Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-27
NEWS NOTES.
At Deadwood, S. D., girl shot and
killed another in fit of jealousy.

Bristol, Tenn
| The relations of the car and the
vatican are said to be growing cold.
Philip Scheig, the Minneapolis bank
robber, was sentenced to six years in
prison at hard labor.
| A number of indictments have been
found against Pension Attorney Van
Leuven at Dubuque, Iowa.
General Dalus F. Coon, formerly a
prominent citizen of Iowa, was acci-
! IDENTIFY shot and killed in Southern
! California
President Peixoto of Brazil has post
! poned the elections for bers of
| congress until MAY
Four hundred unemployed men of
! Plttsburg. Pa, have been set to work
in the parks at 81 per day.
| The Benwood Iron works, the top
mill and Wheeling plants at the
! Wheeling Iron and Steel company,
at Bellaire, Ohio, are closed. The
cause is 3a1s per cent reduction in
! wages
China is preparing a new treaty.
+ wuich she will soon present to the
| United States.
! The National Carbon Works at
/ Cleveland, Ohio, were destroyed by
tire-loss, $4,000.
In a skermish near Fort Villegaig-
non, 100 Brazilian soldiers were killed
by the insurgents.
The manifesto of Admiral de Cana,
has, it is said, strengthened the
revolutionists in Brazil.
| Two maiden sisters were found
dead, sitting side by Tide in a farm
house near Middletown, n. Y.
Second Comptroller Mansur will in
| the near future render decision as
to the right of General Sickles to
| draw salary as a retired army officer
and also as congressman.
John Si'npl<ins of Shamolxin, Pa
was striken deaf and dumb in the
midst of an outburst of profanity,
recovered both senses and again lost
them.
BY the capsizing of pleasure yacht
at Sydney, New South Wales, seven
people were drowned.
Three business houses at Bancroft,
Iowa. were destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000, partially insured,
Representative Hatch, of Missouri,
has introduced bill to prevent the
adulteration and misbrand ng of foods
and drugs.
Four young people skating on Choate
lake, four miles from Halifax, n S,
broke through the ice and were
drowned.
Three Ironwood, Micn., policemen
are under arrest charged with steal
ing flour and sugar from public relief
stores.
Edna Milville, young woman liv-
ing at a boarding house in Chicago.
was brutallY assa ulted by an unknown
| colored man who went there to beg
for something to eat and was given
| food
The Prince Edward island schooner
| Oracle Parker was driven on the rocks
near st. Pierre, Nova Scotia, in a gale
and went to pieces. Captain Far rell
and his crew of seven men were lost
Officers of the Chinatown police
squad of Denver, Col, found a Chin
ese leper in a deep cellar on Wazee
street. The man is 65 years old and
for two years had been confined TO
this foul pit, which had neither win
dows nor ventilation.
Attorney Baumann of johannesburg.
! South Africa, is endeavoring to get
the permission of the government to
try to recover the treasure in the
vessel Brykenyhold. sunk off the
African coast over forty years ago.
He believes that the treasure con-
sisted of 800, 900 sovereigns.
More than sixty girls from IA to Is
years of age have disa appeared from
Lynn, Mass. within the last three or
four weeks and the police have begun
thorough investigation.
The circuit court at Warrensburg,
Mo-, has awarded the widow of Sena-
tor Sparks a judgment of 81, $50. 81
against the Masonic indemnify COM
pany
! The Charity society at indianapolis
has under its care 735 families, all
wholly dependent on charity. 1t is
expected the number will be so in
creased that 5000 persons will have to
| be fed.
Alta conference of Louisiana sugar
planters resolution was unanimous
| ly adopted opposing the passage of
the Wilson bill unle IS the bounty
provisions of the Mckinley law are
| retained.
Ed p Greer of Winfield declares
that he will be a candidate for con-
gressman-at-large before the next Re-
publican convention of Kansas.
During the season just closed TO-
600. 900 barrels of flour were received
at Buffalo. n. Y, making it the larp-
est flour depot in the world. The value
| of the product in round numbe is
between $50, 900, 900 and $40, 900, OOo
A dispatch received by London
news agency from Prague says that
large bomb has been exploded outside
of the residence of Lawyer Wolff, in
the Bing Platz, at Rakonitz, Bohemia.
The dispatch adds that the house was
demolished and several other build
ings were damaged by the explosion.
At Dubuque, Iowa. the United States
grand jury reported on the Van Lewen
pension fraud cases There are twen-
to-eight separate indictments against
Van Lewen.
Edward A. Davis, the eldest son of
John A. Davis, has denied in its en-.
tirety the reported settlement of the
| S11, 080, 900 will contest
George Debruler, while irving to
| stop quarrel between George Camp
bell and j. w. Philips at Otwell, Ind,
was attacked by Campbell with a pis
tol, whereupon Debruler shot and
killed Campbell
Mr.. Bretz of Indiana, introduced
bill for an income tax sufficient tc
yield annually an amount of revenue
equal to that required for the pay
! ment of pensions The tax is to be
levied only on incomes of SIS, 600 and
over.
Another verdict was given against
New Orleans on account of the lynch
ing of the Italians at the Paris nrison
March IA. 1891.
There are now nearly 500 idle con-
vets In the penitentiary at Jefferson
City. Mo.
Hog cholera is raging in the vicinity
OF Webster City, Iowa, and many hun
dreds of hogs have died
At Waxahatchie Texas, fire de-
stroyed property valued at s13o. 600;