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


MARTIN p. BoYcE, the noted prison re-
former OF Wisconsin and opponent of cap
Ital punishment, died recently at White
water, aged sixty one.
THE striking brewers of Chicago have
given up their fight and have asked TO be
reiustated at the employers terms
LIGHTNING struck a school house at Day
ton, o., recently, and several children were
shocked.
Ex-senator THURMAN laughed at the
report that an effort was being made to
nominate him for the Vice-Presidency and
refused to talk about it. His son Allan
said that the Judge would not consider
such thing for moment
GEORGE F. MONTGOMERY, lumber dealer,
OF Vincennes, Ind, has assigned with ST.
900 liabilities and S103, 900 assets in unsold
lumber.
A CYCLONE struck the village Of Peca-
tonica, Ill , on the night of the 10th, wreck
ing several houses and innumerable out
buildings. One woman aud three children
were injured, but not fatally, by flying tim
bers.
MICHIGAN Democrats met at Grand Rap
IDS on the 10th and elected delegates to
the National convention. Cleveland's Ad-
ministration was Endorsed.
TIE First Assistant Postmaster-Gcneral,
A. E Stevenson, has declined being can
didate for the Democratic nomination for
Governor Of Illinois.
The National Printers Protective Fra
tornity closed its convention at Cleveland,
o., on the 10th. o. F. Kenny, Of Cleveland,
was elected president
COMMODORE KITrsoN, the noted horse
man, dropped dead while a passenger on q
train near Harvard, H., recently. he was
seventy-fve years old
FIRE IN J. H Horson's lumber yard in
Chic 60 destroyed an immense quantity Of
lumber, four drying kilns and a planning
mill Loss, $4,000
THE body Of private James McMann.
Fifth cavalry, lost in the last blizzard OF
February, has been found near Woodtord,
1t ..-- 1900. ~
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
SENATORIAL COMMITTEE MEETING

MEDICINE LODGE, KAN, MAY l, 1888.
In pursuance to the instructions of
the democratic central committee of
Barber county, Kansas, the undersign-
ed, senatorial committeeman for Barber
county, requests that the committeeman
from the counties of Harper, Comanche,
Clark and Meade, which, with Barber,
now comprise the Thirty Eighth Sena-
torial district, assemble at Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, at o'clock p. m. on
Tuesday, June 5, 1855 for the purposes
of fixing the time and place for holding
convention to nominate a candidate
for state senator in this district.
Where a county has no senatorial
committeeman, it is requested that the
chairman of the county central COM
mittee designate some suitable person
to ill the position until one can be regu-
larly elected. d. A. MCCANLEss,
Senato1 Committeem' for Barber Co.
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The Pratt County National bank, at
Pratt Center, was entered 10y thieves
last Friday and the safe robbed OF
S4,Ol6, i'm currency. The bookkeeper
and the teller had gone to dinner and
the cashier partly turned the combina-
tion on the safe, locked the door of the
bank aud went across the street to the
pOst-Otllce. lie was gone but u few min
utes, and during his absence the rob
berry was effected by breaking n pane OF
glass In a window. Nothing but a
pakcage of currency was taken. Quite
n large amount of other monies were
In the safe. No clue has been discover
eel that indicates by whom the robbery
was done.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
THE EAST

