Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-30

CHARLES PALMER, OF New York a brother
OF Cortland Palmer, recently had row
with one OF his tenants, Robert Blss0it. a
fashionable tailor. The two men came to
blows and BhssoIt sent Palmer challenge
10 fight a duel. II was not thought that
Mr.. Palmer would accept. He said he
couldn't think of fighting his tailor don't
you know"
THE Girard wrench factory at Girard,
Pa, valued at $4,000 and employing sixty
five men, caught fire the other morning
ard was total loss in less than an hour,
nothing being saved.
MAINE Democrats have nominated Hon.
W. l.. Putnam, of Portland, for Governor.
The college lacrosse championship at
Princeton, N. j., recently was won by
Princeton, the latter beating Harvard by a
score OF 2 to1.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland at
tended reunion of North" and South
Presbyterian delegates at the residence OF
Wistar Morris, near Philadelphia, recently,
In the course of his address the President
said to his hearers that he could not under
stand why his religious brethren should
keep up these political distinctions when
business men had obliterated them as being
Improbable.
PENNSYLVANIA Democrats were In con-
vention at Harrisburg on the 23d aud made
the following selection: Presidential
electors at large, ex Congressman Spear
and A. F. Heating of Pittsburgh. Dele
gates at large to st. Louis: L. c. Cas- sidy,
OF Philadelphia; Charles F. Boyer OF
Washington County; William II. Mutchler,
Of Northampton, and William L. Scott, OF
Erie. Judge J. B. McCallom, of Susque-
hanna County,.was nominated for Supreme
Judge.
DIR. W. JOYCE, OF Cincinnati, was the
name Of I third new Bishop elected by
the Methodist General Conference at Now
York. In the balioting for the fourth
Bishop on the 23d a sensation was created
by the discovery Of two fraudulent votes.
By FIRE in n rag shop in New York City
the other day, three female pickers were
forced to jump by the flames and were Sc
verelv huSt-
The Roch ster, n. Y. street cars drivers
strike has been settled on terms favorable
70 the men.
THE centennial Of the Presbyterian
Church, North ard South, was celebrated
Ut Philadelphia on the 24th.
DRs. NEWMAN and Go ldsell are the n1mes
OF two more OF the new Bishops elected by
the Methodist General Conference az New
York.
A FAREWELL Tecep'io ion was given to Sin
Thomas II. Graitan Esmonie, NJ. p, at the
Academy OF Music, New York, on the
hight al the Path
Ex-MGTOR w. r. GRACE, Of New York,
announces his intention to go before the
Democratic State convention to make a
contest against Governor Hill for the nom
Instion for Governor.
FRANK MILLS, of California. sub fresh
man of Harvard Co lege, eighteen years
old, died az Boston recently from the ef-
fects of excessive opium smoking. With
two companions he obtaiDei some pi es
and INDUCED IN the vice, and, it is said,
smehed several pipcfuls in rapid success
sion ard was made very III His tySo CON
panions were reported dangerously sick.
COLONEL Eli SMFER, formerly State
Treasurer, died recently at l. wisburg
Pa, from injuries received from being
thrown from his carriage.
Az Italian boarding house at Pittston,
Pa, was burned the other morning. Three
children of the proprietor, Christopher
Sarageni, persisted and several men were
hurt, some fatally.