Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-29
NEWS NOTES.

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A. p. Bradley was awarded So, 600
damages against the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul at Liberty, Mo-
At Foster, Mo-, robbers entered the
store of A. L. Mcbride, blew open the
safe and got away with 81, OoO in notes
and coin.
Two detectives now guard the home
! of H. n. Higinbotham, PRESIDENT of
| the worlds fair. Two suspicious men
have been lettering in the vicinity OF
the presidents residence, and fears of
cranks caused Mr. Higin botham to ask
for police protection.
President Cleveland is likely to have
! at his disposal in the near future nine
! Federal plums, in the form of customs
! general appraiserships, as result of
tariff legislation.
| Jack King, the fourth of the con-
victed Mineral Range, Mich, train
robbers, was given five years in the
penitentiary.
Rev. Larribee Campbell, pastor of
the Methodist church at Lincoln, Neh,
/ has sued a member of his flock for
! $50, 900 for alternating his wifes affec-
tiops.
w. E. Shannahan, editor of the Hot
| Springs Graphic, was assaulted and
! badly distigured by Sergeant of Police
! Ii. c. Kirkpatrick. The act was the
result of an editorill reference to
Kirkpatrick's reputation.
The soldiers at Fort Sheridan re-
| fused to eat the food furnished them
and inaugurated a small-sizei rebel
! lion.
The festive train robber is likely to
oe given some attention by congress
at the coming session. The railroad .
and express companies are clamoring
for more stringent laws.
The Western Warehouse and Stor-
age company at Kansas City was de-
stroyed by fire Loss S430,0Oo Two
firemen were seriously and one slightly
injured by falling walls.
American troops have been ordered
to patrol the Rio Grande and prevent
Mexican revolutionists from crossing.
7 In saloon fight at Checotah, /. T.,
Sam Smith, an Indian and Harvey
Lindsey, white, carved each other
fatally.
B. n. Anderson's livery stable, Col
umbia. Mo, was entirely destroyed by
fire. Loss $4,000. Largely covered
by insurance. All movable property
with the exception of four horses was
saved.
Daniel Vanwinkle, aged 7s. two of
whose sons are preachers, died of
poverty and neglect at Clinton, Mo.
Robert Wiggins, aged 90, committed
suicide at Atchison, Kan, by shooting
himself. No cause is known.
At Whiteland. Missouri, John W.
Quigg was killed by John w. and Orth
Paxton.
The Wickes tunnel on the Great
| Northern railroad, in Montana, col
/ lapsed in the center, cutting off all
ore shipments to Great Falls.
Eighty students and persons en-
gagged in literary pursuits in Warsaw,
Poland, have been arrested on sus-
picion of being engaged in Nihilistic
! plots.
The job printing house of C. z.
Kingsbury, St Joseph, Mo-, is in the
hands of trustee. The total indebt-
edness is s., 600 with assets about the
| same.
Disobedience of orders nearly caused
a collision between freight trains near
Clinton, Mo. The engines stopped
only few feet apart on curve.
Robbers set fire to Jonesville, A'a,
and S25, 900 worth of property was de-
stroyed.
Milo Creekmore was sentenced to
five years and Alf CLANCY and Kid
| Wilson to twenty-four years each in
Kings county, New York peniten tiary
by Judge Parker at Fort Smith. They
were members of the Starr gang.
w. A. Mcxay, wealthy implement
! dealer of WNster, Ohio, was called to
his door and Hhot dead.
! The assistant attorney general of
| the postofficc department has held
| that bond investment schemes ought
not to be permitted in the mails.
William Whitaker, a farmer, his
wife and daughter were killed while
crossing the railroad track at Boone,
| Iowa
Sheriff George Davidson of Onton-
agon county, Michigan, was fatally
shot while attempting to arrest man
named Reno, the keeper of a dis
reputa BILE resort at Trout Creek.
A general movement has been
started in Iowa for state subsidies for
beet sugar production.
The Missouri Pacific station at Lex
| ington, Mo-, was entered by burglars
and the cash drawer robbed of SIS.
Two boys are under arrest for the
theft.
Young Riddle and George Allen
fought duel at church in Macon
county, Alabama. Riddle was killed.
Bank Wrecker Mosher was taken
from Jail at Omaha to the government
prison at Sioux Falls. S. d., to serve
his sentence of five years.
George &. Hoyt, wanted at Good
land, Kan, to answer a charge of en-
bezzlement and perjury has been ar
rested at Eugene, Oregon.
Herr Plenary, minister of finance
of Austria, has issued decree increas-
ing by ten per cent the wages of all
employees in the state salt mines of
Austria on account of the increase in
the cost of living.
The Williams block at Muskegon,
Mich, was destroyed by fire and Fire
men Dewitt, Anderson and Berchon
badly injured. Loss, S5o,O00.
One hundred feet of the great ore
/ docks at Fairport, Ohio, were de-
stroyed by fire and the ore and two
! hosting machines went into the lake
| Rev. j. G. Stewart, the evangelist
| charged with teaching the doctrine OF
divine healing. was suspe nded from
! church membership by the synodical
! commission at Monmouth, Ill.
! The Carnegie Steel works at Beaver
! Falls, Pa, have been shut down,
| throwing about 800 men out of work
The president has appointed Albert
Il. Amesbury of Colorado. register of
| the land Office at Montrose, Col.
Gustav Truhn. n well-to-do farmer
! in Bush Lake township, Minnesota,
! killed his wife and child
William Sweeney. captain Of the
night police force at Alton, Ill. was
shot and fatally wounded by Peter
McMuliDn, an ex-convict. who II the
captain attempted to arrest
/ The redwood lumber men of Cali.
| fornia have conn bined for higher
i prices.