Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-16
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.

Cleaned from the Four Corners ol
the World and Condensed in Shor,
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.
The net gold in the treasury at the
close of business Saturday was sos.
2I8,551 and the cash balance Sl2e..
9e9, 119.
Gold engaged for shipment from
New York by Thursdays steamers ag
gregated S1,65O.00O. 1t is quite likely
the amount will be increased by later
orders.
Pathck Phillips was Saturday found
guilty of murder in the first degree al
Denver. Col. Phillips shot his wife
last winter and claimed he though,
she was a burglar.
The Commercial Cable Company an.
nouaees that a submarine cable has
been laid and is now open for cores
pondence between Hong Kong, China,
and Llbaan, Borneo.
Senator Vest. from the senaet com.
mittee on finance, Saturday reported
favorably the bill authorizing a
bridge across the Missouri river at
Jefferson City, Mo.
| The German steamship companies,
in pursuance with the terms of com
| promise with the British companies
have ordered the reduction of steerage
passenger rates from Italian ports.to
New York to $50.
the emperor of Germany has sent
10000 marks to the Berlin Geograr u
lcal Society to be used in defravinp
the expenses of the Greenland expe-
dition. The compilation of the work
will take two years.
Mr.. Oscar Townsend, general mana
ger of the Cleveland, Lorraine &,
wheeling railroad, died at his Euclid
avenue residence in Cleveland, O., on
Tuesday night. The cause was or
ganic affection of the liver.
Drs. Thomas G. Bracking, J. o. Hal
len and E. S. Westlake were ed
Thursday night at Sedalia on the
charge of practiciug medicine without
a certificate from the state board of
health. They gave bail.
| At'Frankfort, KY, Judge Cantrill, in
che circuit court Friday, rendered his
decision in the case of ex-Treasurer
Tate. He holds that $4,000 should
he raised from the estate of Tate and
credited on the bonds, which leaves
S27,O0C owing from the securities.
Lier tenant James f. Nancy of the
Fifth infantry. who was recently ac-
| quilted of the murder of Captain He'd
berg, will be tried for the offense
again, tn S time by military law. A
| court-martial has been ordered for
this purpose to assemble at Fort SMELL
ing May %.
The report that President Barber of
| the Diamond Match company, has
| gone to England to locate a match
factory is denied by the officers of the
I company in Chicago. The officers saw
also that there is no truth in the re-
port of contemplated universal
match trust.
Ernest Shira and Eugene Reed,
wanted in Ackerman, Choctaw county,
Miss, for the killing of a negro farm
hand on April. Is, were arrested at
Fort Worth, Tex, while in the act of
| boarding train to leave. Both claim
| to be among the wealthiest citizens of
Choctaw and Winston counties, Miss.
Stephen Schnitz was on Monday
shot down by Charles and Fred Hodg-
! es at Richland Center, Wis, who were
deputized to arrest him on a charge of
slandering a sister of the Hodges
Charles Hodges is said to have done
| the fatal shooting. The Hodges
| brothers are held on charge of mul-
| der.
| Near Sherwood, Iron county, Tex,
| Charles Beauchamp, prominent
sheep man, was shot and instantly
killed by +. o. and jeff Woodward,
father and son. The difficulty or1gi-
mated by the refusal of the deceased
to remove herd of sheep from land
over which he claimed Woodward had
no control.
William d. Lohman, the defaulting
ex-cashier of the excise department,
recently brought to Brooklyn, N. Y,
from Canada, pleaded guilty Saturday
to the three indictments against him
of grand larceny. He is to be SEN
tenced this week when he proposes to
| make some disclosures. The amount
o. Lohman's defalcation was $4,000.
A lurge number of American and
English visitors have arrived at Or
leans, France, in order to.take part in
the Joan of Arc celebrations. Many
wreaths were placed Monday upon the
statue erected in honor of the Maid of
| Orleans Tuesday was the annivers-
ary of the day upon which Joan of
Arc succeeded in raising the siege of
| Orleans.
An application for a change of venue
was made in the st. Louis criminal
court Monday in the case of Arthur
Duestrow, who killed his wife and
child, and the case was sent to Frank
lin county to be tried. The case will
come up at Union in that county Sep
tcmber II next. Union is sixty miles
from st. Louis and not on direct
railroad line.
} George Kennedy foreman of feed
company at St. Louis, was shot and
killed Monday by Sergeant Woodlock,
Of the police force. Kennedy had
been heard threatening to kill the
first policeman he met. Woodward
heard him, detected a concealed weap-
] on, and started to arrest him. In the
struggle the two fell, Kennedy on top,
chewing Woodlock's face frightfully.
In this position Woodlock drew his
gan and killed the man.
William NJ. Fredericks, convicted of
the murder of cashier Herrick. of the
San Francisco Savings Union bank,
was Monday sentenced to be hanged
at San Quentin, Cal, July IL.
| Superintendent Matchen of the nos
tai free delivery system, who has been
in Chicago for more than a month as
chairman of the commission appoint
ed to redistrict the postal service has
returned to Washington. Assistant
Superintendent Hill, recently appolnt-
ed by the department of justice COM
missioner TO examine the overtime
claims of letter carriers, will leave in
a few days to examine claims fled in
several western cities.
| United States Consul General Will
| liams, at Havana. in a report to the