Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-01
NEWS RREvITIEs.
A panic 10 threatened in India on
account of the scarcity of money


1t is reported that Dick Tate. the
defaulting ex-treasurer of Kentucky,
has been captured.
Mr.. Cogswell, of Massachusetts,, has
introduced bill approp priating $780,
900 to exterminate the gypsy moth.
Another attempt is being made bv
Alexander Stewart to break the will
of the late A. I. Stewart.
General T. L. Crittenden, a veteran
of the Mexican war, died at Annadale,
L. l. of paralysis.
Z. W. Stevens, Sedalia's mayor was
robbed of 5000 diamond stud at the
Adams street depot in Chicago.
The Brazilian government has pur-
chased in New York the steamer Ell
Cid, of the Morgan line. for $500, 900.
Two steamers which left Port HUI
ron, Mich, twenty seven days ago are
reported missing. They carried crews
OF twenty-one men.
A blacksmith named Doinan, aged
60 years, of Washington, Pa, was
found in drunken stupor by the side
of his wife who had her skull crushed
and neck broken.
One initial being wrong caused the
wrong Democrat to be nominated re-
Gently for the Office of supervisor, in
the Fifth Iowa district
Two masked men bound James
Dingman, agent at the depot at Cozard,
Neb., and robbed the safe and cash
drawer, getting about $500.
Prairie fires near Winnepeg de-
stroyed considerable property, and
three or four people and good deal
OF stock perished in the flames.
From all points of the Northern and
Eastern states great crowds of unem-
ployed workingmen are fastening to
San Francisco.
The steel four-masted ship Lord
Shaftesbury sailed from Rio de Jane
iro July %, in ballast for Frisco via
Valparaiso, and has not since been
heard Of
The Fytield church near Abingdon,
England, built in the thirteenth CEN
tury and considered an important his
torical monument, has been DESTROYED
by fire.
Levi Bailey, employed in the stove
factory at Holland, Mich, was caught
in belt and whirled around the shaft
several times He was killed in
stantly.
The Fithian bill for the free admis-
sion to American registry of ships
built in foreign countries was ordered
to be favorably reported to the house
by the committee.
Mr.. Blair of New Hampshire will
not introduce his educational bill in
the house, but will give it all the en-
couragement he can if it is proposed
by some other member.
Captain Frederick Charles Howard.
brother of the Earl of Howard and
Efingham, committed suicide at his
residence. "a Evelyn Gardens, Ken
sington, London.
Representative Hall is opposed to a
graded income tax, but is framing a
new measure embodying his own ideas
on that subject.
Representative De Almond has in
trOduced a bill to insure to each state
and territory its quota of employees in
the government service at Washing
ton.
Several bank officials have been sent
to the United States and India by the
Japanese government to investigate
the silver question. The delegation to
the United States left on the 14th
inst.
The subcommittee of the committee
on banking and currency has reported
a substitute for the Brawly bill to
suspend the ten per cent tax on GER
titcates issued during the panic
The Paris Temps says Cleveland's
resistance tn the fa will 1,a ~ 10
make the cabinet officers into parlia-
mentary leaders after the style of
European countries.
A daughter of Samuel Cakes, for
merly an operator on the New York
stock exchange and big iron manu-
facturer, was arrested for soliciting
aims. She claims to be destitute.
1t is now generally believed that
Stone has confessed to the truth in
his last statement concerning the
Wrattan murder, and that his mind is
affected by the horrible work he per-
petrated.
A reception was rendered by the peo-
pie of Washington, regardless of
creed, to Cardinal Gibbons, on the oc-
casion of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his elevation to the episcopate.
Miss Jennie Rice, of Quincy, Ill,
was taken from the Burlington train
at Omaha on the strength of tele-
gram from the young lady's father,
who is banker in that city. She was
his cashier in his mercantile establish
ment ard absconded with 81. 900.
The formal transfer for $50, 200 of
the old home of Senator Stephen A.
Douglas and the late Justice Bradley
to the papal legation has been made.
1t will be Monsignor Satolli's official
home.
The municipality of Paris, in order
to mark its appreciation of the visit of
the Russian sailors to the capital of
France, proposes to erect a statue in
honor of Russia, near the Arc de Tri-
omphe.
Mr.. Hicks offered in the house a
bill providing that no pension claim
heretofore or hereafter allowed shall
be annulled. suspended or set aside,
unless it is shown that the pension
was obtained by fraud or perjury.
Cashier Nelson Bradley of the Mich
igan Central savings bank, of Lansing,
Mich, which failed last April, has
been arsested charged with misappro-
prlatlng SJ2,uOO and making false re-
ports as to the banks condition.
Mr. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania, has
introduced bill amending the pension
laws so as to relieve certain persons
who served in the Mexican war
charged with descrtion; also to relieve
those who are charged with desertion
who left the army after the sur
render of the Confederate armies in
the late war.
The White Cap war upon certain
ginners has reached Milan, Tenn,
and the gins of James Morgan, d. c.
Caldwell and Butler s. Co, have been
posted with the usual ''ten cents per
pound" warning The gins will be
run regardless of the threats
1t has been discovered that West
Virginia towns have been flooded