Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-17

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5Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons
last Thursday signed articles to fight
to finish at Jacksonville after next
July.
Edward William, senior Bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church died Saturday at Wilmington,
Delaware, aged 76.
VIM. T. Hutchins, of Wichita, Kan,
and N. I. S. Rice, of Nation, ILL.,,
have been disbarred from practice be-
fore the patent Office.
Spreading of the rails threw a
freight train from California off the
Southern Pacific track at San Antonio,
Saturday afternoon. Three cars were
smashed up. Total loss $500.
George Cooper, noted hog and cat
tie thief, was convicted in the Circuit
Court at Ell Dorado Spring, Mo, Sat-
urday of stealing hogs, and sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary.
movable derrick at the East Ten
nessee Stone and Marble Works fell
at Knoxville, Tenn, Thursday after
noon. Mark Hall was instantly killed
and Lee Pierce severely injured.
Rev. Father Linch, assistant pastor
of st. Patrick's church at Du buque, Ia.
has been transferred to Marshalltown,
to- IL
who takes vacation for his health.
The body of John Dorsey, the col
ored prize fighter. was found floating
in the East River Thursday He is
known as the Boston Spider. lie fell
off an excursion barge on September
John Kent, ofMemphis, Tenn, went
down Ointo a we'll eighty feet deep,
Thursday to clean it out. The we'll
walls caved in and King was killed.
His body has not yet been recovered
Ex-Governor Thomas T. Crittenden,
Consul General to Mexico, completed
his business with the State Depart
ment Saturday and left for Kansas
City, where he will remain until after
the election.
The Paris Journal announces that a
number of government and municipal
officers in that city have received
threatening letters from anarchists in
London. The letters also defend Ces
ario Santo, the executed murder of
President Carnot.
An unknown man was held up and
murdered by tramps in Ellxhart, Ind.
Monday night. The body was discov-
cred just after freight train had
pulled out. The pockets Of the dead
man had evidently been rifed. The
murderers escaped on the freight
train.
The Steamship Campania, that sail
ed from Liverpool Saturday for New
York, have among her passengers, ].
|. Fellows, Dean McNulty, Dillwyn
Parish, Mrs. Pullman, Miss Florence
Pullman, G. NJ: Pullman, jr., ]. r.
Rosengarten and General II. C. Wiki
inson,
Thos. Blank, the murderer of Chas.
Birdwell. at Seattle, Wash, has been
positively identified as the murderer
OF Marshal Jeffries, of Puyallup. He
was takeu'to the court and pleaded
guilty to charge of murder in the
first degree. His trial is set for Oc-
tober 16.
"Denver Ed" Smith, who claims the
heavyweight championship on the
ground that Corbett refused two years
ago to fight him, says he will put up
q stake of $4,000 for a fight with the
winner of the Corbett- FitzsimmoLs
fight next July. Smith says Corbett
ought to whip Fitzsimmons easily.
Mrs. William Houston, wife of a
farmer living near Lafayette, Ind,
died last Saturday morning from the
effects of an ounce of elixir of opium,
self-administered with suicidal intent
She had been afflicted with a painful
stomach disease, and took the poison
as the only relief from her sufferings.
Mason Fuller, the 1s-year-old son of
capt. b. w. Fuller, OF MarshalPs
store, seven miles from Gallatinp.
Tenn, while out hunting Thursday.
In attempting to climb fence was ac-
eldently shot. The load of shot passed
through his abdomen, infictinp a
wound from which he died immediate
ly.
The Scotch express, en- route to
London, eollided with freight train
near Hallerton Thursday. The mas.
senger cars were derailed and four
persons slightly injured. Baron
1weedmouth, Baron Hindlip and Post
Office General Arnold Morley, who
were on the express train, were shak-
en- up by the collision, but all were
unhurt.
The British council at Lourenzo
Marquetz has cabled the foreign ofice
that the kaffirs have entered the out
skirts of that port and have burned
several houses and murdered seven
people 1t is believed that a detach-
ment OF marines has again been land.
ed from the gunboat Thrush in order
to protect the consulate of Great Brit
ain.
Last Friday night, at Carnegie near
johnson City, Tenn, fourteen tenant
houses, valued at $1,000 were burned.
Insurance. only $500. The houses
were located near the blast furnace.
one mile from the latter city. 1t was
the work of an incendiary.
While at work several days ago Pet
er MeGovern, of Frankton, Ind, mash
ed his hand. A physician gave him a
solution of chloroform and choral TO
ease his nerves. McGove-n forgot
himself, presumably, and took an
overdose He died = short time after
wards