Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-23
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAeRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Reaiers.

Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Reaiers.
Edward and Charles Miller, aged 12
ana II respectively. were killed Tues
day by an Erie engine near Hancock,
New York.
Smallpox has broken out at Rush
vile, small town not far from Atch-
Ison. There are four cases, all among
colored people.
Colonel Robert Z. Dechers. ex-citv
comptroller of the First brigade, Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania, died
| Sunday. He was iftv-three wears old.
| The steamships which sailed from
New York for Europe Sunday carried
$2.see.eoo in gold making the total
| shipments of gold from that port for
the week ST 6,000,O0
| The American Glucose Company has
closed its factory in Peoria, ILL.,,
throwing $50 men out of employment.
Inability to secure sufficient amount
of coal is given as the reason.
Mrs. [. s. Grant, widow of General
Grant, with her son, Jesse. and his
wife, arrived in Denver Sunday from
California. and resumed her journey
to the East in the afternoon over the
Missouri Pacific.
| The United States consul general.
| William Hayden Edwards, died at Ber-
| lin Friday light of brain fever. Mr.
Edwards had been i'll for month. He
| leaves wife and two children. The
burial will take blaze at Potsdam.
Joseph NJ. Click, leading Schuyl-
| kill county politician, and Republican
candidate for sheriff, committed sui
eide st Ashland, Pa, Tuesday by
shooting himself with revolver. The
deed was prompted by financial trou-
bes.
! The central cable Office of the West
ern Union Telegraph comcany has re-
ceived notice that q temporary cen
! sorship has been esta bliShed at Lima
Peru, by the Peruvian government
! The only traffic exempt is the official
correspondence of foreign representa-
tives.
The Monon passenger train from
| Louisville was wrecked three miles
east of Hammond, Ind, at 9 a. hi.
| Sunday. Officers of the road report
that no one was killed, although sew
eral of the trainmcn were seriously
! injured
Three departments of ,hc big River
side mill at Wheeling, W. Va. closed
down Saturday evening on account of
no fuel, and the entire mill. employ
ing $500 men, will have To shut down
by Tuesday. The company has orders
for months ahead
Princess Colonna arrived at Chicago
in her private car Sunday via the
Northwestern. and continued her
| journey to New York without delay
The princess denied herself to ali call
ers during the half hour her car re-
mained in the station.
Edward Cahill. aged 81 years. a ccal
and wood dealer, attempted to muir
der James Flood, aged 33. IL hostler,
at l"2 Hudson street, Boston Sunday
| morning by firing two bullets into his
head. Cahill then shot and killed
himself Flood will probably recover.
Senator Mcmillan has given notice
of an amendment to the sundrv civil
appropriation bill appropriating S275,
600 for proposed ship canal twenty
one feet in depth and 300 feet wide in
the shadows connecting the waters of
the great lakes between Chicago. Du :
luth and Buffalo.
A large number of American and
English visitors have arrived at Or
leans. France, iii order to.take part in
the Joan of Are celebrations Many
wreaths were placed Monday upon the
statue erected in honor of the Maid of
Orleans Tuesday was the annivers-
nf I1v III, -
Are succeeded in raising the siege of
Orleans.
Captain Roath commanding the rev
enue cutter Walcott, has reported to
the treasury department from Port
Townsend, ash, the capture on May
l, of 200 pounds of opium. which was
being smugg.ed into the state of
I Washington near Deception pass. The
capture was made by Jongs Ipsus, a
seaman belonging to the Wolcott
Senator Walsh Tuesday introduced
a bill making it crime punisha bic
imprisonment from one year to twcn-
/ ty years to retard or obstruct any
train carrying the United States mails.
The officers of the farmers national
congress were in session Tuesday at
the Palmer house in Chicago, Prcsi-
dent Il. Clayton. of Iowa, presiding.
The object of the meeting was the
preparation of programme for tire
/ fourteenth annual convention of the
organization TO be held in Parkers-
burg, w. Va, in November.
The front walls Of what but Sunday
constituted the beautiful Tabernacle
church of which DIR. Talmage is pas
fN,. oil L.. a 4
The loss on the Tabernacle is $500, 600.
| insurance Sl30, 900; on Hotel regent
100000. insurance 5000 on ada
cent residences So, 300: on Summer
field Methodist church ga, 900.
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
tember Il next. Union i sixty miles
from st. Louis and not on direct
railroad line.
Fort Scott has s3o,o 900 in the city
treasury.
Junction City Tribune During the
month something like $3.50 were paid
| for milk. For about i've months from
! November last the monthly payments
averaged about $3.50. While this sum
is not large, it is a great help to those
! receiving it. The patronage given the
| creamery is showing substantial in.
crease. For the last month there wac
a daily patronage of $500 pounds, and
the price paid was - cents. For the
current month il vii. reach 4 600, with
the prospect of good increase later
in the spring.
Three hundred striking miners from
I Carteryille and Murphysboro,. Ill.
went to Muddy Valley Sunday and
l pursuaded the coal miners at work
there to quit. The visitors returned
home then and all is now quiet.
The striking painters of Chicago