Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-11
NEWS NOTES.

| ing correspondence upon this subject
with Great Britain and Germany.
Representative Pickler of South
Dakota has introduced in the house a
bill providing for the appointment of
! agents of the department of agricul-
tural to make examinations with re-
spect to the extent of the prevalence
| of the Russian thistle.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has held two meetings and
considered the Nicaragua canal bill.
1t has been decided to report the bill
introduced by Senator Morgan favor
| ably as soon as he can prepare a re-
port upon the measure. upon which
he is now engaged.
The sale of the Memphis Appeal
company's property. including the
Appeal and its franchises,
in thirty days has been ordered.
The siXty-fourth annual conference
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte r
Day Saints convened in the Salt Lake
City tabernacle.
Italy is now the greatest wine pro-
ducing country in the world, the crop
last year amounting to 81. 200. 900. 900 in
value. The United States stands
seventeenth in the list of wine produc-
ing countries. with product last
year of but lob. 129 hectolitres, as
against 81. 367,3.1 for Italy.
In Chicago Sig. l.. Mancinelli, di-
rector of the chorus of the Abbey
| Grand Opera company, was arrested
on charge of picking pockets. The
| arrest occurred in dime museum on
Clark street.
| The story from Grand Junction. Col
| that Major w. u. Clarke of the Second
| infantry is managing Coxey's army is
! denied bv friends, who state that
Clarke is at the bedside of his sick
mother at Williamsport, Pa.
The Ohio state convention of mine
| workers has decided in favor of Il gen
eral strike May unless the operators
restore the old scale
| X. Nj. Page, president of the Mer-
chants National bank in Fort Worth.
Texas, who killed A. j. Smith the
! cashier. March l3. has been released
on S12, 900 bail.
The famous old Landmark mills in
| Frankfort. Pa. which have stood id lie
for fourteen years, will resume opera
tions about May /. James Baird s
| Sons are the owners. and they will
| conduct the business of manufacture
ing ribbed underwear for women
One hundred hands viii be employed
Nearly all the painters in Chicago
are idle. The association of employ
ers decided to take aggressive meas
I ures against the pending strike, and
| agreed to a general lockout, by which
1000 men are thrown out of employ
ment. Scventy-seven firms signed an
agreement to suspend operations for
| the present.
| Representative Bland expects To call
meeting of the coinage committee
very soon to consider the free coinage
bills pending before it.
Hereafter the students having the
| highest grade in the graduating
classes of the colleges in the Missouri
/ College union will he admitted free of
tuition to the departme nts of law and
| medicine at the State university.
The Oregon state Prohibition con
vention nominated James Kennedy of
| Portland for governor and a full state
! ticket. The national platform of 1892
was indorsed.
Three young trampS who broke into
| store at Raymand. Kan. were con
victed in the district court at Sterling
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
ten years each at hard labor.
After an idleness of nearly half IL
year. the largest puddle mills of the
Bethlehem Iron company resumed
| operations. The entire plant of the
| company is now in operation and near
ly 2, 600 men are ut work.
Father Smith. whom Bishop Bona
cum sent to Palmyra. Neb.. to succeed
Father Cor0ett, had TO use an AK to
get into the church, and now there's
| another row on.
The Freemasons of Argentine have
| interceded in behalf of the brazilian
insurgents confined on the Portuguese
warships at Buenos Ayres.
The one hundredth anniversary OF
the oath of Thaddeus Kosciusko to
! fight for the Republic of Poland 5
freedom was marked by many riots at
! Cracow.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and
Gulf has increased its capital stock
from 50, 500, 900 to so, 900. 900
The board of equalization of Cooper
county, Missouri. has reduced the as
| sessment on mules and horses ten De r
cent.
Don Rafael Yglesias. Liberal. has
been elected president of Costa Rica.
There was no disturbance at anv
place.
\ large delegation of Creek India rs
met the Dawes commission at Okmul-
gee, Ind. Ter. and spoke against re-
linquishment of tribal relations
Warehouse No. q, London docks.
burned. 1t was stored with wool,
spices and coffee. The origin of the
fire is ascribed to the explosion of an
internal machine. In the baseme Mt
of the warehouse was f9O0. 600 worth
of quicksilver. 1t was uninjured.
The marriage of Lorian A. Thurs
ton. Howaiian minister, To Hattie Fl.
Potter, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs r.
\. Potter of st. Joseph, Mich, took
place at the brides home.
A 81, 800, 900 book, on which work
has been going on for nearly twenty
years. is nearly finished. This is the
governments official accounts of the
civil war in 120 large volumes.
Oliver Jackson, colored. one of the
Grant murderers. on his way to Mont
gomery. Ala. was taken by a dozen
masked men from two deputies and
shot to death.
Congressman John T. Heard of the
Seventh Missouri district. has issued a
card announcing his candidacy for re-
nomination by the Democrats.
The new concentrating plant and
hosting works of the Horn silver
mine at Frisco, Utah, have been to-
tally destroyed by Are. The mill
made its first run April /. but was not
in operation when the fire broke out
The fire is supposed TO have been oi
ineendiary origin. Loss, SIoo, ,o00.