THE (IporOia Damocrotio o0n1an+;or %
Atlanta on the 9th indorsed the Tariff bill
and the Presidents views thereon.
THE Southern Baptist convention met in
annual session at Richmond, Va, on the
11th and was called o order by Prof. Lewis
B. Ely, of Missouri, first vice-president,
Rev. DIR. 2. II. Nell, the president, having
died since the last convention.
cARDING machine IN n wooden mill
Paducah, KY, flew to pieces recently, kill
ing two men.
The cid Newport barracks opposite Gin
cinnati in kentucky is to be named Fort
Hancock, and to be used as a resting place
for soldiers retired on account of age.
NEARLY two blocks of the business part
of Hot Springs, Ark, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 18th. The fire broke
out in the Excelsior laundry and the dam
age amounted to S150,000.
REV. GEORGE McDUFFIE, a negro preacher,
was hanged recently at Atlanta Ga. for the
murder of William Cheney, another negro.
Illicit love on the part of McDuffie led him
to commit the crime.
The Red river in Arkansas was over its
banks the 18th, being from ten to fourteen
miles wide. The flood was declared to be
the worst since 1913.
GENERAL.
A GERMAN edition of Emile Zola's ia
40 hnn - h.
lice.
OWING to bad health, the King OF Portu-
gal has delegated the power to sign state
documents to his son, Prince Carlos.
The differences between the United
States and Moorish Governments have
finally been settled, according to a dis
patch from Tangier Of the 9th.
HENRY j. LYDIA, an ex-engineer of the
steamer Sui ana, which was blown up in
1866, with the loss of 1000 Union soldiers,
declares that the recently published tor
pedo story was nonsensicaL The vessels
boilers were alone to blame.
THE gross earnings of the Burlington
railroad for the month of March were ST.
2l1,1SS decrease of 81, al, 493 compared
with the corresponding period of 1887; the
expenses were 81 307, 603, reduction of
81, 5l3; in net earnings deficit CT Sl46 Ais
Is shown, indicating a decrease of 81, 7I9 979
compared with last year. The decrease
was due to the strike of the engineers.
THE Turkish Cabinet has approved the
Anglo French Suez canal convention, aban-
doning its claim to preside over the asso-
citation and being given the right to use the
canal.
IN the British House Of Commons re-
Gently Sir John Gorst, Under Secretary for
India, announced that the Governmt Mt of
India admitted the authenticity of the cir
cular of the Commander in Chief directing
that regimental baZaars have sufficient
number of women. The statement created
| q great sensation
ALL the weavers ami spinners in the
vicinity of Breslau, Germany, have struck.
Socialism was thought to be the cause.
W. b. STRONG has been reelected presi-
dent OF the Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe
system.
BIZ fall OF rock in a mine near St ASS
furt, Saxony the other day, eighteen men
were killed and many injured.
THE Emperor OF Brazil, who has been very
i'll in Italy, is reported out of danger
ADvICEs from Rio Janeiro state that the
Brazilian Chamber OF Deputies has passed
a bill for the immediate abolition of slav-
cry.
ADvIoEs from Afghanistan say that the
Heratic regiment had fight re- emily with
t'tC DChAohOA lAiOS, WHICH udQ pSblllOueu
for Russian protection. Many were killed
on each side.
1T is reported that at a recent parade OF
Russian troops cavalry Lieutenant named
Timoferef was about to fire at the Gar
with a revolver when another officer seized
him by the arm and the weapon being dis
charged the bullet entered the ground
Timoferef who was at once arrested, ap-
peared TO be insane.
TIE Railway Conductors Association, in
session at Toronto, Ont, recently passed
resolutions coodemning the strike Of the
engineers on the ''Qf system.
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, Of the Roman
Catholic Church, died at Toronto, Ont, on
the 11th.
DON PEDRO. Emperor of Brazil, took
relapse at Milan, Italy. on the 18th and was
again critically sick he showed symptoms
Of neuralgia cerebral congestion
SEVERE frosts were reported on the 18th
and 18th from many parts Of Dakota, Min
nesota, Iowa. Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
| souri,. At some places the thermometer
! vent 70 70 degrees above zero. At Kansas