Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-30
NEWS NOTES.

OuC oil the MINERS dUOuG OOU men.
Five hundred miners at Ardmore,
Ind. Ter, have quit work pending
meeting to decide whether a strike
shall take place.
Lewis Williams. colored. was dread
fully crushed between freight cars
while making coupling at Black
water, Mo. 1t is thought he cannot
recover.
At La Junta. Col, Joseph Wood,
Santa Fe conductor, was fatally shot
by a colorcd tramp, whom he was
obJecting from freight car. The
tramp escaped.
Mrs. Horace Speed, wife of the
United States attorney of Oklahoma,
died suddenly at Guthrie. The re-
mains were taken to Louisville, KY,
for interment.
The London Sporting Life says that
the National sporting clnb will offer
purse of s3,0 for the contest be-
twst Corbctt and Jackson, provided
the contest is decided during the pres
ent year.
In Denver the commOnwealers in
camp number 700. The officers de-
clare they will Stay all summer if the
railroads do not give them cheap
rate East. They declare they will
not seize train. but railroad officials
are suspicious of them and maintain
guards constantly in the railroad
yards
Joe Guiles, alias John ID. May. who
killed Fireman Frank Martin in the
attempted train robbery at Breckin-
ridge station, was hanged in Karnes
City, Texas. The drop failed to break
his neck and he struggled on the rope
twenty-three minutes. lie was only
- years old, but met death coolly,
having prOfessed religion.
No information has reached the
department of agriculture as to the
damage to crops by the recent storms.
Nothing will be received before the
regular monthly crop report to be
made public on June TO-
Assignee Hubbard of the Union
Loan and Trust company, which
failed last summer, stated IN court
at Sioux City, Iowa, that the liabili-
ties of the company are $4,000 ,Oe0,
and that the creditors, who are most
ly Eastern people, will not get over
five per cent of their claims.
Henry Shumaker, farmer, living
near Olathe. Kan, was thrown from
his wagon by a runaway team and
died soon afterward.
l.. McGiu, a merchant of Wichita.
was seriously injured by footpads who
robbed and beat him. 1t is thought
his skull is fractured.
Representative Whiting has intro
duced a bill to secure an equa! appor-
tionment of the federal offices among
hn Ctafn I'd
Two men, named j. L. Sparks and
DIR. Charles Wynn, were arrested at
Fairland, l. T., suspected of being i'm
plicat ted in the Southwest City bank
robbery. The arrest was made by
Captain ]. NJ. Lacey of Neosho.
At Abilene, Kan. May 80, Lloyd
Lang of Carrollton, who has been on
trial for murder for killing William
Slaughter last winter, was found
guilty OF manslaughter in the fourth
degree.
Information from the Dawes com
mission which is campaigning in the
Choctaw nation is to the effect that
they are meeting with material sue
cess and the field looks bright.
James Thomas, alias "Buckskin
Jimmy" once a wealthy Denver mer-
| chant, but now pauper, has been
| arrested on charge of attempting
| train wrecking. He was caught in
the act of placing Il timber across the
track.
Represe ntative Baker of Kansas has
introduced a resolution to appoint
sydney G.. Cooke of Herington, Dick
inson county, Kan. member of the
board of managers for the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
1t is estimated the damage in the
Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania
railway by the flood will reach So. 900.
The supreme court of Ohio has
given Edward +. Jones of Clermont
| county a fourth trial He has been
convicted three times of murder in the
first degree for killing his young son.
The concentrating plant of the Ris-
ing Sun mining company, near Carter
vile, Mo, was burned. The loss is
, about $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Locusts in large numbers have ap-
peared in several of the counties of
Middle Tennessee and are doing much
damage to young vegetation. The
lOcusts are pronounced to be the
| seventeen-year kind.
Gus Haney, an unmarried miner. 20
years of age, was suffocated while
shot firing at mine No. Is. Weir Citv
Richard Dent, the 9-year- step
son of Charles Pike, a farmer living
near Atchison, was kicked to death
by horse.
The house committee on Indian
affairs has decided to grant the re-
| quest of the Usage Indian delegation
to detach the Usage reservation from
Oklahoma and attach it to the Indian
territory. An amendment, to accom-
plish this, will be proposed to the
Indian appropriation bill.
The house committee on election of
president and vice president has voted
to make favorable report on the bill
of Representative Tucker of Virginia,
providing for the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people. The report was agreed upon
by nearly unanimous vote.
The senate committee on Indian
affairs has authorized favora BILE re-
port on the bill providing for the
opening of the Uintah and Uncom-
paghre Indian reservations in Utah
The bill provides for the allotment of
| portion of the land of the reserva-
tions in severalty to the Indians and
the opening of that remaining to
settlement
superintendent Pratt, who has ha d
charge of the construction of the
Leman block in Fort Worth, Texas.
has strangely disappeared and no
trace of him can be found He left a
large number of people in the lurch.
Surveys of public lands are here
after to be paid for by the government
during the year in which the work is
actually done, according to decision
returned by First Comptroller Bowler
OF the treasury department. The
| opinion is of considerable Importance
| TO the general land Office and will af-
| tect contracts made for work prior to
the beginning of the mex fiscal year
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