Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

The ourbon county free silver con-
Vention which met at TT. Scott Satur-
day, was addressed by Senator PETER.
The heavy rains of Sunday night
and Tuesday morning are causing the
people of Kansas to rejoice on account
Of the great good it will do the corn
crop.
The supreme court has decided that
the regents at the state university
have no right TO charge the students
for the use of the library and labor
atory.
Brakeman Mart Deem, at lie Loup,
near Emporia, rescued mother and
child from q terrible death under The
wheels of a train at the risk of his
own life, last Friday
Postmaster Joseph Fugate of New
ton, and ex-Represcntative Peters are
In Washington for the purpose of hav-
ing the free delivery system again es-
tablished at Newton
The 1s-months' old child of o. o.
Martin, of Ottawa, was almost fatally
burned Tuesday. II. S. West, who
was hanging paper in the house,
smothered the flames with q quilt
The supreme court decision in the
Householder case Is that they have no
power to compel Governor Morrill, to
revoke his order suspending Senator
Householder from the board of chart
ties.
Frank Novels, q colored man, is be-
ing tried in the district court ut To-
peka, charged with the murder of
Mrs. A. D. Matson. who was found
brutally murdered in her home in To-
peka last December.
In the Douglas county district court
at Lawrence, Saturday, Clint c. Os-
born, charged with the murder of
Charles HANDLE at Holton, was denied
bail and his trial set for the next No
vember term OF court
Eight Communicates of Knights
Templar in southeastern Kansas have
contracted with the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas for special train TO take
N
Louis the train will ne handed over to
the Wabash.
A drawer in desk in the sheriff's
Office ut Wichita was pried open We'd
nesday at noon, and S35 belonging to
the Christian Endeavor Local Union
stolen. Vim. Smith, treasurer of the
Union, is clerk in the sheriff's office,
and was keeping the money in the
drawer.
Friday evening. at Riverside park,
Wichita, the Kansas State Holiness
association began their annual camp
meeting, which will be continued 10
days. A mammoth tent has been
erected for the services, and hundreds
of small tents are being used by the
participants.
Rev. j. McQuird of Olathe. delivered
the baccalaureate sermon 10 the grad
yates of the State Deaf and Dumb In
stitution Sunday afternoon. The SER
vices were opened by 4 prayer in the
sign language by mute boy, Charley
Bean, 10 years old. Nearer, My God,
to Thee" was sung by the choir ond
signed to the pupils by one of the
graduates, Miss Clara Eddy, who ex-
hibited grace of movement and quick
ness of conception in her beautiful
rendition. The song, Rock of Ages, -
was given in the sign language by five
girls-Misses Jessie Guiding, Ida DEN
ton, Eva Hunter, Bertha Metz and Or
ael Altman. The commencement ex-
crcises took place Tuesday.
President Peter McVicat, of Wash
burn college, Topeka, has resigned,
on account of ill-health. He has been
president of Washburn for 90 yeara
Chinch bugs are becoming numerous
in Cowley county, and W. w. Brown
has been appointed by the commits
! sioners to distribute Professor SHOWS
infected bugs to tho farmers OF that
county.
A summary of the reports made to
the comptroller of the currency by the
1913 national banks in Kansas, gives
the following showing: Loans and dis
counts, SO, 104, sl5; stocks, securities,
etc, 1884, 674; banking mouse furniture
and fixtures, 81, 49,, ESQ; other real es-
tate and mortgages owned, $500, 633;
due from approved reserve agents,
So, 1884, 71; gold coin, 81, 233, 5s4; gold
treasury certificates, $50, $50; lawful
money reserve n banks, 50, 241, 477: to-
tai resources, $40, O22, f35: capital stock
paid in, $40, Os2, 100; surplus fund, ST.
465, $40; undivided profits, less en-
penses and taxes paid, s643, 1923; indi-
vidual deposits, Sic, All, SAT; United
! States deposits, Ss4, 564; deposits of
United States disbursing officers, $780,
7S9; average reserve held, 34.O3 per
cent
]. w, Ady and family, who have
| been residents of Newton for many
| years, left Tuesday Tor their new
homo in Colorado Springs, Colo. Mr..
seek relief in the mountain air of Col
orado. He is prominent Republican.
Charles Orendorf, a barber of To-
peka, committed suicide by taking a
| dose of laudanum Friday night. He
had been in Jail for drunkenness, and
was respondent over his inability to
keep from drinking. He leaves wife
and three children, and vas mem Der
! of the A. o. U. W. lodge.
DR.. j. B. Hibben, of Topeka, was
elected head physician at the meeting
of the head camp of Modern Wood
men in session at Madison, Wis.
The biggest fire that ever occurred
in Arkansas City happened Monday
night when the Santa Fe round house
burned to the gro0nd. The Immense
| building and contents were total
loss, the frcmcn being unable to do
| anything to save them. There is
! thought TO have been 10 engines in the