Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-27
NEWS NOTES.

were arrested on New Fork river, Fre-
mont county. Wyo., charged with kill
ing cattle and game. There is great
excitement over the matter among
the Shoshone reservation. and only
wise action on the part of Indian
Agent Ray will avert serious trouble
James II. Smith, the United States
consular agent at Mavence, Germany,
in a report to the state department
gives some surprising figures relative
to German investme nts. He says the
people are laying up from SIG, 900, 900
to S595 10000 annually, one-half of
which GOES into securities. At least
twenty-five per cent of the wealth of
Germany is now invested in stocks
and bonds
The London Post, CONNIE nting on
| the decrease of emigration to the
United States, thinks the decrease is
less due to the exclusion laws than to
the fact that the West has had its day,
and that the tide of emigration is
turned toward Africa. The omnipo-
tence of capital in the United States
has grown into an almost intolerable
tyranny and has driven the farmer
and work kman to the wall.
Major Afford of Washington, d. c.,
Ol IIlC MARY
agricultural college, has been elected
president of the Oklahoma agriculture
al college.
Arrangements have been made for
the surrender of Bill Doolin, outlaw,
| to United States Marshal Nix of Ok
| lahoma.
! BY fire in London twenty build
| ings were gutted and many others
damaged by fire and water. The es-
| timated damage is 920, 900.
The Pacific railroads committee
have about completed their consider
alton of the bill of Chairman Reilly
and a vote is likely to be taken in the
| course of a week.
Richard A. Wade of Chicago, one of
| the attorneys who defended Assassin
Prendergast during the last trial, has
been striken with apoplexv. His re-
covery is said to be doubtful
The Republican congressional con-
vention of the Fourteenth Ohio dis
trict nominated Winfield S. Kerr of
| Mansfield for congress on the 235th
ballot. Kerr is Senator Sherman's
neighbor
The Democrats of the Twentieth
| Illinois district have renominated j.
r. Williams, the present congress
man, by acclamation, declared for
free silver and indorsed his course on
the tariff.
j. NJ Townsend, president of the
Anti-L i-Lynching league, has written
letter to Miss Francis Willard asking
her to retract Or defend statements
she is alleged to have made regard
ing the negro while in England, that
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tifiable.
The Cherokee payment is now in
progress at Vinita, Ind. Ter. Fully
$1,000 people are in the town. Every
| Cherokee receives S26j. Gambling
devices of every description abound,
together with three circuses and hum
dreds of collectors. Two million dol
lars will be paid out there.
Rev. r. IL. Rivers, ID. d., one of the
most prominent Methodist ministers
in the South, died at Louisville, KY,
aged so. He had labored in the cause
of Christianity sixty-two years, and
during his time built several fine
colleges in the south, which stand as
monuments to his Jealous lifework.
A resolution eulogizing the late
Senator Stanford, praising his benev-
CAOhNS III bhC obdhlOLu
versity and expressing sympathy for
Mrs. Stanford, was adopted by the
California Republican convention.
The resolution is understood to be an
answer to the recent attack made BY
Congressman Geary in the house,
upon Senator Stanford and his mo-
tives in establishing the university.
At Sacramento, Cal, Morris NJ. Es-
tee of Napa was nominated for gov
ernor by the state Republican con ven
tion on the first ballot. Vote stood:
Estee, col; Mcdonald, 75; Chapman, 81;
Preston, 1s.
At Saginaw, Mich. Newell B. Par
sons, late confidential clerk for
Wells, Stone and company, who was
convicted of stealing S463, 900 worth of
railroad bonds from his employers,
has been sentenced to five years in
state prison.
A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch says
Governor Mckinley can not attend
the national convention of the Re-
publican league at Denver.
Two thousand Gogebic mine RS. COM
prising all the forces of the Norrie,
Aurora, Pabst Newport and East Nor
rle, Mich, mines, have gone out on a
strike.
In the Republican congressionsl
convention of the Eleventh Iowa dis
trict, at Spirit Lake, Congressman
Perkins was renominated on the
eighty-sixth ballot.
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Rev. b. B.
Swarstlar, native of Morocco and a
member of Livingstone's explora ton
party in Africa, was arrested on
a charge of murder committed years
ago in Chattanooga. After being
locked up he managed to cut hi.
throat.
Ex-Sheriff D. S. Conley, an alleged
embezzler of Phelps county, Nebraska
!, funds, who escaped Jail at Holdredge
Neb., few weeks ago, has been ar.
rested in Champaign, Ill. He will bt
, taken back to Nebraska.
?, Colonel Breckinridges son, Desha,
says his father has received and i.
considering an invitation to deliver
the annual Fourth of July grafton il
= Tammany Hall this wear. He saws
S however, the Chautauqua assemble.
have invited the Ashland congress
man to deliver addresses.
The story that Gladstone was t.
visit the United States proves to b.
unfounded.
E. j. Murphy has been nominated
for congress by the Republicans O.
the Twenty-frst Illinois district a
East st. Louis.
General Sanders of the deposeC
a Cripple Creek contingent of the Il
S monweal army, announces that IL,
4 will stump Kansas and Colorado thi
fall for the Populist ticket
The Republicans of the Fifth Ken.
tucky district have nominated Hon
Walter Evans for congress. Fir
Evans was internal revenue comzs3is
sioner under President Arthur
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