Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22
One case OF cholera was rel or.cd at
Ameterdam last Friday.

Heavy rains visited Iowa last Tues
day night and the long drouth is brok-
en-.
John Quincy Adams died at his
home at Mount Wolloston, Mash,
Tuesday.
The evicted tenants bill has been
jcctcd by the house of lords by voNe
of 249 TO 80.
Tuesday was the hottest : in
eight yeas in st Louis. Thermome-
ter 100 5-1O0
1t has been determined no to re-
move all the militia from Sonth oma-
ha just at present.
Fhe cash balance ic the treasury
Tuesday was SIG, 79". 5aQ, of which
1924, s94 was gold reserv&
Secretary Herbert has ordered the
cruiser Charlston to repair, to the Asi
attic station at once.
President c. II. J. Taylor delivered
the annual address at the National
Colored Democratic League at Mime
apolis Tuesday.
One hundred and ten members of
the industrial army were sent away
from Washington Tuesday night via
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
The startling rumor from Bridge.
vile, Del, that twenty persons were
drowned by the capsIzing of sail boat
near Deales island cannot be confirm
ed.
3Comptroller of the Currency Eckles
Tuesday appointed w. l.. Rutledge, re-
ceiver of the First National Bank of
Grant, Neb., which closed its doors tc
business on the 26th ult
5Walbrodt, the chess player, last We'd
nesday, played against ffty-one com.
petitors together at Muremburg. He
won forty-two games, lost five and
| four were drawn.
NJ. Beresford- Hope, of London, has
sold the Saturday Review, which has
been almost forty years in the Hope
family, to T.. H. Edmunds. Walter
Pollock retires from the editorship.
Boise City is filed with delegates t.
the Democratic state convention
which met there Wednesday. 1t is .
bitter contest between J. NJ. Ballan.
/ tyne and eX-GovernOr f.. \. Stevenson
for governOrship.
At 9 o'clock Wednesday. a strike of
motornen on all line, OF the San An
/ tonic street railway was inaugurated
for higher pay and the discharge o.
two conductors Twenty-seven miles
of road are tied up.
Millions of grasshoppers have taken
the fields "f east Tennessee by storm
and are working destruction upon the
crops. Residents of tie mountains
have ceased all other work in their
effort to cXterminate them.
The cyclone which swept over the
Province of Ciudad Real Spain, Tues
day, was accompanied by a terrific
81 orm Of hail. Over 100 persons were
/ injured and several thousand domes.
/ tic ANIMALS were killed. The damage
to crops in the province is estimated
at $500, 600
The Bethlehem Steel company be.
gan delivering in Cramps ship yard at
| Philadelphia Tuesday, the 63O tons OF
cighteen-inch side armor for the bat.
/ tleship Indiana. The work of putting
tho plates in place will begin at once,
/ but ii will be six months before this
| delicate operation is finished.
J The government of Honduras has
offered 5000 troops to Nicaragua, il
order TO aid the latter country in its
/ operations against the rebels in the
/ Mosquito country. In addition tc
Gen. Barrillas, the Nicaragua Envoy
TO Great Britain, Constantine Zelava.
relative of the President, is on boarC
the City of Pals, bound for Nicaragua
and due there August Is. The cruis.
er Columbia is expected there.
The fear of anarchy outrages Is
breeding restriction of the right &c
hold public meetings, and it is official
ly ANNOUNCED that Count Botho Vor
! Gutenberg, Prusslan Minister of the
Interior, is preparing bill to be in
troduced in the Diet which will mater
tally curtail the present privileges
The bill is so drafted as to enable
Prussia to suppress every aggitatior
not pleasing to the government Con
sequently, the opposition party in the
Diet feels that it's existence is threat
encd, and will vehemently oppose the
bill. There is no doubt, however, thai
the measure will pass.
Cholera is slowly but steadily
spreading westward. The disease ha,
obtained foothold in nineteen Rus
sian provinces, where deaths by hun
dreds are recorded daily. Cholera ex
lists in seventeen districts of Galicia
and scores of deaths from the disease
takes place every day in that section
In east Prussia, especially in Dantzic
the situation grows worse, in spite O.
the closing of the frontier at Golub
on the River Drewens, opposite Dob
rozin, Poland. According to officia
report, cholera bacilli have been founC
floating in the River Vistula, and +,
number of fatal cases are also report
ed privately from Holm and Golub
The rest of Germany appears to be
free from cholera, although few
sporadic cases have occurred here anC
there.
As result of eating a quart of ice
cream and a watermelon at one sit
ting on n hot day, Carson Peterson
died Sunday night at Clinton, Iowa.
Mrs. Virginia l.. Miner, of st. Louis
the oldest and best known of the earl,
woman suffrage agitators, died ther,
Wednesday, aged - years.
Fritz Myers, Grand Tyler of tn,
Grand Lodge of Masons of Kansas
died at his residence in LeavenwortT
Sunday afternoon. He has been con
nected with all the grand bodies o.
Masonary in Kansas for many years
There were five new cases of cholers
reported and one death ut Naastr;cbt