Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-17

movement is on foot in st. Paul 10
Sc .nre the national Grand Army en-:
campment in Is! ).
3 La grippe is proving fatal in the vi
cinity of Carrollton, Mo, Five deatls s
from the disease were reported en-
Monday.
The crew of the BRAZILIAN govern
me IL cruiser Nictheroy has refused to
o TO sea and has demanded the ar
rears Of pay.
Executions were issued Thursday on
judgements aggregating S239, 200
against the Philadelphia Optical and
Watch company.
In the McKane and other Gravesend
tlectiC n cases, Judge Bartlett Thurs
day afternoon denied a motion to
quash the indictments
Several members of skating party
at Leavenworth, all girls, were
dumped into the waite" on Friday
night by the breaking of too thin ice.
No one was drowned.
The first of series of three grand
receptions that are given each year at
the White House took place Thursday
night, when President and Mrs. Cleve-
land entertained the diplomatic corps.
A dispatch to the London News from
Vienna says Benedict Randharbinger,
the Ncstor Of Austrian musicians, the
school fellow of Schubert, and the
teacher of Liszt is dead. He was 81
years of age.
Six Mexican revolutionists Tuesday
crossed the river at Fort Quitman,
Tex, and demanded that rancher
sell them a couple of beeves at their
own price. The ranchmen in that vi
cinity are uneasy.
United States Senator William +.
Villas in a letter to Milwaukee Cath
Ollie citizen made public Thursday, de-
clares the A. p, A. menace to the
republic. He says every good citizen
should be opposed to its principles.
The Penokee and Gogebic (consoli-
dated) mines, owned BY the Rockefe,-
lers and others and capitalized It
hands of receivers. The company
enterprises include some of the biggest
mines in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The defendants attorneys filed
brief Friday as the preliminary step
towards next Fridays hearing, by the
appellate court, of the appeal from
Judge Stems order, imposing fines for
contempt of court upon the worlds
fair directors and Director General
George X. Davis.
In the damage suit of James j.
Rhodes. of the Minnesota coal com
bine, against the legislators who forci-
bly, seized his books. the supreme
r,.f IL, i
cided that each of the seven legisla-
tors must pay Rhodes $780, The state
will have to foot the bill
At Ogden, Utah, the Jarvis Conklin
Mortgage company has filed suit for
foreclC sure of Il mortgage amounts
ing to over s., ,070, 900, involving the
great irriga ton canal system, cover
ing vast tract lying between the
northern shore of the Great Salt Lake
and the southern BOUNDARY of Idaho.
C. NJ. Woodbury., of Middlesboro,
Nv, has been appointed receiver for
the Mingo Mining company. the larg-
est coal and coke company in the
south. The assets are about 90, ,OOO
| The liabilities are unknown. The
cause OF the failure is inability to
meet obligations due the American as
sociation
The movements of the Mexican
revolutionists in the vicinity of Juarez,
across the border from Et Paso, Tex,
have caused considerable alarm, and
citizens defense committee was or
ganized Thursday evening. Heavy
guards of soldiers have been placed
on Mexican Central passenger trains
going south.
The mercury fell eight degrees be-
low freezing on Sunday night at Los
Angeles. Cal, and all sorts of rumors
| are in circulation as to the extent of
the fruit loss that will be caused
thereby. Some declare that the loss
| will be as heavy as in 1891, when, it is
estimated two-thirds of the entire
,, orange crop of California was ruined.
At Grass Valley, Cal, late Thursday
| night, fire broke out in the hoistiHo
works of the acknowledgement mine,
| imprisoning gseventy-eight miners :, ,OO1
| feet below the surface The widest
excitement prevailed throughout the
| town. The miners finally escaped by
climbing 1000 feet above a perpen-
| dicular air shaft.
A meeting of the Marshall county
citizens will be held on the 10th at
J Marysville to consider the project Of
| organizing county fair association.
| The idea is to provide for holding a
series of fairs which shall be agricul-
| tural in fact as well as in name, horse
| racing being made an incidental at
traction rather than the principal fea-
| ture.
W. f. Beck & CO., San Francisco
commission merchants handling chief
ly salmon and canned and dried
fruits have assigned. The scheduled
liabilities are 1913, ,513, and member
of the firm says the amount NAV
reach much greater sum. The
Welis-Fargo bank is the heaviest cred
itor holding claims to the amount of
$1O4 900
The Kansas Improved Stock Breed
| ers' association held its fourth annual
meeting at Topeka Tuesday. Manv
new members were admitted. and tie
| ASSOCIATION was shown by the reports
to be in tiourishing condition The
annual address was delivered by Pres
ident sutton of Russell. Other ad-
dresses were made by Ex-Governor
Click and L. ID. Coburn of Kansas
City.
All the Colorado dealers in Ignite
coal havo signed the agreement foIm
ing trust and Thurs day mcrl;ny tie
price was advSn :ed ON $3.50 md
s.. % per ton to S4. Eighty dealers are
in the combine.
Tuesday at Chicago the old Illinois
Baseball league was reorganized, the
name Western Association of Baseball
Clubs being adopted, and the follow
ing cities admitted to membership:
st. Joseph, Omaha. Rock Island, Peo-
ria. Quincy. l G Moincs, Lincoln, and
Jacksonville, u. j Rama of Omaha
was elected president and secretary.
The salary limit was placed at $500.
The season opens MAY l and closes
about Sept 1.
At Chicago Mrs. Cora Brady was fa-