Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-14
GENERAL NEWS.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the world and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.


ton data relating to the naval war
records is about completed.
The report of the depaI aItments ot
agriculture in Kansas in regard to the
wheat crop are all encouraging.
dispatch to the London Times
from Odessa says that severe earth
quakes have occurred in the southern
part of Russia.
Comptroller Eckels has issued call
for statements of the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
on February 20.
Senator Stewart on Tuesday intro
duced an amendment to the Bland
seigniorage bill providing for the free
coinage of silver.
Rev. John A. Paddock, bishop of Ia
coma, died Sunday night at Miramar,
Cal, after an illness of several days
caused by paralysis.
The De Soto, Mo-, postoffice was
burglarized Monday night The safe
was blown open and $3.50 in money
and Sl,7OO in stamps were taken.
The Dolphin Manufacturing compa-
ny's jute mills in Patterson, n. j..
have closed down indefinitely, throw
ing 500 people out of employment.
Mrs. Alice S. Ireland of Cincinnati,
bride of six weeks, because her
mother, Mrs Sellew had not treated
her well, committed suicide.
A treaty between Spain and Morocco
was signed Tuesday. General Mar
tinez Campos, the Spanish commander
In Morocco started for Mazagan to-
day.
At Greeley, Col, Alvin Robinson,
while riding a race in the driving park
Saturday was thrown by his horse.
HIS head was so badly injured that he
is not expected to live.
Mrs. Eliza Davis, of San Francisco,
familiarly known as "Old Aunt Eliza
is dead. She lived 1913 years months
and Is days. She was mulatto and
was born slave October l3, 1890.
Captain A. Cramer, for many years
master of the Kansas City union de-
pot, died of Bright's disease at Chilli
cothe, Mo-, Saturday morning. lie
was well known to travellers all over
the country.
"a 'NAb III LOT GfHU,DUO
and interest, for the appointment of a
receiver and for the sale of Amos
Whitley & Co.'S big wheat reaper
plant at Springfield, o.. has been filed
In court sy mortgage holders.
The steamers Elektra and Orion L
collided near Cape Promontore. One
man was killed and three fatally in
jured. The Orion l. was from Rio ia
neiro for trieste. The Elektra was
beached and the Orion L proceeded on
her way.
The operation of the shoe factory in
the Iowa state pi ison at Fort Madison
was discontinued Saturday. The rea-
son given by the contractors is, that
the work of the convictS was unsatis-
factory, and that it was difficult to
market the goods.
King Humbert Thursday received
cx-Minister of the United States Por-
ter cordially when the American dip
lomat had his farewell audience with
the king previous to returning to the
United States, after turning over the
United States embassy to the Honora-
bic Wayne McVeagh.
The first suit under the Indiana en-
ploye's liability act of 1893 was ended
in Judge Browns court at Indianapo-
lis Saturday. This law seeks to make
an employe liable as a vice principal
whose injury occurs without any neg
llgence on the part of the company
The jury found that Philip
Enough, who lost an arm on the In
dianapolis & Vincennes road, was en-
titled to recover S., 900 from the Poma
railroad company.
William ii, Taylor colored, was
sentenced at st. Louis by Judge Ed
munds Saturday to be hanged on April
10 for the murder of a negro named
Tobe Carlisle, on March I3, 1893, at
1888, Gratiot street. Taylor was a
Pullman car porter. On the day of
the murder he returned from a trip
! and found Carlisle at his house in COM
pany with his wife. Taylor drew a
pistol and shot Carlisle dead Taylor'
wife claimed that Carlisle was on |
waiting to get meal.
The green flag of Ireland will float
} over the city hall in New York on St.
Patrick's day. A resolution to that
effect was passed by the board of al
dermen Thursday. 1t will be approved
. | ~ hSbih6 -DCOiclIdu.
such approval is not necessary. The
friends of Mayor Gilroy scout the idea
that he left the city because he did
, not wish to provoke criticism one way
or the other. The story was first told
as joke and afterwards found it's
way into print.
3 At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday, Le-
thurians and Polanders to the mum.
hnr Of
ing to protest against the murder of
their countrymen in Russia some
months ago by Cossack soldiers. The
American flag which they carried in
, parade was draped in mourning. Some
people didn't think it proper to have
"Old Glory" in mourning, and u pro-
test was entered before the authori-
ties. A squad of policemen requested
the marshal of the parade to take the
Grape off the flags, and the order was
obeyed.
William E. Burr, Jr., ex-cashier Of
the st. Louis National bank. for
whose arrest a warrant was sworn out
Wednesday by the bank examiner for
embezzling $50, 600 surrendered Satur-
day morning and was released on S12.-
600 bail.
General Superintendent Kimball of
the life-saving service has received a
telegram stating the schooner Fannie
Arthur, of Somers Point, n. J., loaded
. with coal efroln Baltimore to Cuba.
, stranded Saturday morning one mile
north of Cape Henry, Va, life-savinR
station. The crew of nine men re.
main on the vessel.
Thomas Corrigan, the millionaire
who has been identified with so MANY
of Kansas City's enterprises, and
! brother of Edward Corrigan, the well
known turfman, died there Saturday
morning of fatty degeneration of the
heart.