Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-17
The cruiser Chicago is to be remod-

Twenty-three lives were lost in the
mine explosion near Whatcom. Wash.
The straight silver party leaders are
preparing for a campaign in Chicago.
New York has it that Argentina's
wheat crop has been badly damaged.
Secured circulation of national
banks increased over $4,000, 600 in
March,
The American Sugar Refining COM
pany has taken out a distiller's Ii
cense.
Spain has adopted new penal code
for Cubans who favor freedom from
Spanish rule.
Gen. ]. S. Clarkson said positively
that Benjamin Harrison is presiden-
tial candidate.
The Apaches, led by Dandy Jim, re-
Gently pardoned from prison, are on
the warpath.
The Revenue Marine Retirement
board has summoned number of Off
GERS before it.
Meyer Winter, of Camden, Ark,
jumped into the Ouachita river with
suicidal intent.
James H. Sterling and $4,000 mys-
teriously disappeared from Milan,
Mo-, three weeks ago
Secretary Smith has decided to es-
tablish two schools in Alaska for the
instruction of the Indians.
The State department has received
resolution of thanks for Uncle Sans
sympathy from Venezuela.
Opponents of the income tax have
begun preparing contests on the
doubtful points of the law.
The London Times takes strong
grounds against the proposed federa-
ton Of Newfoundland and Canada.
Secretary Smith has decided to use
the S. authorized for the educa-
ton of Indians in Alaska, in building
a school house at Douglass Island, and
another at Kotchikan.
Governor Clarke, of Arkansas, who
spat in the face of Representative
Jones, of the State legislature, plead
ed guilty to assault before magis-
trate and fined $50 and costs.
The French Socialists protest
against sending a squadron of French
warships to Kiel to take part in the
ceremonies attending the opening Of
the Baltic and North sea canal In June
next
E. d. Wilkin, who was chaplain in
Grants regiment, and prominent in
the Grand Army of the Republic and
the Methodist church, died suddenly
of heart failure Tuesday, at Lincoln,
Ill.
The United States steamer Patter-
son will sail for Alaska next Tuesday.
She will have on board Edward Dick
ems of the coast survey, who will set
tie the boundary question between the
United States and British Columbia.
Albert McLain, one of the Cripple
Creek miners accused of participation
in the blowing up of the Strong mines
) last summer, has been acquitted at
Colorado Springs. He is held on other
charges growing out of the Cripple
Creek trouble
Baron Rothchild gave lunch last
Tuesday to the Hon. George Curzon.
who is to be married to Miss Mary
Letter, of Chicago Among those
present were the Prince of Wales, Sir
Arthur Wellesley Peel, NJ. P, who has
just resigned the speakership of the
house of commons, and Mr.. James r.
MCGUIRE NJ. 7.
The late Charles III. Reisser, high
Mason, had always desired to be cre-
mated. The grand master of Penn
sylvania, Judge Arnold, has rendered
decision that cremation was not
Christian burial under Masonic law,
and the family decided to abandon
their original intention.
The steamer Ethelred of the Boston
, Fruit company, which was fred upon
by Spanish gun5oat on her outward
, voyage to Jamaica arrived Tuesday at
Boston.
John w. Scharpe & Co.'S grain ele-
, vator at st. Louis was almost com
pletely destroyed by fire early Tues
1 IL,
IS feet long and so feet wide. At
least 16o, 900 bushels of wheat are said
to have been stored in it. The loss is
$4,000 The night watchman is
missing and probably perished.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Kobe says that it is the CORES
pondent's belief that the responsible
statesmen OF Japan are desirous of the
success of the peace negotiations, but
their efforts are thwarted by the war
party. The Japanese press, he also
says, is virtually unanimous in depre-
eating the conclusion of peace at pres
ent and he adds that it would be in
correct to infer that the armistice for
Northern China indicates disposition
towards peace. In conclusion. the
correspondent says that some of the
influential papers demand, besides the
) occupation of Pekin, the subjugation
of Southern China.
A train fell from trestle so feet
high near Whigville, o. Four people
were killed, and two were mortally
wounded.
Eultor Ooi'in, VI hdnuOipn. Ia 1,
went to Omaha, Neb.. to wed Miss
Kate Early. Disappointed, he killed
: himself.
Spain has given it out that the ALI
7 anca affair will not lesson the friend.
ship between the United States and
that country.
The jury stood seven for conviction
and five for acquittal in the Taylor
trial at Carrollton, Mo-, last week
Rocky Ford. the English colony set
tlement on the Rio Pecos in New Mex.
leo, esta blished by the Western Home.
stead and Irrigation company, of Chi
, cago. was destroyed by fire during the
: fierce wind storm which passed over
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