Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-10
GENERAL NEWS.
Condensed for the Con Jenience of Hur.
Tied ReaIoTs.

'Si Nl'Spl udS AnH Ounccu INA.
the report chat Italy is negotiating
new loan is unfounded.
President Andrews Of Brown uni
versity has received call from Chica
go university. lie has rot yet decid-
ed whether or not he will accept,
Professor Marshall of Owens col
ie9e, Manchester, fell from a preci-
pice at Sea We'll mountain, in Cumber-
land, al was killed.
a motion has been made in the
chancery court to sell the Memphis
Appeal by the trustees.
Messrs. A. ID. Gwynn and r. }. Nor
gan.
Mrs. Sarah A. Cleveland was
burned to death in LaGranQe, Ga.
Friday night. She fell asleep before
the fire and the flames caught her
dress
Florence Mulahy, aged years, and
Martin Moore, aged 90 wears. were
snffocated by smoke during fire that
broke out at No. II Pearl street, New
York City, Thursday night.
David Londen, jurticc of the peace,
aged G7, cut his throat at Shelbyville,
Ind, Thursday night. Failure to Sc
cure n political appointment is said to
have driven Londen to tale his life.
AT Bunola, Pa, the miners arc still
out but there has been no further
rloting. a reward is offered for the
arrest and conviction of the parties
who attempted to burn the tipple
Monday.
Governor Boies of Iowa has granted
an unconditional pardon to B. NJ Bel
vel, the newspaper correspondent con-
victcd of libeling the character of
Senator George f. Finn, OF Taylor
county.
5 Mrs. Elizabeth Green. one of the
Oldest persons in Biddeford. Nc, died
Thursday night, aged 93. She was a
sister of Captain John f. Hartley, ex-
assistant secretary of the United
states treasury.
Burglars blew open the large safe
in theFranklin Grove, III, bank Thurs
day night and made away with every
thing of value in the vault. The loss
in cash and papers is estimated by the
bank officials to lie $4,000.
The official inquiry into the cause
of the Louisville ( Jeffcrsonville
bridge disaster will begin next Mon
day morning AZ 10 o'clock. The core
neT has impancle1 his jury and sum
moncd about forty witnesses.
The resignation of Captain Thrash
er, who has been for four yeas Unit
ed States revenue agent, lately in
charge of Tennessee and Kentucky,
hPn1 aI 70 f.,ly
airy =. His successor is Major Clark, a
st. Louis man.
The Red Star steamship Rhynlara
which arrived at New York late Sat
urdav night after Il fourteen DAYS
voyage from Antwerp brought IN ten
Of its crew in iured from being thrown
around the decks during the success
sion of gales which pounded the ship
for eleven days.
Tuesday morning at the Cincinnati
Southern railway shops, Chattanooga,
Charles Bcckert, white, and Jessie
Lang. colored. were instantly killed
by an exp osion of the boiler of an
engine. They were repairiag the en-
gine, when Becllert struck a bolt by
mistake, causing the explosion of a
steam 1lue.
Every man in the employ of the
Chicago City Railway company from
the president down, 5000 in all, have
been vaccinated, all in a bunch. Be-
cause OF The smallpox scare now on,
orders for general vaccination were is
sued, and for five days three doctors
were kept busy.
At White Pine, Tex, j. NJ. Fain was
shot and instantly killed Tuesday af-
ternoon by Policeman Smith. Fain
was married last Tuesday. The day
following he had bitter quarrel with
Smith. They met Tuesday in the de-
pot and Fain drawing knife started
toward Smith. who drew his revolver
ard fired one shot. q
jackson park was throwH open to
the public at Chicago New kar's day,
and, beginning Monday, Colonel Rice
will police only the buildings and ex-
posed property. The fire department
controlled by the worlds fair will dis
band Monday, and the Columbian
guard, which now numbers but 200
men, will be reduced from day to dav
until the organiza ton is thing of the
past
n terrible punishment ace ording to
report, has been inflicted upon wo-
man in Pondeland, who was accused
of causing the death of her child bv
witchcraft. The woman was bound
to a stake planted in the middle of an
ant hill and her body stripped of all
clothing, was smeared from head to
foot with grease. The ants attracted
by the grease swarmed all over the
unfortunate creature and eventually
devoured her
The Pueblo Coli Daily Journal
publishes it's first issue tomorrow af-
ternoon. 1t will appear as an after
noon paper until about March 1. and
issue Sunday morning edition with
full report. After March 1st it will
come oll* both morning and evening
The Journal plant includes large job
printing department and bindery, in
addition to the only lithographing
plant between Denver and San Fran
cisco +. j. Land is the prime mover
in the enterprise, its manager and
managing editor
The opening of the new year at
Mcnongahela, sees most of the mines
III the lower pools pay ~ cents for
digging. In the fourth pool the rec
ognized rate in most cases is . cents,
although some of the mines are pay
ing less. In the Elizabeth neighbor-
hood the Walton company closed
down pending Il settlement of the
tequestion, but on the whole the
outlooil for the diggers is vastly bet
ter for the diggers than seemed possi-
bic two months ago. The men are
showing wonderful uHanimity in the
demand for organization now, while
all the conditions are favorable and
the organizers are accomplishing won
ders.
at St. Petersburg twenty-seven new
cases and twenty-fou- deaths from
cholera are reported.
The Rnhemian diet o,,nnad Er;dn-