Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-27

GENERAL NEWS.
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ried Readers.
At Berlmonroy. Italy, Prince of For.
mos committed suicide Wednesday by
shooting himself
The booies of George Lille and II.
Plaiss were taken from the bridge
wreck at Louisville Monday.
Mitchell will train in Florida for
his fight with Corbett. He will go
there the latter part of this month.
Professor Charles Michelet, the fam
Gus historian OF the German school of
philosophy, died at Berlin Saturd Y.
The rumor that Manager Satoli. IL e
apostolic delegate, has been appoint :
ed archbishop of Bologna cannot be
confirmed.
An old bank at Brestlitovosk. Rus
sian Poland, with liabilities of 45O, 900
rubles has failed. The bank had
many foreign creditors.
E. II. Williams, member of the
Iowa City Board of trade, who has
been missing for over week, is said
to be short 500, 900 in his accounts.
Polk Johnson, of Louisville has been
appointed special agent of the treas
ury department, and will be assigned
to the charge of the Chicago division,
George Keimm. ex-president of the
Philadelphia and Reading road, and
of the Philadelphia Coal and Iron
company, died at Philadelphia Mon
day.
Henry Givens, colored, was lynched
near Henderson, Ky. Saturday morn
ing. He was accused of poisoning
stock and with an intention of poison.
ing school we'll.
The board of directors of the Chi
cago board of trade have rejected as
unsatisfactory Robert Lindbloms
proposition to establish new sort of
board clearing house.
John Jacobs, Fort Wayne, Ind,
baker, became respondent because
unable to get work. and Saturday
seriously wounded his wife and then
committed suicide.
Dynamite was found in bag of
coffee that was shipped from Mexico
to New York. The New York author
tiles and the Mexican authorities will
Investigate the matter.
Fred Wild, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Union Pacific at Dem
yer, was on Monday appointed gener-
al freight agent of the Denver, Texas
q Gulf by Receiver Trumball
An anarchist named Merigean has
been arrested at his lodgings at Bell
vile. France, where the police found
a number of anarchist pamphlets and
documents, as well as box of DOW
der.
Right Honorable T. B. Lyon, P. f.,
bishop of North Carolina. died Thurs
day morning from heart failu e. Bish-
op Lyon served as a priest in Mary
land, Plttsburg, Pa, Rome, Italy, and
San Francisco.
The authorities of the house of COM
mons are considering proposition to
stretch a wire before the parts of the
houses of parliament which are open
to strangers, with view 20 preventing
anarchist outrages.
Telephone communication between
Cologne and AiX-fa-Chapelle and be-
tween Brussels and Liege, for many
has just been consented to 10y the Ger
man government.
Mrs Pendergast, mother of the as
sassin of Mayor Harrison, in the trial
at Chicago Saturday, testified that
there had been insan nifty in the family,
and that Pendergast's grandfather
had been confined in lunatic asylum.
Emperor William has pardoned Cen
eral Kitchoff, who was tried by court
martial and sentenced to three
months Imprisonment in a fortress
for shooting the editor of the Tage-
blatt, whom he accused of defaming
his daughter.
Chairman McRae, from the commit
tee On public lands. has made favor
able report to the house on the bill to
open certain abandoned military res
ervations to settlers. There are
e ighty of these reservations contain
ing about 100000 acres.
George F. Elefson, groceryman. of
Howard, Wis, who has wife and
several children, and Mrs Edward
Koll break, who leaves husband and
three children, are fleeing towards
Washington state. Elefson first Sc
cured Sl2, 900 from his wife, and Mrs.
Kollbreak took 5000 from her husband.
The banking house. of Marquay,
Hooker e Co., of Rome, which sus-
pended payment on Monday, has
lodged balance sheet with the tribunal
of commerce, showing that it's assets
exceed its liabilities by 1, ,32O, 600 lire 1t
is stated that its creditors will not
lose anything.
Ground has been broken in the col
lege yard, near App'eton chapel, for
Harvard's new art museum. It. will
be Of Indiana limestone and will cost
S150,000. 1t is designed by r. NJ.
Hunt, of New York. 1t will be ll5
feet long and leo feet wide and two
stories high, with offices. exhibition
rooms and lecture halls and large mu-
cum hall.
p, Ten thousand dollars in gold have
been stolen from the cellar of David
Stout's residence, near Hanghville,
Ind. Stout is over sixty years old,
and the money is the savings of wears.
The whole affair has been carefully
and it was only on Sunday
that the story got beyond the family.
Stout says that when he last counted
the hoard there was $1,000. but since
then he has added SO, 900 more. 1t is
not known when the money was TAX
en- or by whom.
A dangerous gang of counterfeiters
has been located in Harrison county,
Mo- Edward Holmes and f. NJ. Ash
ford were SATURDAY. arrested by the
United States authorities. Holmes
had sets of dies for making nickels,
quarters, halves and dollars and a
large amount of spurious coin. Ash
ford is a merchant and is cha rged
with passing the stuff.
An evening paper of Pittsburg Mon
day printed a sensational story to the
effect that the big Carnegie steel plant
at Homestead would be closed down
in all departments on De-
cember 90. Secretary Lovejoy antici-
pated no such action, however. accord
ing to an interview with him.
The French chamber of deputies
will adopt regulations placing certain