Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
James Hall. aged So. died Thursday

day, DR.. Harris was thrown from his
horse and killed.
Willis Ellis, pioneer citizen of Yer
non county, Mo-. died at his home
near Nevada, last week.
The cars proclamation has salts
fed the Polanders and they have
sworn allegiance to him.
! AT lao o'clock Friday morning the
residence of Charles Shaw on Fifth
street, Beardstown, ILL.,, was destroyed
by fire.
! Munson & Mcnamara, Wichita, Kan.
sas, big dry goods house, have ladies
employed to answer mail order en-
4uiries. Write them.
The Salmon Milling company's
plant at Beloit, the largest Touring
mill in Wisconsin, burned Thursday.
Loss, $50, 600; well insured.
State Senator O'Malley is in luck
The Greek waiter, Varalosy. whom
the Senator shot election night, failed
to prosecute and the case was dismiss
ed.
| Gov. Stone, OF Missouri, has offered
a reward of $500 for the arrest of Lane
Britton, charged with the murder of
Aaron and Gideon Davis in Jasper
County.
In the United States court Saturday
the injunctions of the West India
Steamship company VS. the Screwmen's
association was continued until next
Saturday.
| The loss of the Dauntless has not
been posted in the Maritime Exchange
at New York, and members seem to
know nothing of it. There is no rec
ord of ship Dauntless.
Col. A. c. Wildrick, aged SO, who re-
tired from his station three months
ago, died at his home at Clifton, Stat
en- Island Saturday. Colonel Wildrick
was last Stationed at Fort Wadsworth.
George Fudge, farm hand. was
found in an unconscious condition a
few miles north of Charleston, ILL.,,
last week. He had about 5000 on his
person which Is missing. He seems to
have been struck with a sandbag.
The case is shrouded in mystery.
Saturdays Withdrawals of gold
from the sub-treasury in New York,
presumably to buy bonds from the
United States, amounted to S427, 900,
as against 1915, COO withdrawn Friday.
The total amount of gold withdrawn
from the several sub treasures since
the bond call was 81, O5s,O 25.
The fourth biennial report of the
state board of horticulture states that
owing to the railway strike, California
fruit growers lost millions of dollars.
Had it not been for the railway tie up
this season would have been the most
profitable for the horticulturists in
the history of the state.
Gen" j. Sanders, originator and
commander of the CommonweaI army,
Cripple Creek, and who was arrested
in Pueblo November 10, on charge
of stealing a Denver and Rio Grande
locomotive, was discharged, the CON-
pany Withdrawing the complaint.
The official vote complete of the
state of Missouri shows that the legis-
lature will stand as follows: Senate
nineteen Democrats, fifteen Republi-
cans. House-eighty Republicans,
fifty-eight Democrats and two Popu-
lists. This gives the Republicans a
majority OF sixteen on joint ballot.
The secretary of the Nebraska re-
lief commission Saturday issued an
appeal to the One ha people for aid
for the Nebraska drouth sufferers.
The report declared that in the coun-
ties of Boyd, Custer, Lincoln, Chase,
Hitchcock, Frontier, Sherman and
others, great restitution prevails and
in some instances starvation is avoid
ed with difficulty.
James Reed Rights will was opened
Tuesday. The bulk of his fortune,
about $50, 900, 900, goes to his wife
3Mr. E. R. Newman appointed assis-
tant general freight agent for the Wa
bash vice Sumner Hopkins resigned.
The majority of the large Touring
mills in st. Louis closed down for an
indefinite period. This course is made
necessary, the millers claim, because
of the congestion of the market, and
more especially by the advance of the
freight rate to the eastern seabord of
about twenty-five cents a barrel. This
action of the St. Louis millers is indie
pendent of the action of the north
western millers held at Chicago Satur-
day.
The Daily Drovers' Telegram COM
piles figures showing that 727,ooo
head of cattle hogs and sheep were
received at the four great western
live stock markets-Kansas City, Chi
cago, Omaha and St. Louis. While
there have been weeks in which more
than 166, 900 head of cattle have been
received at the four points, and while
the 44O, 900 hogs and 121, 900 sheep have
been exceeded twice previously, the
combined receipts have never been
paral. eled.
Local sporting people did not believe
that the killing of Con Riordon will
have any effect on the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight, which they generally
believe will be fought in New Orleans.
The state legislature does not meet
for nearly two years and then there is
no strong sentiment against fighting
in New Orleans.
The report that the miners in the
Reynoldsville, Pa, district had struck
is untrue. The men were at work
Saturday and notified General Mana
ger Elliott that they would accept the
reduction.
The thirty-slxth anniversary of the
founding of Denver was commemorat
ed Saturday night by banquet un
der the auspices of the real estate ex
change. Many of those present were
connected with some of the principal
| events in the earlier history of the