Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-20
NUMBER 81.
NEWS I'M BRIEF.

ment of w. III. Freer.
The executive council of the G.. 4.
r. has decided to hold the next an
nual encampment at Pittsburg, Pa
Fifteen prisoners, three charged
with murder, escaped from Jail at
GreeEville, Ala,
Dick Robinson, the Sedalia muir
derer, has made a confession which is
most shocking in its details
Bloomington, H., is overrun with
tramps, but all are given breakfast
before being asked to move on.
The two negroes who fred into
Chicago and Alton train near Ed
wardsville, ILL.,, on September were
each given six years in the pen.
Miss Oracle NJ Black, daughter of
the ex-commissioner of pensions, and
Rev. Frank b. Voorman were welded
at Washington, d. c.
1t is positively denied that Mrs
Zella Nicolaus, who is suing George
Europe, as stated in New York morn
ing paper.
The Illinois state Grange adopted
resolutions denouncing Governor Alt
geld for not appointing a farmer on
the railroad and warehouse commits
sion.
Over 300 populists and Democrats
who were candidates for Office in Lyon
county, Kansas, failed to file state
ments of their expenses and are liable
to arrest
In the London bankruptcy court
receiving order was made against
Captain OShea, Mrs Parnell's former
husband.
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.
Stanislaus Voinacoisky, one of the
Siberian exiles who was brought to
San Francisco by whaler, has been
arrested for burglary.
Elder Robert ii. Singer, an EvangeI-
ia of the Disciples church, was fined
s. and sent to Jail for three months
at Somerset, Pa, for assault on a wo-
man of his flock.
Chairman Thomas ii. Carter of the
Republican national committee has
issued a call for the meeting of the
executive committee in New York
city early in January.
DIR. G.. S Clemens, a dentist of Jop-
lin, Mo, has sued Postmaster Silas
Crane and /. Hall of Blendsville for
$1,000 for beating him for alleged in
suits to members of their households
Walter Crabtrec, bookkeeper for the
Bank of Montrose, Mo-, shot John
Leach, aged %, a bartender in the
Widman saloon at Deepwater, Mo,
three times and escaped. An old
grudge was the cause.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
at severel places in Illinois and In
diana
The senate committee on judiciary
considered the Hornblower nomina-
tion without taking action.
Three business houses at Bancroft,
Iowa, were destroyed by fire. Loss
$50, coo, partially insured.
Colonel S. " r. Cruger's mansion at
Iayville, L. L., was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at S250,000.
A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says
that President PeiXoto has declared
| Admiral Degama traitor.
Congressman Curtis has introduced
in the house bill appropriating So o.
600 for an addition to the publ build
ing at topeka.
Right Rev. Robert Samuel Gregg,
bishop, of Cork has been elected arch
bishop of Armagh and primate of Ire
land.
At Anderson, Ind. Sheriff Coburn
/ levied upon the property of w. c. De-
/ paw, w. L. Depauw and the Depauw
plate glass works at Alexandria to
satisfy executions amour ling to $780,
! 900.
In New York Judge McAdams gave
Amy Boucicault, known on the stage
as Amy Busby, an absolute divorce
from her husband, Actor Aubrey
Boucicault-
Comptroller Eckels has appointed
Edgar M. Westervelt of Lincoln, Neb.,
receiver of the Citizens National
bank, of Grand Island, Neb.
In Paris Miss Dorothy Klumpke of
| San Francisco, has brilliantly passed
her examination for the degree of
Doctor of Mathematics. Miss Klumpke
| is the first woman who has passed
such an examination in France.
| Albert T. Vorhies, jr., clerk in the
Office of the Louisiana board of health
has fled, leaving shortage of SO, 600.
Races ruined him.
In a wreck near Nanticoke, Pa,
Edith Newton. Sam Collins and Mrs.
Sam Collins of the Henshaw- Ten
| Broeck theatrical company and eight
other persons were injured.
The Pacific Coast Steamship COM
pany has announced that on Monday
next it will withdraw seven steamers
| from service because of dull trade.
| Four hundred men will be thrown out
of employment
Michael Ezekiel. prominent
Jewish citizen of Indianapolis, COM
mitted suicide in a most horrible
manner. He first cut his throat and
then shot himself in the forehead.
Ezekiel had been suffering from
paresis for some time. He was 40
years old and leaves family.
Miss Mary jackson, aged 81 years,
of Paris, Missouri, committed suicide
on account of ill health.
The convention of the American
Federation of Labor in Chicago en-
the anarchists.
A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia legislature providing for sub
mission of constitutional amend
ment which will insure white sd
premacy in politics.
John McFarlin, superintendent of
the Akron, Ohio street railway, was
murdered in his own front yard by
unknown robbers
Henry Cochran, formerly weigher of
the government mints at Philadei-
phia, was sentenced to seven years and
six months at hard labor for robbinK
the government of gold bullion.
| E. HI. Williams of the Iowa City.
Iowa, board of trade. who has been
missing over week, is said to be
short $40, 900.
Professor Henry Warren Torrey.
one of the oldest professors of Har-
ward university, is dead. He was 90
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