Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-10
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TIE cement works of Fort Scott
are ceased operations for the winter.
y revival is in progress at Ottaw
1 / many people are protesting re-
giOl.
Salina has free public reading
Dom. Ii Was formally opened Tues
iay night.
The stlte university began regular
iori; again Wednesday after the
christmas vacation.
The foot bali fever has struck Fort
Riley. Two teams of soldiers played
big game there Monday.
McPherson has new lodge of the
Mystic Legion of America . 1t starts
'ut with about fifty members,
Argentine in Wyandott county is the
'nly place west of the Mississippi
where ingot copper is produced.
The increase in the value of taxble
property in Wyandotte county during
he past year amounted to S566, $50.
Frank IIigginson. well known in
Topeka, has been appointed jailor of
Republic county by Sheriff-elect Ward.
4 special dispatch from Athens says
hat a dynamite cartridge deposited
Il the house of a banker Syngred was
'Xpodcd Saturday evening doing
;reat damage. Nobody was injured
)Y the explosion.
All the executive departments of the
government were closed at noon Sat
lrday in accordance with the estab-
ished custom of giving the employees
half holiday on the working day pre-,
,eding New Year.
Suit was instituted in the United
states court Friday by Bert Kelly of
Kansas City, Kan, against the Swift
Packing company for $50. 90 damages
IN account of personal injuries re-
ceived while running an elevator.
The Lawrence World says that the
ilee and Bango Club is now getting
back some of the money that it lost
suggests that possibly the boys may
not have to walk back to the universi-
ty after all.
The management of the Hutchinson
street car line proved conclusively on
Christmas day that there are excep-
tions to the rule that corporations
haye no souls" Every driver on the
line was given from 12 to , o'clock to
eat his turkey dinner.
A special from Moran says: While
crossing the track near here Saturday
afternoon, Mrs. James Carroll and
four children were struck by a freight
train and Mrs. Carroll and babe were
fatally injured. Another of the child
rem was seriously hurt.
1t is authoritatively stated that J,
NJ. Lacy. late secretary and treasurer
of the United Mine Workers of Kan
sas and Missouri, is lying at the point
of death at his home in Minden, his
physicians ascribing hismalady to al
choholic poisoning.
| A convicted Emporia jointest by the
name of Voeste, who forfeited his $500
bond recently to escape his sentence
of 5000 fine and sixty days imprison-
ment, has been recapturCsl in Missouri;
by his bondsmcn and turned over to
| the authorities.
A letter has been received at Fort
Scott from Fresno, Cal, from Mrs.
klOckson. wife of George Klockson.
grand treasurer of the Knights of
Honor, who disappeared several
months ago, and was found in a Cali
fornia hospital. The letter was re-
ceived by his daughter, and in it is
statement made by Klockson, which
reads: after arriving in Kansas City
| walked around the depot, and was
! approached by two strangers, one of
whom struck me on the head with
some heavy instrument, after which |
became unconscious and knew no
more until revived near
town which | found was Colorado
| Springs, in a box car with the same
! men had met in Kansas City. They
took all my money and my watch and
part of my clothing, and then elected
| me from the car. / walked to Colora-
do Springs and then worked my way
west" At the time of his arrival at
the hospital his speech was very inco-
herent, and his mental faculties were
only restored al ftcr long conversation
with Mrs. Klockson. The doctors say
that it will BE- "a month before he will
be able to leave the hospital.
Kansas poultry is getting to the
front all along the line. Wherever it
goes out for premiums it gets more
than its share. \ Brown county man
entered several pens of birds at the re-
cent Nebraska State Poultry show and
captured first and second in every
class filled besides taking the sweep
stakes cup.
E, Il. Purcell of Manhattan is en-
deavoring to interest eastern caDital
in the construction and operation of
cement works in Riley county. Cement
making was attempted near Manhat-
tan some years ago, but the product
lacked the necessary sticking quail
ties, and the enterprise was soon
abandoned.
Late Saturday night one of the most
prominent young ladies of Pittsburg
was assaulted by one of the gang of
toughs which is now committing dep.
relations in that city. The lady made
a valiant fight for her honor and sue
ceeded In resisting. her assailant until
her cries brought assistance, when the
miscreant fled A party of officers and
citizens were soon on his track and
Policemen Mitchell ahd Pomroy soon
had the gang located in a ''ioint," and
arrested bin. Taken before the Iaav
She identified him as the man who at
tackled her, and he is now confined in
the city jail.
H. NJ. Woodruff, living in the mort h
part of La Cygne had a bed of lettuce
IN his garden large enough to eat on
Christmas day. How is that for Sun
ny Kansas?
The Girard Crawford County,
Press, which has been issuing week
| ly edition for twenty-five years. began
the new year with Il daily issue. The
daily is six-column folio.
A meeting of Douglass county far
tners interested in the formation of n
regular farmers club will be held at
SibIeY next Saturday. The object -