Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-08
China has ordered four torpedo
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John Dean. aged 20 years, of Bloom
ington, H.. died Tuesday. He was a
native of Ireland.
Lightning struck the house of Mr..
Pools. two miles east of Seneca, Kan,
and tore it to pieces.
Mrs. Charles Lawrence, aged Al,
died Saturday at Springfield, Ill. from
the effects of surgical operation.
Mrs. Mary Whitney Prentlss, wife
of Gen. Benjamine f. Prentis, died at
Bethany, Mo, Monday. aged 50 years.
J. y. Maxwell, a Missouri Pacific
brakeman, fell from freight train
Monday night, near Winfield, Kansas,
receiving probably fatal injuries.
Robert COoney, farmer living in
Plainfeld township, ILL.,, was instant
Iy killed Tuesday, by his team run.
ming away. lie was "a single man.
James B. Chappin was arrested at
Albuquerque, y. NJ, Friday morning
10y officers on the receipt of telegram
from I'll Paso, Ten, that he was
swindlcr and a fugitive from justice.
Twenty Italians from Chicago came
To Mus"atlne, la, Saturday presum-
ably to work ON the new sewers They
were, az the instigation of Mayor Full
liman, marched out of town by the po-
lice.
Earthquake shocks have been felt
in Macedonia, Old Servia and Eastern
Bulgaria. Many houses at Marina, Bull
garia, have been damaged and a num-
ber of people killed, as a result of the
shock.
Prairie fires are raging fercely be-
tween Huntington and TT. Wayne Ind.
For two or three days they have been
burning over several thousand acres
of wheat, oats and hay fields and stub
bic fields.
= A private dispath has been received
at San Antonio, Tex, announcing the
murder of Charles Adams, we'll
known citizen of that place, at Stafford,
Ariz. He was shot and killed by a
man named Charles Morgan.
Destructive prairie fires ragged all
day Saturday few miles above Pierre
/ ;. Oak. Six horses were caught in the
/ fire and burned to death. A farmer,
while fighting fire was so seriously
burned that his life is despaired of.
Daniel Ball, a farmer of Bureau
township, H., was overcome by the
heat Friday, while at work in the field
and may die. The excessive warm
weather is having serious effect on
outstanding crops, the thermometer
ranging from 96 to lO6 degrees.
The wife of Elder Benson. a colored
preacher, of jacksonville. Tex, was
getting some matches with which to
light up the church. A pet coon
frightened her and she fell back
against the building, brea king her
neck. Death was instantaneous.
The Hon. Robert Reid, Minister of De-
fense, at Melbourne, denies the charge
that has been made against him
that he revealed the British intentions
in regard to taking possession of
Necker Island. He states that San
ford Fleming sent man to charter a
steamer at Honolulu for the purpose
Of seizing Necker Island, trusting that
Great Britain would recognize the
seizure.
An Indian mound was plowed ur
Friday at Savannah. n. y, revealing
several human bones that had been
deposited in the vault built of stone.
Inside the vault were found several
specimens of stone and copper knives,
hatchets, pipes arrow heads and many
coins, some bearing the date of 144O.
The pieces of money are square, with
the Indian head on one side and the
date on the other.
Sunday evenings storm at Burling
ton, Iowa, proved much worse than re
ported. The gale swept the country
with terrific force, breaking trees or
tearing them out by the roots, blow
ing down barns and small outbuild-
ings and lashing standing crops into
confusion. Thousands of bushels of
apples and other fruit were blown
from the trees. A number of picnic
parties were caught in the woods and
had remarkable escapes from falling
trees.
Hon. p LcPoer, French Minister to
Japan, passed through Kansas City
Sunday, en- route to Toxic, Japan,
where he has been ordered by the
government to proceed with all haste.
He received, he said, but brief cable
gram, telling him to endeavor to reach
Toxic by August 90 lie was in the
City of Mexico at the time, and i'm
medlately departed, but was COMPEL
eel to come this way on business. He
left for St Paul and from there he
will go to Victoria, taking the steam
er there for Yokahoma.
At ST. Joseph, Mo-, the continual
drouth was broken at four o'clock
Sunday morning by rain in sufficient
quantities to help the crops and check
the oppressive heat and scorchinp
winds. The rain was preceded by an
electrical display, the like of which
has never been seen here. The heav-
! ems appeared to be on fire and for two
hours the bolts were terrific. Several
barns and small buildings were struck
by lightning and in the south part of
the city five horses were cremated.
At Leavenworth, Kan, early Sun
day morning Dennis Hasson, an old
; veteran of the late war, broke his neck
/ by falling out of second story win
5 dow to the brick pavement, a distance
, of 25 feet. He is supposed to have
been walking in his sleep, when he
tumbled out of the window, which
was raised.
The anthracite coal agents of New
York have resolved to hold July prices
through August and to restrict the
} mine output for August to 40 per cent
, of the capacity, or 900 tons.
The wife of DIR. ID. w. Cotterell
! died Saturday night at Muncie, Ind.
The hot winds for the past two davs