Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-21

crew of twenty-one men were saved.
One of the dormitories at the Rose
bud Indian agency IN South Dakota
was burned Friday. The loss is $50
900. The building accommodated 200
children, some of whom narrowly es-
capped.
Robert Green and j. McCloskey, ac-
cuse1 of being the leaders of the mob
which drove Mine Superintendent b.
II. Locke out of Cripple Creek a few
weeks ago, were acquitted at ColoraSo
Springs Friday.
NJ. F. Sweeney, the remarkable
high jumper, who cleared feet 3as
inches in Boston Saturday. creating a
new record indoors. said in a recent
interview that he is certain he can
easily increase the outdoor record this
summer.
The Illinois state board of health
has been officially advised of an out
break of continent smallpox in the
Madison county poor house az Ed
wardsvitle, and of the fact that 10
persons were exposed to the disease in
one week.
No decision was reached by the con-
vention of Ohio miners which assem-
proposed reduction in wages. The
miners are about equally divided in
sentiment and it is impossible to pre-
dict the result,
K:rl Freherr Won Werther died at
Munich Thursday. He was born in
Koenigsburg in 1909. The Prussian
government appointed HIM minister to
Switzerland in 1912, to Greece in 1914:
! n rl- in 10 in
and to Russia in 1859
At Minneapolis, Mimi, James Du-
gan, who has been on trial for the
past two weeks. was convicted of muir
der in the second degree at midnight
, Friday night. He was charged with
the killing of James K. Harris, prom
f inent citizen, in June last.
n five-story building at 236 and 23s
Monroe street, Chicago, was cleaned
out by fire Saturday night. The Chi
cago Toy and Fancy GOODS company
suffered loss of So. 5.OoO and the Cal
: umet Wall Paper company lost $4,000
: Both concerns were fully insured.
The Burlington Oa.) Fire and Tor
nado Insurance company, doing a
e business of $2S, GOO, 600, assigned Friday
, night. Bad risks in Texas and at
t southern points are said to be the
= cause. No statement was made and
E but little information can be obtained.
Half the able bodied men of Trini-
dad, Colo, are engaged in hunt for
= Charles Moore, Il laborer, who is ac-
=, cused of repeated criminal assaults
: upon Annie Dougherty, an s-ycar-old
1 orphcn. The story of his alleged bru-
T tally came out Friday night. Should
1 he be caught it is likely that he will
e be lynched.
At st. Louis Friday the grand jury
+ returned a number of important in
I dictmeuts, among them being one
e against Jail Guard Rickaby, who,
f Train Robber Marion Hedgepeth said,
e aided the robber in his attempt to es-
e cape Rickaby is charged in the in
S dictment with aiding a felon to es-
cape.
Y There will be a cooking main at
! Fred Braeg's pit, Leavenworth, Oh
q Wednesday evening OF next week.
5 Omaha and Council Bluffs birds will
:. battle against Topeka, Kan. Each
: on the odd fight. After the main
{ there will be ''hack fighting" galore
n between birds of ghboring towns.
Champion Jim Corbett told a New
= York reporter that he had cleared
over 100000 with his theatrical COM
, pany since he defeated Mitchell, and
\ he thinks if the business continues
!, good he will be a ich man before his
q fight with Jackson. 81 am taking
: care of my money. too" he said, ''but
+ / am not depriving myself of the ne
{ cessities of life"
| The attorney for A. M. Pullman of
1 San Diego, Cal, an American citizen,
} who is being detained in Mexican
n prison at Ensenado, has received a
/ telegram from Representative Bow
e ers, who says that Secretary Gresham
t has sent sharp message to the MeXi-
d can government, demanding the re-
/. lease of Mr. Pullman on bail and a
, full explanation as to his imprisCn-
d ment.
Near Pittsburg, Pa. Tuesday, high
!, waymen knocked down Peter Major. a
a laborer, and after beating him into in
o sensibility, robbed him, and then
: placed his body across the Pittsburg,
!. Virginia & Charleston railroad. He
:. was discovered by detective few
A minutes before a west bound freight
: train was due at that point. Five
+ men suspected of the crime have been
8 arrested,
h A telegram from Galesburg, H., to
e the effect that the pay car notices
d posted last week by the Chicago, Bur-
s lington & Quincy at Omaha for pay
e dav on Feo. Is had been taken down,
;: was shown General Manager Hol-
o ,lredge, who said that while the road
was hard up, it had money enough to
4 pay its employees on time. He thought
d there was little significance in the
a matter, as the storm might have inter-
It fered somewhat with the movements
: of the pay car.
g The rescuers at work in the Gay
a lord mine did not make much head
.r way to-day. At 3 o'clock this after
n noon there was another cave-in of the
. roof, which wrecked the inside of the
n mine badly, and the rescuers were
f. compelled to retreat. Great assures
= have now appeared on the earth's sur
i face over the mine, and number OF
a houses are in danger of topping over
n 1t is the general opinion of those who
n best understand the situation that the
men must have perished.
st At Atlantic, Ia. Tuesday Judge Dee
mer issued orders that Receiver
. Steinke be made a party defendant il
,e the prosecution of the managers of the
A. defunct Csss County bank. This is tn,
,s sensation OF the day, as Steinke ha,
as hitherto not been suspected of any
If connection with the frauds charged
The special grand jury is busy exam
ining witnesses in the case.
e. Alexander w. 7. Terrell, Unitet
.. States minister, has dem anded the i'm
a. mediate liberation of two Arnenians
N who are American citizens and are i'm
10 prisoned in Iskanderun, Northern
he Turkey. He has threatened, in tn
Id event of a refusal, to send an ironcla,
to Iskanderun.