Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-17

ISOLATION football game at the South
End grounds, Boston, Tuesday after.
noon.
Captain William Cobb, one of the
old time keepers on the Pacific mail
line died at his home at San Francisco
Tuesday in his 6sth year.
The Holy See will beatty in Novem.
Der in Rome, three abbots and two
other memb ers of the English Bene-
dictines, Sir Thomas Percy and Sir
Henry Fortescue.
4'Bunco'' Kelly has made a full con.
fession to the part he played in the
murder of Geo. w. Sayres, whose
body was found floating in the river
at Portland. Ore, Friday morning.
Fire at Abel, To-, last Saturday, con-
sumed the Opera house, and number
of other buildings in the business por-
ton. Loss, S75, 900 to 500, 600; insur.
ance half Fifteen horses were crea-
mated.
The barn of Frank laughter, one
mile west of Vincennes, Ind, was
burned last Friday night by an incen-
diary. Seven head of horses were
| cremated. Loss, $4,000; insured for
$500.
John R. Russell late Monday after.
noon was arrested Fat Arkadelphia,
Ark, charged with embezzllng from
the St Louis Loan and Investment
| company, on the affidavit of E. A.
Kemerer
Moulton Paddock, the Newmarket
residence of the late Abingdon Baird,
better known as Squire" Abingdon,
was offered at auction Tuesday, but
was Withdrawn after $1,000 pounds
had been bid for it.
At Madrid serious differences have
| arisen in the cabinet regarding the re.
forms proposed to be put into effect in
Cuba and Porto Rico. But the minis.
ter of the colonies has as a consequence
announced that he will resign.
Paul Berger, said to be the oldest
negro minstrel In the country, died at
Philadelphia Monday. He has been
employed as turnkey in down town
police station since his retirement
from the stage. He was seventy years
old.
Daniel 5. Pierson, a prominent bust
ness man and Democratic politician OF
bloomington, ILL.,, died Monday morn
ing. He was 60 years of age, and
leaves a widow and three children
He was an old resident of Blooming
ton.
George w. Cram, a builder. of 24s
West Eighteenth Street, New York,
shot his wife Rachel in the left breast
and abdomen at their home Monday.
The woman refused to go to a hospi-
tai. The physician attending her says
she will die.
One hundred and eighty thousand
feet of finished lumber belonging to
the st. Paul and Tacoma Lumber com!
pany was burned Tuesday at Tacoma,
entailing loss of $4,000. The com.
pany's machinery narrowly escaped
destruction.
1t is reported that Sabez Balfour,
the much-wanted fugitive ex-member
of the British Parliament, and promot.
er of the Liberator Building Societies,
whose appeal against his extradition
on charges of fraud is being heard at
Buenos Ayres, hasescaped from custo-
dy. 80
F. Ii. Hegwer,s State boiler Inspect
or and one Of Gov. Waite's most trusty
lieutenants, was arrested at Pueblo
Monday, being charged with irregu-
larity in the inspections ot several
boilers. The complaint alleges that
he issued certificates, after collecting
his fee, without examining the boilers.
Word was received at Vincennes,
Ind, Monday from Denver, Colo, of
the arrest of Ed Smith under the
name of William Morris. He came
there as tramp from San Francisco.
Smith killed Reed Davenport near
VincenEes two years ago, in a difficult.
ty about some grain theywere buying
together. A large reward was offer.
ed for Smith. b e. ~
The infant son of the Duke and
Duchess of York, and grandson of the
Prince of Wales, is now. visiting Lon.
don. The baby, vino may possibly be
King of England some day, is to be
short frocked in the immediate future.
and in preparation for the event, all
the necessary articles of apparel have
been ordered furnished by British
manufacturers. The child was born
June % last.
Richard Osborne. farmer living
near Thompson Station, Mo-, commit
ted suicide last Saturday morning. He
left his house, telling his wife he was
going to hunt rabbits, and went to q
clump of trees back of the house and
shot himself through the heart with
shotgun. He was "a years old, and
had small family. The cause of his
act is not known.
The principal feature in the army
shoot at Fort Sheridan Monday was
trial for the new Krag-Jorgensen rife
in the skirmish firing. 1t was the first
test made of the gun on any range in
that style of firing. The scores made
were up to the average of those made
with the old Springfield weapon. The
best score made was that of Private
John Dillon, 18th Infantry. His av.
erBge for the run was 1913.
John Parker, a brakeman on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Railway. 20 years old and single. re-
siding with his parents in Chill;cothe,
NO., was instantly killed Saturday
night near Newton by falling from
the top of the car, and beingrun over.
Mrs Eliza Merrick. aged II years,
met with a horrible death at Okaw.
vile, Saturday morning. While in
the house alone she fell into the fire,
and was unable to escape She endur
ed the fortunes for an hour. or more
but wheu found shs was in tha a0onies