Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-06
GENERAL NEWS
Carefully Selected News OF Current
Events.

bank open and ready for business.
Whenever anybody in Perry wants
somebody licked he gets Dick Plunkitt
to do it.
The health commissioner declared
Monday that smallpox is epidemic in
Chicago. There are now eighteen
cases OF the disease in the city pest
| house.
Louis Hilliard, the cashier who en-
bezzled about SIS, 900 from the Chica-
go Tribune company, was Saturday
sentenced to four years in the peni-
tentiary.
Although Monday was designated
as day of Thanksgiving by the gov
ernor. it was not observed as such by
the state Office and commercial
institutions.
The Iowa City Ga Republican
building was totally destroyed by fire
Friday morning. Loss $4,000: insur-
ance about half. The Republicans
loss is very heavy
Lindsey Carter, and his wife, who
is blind, were murdered and burned in
their home at Hearne, Tex, Friday
night, Two negroes havs been ar
rested on suspicion
A dispatch to the London Daily
News from Odessa, says that General
Gnerko is suffering from aortic aneur-
ism, and his active military career is
therefore closed.
After trial at Lincoln, Neb., last
ing two days, Congressman w. A. Nc
helghan was discharged on the charge
OF attempting to defraud the Lindell
hotel of board bill.
Near Bastrop, Tex, on the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas railroad, a train went
through a trestle, killing George
Schneider. brakeman, and seriously
inJuring the conductor and car in
spector.
An anarchist bomb has been ex-
ploded in the machinery of a factory
In the village of Piefenbach. near Ga
olonz, bavaria. Considerable dam
age was done to the machinery, but
nobody was injured.
Highwaymen attempted to hold up
the outbound stage to Cripple Creek,
| eighteen miles from Canon CITY, Fri
day morning. The passengers showed
fight and the robbers were repulsed.
No one was reported hurt.
The police of Lubec, Germany are
lnquiring into thc death of a rich New
Yorker named Nicholas Piohn. Mr..
Piohn's body has been found in the
forest near Lubec, and it is evident
that he has been murdered.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio. who
has been at the Windsor, New York,
for the past week, left Monday for
Boston. Tonight he speaks at ban
quet of the Home Market Club, and
on Saturday he will start for Ohio.
The 400 miners at the Winthrop.
Mich, mine struck Friday against
store orders, and the mine will proba-
bly close for the winter. In August
the miners had agreed to receive paw
In store orders rather than have the
mine close down.
The workhouse at Badaios was
burned Tuesday. The flames soon af-
ter the fire started spread rapidly
throughout the building. and the in
mates were rescued with difficulty.
NO lives are reported lost, but sixty
persons were injured.
Next Monday Judge Grosscap of
Chicago will hear arguments in the
the officers of the Guarantee Invest
ment company, convicted of using the
mails In the interest of lottery The
postoffice officials have no fears that
new trial will be granted.
BY the explosion of gas meter. the
Englewood; Ill, First Methodist
church was damaged to the extent of
$50, 200 Saturday. Stained glass win
| 0OXVS nf al,,o
shattered and the fire which followed
ruined much of the handsome furnishe
ings.
William X. Nanderbilt's beautiful
yacht, the Valiant, yesterday left New
York on her trip around the world.
| Before she sailed Mr. Vanderbilt held
reception and many of the million
aires were present to say farewell to
the distinguished owner of the float
ing palace.
j. j. Il. Ball pioneer railroad
man, died at Denver Sunday from
dropsy. He had been i'll for Several
months, but his death was unexpected.
Mr.. Ball was born at Mendona, n. Y.
In 1897, and was general passenger
and freight agent of the New York
Il Erie in 1851.
Negotiations have been practically
completed whereby the steel plant of
west Superior, Wis, will pass into
the hands of Rockefeller, or the
Standard Oil Syndicate. After the
deal is consummated blast furnace
VIII be built in connection with the
plant.
A tin box weighing pound and
having burnt fuse attached to it.
has been found outside the walls of
Albarough barracks. Dublin. The
box contained a quantity of saturated
material. resembling sawdust. Ex
perts are now examining the box and
its contents.
Four Chinese who applied at the
office of the collector of internal rev
enue at San Francisco Sunday. were
not allowed to register under the law
extending the registration provisions
OF the Geary act. The collector saws
instructions to issue certificates or
proper blanks for the use of appii-
cants have not been received from the
secrtary the treasury.
The Swiss minister at WASHINGTON
DR. A: de Claparede, has been trans
fired to Vienna
hotel and five business blocks
were burned at Way land, y. Y, sun
day afternoon. The loss will proba-
bly, reach $4,000.
Fire broke out Saturday morning in
the five-story brick tenement. so9
Ninth avenue, New York. Two wo-
men, two children and a man were in
Jured. They were Mrs. McCabe. Sc
vcrely burned about the head and
hands; Mrs. Rafferty, and her two
children, hair singcd and slightly
burned; William Rafferty,, shoulder
dislocated.
At Santa Barbara, Cal, the Olympia
started at ll:30 Tuesday morning on
her trial trip. She discontinued her
trip at o clock owing toa thick fog.