Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-04
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! Carl Browne, the Coxeyite is talking
! of another journey. His lates scheme
is to march 500 of his tried men to
Wall street and thence to the West.
| The Duchess of York, wife of Prince
| George, of Wales, heir presumptive to
the throne of the United Kingdom,
was safely delivered of a son Satur-
day.
AT the sale of the Avondale stable
! Thursday in the paddock at Washing
ton park, Chicago, Ida Pickwick was
sold for $4,000 and Fraulein for 81, ZOO,
both to G. V. Dalgren.
George p. Healy, recognized in two
continents as one of the greatest por-
trait painters of the century, died at
his home in Chicago Sunday, at the
age of 81. He was born in Boston in
1913.
John Hanson Craig, known as John
Powers, the Kentucky giant, died at
lis home in Dan7ille, Ind, Thursday.
Tie was museum attraction for TWEEN
ty years and weighed 700 pounds. He
was 46 years old.
A Creek indian recently bought
big cooking stove. When he got home
with 1t he found that it wouldn't go
into the house, so he built a shed out
In the back yard and the cooking is
now done there.
Police Captain Cole stepped into
saloon at Clinton, Ia, to stop a fight
and the entire company jumped OH
| him. In the melee he shot William
! Hener. who died from the effects. Cap
tain Cole was SO badly hurt that he had
to be carried away
While the fire department of Column
bus, o., was drilling on Broad street,
Monday morning, the immense water
tower toppled over and crushed into
surrey, killing James ii. Frederick. his
wife and gentleman named Rugby,
who were in the surray escaping.
Rev G. ]. Phillips, pastor of the
Methodist church at Espanola. \. NJ,
met with a fatal accident while cut
ting alfalfa. He carried Winchester
on the machine to shoot gophers with,
and by sudden jolt the gun was dis
charged, the ball passing through his
body.
Major Moore, the local chief of the
police, has been in conference with
the sergeants-at-armS of the senate
and house regarding precautions to be
taken to guard against the possibility
of any violence from cranks in the cap
itol and for watching suspicious char
acters.
The fourth annual State Epworth
League. of Nebraska, convention
closed Sunday night at Grand Island,
under the most favorable outlook for
prosperous future. The attendance
reached over 400, and very large ma
Jority of these were constant attend
ants at the various sessions
A statement from the commissioner
| of pensions shows that there are on
the pension rolls 1865 pensioners of
the Mexican war and 7.Gll widows; g.
| 100 survivors of the Indian wars and
| 3,06l widows, while applications are
| pending for 2,516 Mexican pensions and
2,152 Indian war pensions
Two miners named James johnson
and Hugh Means, were killed in Il
shaft on the Jacobs & Frye grounds at
Joplin, Mo-, last week. They care
lessly stepped into the tub while the
hoistineman attention was attracted
| where. and as the brake was not
SCI they fell to the bottom of the
shaft.
Reports have been received at the
marine capital bureau of yellow fever
in quarantine at two points. A vessel
reached Galveston Saturday from
Vera Cruz via Tampico, with one case
on board, and reported that two had
died on the trip The British brigan-
tine Albatross, from Havana, reached
quarantine at the Tortugas with one
case on board.
| Henry A. Salzer manager of the
JOIN A. Salzer Seed company. Ia
crosse. Wis, is in Europe looking up
rare novelties in VEGETABLES and new
| things in the farm SCI. line. lie will
visit the celebrated farming districts
of France. Germany, England. Bel
gium, Russia and bohemia, and the
| customers of this wide awake firm can
congratulate themselves upon his
| bringing along the cream of farm and
vegetable sees that these foreign
| countries offer
Abilene has kindergarten associ-
alton.
Cesare Giovanni Santo' the man
who murdered President Carnot, is
son of Marie Broglio and Antoine C;es-
avio. He Joined the anarchist associ-
alton at an early age. In January,
1892, he tried, with two fellow anar-
chiSts, to start a newspaper, but was
unable to raise the funds necessary to
float it. The police watched him I'M
til the end of 1898, when he went to
Switzerland
Five hundred visitors to the Masonic
temple roof garden on the twenty first
floor of the Masonic temple, were Civ
en- fright Sunday afternoon, and
panic was narrowly averted. A few
minutes before o'clock fire was dis
covered in rubbish room on the
fourth floor adjoining the shafts of
freight elevators and for Il time looked
as though there would be serious con-
sequences. Prompt action on the part
of the firemen prevented serious dam
age to the building and the fire was
confined to the rubbish and felt wraps
of scores of steam and gas pipes which
ran to the roof. There was no smoke
perceptible on the roof until the
flames were discovered pouring from
the doors of the freight elevators.
The seven elevators soon landed the
people all on the ground without any
accident.
A dispatch to the London Daily
News from Paris says: The funeral
of President Carnot has been fixed
Sunday. The remains will be laid in
the Pantheon where Victor Hugo is
buried, beside those of Lazare Carnot,
the presidents grandfather.
Replying to resolution of the Goth
the secretary of the interior Saturday
sent to the senate an estimate by the
commits sioner of pensions of the
amount of pension appropriation
which will remain unexpended at the
close of the year. The commissioner
expresses the opinion that the amount
will approximate S24, 3s5, 900
BY the capsizing of a launch during
squall on lake st. Clair Sunday af-
ternoon three persons were drowned
and two others narrowly ESCAPED by