Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-02
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At Kings Cottage the Milwaukee track
was covered with ice piled fifteen totwenty
feet high. A construction train had to
dig cut through 1t and take the ice away
on fiat cars.
WHILE attempting TO escape from Jail at
Trinidad, Col, the other evening W. W.
Reynolds, contractor, awaiting trial for
attempted murder of a railway paymaster,
was instantly killed. He knocked the
iailer down, and was getting away when
shot The jailer will die.
ELECTIONS were held in many Illinois
cities on the nth, the principal feature be
ing a struggle between temperance and sa-
loon elements. In large number OF places
the anti-license ticket was successful, and
In several others high license candidates
were elected. The license and low license
tickets met with success in several of the
larger towns but in few OF the smaller
places.
THE old depot Of the Cincinnati, Wabash
q Michigan railroad AT Wabash, Ind,
which was long an eyesore, has been blown
up with dynamite.
THE Supreme Court OF Ohio has decided
In test case that the Habitual Criminal
law Of the State is unconstitutional.
INDIANA Whitecaps whipped two men
and a woman into insenslbility in Craw-
ford County recently.
SENATOR STANFoRD's valuable stables at
Palo Alto, Cal, were burned the other night
with a number OF valuable horses. The loss
amounted TO 200, 100.
THE 2OO female employees in Shotwell,
Clerihew & Lotham's clothing factory IN
Minneapolis, Mimi, struck on the 18th for
the wages paid prior TO January /, when a
big cut was made.
JAMES CRowDER, n cowboy, was drowned
In the Verdigris river near Caloosa, l. T.,
recently, his horse falling while fording
the stream.
CONGRESSIONAL district Republican con-
ventions were held throughout Indiana on
the 18th and delegates elected to the CHI
cago convent ton. In twelve districts dele.
gates were instructed TO vote for General
Harrison for Presidential candidate and
tho remaining delegates pledged them
selves to his support. Gresham did not
secure any delegates.
SERIOUS trouble about the lumber docks
at Muskegon, Mich, is looked for because
Of the strike Of the longshoremen for 50 a
day.
DAVID s. FoTHERINGHAM was awarded
S2O,OOO damages by the ST. Louis jury In
his SUIT for $50 900 against the Adams Ex-
press Company for false Imprisonment.
The case grew out Of the robbery on the
Frisco road in 1886, when Wittrock, alias
"Jim Cummings" robbed the express of
$4,000, Fotheringham being held as an &C
complete.
Four hundred members OF the Brewers
Union struck at Cincinnati on the 10Th.
THE Ohio Repu blcan convention at Day
ton on the 18TH Endorsed Hon. John Sher-
man for the Presidency.
MOSES FRALEY, the bear grain operator,
who failed recently at st. Louis for 500,
600, declares he will pay dollar for dollar.
THE Indians on the Bad river reserva-
ton in Wisconsin threaten trouble because
not employed TO tend logs being sent down
the streams.
THE Republicans OF the Fifth Illinois
district have renominated A. ]. Hopkins
for Congress.
The Supreme Court Of Minnesota, on "A
test case, has sustained the right of the
State Railroad Commission to decide
whether a railroad IS giving reasonable
rates.
THREE lives were lost by fire, supposed
TO DO Incendiary, which occurred recently
at the Bethel Home, St. Louis. The other
inmates, mostly tramps, had narrow
escapes.
NEWT VORcE, the Deer Trail terror, who
was convicted at Greeley, Col, of killing
Deputy Sheriff Hollingsworth last Decem-
Der, has been sentenced to fourteen years
in the penitentiary at Canon City. Motion
for new trial was overruled.
ONE hundred Republican clubs of Ohio
met recently at Dayton, o., and made
preparations for active campaign work.
CHICAGO bakers, numbering about LOO,
struck on the 22d because Of the refusal
Of the bosses TO recognize the union. The
strike speedily ended, the bosses coming
/ 10 terms.
THOMAS DUGNN and G. A. Bidd, promi
neut hotel proprietors of Springfield, o..
have been fined $50 and costs each and sen
fenced to tendays in jail for using oleomar
| garine on their tables without posting no.
/ ticc In their dining. rooms.
THE large roller mills and seven other
business buildings at Carlisle Iowa. were
burned recently, entailing loss of so, CO.,
with SlO,jOO insurance.
MARY HEM, her brother, sister and
/ lover, Andrew Biebcl, Of New Ulm, Mimi,
were crossing the south fork or the Crow
river in boat recently, when they were
upset aad Biebiel and Mary Hem were
| drowned, but the others were saved by
| cliuging 70 the boat.
JOHN A. RICE, proprietor Of the fremont
House in Chicago and noted hotel man
ager, died tho other day.