Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-15
NEWS NOTES.

zen of st. Joseph, is dead.
Charles L. Moses, from the Fourth
Georgia district, was renominated on
the 316th bollot.~
At Oskaloosa, Iowa, the Sixth dis
Senator Taylor of Davis county for
congress.
special from Birmingham says
that kolb announces that he will go
TO Montgomery and organize a dual
state government.
Over one third of Dawson Neb., has
burned, and the hardest kind of work
alone saved the rest of the town.
The loss is about $35, 900
George Washington Faris has been
1ominAted for congress in the Sixth
indiana district by the Republicans.
defeating Colonel Thomas H. Nelson,
.x=minister TO Chill and To Mexico
The Denver lodge Of the American
hallway union has declared the Pull
man boycott off on the Union Pacific
md the Union Pacific, Denver and
iulf ra%dS- Soinc of the strikers
iave bees. taken back @
The town Of Clifford. III. was al
MOST swept. away by flames which
started at . o'clock Thursday morn
ing. Two grain elevators. the Illinois
Central depot, and almost the entire
business portion of the town is III
ashes.
The business portion of Clifford. H.
thriving town, was almost entirely
burned Thursday. Twenty-one bust
ness houses, two grain elevators, the
cribs, and 1000 bushels of grain were
burned The loss will amount to
500, 900, partially covered by insur-
ance.
New York tailors have been en-
joined from keeping up boycott on
shops whose men have struck.
The president has appointed Lars
Anderson of Ohio to the secretary of
embassy of the United States at Rome
c. Il. Gates of Brooktield, Mo, and
Miss Mabel Upton of Clarence. Mo
we're married at Quincy, Ill. II was
an elopement
The house committee on judiciary
has taken steps to investigate the
charges on which the impeachment of
Judge Ricks is asksd.
Among the bills introduced and ap-
propriately referred was one by Mr..
Allen Pop. Neb.) to prevent pro-
fessional jobbing, which was referred
to the committee on labor.
Private Henry Lemon of Company
{, Sixteenth infantry, guard at the
Midland railroad bridge, was shot
through the wrist by one of party
of loiterers whom he ordered to move
ON on bridge at Newcastle. Col.
In the senate the house bill TO re-
ihiburse E. II. Nebeker. late treasurer
of the United States, for 81 900 paid
by him TO make good a shortage in
his accounts when his office was
turned over to his successor; was
passed.
A sailboat capsized in the river near
Burlington, Iowa, and Mr.. and Mrs c.
c. Campbell of that city were drowned.
Steve Brodie. the bridge jumper
and coming star in the play ''On the
Bowery," was stabbed in the neck by
R bookmaker named William Henry
and narrowly escaped having his
wihdpipe severed.
The railroads of Kansas refuse to
make the cut of twenty five per cent
iii freight rates ordered by The COM
missioners. The companies charge
that the order is the result of Popu-
list political conspiracy.
The Mexican government, by de-
cree In encouragement of gold mining
in that c6uttry. has provided series
of concessions to miners in the shape
Of remission of duties on tools and
plant, partial rebate of mining tax for
ten years and exemption from federal
import.
At meeting Of tile local organiza-
tion of the A. II, t. of st. Paul, the
employees of the st. Paul and Duluth,
Omaha, Burlington and Milwauk ee
systems at that place formally dc
clared the strike off
Hon. Charles DENLY, minister to
China, believes that that country will
win if there is no outside interference.
a traction engine went through a
bridge near Springfield, Ill. Two men
who were on the engine were killed.
Frank w Haley of Rochester, n. Y,
fled a claim against the state for
| So: ,O61 damages for the killing by the
state of $50 head of cattle. said to be
infected with tuberculosis.
An explosion occurred on board one
of the machines used in dredging the
Deleware river near Windmill island,
opposite Philadelphia. -Four persons
were killed.
An extraordinary gazette has been
issued in London containing a pro
ciamation by the queen of Great
Britait's neutrality in the war be-
tween China and Japau
The house committee on judiciary
has decided against the advisab bility
of admitting Japanese to citizenship
In the United States.
Representative Bryan of Nebraska
has a petition bearing 10000 sigma
lures for an investigation of the
course taken by Attorney General Oh
ney during the recent strike, looking
to his Impeachment.
Mrs. Lilly Herndon of st. Louis has
sued Major Morgan Williams of At
lanta, Mo-. for So, for breach oi
promise of marriage.
A vast tract of land has been pur
chased in Arkansas. with view tt
colonizing Slavs in it.
Fire at the Chicago west side base
! ball park during game caused q
panic and several people were in
| jured.
The president has vetoed the bill fol
the restoration of Captain Wells il
the army and then his retirement.
A New Tin Plate Plant.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 1O.-GeneraI
Manager ID. b. Oliver of the Oliver
iron and steel company is authority