New JERSEY Republicans in convention
at Trenton on the 9Th Endorsed William
Walter Phelps for the Presidential nomi-
nation.
REV. GEORGE I. PURvEs, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, has been elected professor of ecclesi-
astical history IN the Princeton Theological
Seminary.
The Academy of Music at Albany, N. Y,
was well filled on the night Of the 9th when
Colonel Robert G. Ingersou delivered an
Grafton on the late Roscoe Conkling.
AT the annual meeting of the American
Bible Society in New York the receipts
were reported as S5J7, $40 and the disburse-
ments as $JO6,4
NATURAL gas caused the destruction OF
St. Paurs Cathedral, Buffalo, n. Y, on the
morning OF the 10th. The building was an
imposing one and was valued at S35O,OOO.
SINCE January thirty-two corporations
of Fall RIVER Mass, with an aggregate
capital Of 81, 7lSOOO, have made dividends
OF more than 3-l0 per cent. for the frac-
ton of the year The dividends range
from ~ to 10 for the months already gone,
and Indicate that the dividends for the year
will average II per cent.
VERMONT Democrats met at Montpelier.
on the 10Th. The following State ticket
was nominated: For Governor S. C. Shurt-
left. of Montpelier; Lieutenant overnor
I, G. O'Sullivan, of Burlington: Treasurer,
W. f. Peck, of Barnett; Secretary Of State,
DIR. w. b. Mayo, of Mortified; Auditor,
George NJ. Dearborn, of Corinth. Presi-
Dental electors and National delegates
were also chosen.
The will of Roscoe Conkling has been
offered for probate in New York He be-
queaths every thing to his wife.
The six-days race at Madison square
garden ended on the l2th with the follow
ing score: LttlewOod, Gil; Guerrero, 5Sg;
Herty, 513; NOremac, $50; Golden, 529. The
receipts for the week were about SIS, 200,
of which Littlewood received about a, 500
and Guerrero about 81, SO.
j. L. RUMMEL's general store at Shippens-
burg, Pa, was blown up with dynamite the
other night. The deed was believed to
have been done by liquor men, as Rummel
had been vigorous in enforcing tho liquor
law.
The Disston saw works at Tacony, near
Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Loss, 100000
GoRMAN Co, provision dealers Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, have assigned with SllO,-
900 liabilities and unknown assets.
WILLIAM SHOWERS, the aged murderer
who escaped from the Lebanon Jail was re-
captured in a deserted school house five
miles from Lebanon, Pa, by three young
men who had q hand-to hand struggle with
him before lac was captured.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

City on the mornlng or the 18th the side
walks were white with frost. Grave fears
were generally expressed Of the effect on
the crops.
EUROPEAN money canters were generally
quiet and steady during the week ended
May II. In French cable shares there was
sharp rise. Other securities were I'M
proved.
BUSINESS failures (Duu's report) for the
seven days ended May IL numbered for the
United States, 192; Canada, Ia; total, go,
compared with 234 the previous week and
167 the corresponding week last year.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
May II showed an average increase of IL
compared with the corresponding week of
last year In New York there was de-
crease of 3.5
The result of the examination of Emperor
Frederick's throat discourages every hope
OF more than temporary recovery. DIR.
Mackenzie reports that the local malady is
making gradual progress. The oesophagus
Is still unaffected, however.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily New.
CONGRESz.

CONGKES4.
In the Senate on the Sth, while Senator
Harris was in tine Chair, Mr.. Voorhees, rose and
in a few words expressed regret for the unpar-
liamentary language he had used in the late
tilt with Mr.. Ingalls, and npologized TO the SEN
ate for so doing. Without any comment Sena-
tor ingalls, resumed the Chair. A memorial
from the New England conference OF the Meth
odist Church was presented, protesting against
the ratification OF the Chinese or any other
treaty that precludes Chinese preachers or
delegates TO religious conventions coming into
this country. The Land Grant Forfeiture bill
was then further considered, at the Close OF
which several bills were reported, a message
received from tho President and the Senate ad-
journed. In the House the Presidents veto
OF the bill for the sale OF New York Indian
lands was referred TO the Indian Affairs Com
mittee. The House In Committee OF the Whole
then took up the Tariff bill, and debate con-
tinued until adjournment.
IL the Senate on the 9th Senator Sher-
man reported adversely Senator RiddIeberger's
resolution TO consider the Fisheries treaty in
open session, also Senator Hoar's resolution for
a report OF the debates on the treaty. The Rail-
road Land Forfeiture bill after further discus
sion was passed without division. The Inter
national Copyright bill was also passed by a
vote OF s5 TO ~. Pending a motion TO recon
slider the vote on the Land Forfeiture bill the
Senate adjourned. At the expiration OF the
morning hour In the House debate on the Tariff
bill was resumed and continued until adjourn
Inent.
AFTER morning business in the Senate on
the 10Th. the vote was reconsidered by which
the Land Grant bill was passed and an amend
ment TO protect presumption and homestead
claimants was adopted and the bill again passed.
Among the bills reported from Committees
" as the Pension Appropriation bill number
OF bills OF minor import passed, among
them being bills appropriaiing 800 ~ for pub
lie building at Beatrice, Neb.. and $4,000 for q
building at Hastings, Neb. Adjourned until
Monday -. In the House the conference report
on the Joint resolution for promoting arbitration
and reciprocal relations with the South Amer
lean States and Mexico was agreed TO and the
tarIn debate continued until the evening ses
sion and adjournment
The Senate was not in session on the
1lth d. The Tariff debate was resumed in the
House aud Mr.. Scott, OF Pennsylvania. spoke ut
length in favor OF the Nils bill. AT the evening
session thirty pension bills passed and
the House adjourned.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th, and in the House the entire day was de.
voted 10 debate on the Tariff bill.
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THE LATEST.


