Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-03
General Emile Mitre, chief of the
general staff at Buenos Ayers, is dead.

PlAhICi VIII ue IndOe In the next ten
days.
DR. j. W. Reed committed suicide at
Atlanta, Ga, Friday, by shooting him
self through the head with shotgun.
Death was instantaneous.
A motion has been made in the
chancery court to sell the Memphis
Appeal-Avalanche by the trustees,
Messrs A. ID. Gwynn and r. j. Nor
gan.
Mrs. Sarah A. Cleveland was
burned to death in LaGrange, Ga,
Friday night She fell asleep before
the fire and the flames caught her
dress.
Minnie Carver, a waitress, threw
vitriol into the face of Thomas Della
ney, head waiter of the Western hotel
at Denver, Colo, Monday. binding
him.
At Elizabethtown, H., Sunday
night, a grudge of long standing was
wiped out by the killing of Georgs
Barnard by Dave Evans and John
Howell.
heavy rain, the first for two
months. commenced falling Saturday
evening all over Kansas and through
out Oklahoma. 1t will be of vast ben
eft to wheat.
very pcrceptible earthquake shock
was felt at Bedford. Pa, Monday af-
ternoon. Several families fed from
their homes, thinking terrible calam-
ity had happened.
The first engine and cars passed
over the Missouri river on the new
L. i
Bluffs Wednesday as test, which
proved satisfactory.
The Macon (Ga.) News went into
hands of a receiver Friday. Mr. H. p,
Moore was appointed temporary re-
ceiver Liza abilities estimated at 5000
and assets at Sl2, 900
Tillman Green. a colored carriage
driver for a prominent family living
ter. miles from Columbus, La. was
ynched Wednesday for an attempted
outrage on his mistress.
4Eronaut Killips made balloon as.
cension at Havana Tuesday. When
sixty feet up he fell from the trapeze.
He was unconscious when picked up
and died an hour afterward.
1t is said that Emperor William is
try ing to purchase the new Cape dia.
mond, said to be the largest in the
world and more valuable than the
kohinoor, weighing 97l karats.
Mrs. Peter Pacoloni, of Dafter,
Mich has been missing nearly five
weeks. Wednesday her body was
found in the hen house, and her hus-
band was arrested on the charge of
murder.
Four miners named Faulkner, Lois,
Savage and Tuttle were drowned Sat
urday in SymOnds-Kaye gold mine,
ten miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A blast broke down the wall and lea
in the water.
The American Association of Breed.
ers of Jacks and Jennets met FRIDAY
at the Maxwell house, Nashville.
President Leonard of Missouri, was re.
elected president, and J. B. Fulton,
secretary.
At southampton &vhile a cylinder
was being sunk at the wharf to be
used by the American line of steam
ships, it exploded and is said to have
caused the death of several workmen
who are missing.
The Indian mails announce the
death of Miss Tucker. known all over
the world under the initials "A. l.. O.
E." For the last eighteen years Miss
Tucker has been engaged in mission
airy work in India.
The annual meeting OF the Colorado
State Forestry Association was held
at Denver Friday. resolution was
passed calling for the passage of the
NJ eRae bill before congress for the
preservation of forests
i a Moscow dispatch announces the
death of Caroline Janich in that CITY.
She was the oldest living authoress
and was celebrated for her transla-
tions from the French and German
poets into Russian.
The Colorado State Farmers ALI
ance met at Denver Wednesday. The
reports presented indicate that the
Alliance is gaining ground in the
state. Governor Waite was invited to
address the farmers to-day.
The Hanging Rock stove foundry
burned to the ground at. Ironton. o.
Wednesday morning. One thousand
stoves, 500 patterns and all the build
ings connected with the foundry were
destroyed. The loss is $4,000
Postmaster J. NJ. Brown. of Toledo
O.. has forwarded d mass of evidence
completely generating J. c. Rike,
perlntendent of the postoffice. from
violating civil service law in soliciting
su descriptions to campaign funds
At Paducah, Ky, Monday morning,
A be Livingston, prominent young
wholesale merchant, shot Ad Elliott.
a travelling man from st. Louis, over
a bill of goods Elliott had sold Livino.
stones father. Elliott is in diving
The threatened bakers strike in
Madrid has collapsed owing to the ar.
lest of sixty men including the pro.
motors of the strike, and to the fact
that the authorities were a BILE to fetch
.arge quantities of bread from 1, a
provinces.
. superintendent of Insurance Snider
received letter Thursday from the
officers OF the Security Insurance
company of New Haven stating
that that company had reinsured its
Kansas risks in the German Insurance
COihp pdHF VI rIeeport, ILL.,. ana Will re-
tire from the state at the beginning
of the year.
Chief Justice Dale of Oklahoma is
bitterly opposed to Jones for marshal
of Kansas and will take hand in the
fight.
Senator White of California ex-
presses the belief that the Chinese have
fully made up their minds to comply
with the requirements of the Geary
IL W.
The extensive plant of Ell Demo-
crata, City of Mexico daily newspa
per which was contiscated by the gov
ernment several months ago. because
of its opposition tendencies, has been
donated to the orphans asylum of
that city. The plant is valued at sew
eral thousand dollars.