Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-20
wHE WEST.

The Ihss Debars were found guilty at
New York on the IS Of swindiing by
means of spook pictures
THE WEST.
The Saengerfest opened at st. Louis on
the 18Th, over 1850 voices taking part in
the concerts
A CLAY bank in n brick yard at Menomi-
nee, MIMI, caved in the other morning.
Beneath it were seven men. Two brothers
named James were taken out dead and ter
rtbly mangled. Ole Hyl' e and Ole Hecker
lived only few hours. Knute Knutson.
Ben Farmstad and Nois Swenson had
broken legs or arms aud received internal
injuries.
Police OFFICER TIMOTHY SULLIVAN. who
Wa one OF the detail which stood the dam
age of the Anarchist bomb at Chicago.
May (, 1886, died recently. He received a
bullet in the thigh, ami the blood poisoning
which supervened giadaaliy Slapped his
strength until death ensued.
NINETEEN persons were poisoned at Kas-
sola, Mimi, recently by eating poisoned
cheese, which was found to have been
! kanufacture3 IN Wisconsin. Many of the
/ victims became iusensIble after suffering
spasms, but all recovered.
SOLOMON G. .Co1Isrocx has been nom
! mated for Congress, TO succeed Knute Mel
son, by he Republicans of the Fifth Min
! nesota district.
DURING storm recently lightning struck
the house Of Beerlet Guuderson, living four
miles south OF Clarkfield, Mimi, and killed
! two children and shocked the remainder of
the family severely.
4 CURIOUS fact has developed in the Pro-
hibition nomination for Governor OF Mis-
! souri, The nominee, Frank NJ. Lowe, Of
! Kansas City, is only twenty-eight years
! old, when the law requires the Governor to
be at least thirty-dve.
TIE negroes OF the Chickasaw Nation
are making elaborate preparations for
| general exodus TO Oklahoma whore they
! contemp. ate farming Numerous colonies
are entering lands and making permanent
homes. Sam Paul, full blooded Chicka-
saw Tribal Senator, is assisting the colored
| people in this move.
/ A HEAVY wind storm passed over Tifin,
| o., the other moroin-, blowing down the
wal Of he Beaver Walls glass factory and
! gas well deri Ks. Thousands Of dollars Of
! damage was done 10 fruit aud grain.
| TIE sixth annual convention of the Mis-
souri, Woman's Christian Temporance.
Union commenced at Kansas City on the
/ 10 r.
GEORGE S. HASKELL, of Rockford, H.,
! has been elected president Of the Ameri-
! can Trade Association.
TIE Supreme Lodge Knights Of Pythias,
at Cincinnati on the l45h, elected the fol-
| LOWING officers: Supreme chancellor, VIII
| liam Ward, Of Newark, n. j.; supreme
! vice-chancellor, George d. SHAY, OF Eau
! Clsire Wis; supreme prelate, harles T.
! Bragg, Of Bangor Ne. supreme keeper OF
the records and seals r. NJ c. White, of
! Nashville. Tenn; supreme master of arms,
Robert Newell, of Little Rock; supreme
outer guard John W. Thompson, of Wash
| Ington; supreme master OF the excheauer,
| Siansberry j. Wiley. or Wilm ugton. Del.
| Miss MoLLIE Garfield, daughter of the
murdered President, was married to J.
Stanley Brown at Mentor, o., on the 14th.
! at the same lime and place, Henry Gar
! Held, Mollie's brother, was married to Miss
Belle Mason, daughter of the late Hon.
James Mason, of Cleveland The wedding
was quiet affair, newspaper men being
! excluded.
An electric storm played havoc at Mil
! waukee, Wis, on the i4th. The telegraph
and telephone systems were greatly dam
| aged. In Cheboygan County a farmer
named Cooper was killed by lightning.
THE International Typographical Uuion,
lately in session az Kansas City, elected
| Edwin I. Plank, Of San Francisco, presi-
! dent. The new constitution provides for
/ bicnnial meetings.
A DISPATCH from Superior, Wis, OF the
14th says the damage by the floods in
Northern Minnesota would amount to $780,
| 0o0. The boom at Cloquet gave way, caus-
4 ing the loss OF several million feet Of logs.
! Ex-WARDEN j. A REID, of the sMmneso-
Ia penitentiary, has been given $4,000
damages for libel by Warden Stordick, his
successor.
! RoBBERs attacked a train on the NJ, K. &
| /, near Muscogee, l. T., ON the night of the
18th, killing one man and wounding two
others, but only getting IS in booty. An
Pctive pursuit of the ruffians was immedi-
ately organized
ALL the wiadow glass factories of the
| West have shut down until September
and possibly longer unless an agreement
as to wages IS reached.
CLARA WEED, aged eighteen. was struck
by lightning the other night near Aber-
deem, OAK, and killed.
SERIOUS floods are reported in Souih>,,n
Minnesota and Dakota. cc.nseope,,t MON
neavy ralas o. - .ae 18Th and l4th. Much
uanage has been done, the downpour
being accompanied By he IVY winds
THE Woman's Oh. IS ian Temperance
Union ended its convention at Kansas City,
No, on the 18th. Mrs. Clara Hoffman, Of
Kansas City, was elected president.
REcESTLT published statistics Of the
Chicago Union Stock Yards Company. and
OF the Chicago Board of Trade show that
the Chicago. Burlington q Quincy railroad
IS stiA leading all Other lines in the NUN
Der OF cars Of 1--we stock and grain brought
4 70 that market This fact indicates the
rapidly with which he road must have re-
covered from its recent labor troubles, and
\ furnishes additional evidence OF the eff
/ Gent manner IN which the management
handled the recent strikes Of employees on
its lines. Evidently, from business stand-
point, the road - in able hands
IBE west bound express was held up
and robbed the other night between Big
Hora and Myers statlous on the Northern
Pacific The robbers took ra'uables from
the passengers and opened the safe
THE schools st the Omaha Iudian ageucx.
< Nebraska. have been closed on account II
the measles Forty papooses have died
WI hin 4 short period.
r. . :.-..s.s..ir,n 4 Lake Michigan be vcen
I the schooner Willie II r AM the steamer
Robert Nils the other Rizbt IN fog The
! former vas sent q ne bottom, between
the big ard tle An Sable islands. The
schooner was a three-master and was
/ loaded with i, 1860 5nshols Of corr The
crew made their escepe
HESRY R1uERs Of Appleton. and Jacob s.
! Meehan, o. Ciiicago students OF st. Law
renee Colleges lit Calvary, Wis. we're
drowne IA rsii psnd near The colleye the
other night OAe was seized with cramps