LEBANON, Pa, May 14-W .lliam Show
ers, the murderer who escaped from the
Lebanon JAIL was captured yesterday in a
deserted school house FIVE miles from this
city by three young men who had hand
to-hand struggle with him before he was
captured. He was then securely tied and
conveyed to the Lebanon jail and placed in
a cell under guard. The excitement was
intense and but for the presence of armed
officers he would haye been lynched. His
captors will be pail 500 each for their
work. He seemed very little affected and
said that he would yet cheat the gallows.
CHICAGO, May 14-The execution of the
colored murderer, Zeph Davis, led to an
other tragedy Saturday night In saloon
quarrel over the merits of the Davis case
George Boyd, a negro musician, stabbed to
the heart white mechanic named John
Stephenson. Boyd walked to a police sta
ton to give himself up, claiming self-de-
Tense as his excuse, but remembering the
prompt trial and execuii n of Davis turned
away and ran. He was seen, however, and
policemen soon had him behind the bars.
CHICAGO, May 13-Judge Cooley, chair
man of the Interstate Commerce. Commits
sion, stated TO a reporter yesterday that
no order has as yet been made by the Com
mission in reference to the proposed inves-
tigation into the Burling; on strike and 1t
would be impossible to tell when the Com
mission would be ready to begin the inves-
tigation. The judge said he was in hopes
that a settlement would be made between
the contending parties without the inter-
vention of the Commission.
BURNS, Ore, May 14.-James Bright was
waylaid and assassinated by an unknown
man last night The assassin then fast
ened a rope to the feet of his victim,
dragged the body half mile from the road
and there buried it under rocks. The body
was discovered soon after. The whole coun
try is aroused and looking for the murder
er. Bright was known to have considera-
BILE money and cupldity was the motive
prompting the deed.
New York, May 13.-The officials in
charge of the Assay Office state that the
amount of gold bars on hand there Is larger
this year than ever before in the history of
the country. To-day there is over $50, OOO,-
600 in gold bars in the Office against S57. OOO-
600 ayear ago and Sl5,000,000 in August
1856. Besides the gold bars on hand the
Assay Office has gold coin amounting to
S13,000,O00 deposited in the sub treasury.
MUsKoGEE, l. T., May 14-Thursday John
Smith, white, ran off with the Creek wife
of white farmer named Allen, living thir-
ty-five miles west of here. Allen gave
pursuit aud killed Mrs. Allen and Smith
by shooting them with Winchester. He
then returned home and traded his crops
for horse and skipped.
New YORK, May 12.-George S. Stin-
son, a nephew of Hon. ]. b. Blaine,
died yesterday of pneumonia. He was as
sistant internal revenue agent at this port
and had been connected with the service
ten years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

