Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-14
GENERAL NEWS.
CLEANED from the Four Corners OF
the World and Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

Oklahoma Territory has been divld-
ed into five judicial districts instead of
three as heretofore.
The federal elections law was re-
pealed by the senate Wednesday, the
Populists voting with the Democrats.
The naval authorities at Washington
disclaim any knowledge of De Gama's
intention to blockade Rio.
The profits of the Diamond Match
company for 1893 are hard to match.
Ihey amounted to 81, 1,369,5.S.1
Aaron Tollifer was found murdered
near Green Bay Tuesday. A man
named Thomas is in Jail charged with
| the crime.
w. L. Dorney, who has been opera
ting as financial agent in London, says
MS liabilities are "a, ,544 and his assets
he estimates at shillings.
Five thousand Russian laborers have
engaged in riot in the Ural noun
talns by reason of low wages and the
working of nihilist propagandists.
The French minister of war will dis
card American canned goods for the
army and use home manufacture, al
per cent.
. The Paris Steele says the is time ap-
preaching when an explanation will
be demanded from England for her
encroachments in the east and else
where.
Ihe house committee on elections
thursday decided by a strict party
| vote against the title of Hillborn (Rep)
TO the California seat contested by
English (Dem.).
o. v Smith, traffic manager of the
Seaboard Air Line and well known in
railroad circles, died yesterday morn
ing at his home in Portsmouth, Va,
after lingering illness.
The Western Pigeon club of Topeka
left Thursday for Denver to exhibit
nifty coops of pigeons. Mr.. Carl J.
Nelck Is IN charge of the exhibit and
1t IS considered ID very fine one.
at the Woodward & Shanhlin horse
sale at Lexington, Ky, Maxsey
| (22912), one of the best bred sons of
the original Wilkes, brought "a 900.
Ike Leonard of Lexington was the
purchaser.
After being out a little over an
hour the jury in Hart murder trial at
rockford, Ill, brought in a verdict
hndlng the defendent guilty of muir
der IN the first degree and fixing the
punishment at death.
Captain Joseph Garribee. alias "Joe
the Turk" and two Salvation Army
musicians were arrested at Lowell
Mass, Sunday night for obstructing
principal street after being repeatedly
| ordered to move on.
A correspondent of the London Tel
praph at Rome says: The pope has ap-
proved the decree forbidding the cler-
gy to attend bull fights IN Spain. He
! orders that priest shall refuse abso-
luton to dying matador
The National FEEDER alton of Ameri
ca mas decided to give reception next
friday night at the Hoffman house.
New York, to William Blake, the
member of the parliament for South
Longford, Ireland, and well known
home ruler.
Kevenue officers arrived at Fort
Smith, Ark, Thursday with fifteen
moonshiners, captured in the noun
talns of Polk county. Ten illicit stills
were destroyed, but the gang is by no
means broken up, many more mem
bers still being at large.
One of the principal features of the
carnival at Nice was the battle of
Howers, which occurred Monday. The |
day was bright and sunny. Many car
rlages artistically decorated, were put
IN by their owners to contest for the |
most beautiful arrangement of flowers |
Suit was brou ght Tuesday at Valpa-
raiso, Ind, for S., 900 damages against |
Frederick Mille- by John Eckart, who |
was acquitted of the murder of Am |
brose R, d. Malicious prosecution
was charged, and similar suits aggre-
eating $4,000 will be brought against |
other citizens
William L Wilson, chairman of the |
executive committee of the National |
association of Democratic clubs. has
called meeting to be he'd in Wash |
ington on February 8. Mr. Wilson |
states that the meeting will be very
important one, and insists that eyerv
member shall be present
1t was learned on board the steam
ship Venezuela, which arrived in New
York Monday from Central American |
points, that the Louisiana lottery was
about to change its headquarters to
Caracas. All arrangements have been
made with the Venezuelan govern
ment. The lotter company is to fur
nlsh the government two men-of-war
and proportion of the spoils of the |
concern.
AT meeting of the Baptist minis
ters of Chicago Monday resolution
asking congress to increase the tax on
whlskey was defeated. Many of the |
members objected to any measure le-
galizing the sale of intoxicants. Helen |
NJ. Barker, treasurer of the National |
Woman's Christian Temperance union
appeared to oppose the resolution. Al. |
ter considerable discussion the resoIu-
tion was withdrawn.
cut of 10 per cent in the wages of |
l.5OO workmen at the Riverside iron
works at Benwood. w. Va, went into |
effect Tuesday. This makes about "a |
per cent reduction since August. sew
erai previous cuts having been made |
Wltnln the past few months. There is
hucn oiscontent and talk of strike |
among the men,
dispatch to the London Times |
Irom Paris states that BartissePs cir
cular to the Panama bondholders saws
tnat the Old Colony company will be |
entltied to half the profits of the ca
nal II the profits exceed ten per cent. |
Inc ola snares rose two franks on the /
report of the new arrangements.
1t is reported that a serious split ex-
lists In the cabinet over the report of .
the late Sir Gerald Porter favoring a |
protectorate in I ganda. The Earl of /
Rose berry, secretary of state for for
eign affaits, is said to be in favor of /
the protectorate, and Mr.. Gladstone
and majority of the cabinet are said |
to oppose it.
AS the result of the cold in the Cam
casus reighteen men were overtaken