Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-14


The steamer Minneapolis goes into
commission this week.
The officers of the Union Pacific and
the Oregon Navigation company have
come to an agreement.
James R. Coleman, a well-known
business man of Princeton, H., died
last Sunday. aged 60 years.
j. d. Park, broke the three-quarter
mile, class A, unpaced bicycle record
Monday, making in 1:37 Is.
The Minneapolis and st. Louis road
has given notice of withdrawal from
the Western Passenger association.
Rural, Chase county, Kansas, and
Eleazer Martin appointed postmaster.
There is cabinet crisis at Santiago,
de Chile, growing out of President
Months determination to have the
conversion bill passed.
Munson & Mcnamara, Wichita. Kan
sas, big dry goods house, have ladies
employed to answer mail order en-
quiries. Write them.
Twenty-one students and one of the
professors of Wesleyan college at Mid
dleton. Conn, have been victims of
the typhoid fever raging there.
At Benson, Ariz., Saturday night,
the store OF A. Guinanana was bug
larized, the thieves carrying off mer-
chandise to the value of S4OO.
Lucius S. Blake, millionaire man.
ufacturer and business man, one of the
early settlers Of Racine, Wisconsin,
died last Sunday of heart disease,
aged 80 years.
United States Commissioner p. o.
Hoyne, one of the best known and re-
spected citizens of Chicago, died at his
home there Saturday. He had been
i'll for some time.
Joe Pencil, alias James Jackson, un-
der Indictment in the United States
court at Dallas for the alledged pass
ing of counterfeit money, was arrested
at Fort Worth, Texas.
GFour miles south of Litchfeld, ILL.,,
A. HOttentot shot and killed Mrs.
Charles Neimeyer and then fatally
wounded himself The tragedy was
the result of quarrel over the owner
ship of piece of land.
A big fight is in prospect between
the Canadian Pacific and the western
lines over the claim of the former-2S
per cent of the west bound emigrant
business The Grand Trunk sides
with the western lines.
John Ferguson committed suicide at
an early hour last Saturday night at
the home of his son, near Kahoka,
Mo-, by swallowing strychninc. No
cause war assigned, but it was sup
! posed to be due to domestic troubles.
John Traynor, mayor of Athens,
KY, shot and killed Isaac Davidson.
! He also seriously shot Lewis Shary, a
farmer. Traynor is a Breckenridge
man and Davidson and Sharp wer>
Owens supporters, They quarrelled
over the election.
The Federal Court met at jackson,
Miss, last Monday During the term
the case against the.Governor, Auditor
and Treasurer will be disposed Of
They are charged with violationg a
United States statute, in issuing $780,
600 Mississippi warrants.
1t is reported from Paris that the
Government will ask the Chamber of
Deputies for credit of 10000 francs
for the expense of an expedition
against the Hovas, the ruling tribe of
Madagascar. The hostile operations
will be under the direction of the
Minister of Marine. Col. Borgoise des
| Bordes will hold the chief command.
Governor Altgeid last Wednesday
committed to Imprisonment for life
the sentence of Gustave II. Menkhaus-
en-, of st. Clair county, who killed his
wife about year ago, and was con-
demned to be.huug. In granting tie
Communication the Governor suggests
that there is a possibility that the
woman committed suicide and was
not murdered.
Edwerd Gilmer slashed George Per-
l1ins with knife in a gaming quarrel
al Quincy, H., Sunday morning, IN
/ flicting probably fatal wounds.
The storm on the New England
coast reached Portland az o'clock
Monday night. At Lynn, Mass, it
was accompanied by rain and snow.
The Pope last Thursday presided at
the last conference in regard to the
union between the Oriental churches
and the Church of Rome His Holt
ness sanctioned decisions aiming. to
confirm and enhance the prestige of
| the five Oriental Catholic patriarchs
and to extend their powers. The
| Observer Romano announces that a
great American pilgrimage is expected
here on May is, 1895.
The First National Bank of San
Bernardino, Cal, closed its doors last
/ Thursday morning, and posted a
notice that the suspension was due to
lack of funds. The directors assert
that the banks depositors will not lose
! dollar. They state that the with
drawal of large sums of money by a
| few heavy depositors who had become
alarmed by rumors that the bank was
unsafe brought on the failure.
Judge Bently, Saturday, refused q
writ of Ia IDEAS corpus 10 Charles Cal
| lop, the Macquerau, who is accused of
having robbed and murdered Marie
Contassoit, the disreputable woman
found strangled to death in bed last
Sunday at Denver. Colorado. The in
quest has not yet been concluded.
frederick Lovejo~e Vice President of
the Adams Expres, company, died at
at his home in New York Saturday.
The store of Julius Auerbach, at
Wetmore, Mo-, was looted last Satur-
day night, watches and clothing being
taken.
5William Cruz was shot and killed in