Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
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THE Knights of Labor general executive
board has asked President Corbin, OF the
Reading railroad. TO arbitrate.
PROF. FRANCIS L. PATTON, ID. d. LII. D.,
has been unanimously elected to succeed
DIR. McCosh as president of Princeton IN.
j. College.
AN engine and caboose on the Erie rail-
way were wrecked and four trainmen
seriously injured by collision with local
train near Newburg, N. Y, recently.
The cotton spinners of New Bedford,
Mass, have demanded a ten per cent. in
crease in wages.
The schedules of 1. B. Rosenthal d Co.,
millinery goods at No. 632 Broadway, New
York, and at st. Louis, show liabilities
S5l3,49l; nominal assets, 500, 992; actual
assets, SIS, S9S.
THE sister OF K. F. Hall. who committed
suicide in New York, has obtained judg-
ment for his insurance money.
THE National Fishery Association held q
meeting at Camden, N. j., on the Sth.
The joint convention of miners and mine
owners in session in Pittsburgh, Pa, have
referred the wages question to a committee
of two miners and two operators from each
State.
The blast furnace owners of Western
Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio propose
to unite to secure better freight rates,
lower coke and smaller wages.
A BANQUET was given by the Kings
County Democratic Club, in honor Of the
birthday of the late Samuel ]. Tilden, at
Brooklyn, n. Y, on the evening Of the 9Th.
STEPHEN j. MEANY, the well-known
Irish American, died recently in Water
bury, Conn.
Four frame dwellings were burned at
Kutztown, near Reading, Pa, the other
night. John Hopp, who was intoxicated,
and two Of his children persisted in the
flames.
CoHNFIELD, the bankrupt feather i'm
porter Of New York, had his real estate
sold on the 9th, which netted 1861, $50
THE Home Market Club gave banquet
at Boston on the 9th. The principal speaker
was Hon. John Sherman, who defended
the policy of protection and attacked the
recent speech of Russell Lowell on free
trade. Hon. w. Mckinley, of Ohio, also
spoke.
EDWARD a. DEAcoNs, OF Rochester, N.
Y, has been sentenced to be hanged April
10 for the murder of Mrs. Ada Stone.
THE jury in New York City disagreed in
the case of A. Howard Hinkle, of Cincin-
natl, against Mrs. Jeanette NJ. Thurber
tor 100000 for money advanced to the
".
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at the Du-
pont powder works near Wilkesb barre. Pa.
oa the 10th, Four men were blown to
pieces and forty other persons injured
fourteen seriously. Immense damage was
done, several tons of powder beng ex-
Uloded
A FISHING schooner went on the ROCKS ON
Rye, Me-, the other night during storm
and was wrecked. Two OF the crew were
lost.
MRS SARAH j. ROBINSON, charged with
wholesale poisoning TO Obtain insurance
money, has been convicted at Boston of
murder in the first degree.
HE six-days go-as- you-please race at New
| YORK ended on the 1lLh in an unprecedent-
ed victory for Albert, Of Philadelphia, who
beat Fitzgerald's record by nearly twelve
miles. The score stOodi Albert. 62Ilx !.
Herty. SS2, Guerrero, 564; Hart, SIS; Col
den, SSs; Moore, 53l; Strokel, 525; More
mac, 52a; Dillon. 504; Sullivan, 3s3; Tay-
Tor, 1885, lilly. 32d; Stout, an.
TEE New York Times OF the 18th stated
that the grand jury had determined to in
dict Jay Gould aud Russell Sage for lar
I ceny.
HoN. b. F. JoNRs. chairman OF the Ma
tional Republican Committee. has received
letter from Hon James G. Blaine which
states that he will not be candidate for
the Presidential nomination. The letter is
sanguine Of success for the party candi-
date, whoever he may be, and defends the
protective system.