Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-12-12
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHED CURRENT EVENTS
or THE WEEK.
CLEANED from the Four Corners of
1he World md Condensed in Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

Inc nrst hotel ever erected In BOS-
ton still stands and is used as an auc-
tion room.
In bull fight at Torreon. Tex,
last week. Pedro Verasco, Mexican,
vas killed.
The Bee Keepers association of Illi-
nois, will meet at Rockford on Decem-
bsr 1s and 10.
The entire business portion of Ced-
arville, N. j., was entirely destroyed
by fire last week.
A Chicago syndicate has purchased
the Colon Silver mine of Hermosillo,
Texas, for $500, 900.
James and John Delay, residing at
Holly Springs, Miss, were drowned
in the Ohio river last week.
The Upper Mississippi Pilots asso-
ciatlon was in session at Dubuque,
Ia, for three days last week.
Harry Goodloe, a student at the
Richmond, Ky, college, was killed in
a game % football last week.
Pace negotiations between China
uhb pdh dlO WIN AoiA PiOS-
poets at successful termination.
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons of Texas ,l)sed a most bril-
liant session at He uston last week.
Daniel Keim, batchelor, nged 20
and wealthy, dropped dead at a funer-
al Of friend at Reading, Pa, last
week.
The Central school building at
No3erly, Mo, was completely destroy
ed by fire last week, entailing a loss
$4,000.
Charles Howard said to have three
living wives was arrested for bigamy
in Indianapolis last week and taken
TO Chicago.
The fruit raisers of Iowa were in
session at Waterloo last week, where
mnnv interesting papers were read
and discussed.
The notorious green goods king,
Michael Ryan, was indicted for per-
jury before the :Lexow committee in
New York last week.
While courting in the kitchen, Ar
thur Schneider shot and killed Her
man Schroeder and Katie Buskhart.
Jealousy was the cause.
Every gambling house in Little
Rock, Ark, has been ordered closed
by the Circuit Judge, who says he
will rigidly enforce the law.
The Georgia legislature has refused
20 tho ekaf "a
priation, claiming the money has been
improperly used IN the past.
The farmers of Northwestern Indi-
ana are 81 FIR ng for want of rain
many fields have been burned and
hundreds OF live stock perished.
Dan Troxell. John Larson and Wal
ter Cole were crushed to death by
cave-in at the Creek Mining Company's
mine at Webb City. Mo, last week.
Diphtheria is quite prevalent in
Kansas City, Mo. The malignant
type is ravishing in Wheeling, w. ",
teveral deaths having been reported.
The American Federation of Labor
meets in Denver this week. John
Burns the English labor leader and
Member of Parliament will be pre-
sent.
Ghouls have been at work in the
cemeteries at Kansas City, Mo-, re-
Gently and quite a number of bodies
have been taken from their earthly
beds.
A large assembly of prohibitionists
devised ways and means to continue
political work for 1896, at Sedalia, Mo-,
last week. The meeting was enthu-
siastic.
superintendent Mckay and Train
matter Walch suspects of the Brown
killing, of recent date, on the NJ. X.
& r., have been acquitted of the
charge.
1t is intimated by receiver Walker
that in ord to reconstruct the Santa
Fe railway so as to make 1t pay will
be necessary to put the knife in pret-
ty deep.
Prof b. J. Alexander of the Colner
University at Lincoln, Neb., and d. L.
Mehan and ]. A. Burford, were held
for grave robbery by the grand jury
last week.
A smelter's combine has been form
ed in Colorado. Every operative com.
pany, save one, in the state is a men,
ber. The combination was formed
for the purpose of raising rates on
ore.
Allison Armour, with a company OF
chosen scientists leave New York,
December 18th on trip to Central
America. Any important finds will
be given to the Columbian museum at
Chicago.
A company Of leading lumber meu
OF the north have gone south to in
spect the lumber fields with view of
developing the virgin forests of the
sunny south.
DIR. ]. C. Foote, of Yale, has discov'
cred typhoid germs in fresh oysters.
Several students have died recently
and the professor attributes the cause
to oyster eating.
w. Z. Robertson, released from the
Canon City, Colo, pcnitertiary after
serving one year, was re-Crrested a:
he stepped from the gate on charge
of embezzlement-
The Telegraphic Historical society
of North America, was organized il
Washington last week with a perma
nent membership of $50 representing
all sections of the country.
The American Sugar Refining Co.
decla. dividends of "a on preferreC
and 3 per cent on common at tn,
quarterly meeting held in New Yorl
last week.
Miss Katherine Ling, beautiful