Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-02
GENERAL.

donations to the National League have
amounted to GO. 600 The donations of the
home branches Of the league in the same
time reach 23S7
THE directors OF the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway Company have elected
General Manager Roswell Miller president
to succeed the late Alexander Mitchell.
CONFLICTING reports were current on the
18th regarding Hon. j. G. Blaine's health.
Walker Blaine emphaticaIly denied that
his father was in any way sick, and said
that he went to Europe for pleasure and
not for the benefit Of his health.
The Manitoban Government Is negotiat-
ing for loan OF 81, 5O0, 0O0 10 complete the
Red River Valley road aud cover the de-
felt
THE Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and
Arizona Republican conventions have
chosen Blaine delegates. The Texas dele
cation will stand divided.
SERIOUS prairie fires are reported at sew
eral places in Manitoba.
A DISPATCH from Nancy says riot broke
out there on the Goth, mob Of Boulanger-
lists attacking the students clubs with
stones and other missiles. A number of
policemen were injured before quiet was
restored.
PARNELL recently expressed himself as
confident Of Irish home rule in the near
future.
QUEEN VICTORIA left Berlin for London
on the Goth.
EMPEROR FREDERICK was reported much
better by his physicians on the 18th. His
appetite was returning and his recovery
was thought probable.
The Servian ministry resigned on the
9th, but new one was at once formed.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended April % numbered for
the United States 1873; Canada, 30; total
223; compared with 1876 the previous. week
and 191 the corresponding week OF last
year.
SIX murderers were executed on the
9th, all for separate crimes-three at Fort
Smith, Ark, one at Anderson, s. c., one at
Orangeburg, s. C., and one at Leonard
town, Md Five of the culprits were
negroes.
THE Pope has issued decree condemn
ing the plan Of campaign and boycotting in
| Ireland. The Nationalists declared they
would treat it with contempt.
PRINCE BISMARCK has declined the title
OF Duke on the ground that he is not in po-
sition to support the dignity.
THE estimated revenue for Canada (Sir
Charles Tupper's budget) this year is
$4,000, 900, and the estimated expenditures
$4,000 900, showing a probable deficiency
Of 81, zoo, 600 for year ending June 30 next.
EDGAR SLADE, aged seventy-five years,
and William Mcclellan, his grandson,
aged three years, were recently found
burned TO death. They lived on farm
about three miles from Chatham, Ont, and
it was supposed they were out burning
brush.
The Weser Zeit,Hlg reports that Kuntz
and Tappenbeck's expedition 10 the interior
of the Cameroons CAT ica) was recently at
tackled by natives and that two officers
were severely wourded.
1T is stated that the action of the Propa-
ganda of the Holy See regarding Ireland
was taken spontaneously and not at all at
the suggestion OF any representative of the
English Government. The Pope approved
the Congregations action without in any
way entering into the pending political
! questions between England and Ireland
MEXICAN troops have had two more en-
gagements with Yaqui Indians. In the
Tejlbampo mountains twenty-one Indians
were killed, and near Aqua Caliente seven
were killed and fourteen taken prisoners.
THE London money market was quiet
and prices firm during the week ended
April 2Sth. The German bourses were
steady. The Paris Bourse was dull with
prices steady.
TIE ship Smyrna was sunk in q collision
with the steamer Motto in the English
channel of the Isle of Wight on the 2eth.
Thirteen persons were drowned.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
April 2S show an avera3e decrease OF
2.6 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the decrease
was 49,
In duel in the Bots de Boulogne at Paris
recently between Dupuls and Habert, art
critics, the former was killed.