Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER I5 1898

Pc ;teo that II VIII take two weeks 20
fill.
Daniel J. Hart was fatally injured III
Chicago Sunday by falling in front Of
cable train which partially passed
over his body.
The Union axle and spring works,
located at Carthage, Ohio. started up
Monday morning, giving employment
to abont 200 men.
In an order just issued Emperor
William condemns gambling in TIE
army and threatened heavy punish
ment to officers.
Peter Tchaikovnky, the Russian
composer, is dead. lie was one of the
artlsts of the Russian school who
was best known abroad.
General Marcias has expelled ali
Hebrews from Mellila. 1t is reported
the representatives. of the powers at
Iangiers oppose the action.
In st. Louis, John Miner, n faith
less husband. met death Tuesday
morning at the hands of his deserted
wife. The woman is under arrest.
At Bunker Hill, Ind, several drunk
en- Ioaters poured coal oil over the
clothing of James Mcdonald, an old
man, and ignited it, burning McDon-
aid nearly to death.
At Peru, Ind, the porcelain works
of the Peru Electrical Manufacturing
company caught fire from an un-
known cause Sunday night and were
totally destroyed. Loss, about SO, 900.
Just after the explosion IN SAINT hn
der the other day many people hur-
rIed to the railroad station to leave
town as fast as possible. In the rush
to enter the trains large numbers
were injured.
1t is reported that Colonel North
the nitrate king" supported by Lord
Randolph Churchill and Mr.. Ashmead
Bartlett, will contest West Leeds in
opposition to Mr.. Herbert Gladstone at
the next election.
Brown-Over hall, near Rugby, Eng,
which the dover Duchess of Souther-
land has taken for the winter, was en-
tered by burglars Wednesday evening
and valuable jewelry belonging TO
visitors was stolen.
The assistant secretary of the treas
ury Wednesday advised Mrs. Potter
| Palmer, in reply to a question as to
how best settle the wrangling of the
board of lady managers, to try hal-
moniOus settlement.
Lawyer Francis S. Weeks, the self
| confessed embeZzlcr, whose extradi-
tlon from Costa Rica caused so much
| talk, was Wednesday taken to Sing
Sig to serve out his sentence of ten
years imprisonment.
The Pennsylvania steel works at
| Steelton, Pa, which have been run
ming half time for the past three
months, resumed operations Monday
in every department, giving employ
ment to about 4, 200 men.
The Ave Russian convict9 who were
picked up by the whaler, Nor
gan, in Okhotsl1 sea and brought to
San Francisco, prove not to be politi-
cal offenders but felons. The whaler
bearing the other five refugees is now
due at Frisco.
Now that Schieg, the absconding
teller of the bank of Minneapolis is to
be brought back, it is 1umored that
some new light may be thrown on the
suicide of Cashier Bofferding, which
took place the day after Scheig's de-
falcation became known.
The Nicaragua assembly has
passed an article of the new constitu-
| ton which has been framed especially
to hamper foreigners. If any foreign
| resident there should make a claim
| of any kind against the government
he will be eXiled at once.
The new concentrating plant of the
South Joplin Lead and Zinc Mining
| Il. 4
p. m. Saturday. Loss Sc, 900; partially
insured. The property is owned by
Kansas City parties and is one of the
best producers in Joplin.
The firing upon the American flag
at the port of Amapala on Monday
was done by President Vasquezs di-
rect orders, sdch was his keen desire
to get hold of his old enemy, Barilla,
but he now throws the entire blame
on the commander of the port.
A detachment of Troop f, Fourth
cavalry, has left Vancouver, Wash, for |
the Bitter Root mountains, Montana,
to search for General Carlin's son and
a party of five. who left Spokane on a
hunting expedition six weeks ago and |
are now two weeks overdue.
After an all days conference at
Cairo, H., between the officials of the |!
Big Four railroad and the strikers in |
the railroad yards, an agreement was |
reached by which the whole subject |
Is postponed for ten days, when an
other conference will be held.
Ratification of the treaty between |
the United States and Sweden and |
Norway was exchanged Wednesday |
between Secretary Gresham and Min |
ister Grip. The provisions of the |
treaty, which have been published, |
will go into effect thirty days from
the date of exchange.
6 During the five months the Ferris
wheel revolved on Midway plaisance
1853, ,6l1 paid total of S726. .S95 to
ride. The company has paid off bonds
amounting to 100000, and after paw
ing operating expenses and dividing
with the exnosition, over $50, 900 was
left for the stockholders.
The treasury department has an un-
expended balance OF about $50. 600
which can be utilized in putting the
new Chinese registration act into on
Grafton. This will be sufficient for a
month or so. After six months all Chi
nese not able to produce certificate
will be summarily deported.
The bank of Winchester has taken
out burglar insurance.
Dynamite was placed under one of
the gates at the dam at the water
works, three miles south of Sedalia.
Mo-, Saturday, and terrible explo-
sion followed. Two of the large gates
were blown out of position and then
took fire, but the prompt arrival of
the employees at the pump house pre-
vented a spread of the flames and the
destruction OF all gates, which were
perfectly dry and burned like matches.
The attempt is laid at the door Of
parties whose fields have been flooded
by reason of the dam when the creek
was high.
Several national labor orrapiza.