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

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Natural gas was struck at lola,
Kan, at depth of about 1900 feet.
The Japan Official Gazette an
nounees the birth of a son to the Jap
anese emperor
James Davis, formerly of St Joseph,
Mo-, committed suicide at Lerridos,
| N. NJ Debts were the cause.
The Roman Catholic church of the
Ascension a. North Tonawanda, n. Y.
and its rectory were destroyed by fire.
Loss, S75, 900; insured.
The Masonic temple at Adrian
Mich, built in 1865 at cost of Ss5, 900.
was burned. Several firms occupied
the lower floors
The Washington police are much ex-
| erclsed over the expected co ming to
Washington of crank who has
threatened to do terrible things
The navy department has ordered
the cruiser New York and monitor
Mlantonomah to get ready for sea. 1t
Is believed they are to be sent to Rio
to protect American interests.
At Macon, Mo-, Rufus White was
found guilty of assault with intent to
Kill and given six years in the pen.
A vein of coal two and half feet
thick has been discovered near Pleas
ant Hill. Mo-, at depth of twenty
feet.
The Mexican congress has given
President Diaz power to forfeit rail-
way franchises held by foreigners
whenever he thinks proper
j. I. Cunningham, a prominent
farmer of Boone county, Missouri,
pulled gun toward him and was in
stantly killed
Austin Corbin g. Co. of New York
have made proposition to utilize the
convict labor of Arkansas by raising
cotton on Chicot Island
There is great excitement at Chilli
Gothic, Mo-, over the elopemeut of
Sherman Constant, a married man,
with 17-year-old sister of his wife
Mathis Bremen, wood sawyer at
Valparaiso, Ind, has been advised
that his claim to fortune of IS 70, 600
has been established in New York.
He will give half of it to William
Drake who helped him get it.
The factory of the Creamery Pack
age company at South Whitley, Ind,
was destroyed by fire. The loss will
reach 500, 900.
A receiver has been applied for at
Chicago for the Hicks Stock Car COM
assets are $500, 900 and the liabilities
g., ZOO, 900.
lobe Stepp, ur married, about %
years of age who went to Galena,
Kan, from Webb City, Mo-, committed
suicide by taking about forty grains
of morphine. He was a brother of
the notorious Dick Stepp, who at one
time belonged to the James gang.
At Chattanooga ground was broken
for the erection of a new bridge over
the Tennessee river. The money is
furnished by English capitalists.
The Oklahoma and Indian terri itory
conference of the Methodist Eolsco-
pal church convened at Guthrie, Bis
hop John Vincent of Topeka presid-
ing. About 159 ministers, including
four negroes and ten Indians, are
present.
A large body of water imprisoned
in the old abandoned colliery worked
by the Harpers in Black Valley, near
broke into the Oak Hill colliery and
three miners persisted
The interior department has decided
CAot lHC Cutto d WIlUc ClDlZ6n ana
an Indian wife follows the status of
the father.
bill has been reported to the
house for a commission to settle the
differences betw cen the government
and the state of Arkansas in regard
to cl aims for 1928, 600.
Senator Faulkner has received a
message from the governor and federal
officials of Utah, urging the senate to
pass the admission bill and declaring
polygamy dead.
The house public lands committee
has reported favorably bill to amend
the land act of March 3, 1891, so as 20
validate the rights of contestants who
filed claims before the passage of the
act.
The president has nominated J. w.
Ferguson as land office register at
Lincolnj Neb. and the following post
masters: In Kansas-Charles N Ber-
ner at Clifton and Abbie E. Libbey at
Marysville. In Missouri-M " Rusk
at Rrookfield; Sherman M. Smith at
Chillicothe; JOHN ID. Tolson at Fay
cite, ana William v. Berry at Fulton