Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-24
President and Mrs. Cleveland have
named their third daughter Marion.

1t is announced at Catholic head
quarters that the anti-Knights of
Pythias decree will not be modified.
A call has been made on national
banks by the comptroller of the cur
rency for statements of their condi-
ton.
Foreign crop reports received at the
Agricultural department at Washing
ton show better prospects except in
France.
Alimony of 500 week has been
agreed upon in case Mrs. Ollie Corbett
wins her divorce suit from James ]
Corbett.
For the first time in many years
there was midsummer cabinet meet
ing In Washington Friday afternoon in
the absence of the president.
A large mass meeting was held in
Dallas, Tex, Friday afternoon to pro-
test against the removal of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight to Galveston
United States Indian Agent Wisdom
has asked for troops to remove from
the Chickasaw Nation merchants who
refuse to take out traders licenses.
II. II. Holmes, the insurance agent
who is in Jail in Philadelphia, is re-
ported to have said that he expects to
be hanged for the murder of the Pite-
eel children
A convention will soon be held in
Pittsburg, Pa, to study and discuss the
Bible prophecies in regard to the sec
ond coming of Christ Prominent di-
vines have been invited to address the
convention.
The imprisoned miners in the Pc
wabic mine at Iron Mountain, Mich,
were rescued Thursday night, having
been in the mine since o'clock D. M,
Wednesday. They were supplied with
oxygen through pipe which was I'M
| injured.
The humorist, Samuel L. Clemens,
or mark Twain" has been undergo
ing legal examination in New York
on account of the failure last year of
the publishing house of Charles L.
| Webster & Co., in which Mr.. Clemens
was partner. Thos. Russell & Sons,
printers, have brought suit for S., 900
against the bankrupt concern.
Fruit men in Colorado are experienc-
ing great deal of anxiety in regard
to the grasshoppers, which are making
their appearance again in great num-
bers, and have appealed to the State
horticultural board for relief The sec
rotary of the board has sent out q plan
by use of which they are exterminat-
ing great numbers of the pests.
Jesse jeremiah Houghton, a little
man who keeps saloon in Cleveland,
o., is about to sue a member of the
Fourth of July celebration committee
at that city, for $50, claiming that that
sum was offered to the first man who
would kiss the bride of the aerial we'd
ding, after her descent from the bal
loon In a parachute. He says he was
that man, and the committee has re-
fused payment.
The discovery of a lot of charred hui
man bones in a big stove in H. H.
Holmes office in Chicago, leads the
officers to believe that he also murdered
Miss Minnie Williams, of Fort Worth,
Tex, who was with him when he took
charge of the Pietzel children. Some
burned buttons and piece of watch
chain were found in the stove and were
identified as belonging to Miss Will
liams. She was Holmes stenographer.
The big electric locomotive of the
Baltimore &c Ohio, has for several
weeks been making little trial trips
in the yards at Baltimore, and last
Thursday proved it's ability to success
fully pull one of the regular heavy
freight trains of the B. & 0. The cleo
trio locomotive took the freight train
over a mile out of Baltimore, then it
was taken on to Philadelphia by the
steam locomotive, while the electric
locomotive returned to the power house,
making the round trip in Is minutes.
While engaged in hosting a "a,
pound stone in the Abercrombie stone
yards at st. Joseph, Mo-, Friday, the
derrick broke and the rock fell, crush
ing Fred Schuseke beneath it, crushing
him to pulp. David Foster, a brother
of Weather Prophet Foster, was fatally
injured internally. A. NJ Abercrom-
bic, owner of the yard, and State Grand
Master of the Odd Fellows, had mar
row escape.
The federal officials at San Francisco
have received information that a ring
has been formed in that city by Chinese
and whites to land Chinese fraudulent
ly, by which they hope to beat the ex-
clusion act. The Mongolians are to be
shipped to San Francisco from Hong
Kong as natives of California For every
one that is safely landed the ring is tore
ceive $500. Every Chinese that tries to
land in the future will be closely ex-
amined and unless he proves beyond a
doubt that he has a right to land he
will be sent back to China.
A severe storm swept over the sec
ton of New Jersey around Havnsack
Saturday afternoon. Five persons
were killed, and several seriously in
jured.
| The evicted tenants on the Winnie
bago reservation in Nebraska sent a
committee to Omaha to secure rifles
and ammunition. There is no excite
ment reported among the settlers on
the disputed lands, but they are deter
mined that the law shall be enforced
| An American named Zermatt Par
kett has accomplished the ascent of
the Matterhorn in Switzerland, over
4,70O feet above the level of the sea.
A. n. Towne, second vice-president
and general manager of the Southern
Pacific company, died Tuesday morn
ing at his residence in San Francisco.
| Cleveland, o., will celebrate its CEN
tennial anniversary next year, begin
ming July % and ending September 10.
/ A commission has been organized. COM