Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-17
GENERAL NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience of IIur
lied ReaIers.

from Paris says NJ Flobert, inventor
OF the Flobert carbine, is dead.
The parish councils bill passed
through the committee stage in the
house of commons Thursday night.
The report stage has been fixed for
to-day.
Martha and Albert Basik, twins 3
months old, smothered in their crib
early Sunday morning. The father
and mother are Poles and reside at
Braddock, Pa.
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco has sailed from Pernambuco.
Brazil, for the South. Important de-
veiopments are expected at Rio de ia
neiro shortly.
John Sullivan, boiler maker, was
arrested Thursday and confessed to
having burglarized the st. Louis Real
Estate exchange seven times within
the last two months.
A party of four left Spokane, Wash,
Thursday for the Clearwater country
to search for George Colgate, cook of
the Carlin party. They will ascend
the river in boat
At Centervllle, Ia, Harlan Richards.
prominent politician and mine own
er, was fatally injured while inspect
ing his mine Saturday by fall of coal.
A miner was instantly killed.
The LitchfeId, ILL.,, Car and Ma
chine company fled Saturday
Tor record in Hillsboro n mort
gage on their works in the sum of
TO
At Deep Bottom, Ky. VIII Connor,
coiored, stlbbed Tom Hunt, colored,
twice near the heart, sevcring a blood
vessel from which he died instantly.
The trouble arose over game of
craps.
dispatch to the London Times
from Cd 'ssa says during the recent
fearful storm in the Black sea, one
English, one Greek and two Russian
steamers we've lost. Their crews were
saved.
Judge Lewis Il. Aiken, one of the
oldest jurists in the west, died at Dem
yer Thursday night of apoplcxy. He
was native of Windsor, " H., and
was well known in Omaha and Gales
burg, Ill.
The Festival of the Kings held the
attention of the people of Mexico, Sat
urday. 1t commentaries the visit of
the three wise men to pay their devo-
tions and offer presents to the new
born Christ.
Az What Cheer, Ia. ire Thursday
morning in a row of frame buildings
caused a loss of SIS, GOO, with IS. 600 in
surance. There were ten buildings.
including the Commercial hotel, and
they are total loss
Assistant Attorney General Thomas
of the postOfiice department, has de-
clded that the monthly reports of col
lege students as to their grades In the
classes cannot be sent through the
mails except on payment of letter
postage.
Maude Davis. aged >, died in great
agony In st. Louis Tuesday, from hy-
drophobia. When two wears old she
was scratched on the hand bv nm
ard the wound, of which little was
thought at the time, was the cause of
her death.
The trial of Lewis Redwine. for en-
bezzling Sl0S,0OO from the Gate Citv
National 'bank of Atlanta, began in
that city Tuesday. Redwine, who was
assistant cashier of the bank. was
thoroughly trusted. He was a society
leader,
While workmen were engaged in
undermining a wall of the old Wind
sor hotel at Chattanooga Thursday, it
Tell and buried eight IN the debris.
The masonry was $50 feet long bv 30
feet high and four bricks thick, vet
none were killed.
At Wheeling, w. Va, Jack Mere
dlth. young criminal convicted of
cownterfeiting and serving sentence
in the county Jail, was found dead in
his cell Sunday morning, having
hanged himself with a strip of blan-
iSet some time during the night.
The Riverside steel works, Wheel
ing, w. Va, which have been shut
down for sometime, resumed Monday.
giving employment to about 900
men. No scale has been arranged.
but it is likely that no trouble will re-
suit. Part of the Labelle men will
also go on.
A large crowd of farmers and 9th
Kansas state board of agriculture at
Topeka last week. Papers and ad-
dresses on topics of rural interest
with subsequent discussions, We're the
order of the day. New officers for the
ensuing year were elected.
At special meeting of the chamber
of commerce in Portland, Ore, Friday.
resolutions were introduced. contra
dieting and condemning the state
ments contained in General Penover's
Christmas letter to President Cleyc-
land. After heated debate the res
olutions were referred to committee
of seven for amendment.
The Pacific mail steamships after
February l, will perform once week
mail service b tween New York and
Colon, instead of thirty-six trips a
year. The four years contract with
the government requires the companv
to make thirty-siX mail trips n wear
during the first two years and fifty-
two year during the latter half of
the period
The arrest has been made of vi
cen. Nelasquez, well known
resident OF the City of Mexico. The
arrest was made by order of the war
department, but on what charge is
not known.
Premier Crispi has announced that
the report that Italy is negotiating
a new loan is unfounded.
George Westinghouse, Jr., has ac-
CURED absolute control of the West
tinghouse Machine Company. one of
the most profitable of the several
p1ittsburg corporations comprising the
Westinghouse Industries, Ly purchas-
ing outright Ransom Bagley's stocI, in
the company.
Receiver Allen of the Alva land dis
trlct is sick at his home in Mississipni
A London paper publishes an article
IN reference to the Columbian exposi-
tion' IN winch 1t says that perfect
chaos prevails in the management ~.
encouragement of the fair an5 .lo4