Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-01
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

Hurried Readers.
Daniel Roddigan was put in Jail
Thursday at Lexington, Mo, charged
with robbing the Missouri Pacific de-
pot at that place.
AT Helena, Ark, Annie, the infant
daughter of J C. Palmer found some
matches and ate the sulpher Death
resulted.
A runaway mule in the Reinecke
Coal Company's mine, near Madison
vile, KY, Thursday morning, caused
wreck of the mining cars, resulting
in the death of Sam Goodloe
Frederick Lowe, governor of Cali
fornia from 1853 to 1867, and we'll
known pioneer, died at midnight Sat.
urday in San Francisco He had
large corporation and banking inter-
ests.
Maggie Pullman, eighteen years old,
shot and instantly killed Taylor Mar
tin, near Blackfoot, Anderson county,
Texas. Both parties are colored
The shooting was supposed to have
been accidental
In an alteration about a woman be-
tween man named Chaddick and
Bob Anderson near Navasota, Texas,
Anderson shot Chaddick in the mouth
with pistol producing wound that
will probably kill him.
Michael L. Doyle, dry goods dealer
on Grand street, New York City, as
signed Monday. The liabilities and
nominal assets were placed at 500, 900.
The failure is attributed to bad bust
ness IN the retail dry goods trade.
Mrs. Eliza Fuller, the last surviving
witness of the massacre of the Wilds
family by the Seminole Indians in 1898
died at Valdosta, Ga, at the age of 95.
She was compelled to hide in the
swamp for over a week, in order to
elude the savages.
Two deaths at Huston, Texas, from
peculiar causes occurred Saturday.
Geo. Howard stepped on nail last
week and died from lockjaw. H. C.
Norton was repairing a window at
home when the sash fell. The glass
Gov. Tillman said he would issue
proclamation last Tuesday announcing
that he would open on August 1 the
sixty-odd dispensaries closed three
months ago, in South Carolina, i'm
| mediately after the supreme court de-
cided that the act of 1892 was uncon-
stitutional.
The Pullman laundry was started
Saturday with force of forty girls,
most of them were old employees
Three hundred men were at work in
the shops, cleaning up, oillng machin-
cry and making careful inspection.
In addition to these $50 applications
have been received from old workmen
The firm of Kansas City contractors
that signed a contract for the construc-
tion of the San Antonio and Gulf Shore
Railroad has thrown up its contract
after completing the grade of about
twenty-five miles of that road, The
work will be continued under the di-
rect charge of the railroad company.
The jury in the case against John
Hammill, accomplice of George Weems
in the murder of Conductor Ridpath,
returned a verdict of guilty SATURDAY..
! at Des Moines, and fixed his punish
ment at death. The trial of John
Krout, another accomplice, will occur
next, but he will probably get off with
alighter sentence.
the Atchison will borrow $3.50. 900 of
Chicago banks. They have asked the
courts for authority to do that and
state there is now due to the employees
for wages large sum of money in ex-
cess of the funds on hand and appli-
cable to that purposes
A party of hunters Saturday sight
ed the wild man, who is said to fire.
quent Beck Creek, in LcGden town
ship, Illinois, in the northeas tern part
of this county. This is the third time
he has been seen, and twice he has
been hunted by organized parties, but
without result. He is said to resem-
bic in appearance negro and is over
six feet tall.
Two excellent saddles which Hon.
+. II. Terrill, United States Minister
to Turkey, ordered made for the Sui
tan of Turkey and the latter's son. on
his recent visit to San Antonio, have
just been completed and shipped to
Constantinople. The saddles are of
cowboy pattern and cost $1,000 each.
They are gold and silver mounted, and
are made of the best material.
The most hopeful sign noted this
week is that failures continue compar-
lively few and not very important
Ihe aggegate of liab bilities the 1913 days
ending July u, was 5000, 3O6, of
which 81 ,009, S21 was Of manufacturing
and S1,44s,204 of trading concerns.
which is decidedly below the average
for the past half year. The failures
this week have been 236 in the United
States, against 465 last year, aud forty
four in Canada, against thirty five last
year.
dispatch from Quito, Ecuador.
says that congress has censured the
CABINET for conccaIing budget excesses
The finance minister has resigned.
Ihe senate has approved the suspen-
sion of the interest on the foreign
debt
Gov. Altgeld Thursday issued re-
QUESTION upon Gov. Stone, of Missouri.
for the extradition of Henry Newmark
wanted in Chicago for forgery, and
now under arrest in st. Louis.
S. Beltinick, of Southbend. Ind.
aged II, was drowned in the st. Joseph
river Thursday, while bathing
Chas Jones, prosperous Delaware
eounty, Ind. farmer. reports that he
mas thirty-acie ield of wheat that
yielded 421S bushels per acre.
Fire has destroyed the business por-