Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22
NEWS NOTES.


Lord Willoughbp Deersby is en-
gagged to Miss Muriet Wilson, whose
name was mentioned during the Tran
by Court occurrence.
The Harlan family will hold re-
union at st. Joseph, October IL Chief
Justice Harlan aud other prominent
members of the name will be present.
The secretary of the treasury has
invited proposals for striking -, TT
bronze worlds fair medals. Bids will
he opened at the office of the director
of the mint September ).
The Japanese troops in Corea have
been ordered to occupy all the passes
on the China-Corean frontier, and to
prevent at all hazards the entry into
Corea of Chinese reinforcements
A dispatch from Vienna says that
during Wednesday and Thursday
there were s53 eases of cholera and
l6l deaths in Galicia, and tifty-four
new cases all twenty eight deaths ia
Bullowina.
The Lyons silk market is tremend-
ously active, in view of the passage
of the United States tariff bill. Big
orders have been placed at Yokohama
for raw silk, to be worked up for the
United States.
claim against the government. due
tho Southern Pacific for CARRYING the
mails, has been held up pending adj
iustment of the Central Pacific indebt-
edness to the government. The claim
amounts to 81 500, 600.
The effort of the railroad strikers
at st. Paul and Minneapolis to secure
general reinstatement was failure.
Fifty Mexicans at Brownsville, Tex
as, threaten to blow up the consulate
at that place. They say that they
are anarchists and enemies of the
Mexican government
South Carolina Reform Democrats
indorsed Tillman for the United
States senate and nominated John g.
Evans for governor and DIR. Timmer-
man for lieutenant governor.
The Ecuadorean senate has rejected
the treaty of delimitation of Peru
The population is excited and favors
war with Peru.
Anna Jackson, aged IS of Carney,
Ok. was shot dead by the accidental
discharge of a revolver her young
brother was trying to fix.
The New York constitutional con-
vention has decided by decisive ma
jori:y upon removing the S., 900 limit
for damage for the loss of life.
The commercial and Savings bank
of Ludington. Mich. suspended bust
ness by order of its president, Antoine
E. Carter 1t had been in bad condi-
tion for some time
Delegates representing Ohio labor
unions met at Columbus and formed
an independent political party.
d. Grant Armstrong, dying at Cow
lngton, KY, confessed to forging his
brothers name to notes aggregating
5000.
George Fisher stabbed, probabl ia
tally, Philip Wild of Spickards, Mo-.
because Wild asked him to pay a little
bill.
{. i. Drake has sued the Chicago
and Alton railway for $50. 900 damages
for injuries received while acting as
an engineer.
Congressman James B. McCreary has
written to the chairman of each
Democratic county committee in Ken
lucky announcing his candidacy for
the United States senate
Miss Mamie Elmore created SEN
Sation in Keokuk by eloping with a
married drummer named Mitchell.
OIL and natural gas in enormous
quantities have been struck in school
land near Mineral creek, six miles
southeast of Florence, Col, which has
been leased from the state bv he
Florence Oil and Refining company.
Lightning struck large barn on
Lister Weatherspoous stock farm
near Versailles, Ky, instantly killing
IN Inn n trN rF.Jl
Belmont Mr. Weatherspoon refused
$1,000 for his stallion on three differ
ent occasions.
Jack Proteous of Portage township.
Kalamazoo county, Michigan, shot
and instantly killed his wife. She
had arisen to close a window. Her
husband awoke, and mistaking her
for burglar, fred with fatal effect.
The evicted tenants bill has been re-
jected by the house of lords by a vote
of 249 to 80.
Fire broke out in the general ware
house in Flume. Austria, causing a
loss of 81, 5OO.O 900 No damage was
done to the shipping.
In Yokohama news has been re-
ceived of a battle which took place on
the 18th instant between Japanese
and Chinese fleets. The Chinese were
driven off.
Four men were killed at Sheridan.
Mo-, being crushed under blast of
rock which fell on them.
Mrs. Fl. r. Bryant, sistcr-in-law of
| William Cullen Bryant died at
Princeton, Ill, at the age of So years.
Sister Nafeesa NJ. I. Keep has writ
ten to the sultan completely expos
ing" Muhammed Alex. Russell Webb.
The Populists of Illinois are deter
mined to nominate a straight ticket
and to have nothing TO do with old
/ party men.
! Hon. Clifton Il. Breckinaidge of Ar
| kansas has qualified as minister to
1 Russia. lie expects to leave the
/ United States in about a mouth. and
! will make several stops before reach
/ ing his destination.
Representative Hatch has formally
announced that he is "A candidate for
reelection from the First Missouri
| District.
Annie Jane Hay of Fort Prairie. Ill.
who accused Mack Youtzer of running
her, has been abducted Youtzler is
to be tried soon.
Montreal buyers are said to be try
ing to corner the New York English
| cheese market.
The State bank of Oneida. Nemaha
county. Kan. was Incorporated with
so, 900 capital.
j. j.. Pomeroy, Boston millionaire,
is trying 10 colonize the prairies of
Western Kansas with Russian Men
nonites-
The Kaffirs of North Transvaal
4 South Africa. are in revolt and have
already done great damage.
Eighteen people in village in
Prussian Poland have died from the
effects of eating diseased herring.
II. Beaver was appointed postmaster