Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-13
FROM THE FIELD.

The police of Aberdeen, s. D.,
chained man to the sidewalk in a
public place, because he was hungry
and asked for bread. The poor fellow
was hungry and out of employment
and could get none, and as there were
hundreds of others in like condition
they sought to make a spectacle of
him They succeeded. Workingmen,
behold the spectacle.
1t sreported that Secretary Gresham
is Cleveland's choice for next Presi-
dent 1t must be mistake, for Grover
will certainly be Cleveland's choice.
Paper money was worth more than
gold in New York city, recently.
From July 10 to July 81 there were
1927 business failures in the United
States. yet during the whole time the
plutocratic papers kept announcing
that the panic was over.
Over 100 national banks have failed
since Jan. ]. Notwithstanding this
we are told that the safest place
for our money is in the banks.
A summary of bank failures in the
United States from May 1 to July %
shows that over 800 banks have gone
down before the blast of John Sher-
mans contraction policy. Many of
these were national banks.
The pension bureau is suspending
pensions at the average rate of 200
cases daily.
The British house of commons in.
du1ged in free fight few days ago.
Several members received blows caus-
ing black eyes and bruised faces.
The most reliable figures now place
the wheat crop of 1893 at 3S3, 900, ooo
bushels. a shortage of 100, 900, 900
bushels In spite of this shortage the
price is lower than it has been for a
generation.
Many of the negroes imported to
Kansas to take the place of striking
miners have revolted and joined the
strikers
The Colorado miners have appealed
to L. V. Powderly to try to unite the
labor forces for free coinage of silver.
An appeal has been issued in behalf
of Hugh Dempsey. the man who was
sentenced to the penitentiary on the
charge of poisoning non-union men at
Homestead. The man who swore his
liberty away has confessed to perjury,
and exposed the whole matter as a
plot of Pinkerton men and one of Cart
negie's bosses.
The aggregate amount of salary paid
Federal officials is 500, 900, 600, or about
$3.50 tax on every man. woman or
child in the republic.
A crowd of 400 or 500 hungry men
boarded an east bound freight train in
Denver for transportation to Kansas
or some place where they could get
work. They had no money, but in
sisted on riding, and they rode
It is estimated that the entire in
debtedness in the world, private, cor
porate and public, is $50, 600, 600, 900.
Five national banks went down in
one week in Louisville, KY 'The
best banking system in the world
will have to give way to better one.
The National Economist is a good
paper to let alone. Let us make that
Macune sell out at dear bargain.
The Great West notes two instances
where, under foreclosure of mortgage,
the mortgage refused to accept bank
notes because they were not legal
tender. In one case the sale went on,
and in the other the mortgagor rustled
around and got up the legal tenders
We don't know what he got. but 81
cent silver dollars would have done the
work.
Col. Charles II. Jones, formerly ed
itor of the st. Louis Republic, has