Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-21
GENERAL NEWS.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the world and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.


The president sent the following
nomination to the senate: Clark :.
Rowe, register of the land Office at
Chamberlain, S. d.
Township elections were held in
New Jersey Tuesday. Up to mid
night returns received showed that
the Republicans were generally sue
cessful
The German steamer Lining, from
Dantzic for Amsterdam, har. oeen sunk
In collision with the steamer Lincoln.
Three of the crew of the Lining went
down with her.
Walter A Locke of New York ar
rived at Minneapolis, Mimi, Tuesday
In search OF st. Bernard puppy val
ued at 100000 which has been stolen
from the kennels of George Gould.
Tuesday in Colorado the cities of
Pueblo and the town of Bessemer held
elections and decided by O large ma
yorlty to consolidate. Bessemer is the
location of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company's steel works, and goes into
the city of Pueblo with a large and in
creasing population.
Captain d. Evans Louisville life-sav-
ing crew rescued three medical stu
dents Monday afternoon just as they
were about to go over the falls. They
lost control of the boat when it reach
ed midstream and the swift current
carried it rapidly toward the Indiana
chute. There perilous position was
discovered just in time by the outlook
at the station.
At the San Francisco Mid-winter
Fair grounds Monday night a stage
coach with twenty people on board
overturned while going around a COR
ner at rapid rate. Fourteen per-
sons were injured, of whom four men
and three women were seriously hurt.
The coach was one belonging to the
"1s49 mining camp" and the entire
party were employees of the camp.
A special from Massillon, o.. to the
Cleveland Leader says; There is no
truth whateve in the report that this
city is already thronged with tramps
who have come TO join the Coxey ION
TO Washington" army, which departs
from here on Easter Sunday, March
25. cowboy from Oklahoma Is the
only enlistment to the army thus far.
He is at present grooming Coxey's
horses.
AT Paola, Kan. the judge overruled
the motion for new trial for Jan
Rainey, convicted of the murder of
his sweetheart, and when Rainey
asked for mercy replied that even if
such were meted there was but one
sentence possible under the iury's YER
dict. He then sentenced the prisoner
to one year in the penitentiary, then,
whenever the governor should so will
it, to be hanged
The house committee on Indian
affairs has agreed on bill for the rat
lhcation of the treaty with the Yank-
ton, ;. d., tribe of Sioux Indians, for
the cession to the United States of all
the unallOtted lands in their reserva-
tlon. The amount to be paid is $780,
600, of which S400, 600 is to be divided
among the Indians per capita and the
remainder Is to be converted into a
fund for the benefit of the Indians.
There was a fire Thursday afternoon
on the American line steamer, Paris,
which is lying in the repairing dock
In Birkinhead, Eng. 1t started in the
shaft covering, and spread to the sec
was slow, the fact that the head of
the bulkhead was closed making it
difficult for them to get at the flames.
great deal of damage was done to
the saloon and fittings before the fire
was quenched.
Attorney II. l. Kowalsky of San
Francisco denies that he ever told
the people that NJ. B. Curtis had con-
fessed to him that he had murdered
Policeman Grant. Chief Crowley and
Detective Lees assert on the contrary
that nowalsky did tell them of Cur
tbs confession, and the question now
Is one of veracity among the three
men, and as Curtis has been acquitted
OF the crime, nothing further can be
done to him even if the story is true.
Mrs. Eggleston, aged Sc years, was
horribly murdered in Antelope Val
ley, New. Her frightfully mutilated
body was found last Thursday morn
ing by lady who called to visit her
The body of the murdered woman was
found lying over the edge of wood
box, with her head stuffed into
large pail and her skull crushed and
her body gashed in many places. 1t
is supposed that the deed was done bv
drunken Indians. several having been
seen in that neighborhood recently
An east bound train on the South
ern Pacific was captured by gang of
thirty tramps or unemployed working
men west of Maria, Tex. Tuesday, and
when ordered to leave the train by the
conductor refused to do so and became
very insolent. The sheriff of Presidio
county was informed of the situation
by telegraph, and was asked to afford
the train protection. When the train
arrived at Maria, the sheriff and
large posse of deputies met it and
placed all the tramps under arrest.
l The balloting by congress for the
election of president of the repub-
lie continues at Montevideo without
result. Provisional President Stewart
Saturday sent a message tn the as
sembly urging the members to
promptly terminate the deadlock.
which he fears is having a harmful
effect on the country.
man acting suspiciously was ar
rested as he was entering the gallery
of the chamber of deputies at Rome.
Saturday. His pockets were filed
with stones, which the attendants at
first thought were bombs. The man
said he was school master. and e<-
plaineo that he picked up the stones
at the base of Trajanz column for
souvenirs, but there is a suspicion that
he is demented and that he intended
throwing them from the galleries at
the deputies. The upolice finally ar
rived at the conclusion that he was a
harmless lunatic and 1t was ordered
that he be released from CUSTODY.
A heavy snow storm occurred in the
vicinity of st. Paul. Mimi. Tuesday
evening, accompanied by high wind.
Reports show the storm is quite pener-
al throughout the state and in North
and South Dakota.
The president has approved the res