Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
NEWS NOTES.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge OF
England, is dead.

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r. w Taylor for congress.
The town of Purdy, Mo-, was gutted
by fire. Twelve business buildings
and number of residences are in
ashes. Loss, 1000; insurance, SlO,-
600.
Thursday was the hottest day of the
season at st. Louis, thus far, the ther-
mometer registering 90 in the shade.
AS far as known there were no pros
trations.
In Glasgow, Scotland, five women
including member of the Salvation
army, were suffocatcd in bed by an
escape of gas.
Walter Muir was nominated for con-
gress by the North Dakota State Inde-
pendent convention without opposi-
tion.
suicide epidemic prevails at Pitts
burg, Pa. Since Thursday night two
men and one woman have killed them
selves
Justice Harlan of Chicago has
granted supersedeas to the Coffins,
wreckers of the indianapolis bank,
now serving terms in the Indiana pen
itentiary.
w. w. Brasie, assignee of the Ma
tional Co operative Building and in
vestment association in Denver. SAYS
the concern will not pay one cent on
the dollar.
The dry goods store of Goodsell,
Calhoun * Co. of Ft Scott, Kan. was
robbed of over $500 worth of silks
The same men tried to rob the post
Office but were frightened away.
Denial is made of the statement
that Richard Croker was booked on
the Umbria as John Miles. The real
John Miles, who is in the millinery
goods business on Broadway, was
passenger on board the Umbria
The railway trestle at Old Eagle
mines, on the Pitts burg and Lake
Erie road, two and one half miles
below Monongahcla City, was burned
and all traffic has been temporarily
| suspended.
Mile. Beatrice. the young lion
tanner who was bitten by lion at
Coney Island, has symptoms of lock-
jaw. Her tongue is swollen so that it
fills her mouth. She is unable to
| speak, and swallows liquid food with
difficulty.
1t has transpired that in his politi-
cal testament the late sultan of Nor
occo directed that council of regen.
cy be appointed until his young son,
Abdul Aziz, the present sultan, attains
his majority.
Martin l.. Stowell of Baxter Springs.
Kan, an eX-Union soldier, who has
been employed in the war depart.
ment for some years, has been dis
missed. He is at the hospital suffer
ing from a broken leg.
William Deering, the harvest ma
chine inventor, has given $50, 600 to !
the medical school of Northwestern
university. The gift is to be used in
founding new professorship in onol
of DR. y. $ Davis of Chicago.
The Winnebago Indians in Wiscon
SIN, fearing failure Of the blueberrv |
crop, have begun a three davs' rain |
dance. The red men are confident |
that the rain will come if they keep IT
up long enough.
Randolph II. Harrison, colonel Oh
the Fifty-sixth Virginia regiment
during the war of the re bellion and
cousin of eX-President Harrison and
of the late Carter Harrison of Chicago
died in Williamsburg, Va, aged Ga
years
Ten boats containing 80 Montana
Coxeyites, arrived in Bismarck from
Helena, having travelled bv the |
Missouri river. The city refused to
provide food and the men threaten to |
leave their boats and make their way
over railroads.
The entire family of Felix Trough. |
Der, living just over the Kentucky |
line, twenty-five miles from Clarks. |
vile, Tenn, has been poisoned by |
drinking water from their we'll in !
which, in some mysterious manner.
poison had been placed. 1t is feared |
all will die
1t is said that the Atchison reorgan- |
izatlon plan includes the issuing of |
collateral trust bonds to the amount |
OF S5,OO0,O00 on the security of Sill |
100000 st. Louis and San Francisco |
bonds, Colorado Midland As and Atch- |
ison As held in the Atchison treasury.
The pump house at the Alverton
coke plant of Mcclure & Co. al |
Greensburg, Pa, was blown up with |
dynamite. The explosion was ter
rifle and the building was completely |
wrecked. The strikers are held re-
sponsible for the outrage, and the
perpetrators are said to be known
The incident growing out of the
tearing down of the United States flag
from the United States consulate at
81 Thomas, Ont, on the queens
birthday, has been satisfactorily
closed by an explanation to the de.
partment of state that the perpe
traitors of the outrage were drunk and
irresponsible and would be properly
dealt with.
The refugees on the United States
steamer Bennington have demanded
transfer under guard to Pacific Mail
steamer. Captain Thomas has refused
it, saying that, while they are not
prisoners and are at liberty to leave
If they wish to do so, he is not
authorized to furnish guard. He will
await instructions from his govern
ment.
The Illinois supreme court has
handed down an opinion in the cases
brought by the Republicans at Dan
vile and the Populists at Springfield
to set aside the Legislative apportion-
ment made by the Democratic lecisla-
ture last year The supreme court
virtually atfirIns the DEGREES of the
lower courts, holding it has no iuris-
diction.
The United States consul at Rel
fast, Ireland, in a. report to the de.
Partment of state, notes the fact that
the largest tobacco factory in the
world is now in process of erection at
that place. the building costing s250,-
600. The consul sees fine opportun.
lties for large extension of the trade
In American cigars and cigarettes if
our manufacturers would send astute
representatives to England to survey
the field gauge prices aud methods
and cater to tastes.
A chlnch bug station has been es-
taolished in the building of the
weekly Crescent, Hope. Kan
Missouri Bankers omcers Chosen.
CLINTON, Mo-, June 15.-The Mis-
souri, Bankers association closed its
fourth annual meeting here this after