over at Nj. Vernon, ILL.,. at the
democratic convention, a speech was
made by VIM. j. BledsOe, a prom
inent farmer who had long been an UNI
comprisinglrepublican. lie said: you
may be surprised to see Bill Bledsoe
here I'm your convention. If IL was re-
publican pow-wow 1 would need no
introduction. For twenty-five years
have voted the republican national tick
ct. / will do SO no longer. l am not
here. gentlemen. because love the dem
ocratic party, but because love myself,
and believe, and am convinced, that
the democratic party Of to-day Is the
friend of the laboring man. My con-
version has not come for Office, but be-
cause have been convinced In spite OF
my preiudices. / was in the Union
army, and fought all through the war.
came home y republican, and have re-
manned such until this year. Tie old
bloody shirt has played out with me. II
will not pay my taxes, nor will IL raise
the prices Of my farm products cent,
nor reduce the cost of necessaries of
life. II I am not badly mistaken, tif
teen 10 twenty thousand more farmers
Will do rs I have done before the cleo
tion In November. Enough. at least,
10 change the state OF Illinois from a
republican high tariff and high state
tax camp TO a reform tariff, or farmers
protection state
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

zEs mississippi was reported on q ram
page on the 18th. At Quincy Ill, the river
was ten miles wide
The body Of j. II. Kiel, prom nent citi-
zen Of Oshkosh, Wis.,, was found in Cedar
river recently. He had been inspecting a
bridge and 1t was first thought had been
drowned, but an examination revealed the
fact that he had been murdered and robbed
and his body thrown into the river.
The offer Of $4,000 reward for the cap
ture of Tascott, the murderer of million
ARE Smell, OF Chicago, has expired by lin
station. Notwithstanding the dozens OF
arrests made all over the country the real
Tascott is still at large.
LUNBERIEN say there is an over supply
of logs in the Mississippi this season.
There are more logs in the streams than
the Minneapolis mills can possibly saw, and
there are no storage booms and no market
for the logs A decentralization of the luln-
Der market is threatened.
A. j. BRYANT, wealthy resident of San
Francisco, who was mayor from 1875 to
1873, fell from a ferry boat recently and
was drowned. He had been in ill-health
for some time, and it is supposed had an
attack of vertigo.
A TORNADO proved destructive to build
ings, etc, IN Northern Indiana on the night
of the l1th.
ZEPH DAVIS, colored, was hanged at Chi
cago recently for the murder of little Mag
gle GaUghan. Davis murdered his victim
because she ''sassed' HIM, and then hid
her body in a closet.
Tue children of Joseph Digmanny, Of Red
Lake Falls, Mimi, twin brothers aged
eight, were fatally poisoned recently by
eating wild parsnlps.
The overflow of the Mississippi at Alex
andrta, No, was declared to have damaged
the farming community to the amount of
$500, 600
SIX robbers attacked train twelve
miles from Nogales, ArI., on the night of
the 18th. They killed the fireman, knocked
down the engineer and shot the messenger
and conductor, supposed fatally. They
were driven off after getting only S139.
Hot pursuit was at once instituted and two
or three Of the supposed robbers were cap
tured.
]. LUsK & Co., leading fruit Gamers, of
San Francisco, have failed. The liabilities
are estimated by outside parties to be 500,
600. The Lusk cannery was said to be the
largest in the world.
The Grottkau habeas corpus case at Mil
waukee, Wis, has been decided adversely
and Grottkau must serve his sentence of
one years Imprisonment for melting riot
A TRAM car loaded with iron ore fell
down shaft in a mine near Ishpeming,
Mich, the other day, killing one and injur-
ing three other persons.
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sHERIFFs SALE.

STATE OF KANSAS, lss
BARBER COUNTY.
T. G. Malloy, Cashier of the Citizens National
Bank, Plaintiff,
versus
Joseph Wiley, II. Fl. Hardy and Robert j. Tai
iaferro, Defendants.
Before d. A. McCanless, Justice of the Peace,
for Medicine Lodge Township,
DY VIRTUE of an execution, to me direct- I'd,
- issued by the above-named Justice of the
Pesce, in the aboye-entitled cause, l will on
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1888,
at2 o clock in the afternoon, at the front door
OF the court house, in the City of Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, sell at publ sale, the follow
ing property, to-wit: One cow > years old; one
COW, years old; eight cows years old, bran.
ded no levied on as the property of Joseph
Wiley, one of the above-named defendants, to
satisfy a Judgment for Thirty Dollars and Nine
ty cents ($3O90 with interest from May z, 1855,
at the rate of twelve Q2l per cent. per annum
and Five Dollars and Twenty-Five cents 1926
costs and for the costs of sale.
Given under my hand, at Medicine Lodge,
Kansas, this 18th day of May, 1888.
GEO. w. STEVENS,
81 Sheriff of Barber county. Kansas.
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MOVING ON.

