Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-10

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Chicago office. 40 Randolph street:
New York Office, 10 Spruce street.
i From The Press Everett. Pa, Dec
-. 1898.
A claim five miles from Perkins re-
Gently sold for 81 200.
EX-Vice President Morton has ur-
dergone successful surgical opera
tlon on his left foot in Paris His
cure is only question of time.
The secretary of state and the Brit
lsh embassy are pursuing negotiations
for an agreement upon regulations to
police Behring sea. 1t is important
that these regulations should be
agreed upon before the opening of the
sealing season.
1t is reported that the brazilian
warships Aquidahan and Republica
are Uound for Montevideo where
they will attack President Pcixoto's
feet which is fitting out there.
The American Association of Breed
ers of Jacks aud Jennets met Friday
at the Maxwell house, Nashville.
President Leonard of Missouri, was re-
elected president, and j. b. Fulton
secretary.
At Southampton while cylinder
was being sunk at the wharf to be
used by the American line of steam
caused the death of several workmen
who are missing.
At Martins Ferry. o., the EtIa,
Standard and Laughlin iron and steel
mills. and Spence & Sons foundry
have all resumed, giving employ ment
to 1,50O men. The prospects for
long and steady run are considered
good.
Francis Thct lore Walton, known as
'Piunger' Wal IN, lessee of the Grand
hotel, 1894, Il oadway, New York. has
made an assignment to Charles /. Wal
ton, with preferences amounting to
5000, 900. Poor business caused the
failure.
The National Switch and Signal
company announces that it is forced
to reOrganiZe on account of financial
mbarrassnents alleged to be due to
mismanagement. The liabilities are
$130:000, with. assets well in excess of
that sum.
At Omaha, Neb., Bernard McGinn.
Saturday afternoon sentenced bv
murder was the outgrowth of a relig-
ious fight. McKenna was an A. p. A.
and McGinn was a Catholic
The manager of Midway Plaisance
dancers who are engaged at st. Louis
has skipped out and left them without
funds. Thursday some of the troupe
became engaged in general fight at
the hotel where they were stopping
and "A number of them were badly cut
and bruised.
The Blackstone Building and Loan
association of St. Louis has assigned
to Henry o. Sciglnunt. Inability to
find the books or Secretary Lindborn
puts a sensational phase upon the
affair. 1t is impossible to learn the
assets and liabilities, though esti-
mates place each at about S25, 900.
Lindborn was bonded for $4,000.
The Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha
vestibule limited dashed through the
small town of Fairchild. Wis, and
struck broken rail on n curve at that
place. The engine and two coaches
left the track and smashed into
lilAc house and broke off two tele-
graph poles, but no person was seri
ously injured. Traffic was DELAYED
ten hours.
Mr.. Wilson, one of the best known
authorities on finance, and editor of
the Investors Review published in
London, says, in an article published
in his paper. that if the affairs of the
Bank of England are allowed to drift
as heretofore since the act of 1916. it
will end with crisis, compared with
which the Barring collapse will dwin-
die into insigniicance. Little is
known, he says, of tie banks true
condition, and the directors are re-
Sponsible for the Inishandling of
the State Provident fund,
j. d. McDermott, murderer of G. y.
Brooks was. found hanging in his cell
in the Pine Bluff, Ark, jail Monday
morning. he having suicided, using a
rome made of his bed clothes.
1t is said that Emperor William is
try ing to purchase the new Cape dia-
mond, said to be the largest in the
world and more valuable than the
X kohinoor, weighing 97l karats.
Four miners named Faulkner, Lois.
Savage and Tuttlc were drowned Sat.
urday IN Symonds-Kaye gold mine
ten miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
\ blast broke down the wall anl lei
in the water.
Governor Altgeld Thursday granted
a hearing for next Saturday to the at.
torneys of George Painter, the con.
demnAd murderer. who claims to have
Texas double in convict named
Dick Edwards.
Henry ". Schaddt died at Denver
Saturday of hemorrhaga of the lungs.