Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-25

strikers. This union is the largest la
Dor organization in the west
! Specials from all over the Rocky
/ Mountain country report severe and
! prolonged snow storms with high
winds and drifting SHOWS in the
| mountains
Henry Montgomery, a negro, was
Iynched Tuesday night one mile north
! OF Lewisburg, Tenn. Montgomery
had threatened to burn the homes of
! several white men.
! The Logan Iron and Steel works,
near Lewistown, Pa, were almost en-.
! tirely destroyed by fire Tuesday night
Loss 500, 900, partially insured. Or
igin of the fire unknown.
The board of police commissioners
! OF ft. Scott are considering the p1 op-
osition to close the crap banks in that
city. AS now run they pay $3.50 IL
cense money per month to the city in
the guise of fines.
| The trial of ex-Secretary of State
Jachim At Lansing, Mich, for making
false returns for vote on amendment
increasing the salaries of the state
officers, resulted in disagreement OF
the jury Saturday night.
The committee having in charge the
work OF arranging a program and
naming the place and date for the
convention of the Epworth League,
OF the Sedalia, Mo-, distinct is now in
session.
| l.. ID. Bennett sued the Missouri Pa
citic in the district court of Cloud
county for SIC, 900 damages for killing
his wife, and when he got well under
way in his suit it was discovered the !
law provides for damages for the
widow and children but not for the |
widower. That closed the deal.
George j. Gould has purchased the |
! Nigilant. The gentleman who had
the yacht built last season TO defend
the American cup the Volkyrie met
! Thursday and decided to accept the |
terms offered by Mr.. Gould. lie is to |
| pay S2j, 900 for the boat. and probably |
intends to race the NIgilant
: PresidentClark denies that the Tn |
| ion Pacific has cut rates as alleged. !
and says furthermore that it does not
contemplate doing so. lie thinks the !
present situation bad enough without |
doing anything to aggravate it.
Thursdays meeting of the receivers
was attended by Messrs Clark, Cou-
dert and Mink.
The Russian government is expect |
! cd to dismiss POO. 600 soldiers from the |
ranks during the coming summer with !
a view to facilitate the gathering of !
the harvest. The government had al |
so expected to make Il reduction in /
the military budget, and with that
! view few mancuvers will be held and |
the conscript will be limited.
At Little Rock, Ark, an order con.
| firming the sale of the Kansas CITY,
| Wyandotte * Northwestern railroad. |
| by Master Commissioner ii. 7. Dillon, |,
was made by Judge II. A. Caldwell, |
/ Monday morning. and Commissioner |
| Dillon was ordered to make a distrib- |
ution of the proceeds N a manner pre- |
! scribed in prcvions order of the |
court. The sale was made two months
ago, the price being $3.50.
The London Times Friday morning
said the cable companies controlling
| the lines between Great Britain and /
Australia have made representations
| to the Marquis of Ripor against the /
necessity or utility of Pacific cable |
| The representatives of the companies |
presented figures to the colonial sec |
rotary showing that although the ex-
isting lines could carry double the !
traffic, there is still a heavy loss
The New York IIerald's Montevideo |
dispatch says: The launch of the |
Portuguese consul here paid visit to |
! the Portuguese man-of-war Mindello |
at her anchorage Tuesday and brought |
back bulky letter from Admiral de !
CANA who is detained on board of the |
Mindello. This letter was addressed
| to the Brazilian Insurgent General !
MARTINEZ. 1t was sent to Buenos Ay- f.
res Immediately. There has been
some suspicion in that city that
the dispatch of the Portuguese
transport Pedro TercerO that Da
Gam1's friends are laying another /
| plot to rescue him from the Portuguese !
warships.
A. a zimmerman, the bicyclist, left !
on the steamer New York Thursday
afternoon to fulfill his professional |
engagements in France and Italy.
A special dispatch from Calcutta /
says much excitement has been Great /
ed in North Bahar by the mysterious |
smearing of all the mango troops with |
curious mixture of mud and !
hair. Nobody is able to explain the |!
object of the smearing. Wild rumors
are atioat and it is feared the outrage
! portends IA renewal of the trouble be- |.
tween the HindoOs and Mohamedans. |
which had it's origin in the slaughter
of cows by the latter.
Signor Crispi. prime minister of
Rome, explained Monday to the cham /
NO nfh csf
of the whole, his demand for extraor-
dinary powers. lie said his sole cb-
| ject in asking that such powers be /
conferred upon him was to simplify |
| the public service and effect retrench- |
ment in expenditures. He declared he |
would rot arrogate to himself the |
right to modify taxation. He further /
said he would not hamper the admin
| istration of the civil or criminal law.
nor would he interfere with the elec.
! toral system. He concluded bv saw.
inc cha: he had no idea of dissolyin0
the chamber of deputies.
Breece's saw mill, near BainbriGge,
o., was wrecked by the boiler explod-
| ing Monday afternoon, and Engineer
Nate Weatherby and Frank breeze /
were instantly killed. Ed Everhart.
Grant Martin, Charles b. Joslin and
Sam Houston were seriously and prob
ably fatally injured.
G sale of the famous art collection of
the late s A. Cole, Jr, of St. Louis
began Thursday night IN the Ameri-
can Art galleries in New York. Ninty
hve oil paintings realized S12, .O7.
Some of the best paintings brought
but nominal sums. landscape by
Paul kosseau went to w. r. Hurst, OF
San Francisco for SSO5.
The proposition to move the South.
ern Ute Indians from Colorado to
! Utah seems to be settled as far as the
house committee on Indian aHo;.s :.