Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
GENERAL NEWS
Carefully Selected News of Curren
Events.

4NN vi Lle war.
ships now in the neighborhood of Mel
llla nave formed for a cruise along the
Moorish coast. The Moors are quiet
Attorney /. n. Frisby, brother OF
the late Attorney General Frisby,
died Tuesday at West Bend, Wis, af-
ter b 'ief illness, nearly "A years old.
Fire, Sunday, destroyed the car
house and five coaches belonging to
the Portland (Ore.) Consolidated
street Railway company. Loss, $780,
900 fully insured.
At Dallas, Tex, Sunday night.
Charles Martin shot his mistress,
Patty Cole, three times killing her.
lie then shot himself fatally, dying
Monday morning.
At meeting OF the Chicago Trades
and Labor Assembly Saturday, reso-
lutions were adopted resenting the
putting forward of Judge Carry as q
candidate for any public office.
The cotton gin of A. S. Stanley. six
miles from Layton, ia, was burned by
White Caps Saturday night Great
excitement prevails and the gins will
DE operated under an armed guard,
Edward ButterfeId, an operator.
lately employed by the United Press
at Cincinnati. committed suicide We'd
nesday afternoon, taking morphine.
This was his third attempt at suicide.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
George C. Tanner surveyor of customs
at indianapolis, Ind, and Calvin Page
n int
district of Maine and New Hamr-
shire.
A committee representing the press
OF Paris has decided to establish q
fund for the relief of the sufferers by
the explosion at SAINT Ander. Each
editor present subscribed 100 francs to
the fund.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, Sunday
morning, j. Landerhorn, a laborer.
after carousing all night, leaned out
OF hotel window and falling to the
pavement, distance of sixty feet was
instantly killed.
Secretary Holxe Smith has sent
George B. Cosby, of Sacramento, Cal,
as special agent to examine and re-
port on the condition of the Digger
Indians, with a view to improving
their condition.
Lobe Watson, leading business
man of Eddyville, Ky. was killed
Saturday morning by City Marshal
Crank Waddington, while endea yor-
ing to collect a bill. Waddington is
under arrest.
The explorer, Soller, intimates that
the Grand Duke Alexis. of Russia has
arranged treaty between France.
ltussia and Spain by the terms of
which the latter's ultimate occupation
OF Tangier is provided for.
Charles Thegee was shot and in
stantly killed by William Seveller at
riverside, o., Friday night. The men
were rolling mill hands and the men
took up quarrel between the child
rem of their families. Seveller was ar
rested.
The funeral of Captain Hedberr, the
United States army officer who was
shot Monday by Lieutenant Nancy at
Fort Sheridan, was postponed until
Friday. 1t was to have occurred Thurs
day, but owing to the funeral of Car
ter Harrison was deferred.
In Proctor, o., Tuesday night, John
Floyd was shot dead while sitting
with his arm about Miss Lucy Whites
waist and the young woman received
enough shot to disfigure her for life
Harry Smith, rival, fred the con-
tents of a shotgun into them.
The statement of the comptroller of
the currency shows that since October.
lS9@, the increase in national bank
notes outstanding amounted to $50. ss6-
o12, and for October, 1893. S621 994.
making the total national bank notes
outstanding on October 81, 1893. s2oo.
PA, lG6.
Edward Cool, n farm hand. went to
Buck Creek Valley, Ind, Friday and,
entering the home OF Ike Lowe, fired
without warning at Lowe. loves
are not serious. Cool then
walked out to Obediah Uallc's saloon
and shot and fatally wounded the pro-
Drietor.
FRIDAY morning William Scheid was
working on the Cincinnati. Hamilton
\ Indianapolis railroad bridge across
he Miami river at Hamilton. O.. when
,he inch and a quarter rope which
leld a 500 pound bridge ''strut" broke
md Scheid was thrown into the bed
II the river and fatally injured.
The Hon. Cecil Rhodes, premier of
ape Colony telegrapbs that there
Will be another fight soon in the vi
unity OF Buluwayo, where it now
seems King Lobengule has rctreated.
later dispatch says that he was cap
-ured after fierce fight and a loss of
900 warriors.
Wednesday as gendarmes were re-
moving twenty-five Catholic priests
who had been eXiled from the Vistula
district of Russia, they were attacked
~ peasants and n fierce battle en-
ued. Cossacks reinforced the sol
llers and fired into the peasants, kill
ng and wounding many.
The mystery which for two weeks
las hung about the robbery in Idaho
ection of the mines and mining
has been cleared up bv the
.rrest of A L. Barber, a janitor, John
3urgers, clock repairer, and Tom
}renuan, alias Dale, of ST, Louis.
The men were trapped through the
tforts of Burgers to sell portions of
he brick to Chicago jeweler. A por-
ION OF the brick and some of the
pals 1tolen with it have been recov-
red.
a dispatch was received to-day bv
secretary Herbert from Captain Ii. 4.
licking. commanding the Charleston.
he senior officer of the fleet aft Rio
aneiro, stating that Saturday an ex-
'losion had occurred in Mello's maya
inc, and that a large quantity of
had been destroyed.
An agreement was signed Saturday
y Billy Thompson, representing
'har'ey Mitchell, and w. A Brady
or James j. Corbett, which will prob-
bly, have the effect OF bringing off
he big fight in New Orleans 1t
o9ks, after all, as If the Olympic Club
t the Crescent City, will secure the
vent.
Coinage executed at the several
lints of the United States for the
1onth of October aggregated 7,7s2. $50 !
ieces of the value of Sl0.OO3. 900 as |
oll9ws: Gold pieces, 1,I4O,14o; value.
9, 9,504,sO0. Silver pieces, 1,s32. 900: |
aluc, $4,000. Minor coin pieces.