Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-09
GENERAL NEWS In BRIEF
PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned from the Four Corners of
the World and Condensed in short
Paragraphs for the Convenience Of
Hurried Readers.

The state board of pardons has sus-
pended business until July 1st. when
the appropriations will be available.
Ex-Judge William w. Farikel, on
the superior court at Chicago for nine
years, died Monday of pneumonia. He
was n years old.
In the city election at Phoenix. A.
T., Tuesday, the Republicans carried
every Office. J. d. Monlhon, for may
or, was given l54 majority over his
Democratic opponent, E. L. Kellner.
Senator Berry Friday gave notice
of IN amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill, appropriating
| SlO0, 600 for the survey of the lands of
the five civilized tribes in the Indian
Territory.
N. II. Wolfe, who was convicted at
| Topeka, Kan, of obtaining money un-
der false pretenses while acting as
agent for John Wanamaker at that
! place was on Monday sentenced to the
penitentiary for eighteen months.
In the contempt case against Father
Corbett Monday at Plattsburg, Neb.,
the prosecution asked leave to file an
amended petition. 1t was granted
and Father Corbett given until next
| Tuesday to answer. Father Corbett
held services at Palmyra, Neb., on
Sunday.
Mrs. Agnes Townsend of Leaven-
worth, Kan. dropped dead Monday
evening at the home of her parents,
| without warning or word of com
plant. She had been out shopping
with her mother, and upon her return
she sank to the floor and expired Her
death is attributed to heart disease.
Colonel Leon Silverman, formerly
prominent politician of Wisconsin,
but recently a resident OF Pine Bluff,
Ark. committed suicide there Satur-
day by shooting himself in the head
and breast. He was IS years old and
had been in a very respondent mood
OF late from unknown causes.
Jim Robinson and Benjamin White
were hanged in the Jail yard at Man
assas, Va, Saturday, for an assault
committed on two white women in
Prince Williams county last January
There had been some talk of
trouble with the negroes on the day
of the hanging, but there was no ex-
citemeLt whatever.
General" Aubrey has been deposed
from command of the Indiana branch
OF the Commonwealers and Allen Jen-
nings of Indianapolis placed in COM
manO of the whole army. The men
are being fed and barracked on pri-
vate property by the consent of the
owners No date for the departure
has yet been fixed.
In pursuance of his plan to suppress
extravaganza among officers in the
German army, Emporer William has
instructed the commanding officers
only to give permission to keep race
horses to the most wealthy of the
cording to which subordinate officers
make expensive presents.
Two boys named Keyes and Turner.
the former the son of railroad yard
master at MOberly and the latter a
son of prominent Henry county far
mer, were arrested by the police at
Sedalia, Mo-, Monday, and are being
held for the arrival of their parents
The lads were on the way to the In
dian Territory to kill Indians.
The scare at Texarkana over small
pox is abating. The diseaee is con-
fined exclusively to negroes. There
are now twenty-five cases in the pest
house, outside the city, but no cases in
the city. All who have been exposed
are under strict quarantine. There
have been two deaths this week, but
neither of them since Wednesday.
/ The Latter Day Saints conference
has sent 221 missionaries INTO the field
of America, Europe, Scandinavia, Can
ada, Society and Sandwich islands
and elsewhere. A college is to be
built at Lamont, Ia. The site, forty
acres, has been donated and nearly
$4,000 already subscribed. Ground
will be broken within sixty days and
the structure be ready for occupany
in the fall.
On Monday the chief justice granted
the motion to advance the hearing in
the case of William Grimm vs. the
United States, and set the hearing for
November 5. The case comes from the
eastern district of Missouri, and
Grimm was found guilty of fraudu-
lent use of the mails.
Samuel Vaughan was hanged at
Fayetteville, Ark, at 7:1O o'clock Sat
urday morning for the murder of John
Gage In September, 1881. His wife
and children spent the night with
him. When they left the Jail he broke
completely down and had to be car
ried to the gallows and held up while
the black cap and moose were adjust
ed. Both his neck and his windpipe
were severed, and he died without a
struggle.
The general interest in the new oil
and fold n
is shown in the daily inquiries re-
ceived at Topeka from persons in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York
concerning the nature and extent of
the oil lands and asking for samples
OF the crude product. New companies
are constantly being formed for pros
pecting and leasing lands where gas
and oil are thought to exist, and the
interest is rapidly becoming one of the
most important in the state.
Henry Newman & Co., importers of
clothing supplies, at 62s and $40.
Broadway, New York, have made an
assignment to Nathaniel Myers of
As Wall street. The firm is the larg-
est in the trade, and the failure is said
to involve 81 10000
The second annual Luxemberger
congress of the United States con-
vened in st. Paul Sunday, and was
signalized by a great civil pageant in
the afternoon. The natives of this
congress are natives of Gutenberg,
one of the smallest independent states
in Europe, who are adopted sons of
America, but have not lost their pride
in their fatherland.
At Helena, Mont, Judge Knowles
of the United States district court, is
sued an order against James Hogan
and other Great Northern strikers re-
quiring them to show cause April 80
why an injunction should noG be is
sued restraining them from interfer.
ing with the operations of the road.