Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-06

Oklahoma hasn't had a convention
yet where ex-Speaker Daniels hasn't
rung in speech.
4 ExMarshal Grimes has erected one
of the finest buildings in the territory
at Kingfisher.
In the strip there is fight over
towns between the railroad and the
and the government will
win.
The railroads had better put in de-
pots at the towns where they do not
now even deign to stop their trains. If
they do not the government will make
them.
The criminal court at Hagen has
sentenced the ex-editor of the Rhin-
isch Wcstfaelisch Zeitung tn six
weeks Imprisonment for insulting
Chancellor. Won Caprivi.
At San Francisco Sergeant Bruce,
of Company A. Benecia Barracks, was
sentenced to five years at TT. Leaven-
worth, and then to be dishonora bly,
discharged for drunkenness while on
duty.
The correspondent of the London
Standard in Rome says that in the
highest and most reserved circles it is
well known that the highest dream OF
the Vatican is the esta blishment of a
federal Italian republic.
benjamin Lavigne. n prominent st.
Louis coal dealer. was killed Tuesday
by an electric wire falling on him and
his horse. The wire was q street rail,
way trolley wire and horribly burned
the man and his horse.
Ex-Congressman Nathaniel Bue]
Eldridge, died at Adrian. Mich, Tues
day. He served through the war in
the Thirteenth Michigan as lieuten
Colonel In 1884 he was elected >tC
congress and reelected in 1856.
The Peoples Savings bank of Den
YER will resume business at an early
day. The plan has been arranged and
an agreement placed before the de.
positors for their signature. The bank
is to be reopencd under new man
agement
The big stock barn on the estate ot
Colonel Edward Morrell at Torres
dale, Pa, was burned Monday. Einc
valuable bloOded mares were lost. Al
the time of the fire there were four.
teen horses in the stable. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
The twentY-seventh annual meeting
OF the Kansas horticultural society
will be held at Holton on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday, December
5, and Z. Free entertainment will
be afforded to all delegates and horti
culturalists from abroad.
The finishing touches to the Britain
mia the sister ship to the Brazilian
cruiser Nictheroy, which is to be
called the America, were put on Mon
day. The new crniser will leave
the dock at the foot of East Ninth
street with the slack tide to-day.
Lawrence Gazette: The latest fad
among the Lawrence girls is to re-
quest the opera house seat checks OF
their escorts. After they get them
they write the date and the name ot
the gallant youth Oh the stubs, anC
put them away for reminders of by.
gone days.
At Martinsville, Ind, young Walter
EdgArs, son of farmer, was arrested
Tuesday, charged with killing hi,
brother William. They and their fa
ther had a quarrel and both were
driven out of the home. William was
mysteriously shot and killed shortly
afterward.
Bishop ID. A. Payne. founder of vii
berforce college, senior bishop of thu
A. NJ. L. church, died at his home a
Wilberforce, O., Friday, after devo
ting seventy years of his life t) relig
ion and education among his people
He had been bishop in the church fo
thirty-two years.
An immediate advance of the spun
ish forces on the Moors is expe--ed
now that General Martinez Campo,
has arrived at Melilla and assrm
command of the troops. The Arabs
are preparing to make stubborn re
sistance and are bnsily at worl
strengthening their positions.
d. S. Curtis of Spring Hill has an in
teresting relic'Of the early part of thi
century in the shape of piece of pa
per currency of the denomination O.
IS. 1t bears the date of 1906, and tn,
imprint of the Bank of Detroit, Mich.
which tiourished in those DAYS. Mr.
Curtis found it among the effects O
his deceased grandfather, and values
it chiefly as keepsake.
Officers arrived at Lexington. XIV.
Monday morning. having four escaped
convicts, all desperate characters
Three of the men. James Combs
Charles Wall, and Moses Barnett werY
captured without resistance. james
Barnett, n murderer sent from Maso1
county was only captured after ;
bloody fight. in which he shot Detect
i've Drake through the stomach.
A tradgedy occurred in Ridgeville
o., Sunday night. Herman Barrows
a respected farmer, aged 6S, shot hi
wife, aged 80, in the breast and head
He then placed the revolver to hi
head and sent bullet through hi
own brain. A petty quarrel between
the couple prompted the terribl,
deed.
William III. Shureman. the ex-banlx
er, who was president of the defunc
Exchange bank of Normal. ILL.,, nlead
ed guilty Tuesday to twenty-nin,
counts of an indictment for embezzle
ment in receiving money for deposi
when the bank was insolvent. II,
was sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary and to pay a fine of twic,
the sum of the deposits involved.
The arrest of Captain II. II. Crews
warden of the county Jail at Denver
Saturday, has created a sensation
The arrest of Captain Crews and tw,
deputies arc upon indictments founC
by the United States grand Jury fol
voluntarily allowing a United State.
prisoner to escape.
> The synodical commission at Mon
mouth, ILL.,, Monday not only refused
to sustain the appeal of Rev. ]. G
Stewart from the finding of the Mon
mouth presbytery, but also declared
thai all counts in the libel agains-
him were proven, including counts or
which he had been acquitted by the
prcsbytery.
The passenger steamer Courier
which plies between Parkersburg. w
Va, and Pittsourg. early YESTERDAY
morning when near the mouth of the
Little Muskingum, struck a rock O,