Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06

The Southern Presbyterian Assem-
bly,, which has been in session at
Nashville, Tenn, adjourned sine die
Monday, having finished its labors.
company boring for oil at
Thayer, Kan, struck vein of coal at
depth of IT'S feet, and at 235 feet a
vein from four to five feet, and at a
depth of 600 feet four foot vein.
In spite of the request of the gov
ernment, the committee of the Span
ish senate has refused to report during
this session upon the commercial
treaties between Spain and Germany
and Austria and Italy.
Paul Bourget, the author of Cos
mopolis, etc. and NJ. Albert Sorel,
the historian, have been elected mem
bers of the French academy to sue
ceed the late Hlppolyte Adolphe
Taine and Maxine Du Camp.
Prince Augustus. of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, was married Thursday morn
idgAt a ss24e clsurch' of the Hofburg in
Vienna, to his cousin, the archduchess
Caroline, immaculate of the Tucson
branch of the Hapsburgs.
General Antonio Ezeta is slowly but
surely forcing the rebels to retreat.
Gensral Balanos on Sunday drove the
rebels out of the vicinity of Apenca
and over into Guatemala, but did not
cross himself, having received orders
not to.
Among the passengers who sailed for
Europe Thursday on the steamer New
York were the princess Colonna, with
two of her children, maids and one
man servant. The princess says she
expects to be away from America six
months.
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius
which sailed from Boston Thursday
on her summer cruise, arrived at the
New York navy yard before noon that
day. She will probably remain at the
navy yard for few days before pro-
ceeding.
Bishop Maershart has returned to
Guthrie from Ponca City in the Chero-
kee Strip, where he dedicated a new
Catholic church. A notable feature of
the services was the singing of mass
in the Indian language by several
Ponca Indians.
The gold receipts at the Denver
mint in May amounted to S5O6, 923. In
May, 1893, the receipts were 500, 14s.
showing a gain for the present month
of All per cent But for the trouble
at Cripple Creek the receipts would
have been larger.
Kenneth Sutherland, of Coney Is
land, who was convicted of connection
with the Gravesend election scandal
of last November, and who disappear
ed in April when threatened with ar
rest, has returned and surrendered to
the authorities. His return caused a
great deal of surprise in Brooklyn.
Tuesday the grand jury at Chicago
declined to indict w. j. Davis, propri-
etor of the Columbia theater, for al
lowing the child Regalonita to dance
in the theater. No bill'' was also re-
turned in the case of Mrs. Ever, the
mother of the child. The Humane So
ciety was pushing the case against
Davis and Mrs. Ever.
The jury, after being out eighteen
hours in the trial of Francis A. Coffin,
Percival b. Coffin and Albert S. Reed.
of the indianapolis Cabinet Co., for
aiding in the wrecking of the Indian
apofis bank, arrived at a verdict Sun
day morning at Q o'clock. 1t was
sealed and placed in the hands of
Foreman Trotter of Columbus, who
will deliver it to the United States
court.
Surveys of puplic lands are hereat-
ter to be paid for by the government
during the year in which the work is
actually done, according to decision
rendered by First Comptroller Bowler,
of the treasury department The
opinion is of considerable Importance
to the general land Office and will
affect contracts made for work prior
to the beginning of the next fiscal
year.
At Springfield, H., Friday the nli-
nois state miners institute held a
meeting. J. Simpson of st. Louis,
president, and G.. $. Rice, Ottumwa,
Ia, made addresses on mining engin-
eering and other subjects. The asso-
citation numbers 200 members from IL
linois, Missouri and Iowa. On account
of this coal strike no official business
was transacted and the institute ad-
journed to meet at the same place
next month.
A dispatch from Dubuque, Ia, saws
the effects of the coal strike is serious
ly felt there among manufacturing In
stitutions and railroads. One factory
burns corn, others are using wood,
and one or two are closed down. The
Illinois Central railroad has taken of
one train on each division.
Fifteen hundred followers of ex-Ad
miral Da Cana. eluding the Brazilian
naval squadron stationed in the upper
Uruguay river, pushed along the
stream in boats on the nights of May
and 5, and entered Rio Grande do
Sui near the Uruguayan frontier.
These movements are believed to be a
precohcerted plan on the part of the
rebels to mass their forces at certain
point and then make another effort to
carry out their rebel generals plans
of the late revolution.
Mrs. Sadie Lyons wife of farme,
near Fffingham, Atchinson county
died to all appearances, after a pro
tracted illness, during the early part oi
last week. Tom Davis, among others
was asked to sit up with the corpse
About 2 o'clock in the morning ths
corpse, which had been laid out, part
ly arose and commenced talking. Da.
Wis admits that he was so much fright
ened that he broke the door trying tc
escape. the patient fingered three
days and died in the latter part of the
week, and was buried.
Four businesss houses were burglar
lied at Washington, Kan, Saturday
night, and goods taken to the value
of 200. No clue to the thief as yet
There will be a meeting of passen
ger agents of the eastern roads tht
first week in June to decide on the de-
tails of transportation for the nation
al encampment of the q. A. r. a
Pittsburg in September. resolution
will be offered to carry all bands anc
drum corps free, so as to have the ali
full of martial music. Owing to ths
hard times. there will likely be greater
inducements offered this year thar
ever before
Michael Schwab, the anarchist, ha.
taken out his final papers and is now