Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-23
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HARRY BENSON, the Patti ticket swindler
awaiting extradition to Mexico committed
suicide at Ludlow street Jail New York,
on the night of the 10Th, by jumping from
the second tier to the ground.
SEVERAL big iron companies Of Pennsyl-
vania have given notice of ten per cent. re-
duction Of wages.
The resolutions adopted by the recent
New York Democratic convention for the
election of National delegates, were highly
laudatory of President Cleveland and in
structed the delegation at st. Louis to act
as unit in his support for the Presiden-
tial nomination. Resolutions were also
adopted declaring against trusts and ap-
proving Governor Hill.
A MEETING of the Fenian Brotherhood
was held in New York recently. Repre-
sentatives were present from number Of
Eastern and Western cities. The interior
ence of the Papal authorities In Irish affairs
was condemned
VICE-CHANCELLoR BIRD, at Trenton, N
j., recently decided the case of the Hutch
iugs heirs against Henry George The
clause In the will leaving Henry George a
bequest for the purpose Of aiding him in
the circulation of his peculiar ideas and
theories among the people was declared
void. Bird said that George advocated
practices with respect to real estate in
violation Of the laws of tho land, and he
could not sanction the spreading Of such
sentiments.
THE g. A. R. memorial committee has
declined to give place in the Decoration
Day parade at New York to Phil Sheridan
post No. 1 OF dependent army and navy
veterans on the ground that being COM
posed of both Confederate as will as Union
veterans it is excluded by the rules of the
organization.
SPREcKELs, the sugar man, has finally
decided to locate his proposed refinery in
Philadelphia, having bought property for
that purpose to the amount of s45O,000.
THE centennial meeting of the Presby-
terrain General Assembly, the supreme
eccles ;astical court of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, tegan in Phil
adelphia on the 18th. There were over 500
delegates in attendance.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred at the
powder house at the Pratt sville brown
stone quarry near Stockton, N. j., the
other morning. Que man was killed and a
number of houses were wrecked and con-
siderable property was destroyed. The re-
port was heard twenty mics away. Three
hundred kegs OF powder exploded. The
explosion was caused by workmen dropping
q keg of powder.
JACOB VANDERBILT, at New York re-
Gently, in giving his side of the story of his
relations with his wife, who is suing him
for limit d divorce and alimony, said that
he met her in house or ill-fame, and as he
was young and Inexperienced, he became
her dupe and consented to q secret mar
rage. He SAID the girls name was Mary
Smith, but she called herself Viola Ward.
Her family lives at Cazenovia, N. Y.
THE conviction of McQuade, the New
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frmed by the Supreme Court.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of New York after a
brief hearing on the writ of habeas corpus
in the case OF Mrs. Scofieid (c'iargej with
being concerned In the death OF Broker
Hatch), granted her discharge. Delaney
Nicoll coutended that the committaI Of
Mrs. 8, oneld was most unheard of pro-
ceeding.
FRED KING and William Kinney, aged
fifteen and thirteen years respectively,
were killed by train while or ssing q
Providence & Boston railroad bridge near
Providence. R. L, recently.
Tue E. Z. Baker Post, g. A. R., Philadel-
! phia has got into hot water with the order
! for admitting the Confederate General,
Joseph E. Johnston, to membership.
FRED MARsDEN, the well-known play
wright, was found dead in his room on
West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
street, New York, the other morning.
having committed suicide by closing the
windows and tui ming on the gas.
Rev. CHARLES EAToS. pastor of the
Church of the Divine Paternity at Forty
fifth Street and Fifth ayenue, preached a
| farewell sermon on the 20,h. He was to
make TRIP abroad with Andrew Carnegie
ami wife. They expect TO meet Mr. Blaine
IN London and accompany him on coach
ing tour.
| A WOMAN whose name was given a. josie
Williams was buried some days ago at Bev-
eriy, n. j., IN Ter ci-cums tances OF some
secrecy and mystery, end IL is now stated
/ that she was Josie Mansfield. who became
notorious at the time OF the Fiske Stokes
trrgcdy in 1s72
WILLIAM F. Copy buffalo Biil), Indians,
cowboys, animals, tents and paraphernelia
arrived at New York on the 9th from Eng
land on the Persian Monarch.
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