Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-16

bell at Plttsburg, Va, one of the es-
cort committee took a colored baby
from its mothers arms, wrapped it in
the American flag and seated it upon
the bell. IT caused many of the spec
tators to walk away.
According to Havana advices the
.'bloodiest battle" of the war was
fought the other day, in which 1000
insurgents met 1,600 Spaniards. Twen-
ty rebels were killed and General
Maceo, their commander, wounded.
None of the Spaniards were hurt.
Bettina Ordway-Gerard-W Wolfe is SUI
ing for divorce from her latest hus-
band.
The mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, has
refused a permit for the sparring con-
test between John L. Sullivan and
Paddy Ryan.
j. Ewing and George Bebout were
arrested at Bedford, Ia, for assault
ing little girls.
Father Gentle of Shreveport, La,
has received two threatening letters
from the Malta.
The Kirkman court-martial at Fort
Leavenworth is to be dissolved and
another ordered.
Populists are trying to select a pres
idential candidate by means of the
newspaper ballot.
1t is said that Baron Won Hammer
stein, fugitive Berlin editor, is in
Washington, d. G.
The Kansas Democratic state COM
mittee decided to put no one in the
field for chief justice.
Ambassadors of European powers
protested to the Porte against the
riots in Constantinople.
A terrific gas explosion occurred at
Nevada, Mo. Three firemen were in
| iured going to the scene.
According to the present state line
Kansas is said to have territory prop
erly belonging to Missouri
The United States has made a de-
mand on the Siamese government for
| pa5ment of the Cheek claim.
Mrs. E. Phillips of Eureka, Mo-, fell
| into fire while suffering from epilep-
| sy and was burned to death.
Engineer William G. Henry. who
murdered his wife at Springfield, Ill, g.,
while drunk, committed suicide.
William r. Hearst is negotiating for
the New York Journal as an Eastern
aminer.
A member of the commission that
investigated the Sassoun fights saws
that not more than 400 Armenians
were killed.
British ship Europe, bound for San
| Francisco, burned at sea.
A new cable is to be laid from Prest,
| France, to New York
| Secretary Harhart &c
| speeches in the South on the financial
question.
w. C. P. Breckenridge is again a
candidate for congress from tho Ash
land, Ky, district.
Armenians and Turks in Constanti-
nople engaged in a riot and couple
of hundred were killed.
England insists that China must do
more than degrade the viceroy who
! permitted the anti fo reign riots.
Anton Guiden, Trenton, N. j., is dy-
ing of blood poisining caused by shoes
overheated by too hard rubbing by the
bootblack.
Christopher c. Dalton, an alleged
horse thief and murderer, died in the
Vernon county Mo. jail of consumption,
and was buried in the Potter's field
Forty-nine convicts, all sentenced at
the present term of court, left Fort
| Smith, Ark, for the government pris-
on at Leavenworth, Kan.
South Carolina constitutional con-
vention has adopted property and ed
ucational qualifications which disfran-
chise the negro, and keeps white illit-
crates and paupers on the voting lists.
Mrs. Gustave Pabst, formerly Mar
| garet Mather, the actress, used a
horsewhip on her husband in the
streets of Milwaukee. Pabst is the
son of the millionaire brewer.
The veteran baseball manager, Har-
ry Wright, died at Atlantic City.
japanese cotton spinners desire
their government to esta blish line of
/ steamers to the west coast of Mexico,
so that they may get United States
cotton at cheaper rates.
| E. +. G.. Wood, editor of the Dry
Goods Bulletin, Chicago, drowned him
self in the lake. Body recovered al
Stevensville, Mich.
| An Agricultural department bulletin
states that of twenty countries ex.
porting stuff to the Netherlands, the
United States stands fifth.
New Workers want monument on
Lookout mountain, although New
York soldiers did not fight there.
Major j. C. Black, Democrat, de.
feated Tom Watson for congress in the
| Tenth Georgia district by 1,64I ma,
! jority.
Michigan's anti-fusion law has been
declared valid. A candidate can onlv
run on one ticket.
! Andrew Cain and William Grose, oi
Montpelier, Ind, while coon hunting
built FIRE over some nitro-glycerine
and were blown to pieces.
Governor Stone has appointed dele
! gates to represent Missouri in the road
parliament at Atlanta.
/ The Lackawanna has succeeded in
| lowering the worlds long distance
speed record, heretofore held by the
I. New York Central.
! William Smith, 90 years old. one o,
the Oldest citizens of Copper Harbor
! Mich, shot his wife and then blew hi:
own brains out with revolver. H,
died instantly and the woman is alive
hat will die. Jealousy is the cause.