Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-26

u. f. waters, a brakeman, dieC
Wednesday from injuries received il
the railway yards at Cherokee, Kans.
Tuesday night.
John Bacon, about so years old, &
hostler for the Sunny Side Sanitariun
at Benton Harbor, committed suicide
in his room Sunday night by taking
morphine.
George II. Wheeler, a farmer living
on Green's Bayou, was driving home
Saturday, when his team raj away.
Wheeler was thrown against tree
and instantly killed
David NJ. Welty, one of the most
prominent men of Nebraska, was
shot and killed while hunting neal
Fremont Monday by the accidental
discharge of gun.
James Slutz, living near Rockport,
Mo-, while handling a loaded rifle
Saturday, accidently discharged the
gun, instantly killing his 16-year-old
daughter. The bullet penetrated her
heart.
Ambrose Johnson,a wealthy farm r,
committed suicide last week by hang.
ing himself in the barn with his sus-
penders. He had been in, poor health
for few weeks and became mentally
unbalanced.
Mrs. Smoker, of Sheffield, Ala,
was tstruck by lightning Monday
while in the bath room of her home
bathing her child, and rendered I'M
conscious for an hour. The child was
not injured.
The ''Gaulois" says that the Compile
de Jacksonville has in his possession
and will shortly publish the political
testament of the Comte de Paris, head
of the royal house of France, who
died few days ago.
Frank Talbot, a young man of Astor.
ia, ILL.,, committed suicide Sunday
night by taking carbolic acid. The
act was committed at a farm house
where he was employed. Financial
embarrassment was the cause
John Cannon, popular young son
OF bishop Carl j. Cannon. shot him.
self through the heart Saturday His
! parents were opposed to a marriage
ne desired to contract and he conclud-
ed life was no longer worth living.
Mrs. Louisa Locke, aged II years.
died Monday morning. IN her death
Union county, To-, loses her first white
settler. Mrs. Locke came to Union
county in 1850 with her husband. She
gave birth to the first white child in
the comfy, except Mormon
Tom Parker, engineer on the Knox.
vile, Cumberland Gap and Louisville
railroad. was thrown from his engine
at Lonesome Valley trestle near Mid
dies borro. Ky. lie fell a distance of
$50 feet and was terribly mongled.
Adam Law prosperous farmer near
Milan, Mo-, attempted suicide Sunday
night by slashing his face with razor
and trying to beat out his brains with
sledgehammer. He gave as his reas-
on that he was afraid that he was go-
ing to starve to death. He is worth
! S7j, 1000.
Michael See, one OF the largest land
owners in the ghborhood of New
Florence, Mo-, tell dead Monday morn
ing of apoplexy. He vas 60 years d
and had large family of children.
His home farm consisted of $500 acres
of fine prairie land, we'll stocked with
high bred cattle and horses.
The dead BODY of William Fritz. a
we1l-known citizen of San Antonio.
was found in the San Antonio river.
just below the city, Saturday after
J Nv Erif l.
morning and it is supposed he acct
IDENTIFY fell into the river. He is 50
years of age and leaves wife and sew
eral children.
Dave E. Cosby, colored, who assault
ed the 11-year-old daughter of Martin
Butler Saturday night, near Thomas
vile, Ga, and then cut her throat,
was carried to Faldosta for safe keep
ing. The girl identified her assailant.
Early Wednesday morning mob
took him from Jail and hung him.
The negro made full confession. The
girl died.
Planters End that the negroes have
made combine to raise cotton pick
| ing from soc to Coo hundred pounds.
will not admit of raise on picking,
and they have sent to the southern
counties for Mexicans to take their
places. The move of the planters has
excited the negroes and they are hold
ing meetings.
The First National bank of Nevada,
Mo-, is in receipt of letter from the
Continental bank of ST. Louis, in re.
gard to the forged school bonds of
Vernon county which have turned up
lately in st. Louis. The writer says
that the man who holds the bonds on
School District No. II, Vernon county,
procured it from Robert hurry. Sew
eral other Vernon county school bonds
have recently turned up in st. Louis.
The Milt Harry Line Steamer, Blue
Wing, CAPT. Chris G. Young, on her
way from Cairo to Memphis, sunk last
Saturday at noon at Craighead Point,
fifty miles above Memphis, in fifteen
feet of water and will prove a total
loss She had on board at the time
1O2 bales of cotton. She was valued
at $4,000 and insured for $4,000, The
crew arrived at Memphis on the tow,
Uncle Billy.
Conrad Engweiler, a prominent and
prosperous business man, was found
dead in his Office. in the rear of his
office in Pana, ILL.,, Saturday morning
by his wife. He was sitting on the
floor, leaning back against some bar
rels, with revolver loose in his right
hand and a bullet hole in his right
temple. jealousy j the cause. He
was native of switzerland, mem
Der of Ammonia Lodge, No. 61O, l. o.
o. F., and the Dreibuud, carrying
life insurance policy in the latter for