Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-03-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


EMMA ABBOTT has real estate in Denver
that nets her an annual income OF $75, 900.
INSOMNIA torments The troubled and the
nervous. General Wolseley is one of its
victims.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE has learned te
speak French, Italian and modern Greek
since her marriage.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is worth $4,000 in her
own name, and the President has accumu.
lated about $3.50 600 more.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON is said to have more
than 1000 head of cattle, mostly thorough.
breds, on his big Louisiana plantation.
NINE. PATTI, being unable to lind pur.
chaser for her Welsh castle has decided tc
turn it into u school for the musical training
of poor girls with good voices.
Mrs. LANGTRY told an Omaha reporter
that she loved nothing better than to attend
to her household duties, and that she de-
lights III doing her own clothes-mending
Mrs. BLAIR, WIFE of Senator Blair. has
been elected trustee of the New Hamp-
shire Normal School, the first instance of a
woman being chosen to such a position in
that State.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, is said to
have at least one mine to every mining
State and Territory in the country He be.
gan his mining adventures as day laborer
in the mountains.
GENERAL SHERMAN was a passenger in a
crowded horse-car in New York the other
day, and carried buxom young colored
girl, who couldn't get seat, on his knees
for five blocks.
THE house built by Mrs. Grant on the
Riverside drive, New York, is inst one
mile southwark of her husbands tomb.
This new house, with its lot, IS said to have
cost $.63,OO0 and that when furnished it
will have cost SOC, 600
AN exchange states that emile ZoIa is
the son of an Italian engineer, and failed to
pass his graduating examination at college,
he then turned to journalism, in which he
spent two years. living in precarious and
wretched fashion, literally from hand TO
mouth"
JUDGE Hinton, according to a statement
in court concerning the Stewart propertv.
had in 1885 S14,34 ,526,06 to his credit. while
Mrs Stewart had to borrow money from
HIM to pay her husbands funeral expenses,
so absolute was the Judges control over the
Stewart millions.
CHIEF-JUsT1CE FULLER's family viii be
great addition to Washington's society. OF
his numerous daughters, three are old
enough to indulge in social gayeties. They
are pleasant well-mannered girls and viii be
popular. There IS fourth daughter, who
is studying music in Europe
MR. l. V. WILLIAMSON, of Philadelphia,
has determined to begin operations at once
looking to the construction il that city Of an
institution for the education of boys in all
departments of mechanical labor, and sim
liar IN many respects to Girard's College.
A board OF seven managers have already
been selected. Mr.. Williamson is in feeble
health, but hopes tc see the building finished
during his lifetime. The cost Is estimated
at over S50OO000
IT IS Mrs. Sheridan's step-sieter and not
the GeneraPs widow, who has Indian blood
in her veins. Miss Louisa Rucker is the
daughter OF General Fuckers first wife,
VINO was granddaughter OF the famous
chief John Ross, who ruled over the Cher
okee Nation for more than forty years. Mrs
Sberidar's mother was daughter of Cap
tain Curtis, Of the regular army There is
certainly plenty Of lighting blood on both
sides of the family.