The Junction City Union, George w.
Martins paper, the ablest republican
sheet in the fifth congressional district,
under the heading, "What We Mean by
Moving On" says: I'VE last week
gave it as our judgment that the repub
lican party must move On-that is, drop
the war racket and devote some atten-
ton to the questions IN which there is
bread and meat for people living to-day.
On one day one of the senators from the
state of Kansas paralyzed the country
by tanning confederate hides'-he
scalded Voorhees, tor his copperhead
record. Two days later the other sena-
tor from Kansas vigorously denounced
a steal by which the farmers of Kansas,
as he estimated it, had been robbed, in
five years, of $4,000, 900 on their cattle
alone. One would suppose, since mort
cages have been the principal crop in
Kansas for two years past, that the rob
berry on cattle by the railroad combines
and Its expose by United States sena-
vi NouAu dNNidCb SOli6 dbAtulloll bul
it hasn't. In fact il falls fiat compared
with tanning confederate hides When
Voorhees, was annoying the loyal ele-
ment of the country, the senator who
attacked the $4,000, 900 steal was i'm the
army, while the senator who twenty-five
years later skinned Mr.. Voorhees, with
his tongue, was voting with Voorhees,
men and sympathizers in Kansas 70
skins copperheads twenty-five years
past due was never known to discuss a
practical question. The contrast is so
absurd that we are beginning to think
that the SHINING style of statesman
ship is simply dust throwing"
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Those Claim Jumuers

Anthony Journal: deputy Sheriff
Snap returned last evening from Blaine
township where he has been serving
ejectment writs upon certain claim
jumpers. In one Of the cases the jum-
per was put off the land by Sheriff Snap
OH Saturday last. In a few hours he
moved back. Again on MONDAY he was
put off but he soon returned. THIS
time however, the cooler may cool his
ardor. This claim jumping is a curse
to any country. IL is the meanest
kind of robbery. Those who engage
in il and those who assist them are no
betterthan burglars or highway robbers,
and TO he shot down as you would shoot
thief or footpad. A neck-.le social
down in Blaine township would doubt
less nd that community of thieving and
marauding claim jumpers and would
protect the citizens in the possession
Of their property. There are two or
three men in Harper county who make
their living by assisting claim jumpers
and working up contests. Though no
personal harm may come TO them, they
will ever be held in contempt by all
honest men,"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

Albert Griffin the old "he prohibition
ist' OF Kansas, effectually captured
the republican convention at Wichita.
last week, and against the real wishes
of the machine politicians and former
leaders. Albert was the first man elect
ed as n delegate-at-large to the Chicago
convention. lie had boldly affirmed
his purpose OF going over to the third
party I'm the event of his defeat at
Wichita, and the republican party could
not afford to lose Mr. Griffin. AS the
best way out OF the dilemma, the re-
publicans swallowed their dose, took
the medicine the radical pgohibitionists
had prescribed and then sought to coun.
teract lbs influence by electing three
anti-prohibitionists as the other dele
gates-at-large.
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Judge Tuley, ut Chicago, has rendered
a preliminary decision in a contested
will case that Is of considerable impor-
lance TO all children born I'm slavery and
90 many of the descendants of such chill
dren. lie IN fact pronounces such chill
dren Legitimate, and holds that they
cannot inherit property from the father
The ground of the decision is that slaves
being chattles, no legitimate marriage
was possible any more than real-estate
can marry real-estate. The decision,
which was made on n motion for rehear-
ing, was n surprise to both sides. The
case will be appealed, however, and then
the special point involved will be fully
discussed