Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-12-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Twenty women were elected coun.
ty school superintendents in Kansas
on November last.

vault of the county treasurer's Office
at Adel, Iowa, Wednesday night. The
burglars pried open an iron shutter
and entered through a window. They
drilled hole in the vault door and
attempted to blow the door open, but
the drill had broken off in the hole
and the charge failed.
A mob attempted to kill a negro
named Liceus Turner at West Point,
Ga, Monday night. The negro wrote
an insulting letter to young lady
and he was decoyed and filed with
bullets.
Acting Governor Lowe of Olxl aho-
ma, pardoned from the penite ntiary
&. Squire De Vore, who had served
thirteen months of three years SEN
tence for grand larceny. Recent de-
velopments proved Dc Vore's sentence
too severe.
The New York city board of estim-
ate ar& apportionment has voted an
appropriation of $4,000 with which
to produce anti-toXinc serum, which
has proved so successful in the treat
ment and cure of diphtheria abroad
Senator Pugh introduced bill linn
iting the power of United States
courts to punish for contempt or mis-
behavior committed in their presence
or so near as to obstruct the admin
istration of justice.
In Defiance, Ohio, Charles Hart
pleaded guilty to numbering the two
Good children at Spaulding, Ohio,
and was sentenced to be hanged on
the second Friday in April next.
The war department has awarded
to the Kilby Manufacturing company
of Cleveland, the contract for making
ten disappearing gun carriages for
the ten-inch sea coast rifles. Fresh
proposals were issued yesterday for
supplying nine or more of the same
type of carriages.
f. W. Job has received notice of
appoiE tment as Hawaiian consul gen.
eral at Chicago. Mr.. Job is personal
friend of Minister Thurston of la
waii and is prominent member of
the Chicago bar.
The Rev. DIR. Edward McGlynn has
made a complete recantatiOn. He is
no longer an apostle of the doctrines
for preaching which he brought on
himself the ban of accommodation
from the Catholic church.
The commerce committee of the
house has fayorably reported bills for
building railway bridges across tn c
Missouri river near Jefferson City,
the Little river in Arkansas and the
Sulphur river in Texas or Arkansas.
The whole Newcastle, Wash, coal
mine appears to be on fire and it is
| feared the whole mine will become
wreck, involving a loss Of $500, 900 to
Ia
Coal creek is pouring into it, but it
will take several weeks to thorough
| ly flood it
| Geraldo Saiz, the revolutionist ex-
tradited from San Antonio, has been
brought to Nueva Laredo, and it is
understood that he will be taken out
and shot without the formality of a
trial. 1t is claimed that his guilt was
firmly established in the extraditior
proceedings, and all that now re-
mains to be done is to carry the law
in such cases in to effect.
Secretary Morton will leave Wash
ington about January for visit in
Nebraska. He is the president of the
state horticultural society, and at its
meeting January Is will address the
society on Pioneer Populists.
Ida Wells, the negress, is trying tc
get an anti-lynching bill before con
gress.
Colonel Jackson, the adopted son OF
Andrew Jackson, is preparing to send
relics of 'Old Hickory" to be placed
in the National museum.
Helen NJ. Cougar has brought a suit
to test the right of women to vote in
Indiana.
The next Illinois Democratic State
Central Committee was organized
with friends of Colonel Morrison and
Governor Altgeld.
General j. c. Jamison, adiutan
general of Missouri under Governor
Marmadulle, was appointed adjutant
general of Oklahoma.
Coal operators at Pittsburg, Pa,
made cat of fourteen cents in min
ing. A strike affecting 80, 600 may b
ordered.
A law now prevails in the Cherokee
nation making it Il criminal offenst
to employ any bat Cherokees.
Bertha and Martha Becker mann
daughters of Rabbi Beckermann U
Cleveland, Ohio were burned to dealt
in their home.
Mrs. William NJ. Ready and tw,
children perished in the flames a
Gardner, Me-
Chicago people have about con
cluded the purchase from Mrs. Jane
q. Blaine of the historic house front
ing Lafayette square, Washington
Their purpose lie to erect Il tall apart
ment house on the site.
The senate committee on publ
lands has authorized a favorable re
port on bill providing for a com
mission to examine and segregate tn
mineral lands in Montana and Idah
with tho Northern Pacific land grant
Shelly &c Sons, one of Ends larges
retail grocery firms, was closed Mon
day morning by the Wichita whole
sale grocery company who are thei
than assets.
6 A memorial from the board of man
ayers of the Trade League of Phila
delphia, protesting against the pas
sage of the Bailv bankruptcy bill TO
number of reasons, has been pre-
sented to the senate.
Secretary Smith of the interior dc
partment has written a letter t.
Senator Teller and Wolcott of Colo
rado disappearing the bill for tn
location of the Ute Indians on land
in severalty in the western part O
their reservation. He says they ar
still in the blanket state and unfit t.
take lands in severalty.
Senator Quay has presented vo
luminous petition from citizens {
Pennsylvania urging the passage {
the pending bill restricting immigrs
tion by excluding anarchists an
other undesirable applicants for ad
mission and establish a consular in
spection abroad.