Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-11-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

NeSiuchtS oI ranclS SchlatterS old
hone. Jamesport. L. l., say that the
Messiah is daffy.
The lntercity contests between New
England and Chicago boxers have
been declared of, owing to sentiment
In Boston against exhibitions of that
character.
John d. Rockefeller has donated
land valued at $50, 600 for reservoirs
for water for Tarrytown, n. Y. He
says he will also build a water tower
and lay the pipes
queen Victoria has sent an autograph
letter to the Sultan saying that she
has been deeply distressed by reason
OF the reports of the Armenian massa-
cres in the Turkish empire.
AS consequence of the Presidents
agreement 1t is probable that the Gen.
,ral Traffic Association will be discon-
tinued. Commissioner blanchard may
De CHOSEN as one of the board of arbi-
tration.
The potato crop is failure in many
parts OF this country because of its
overwhelming abundance. The total
crop Is estimated at 2S2, 600. 900 bushels,
the worlds crop being 3.l7s. 600 OO0
bushels, an unprecedented Weld.
Five theaters on the Midway of the
Atlanta exposition have been closed
on account of immortality and the pro-
prietors fined sl0O each.
w. B. Sutton, ex-legislator from Rus
sell county, Kan, and chairman of the
state irrigation board, has announced
MS candidacy for Senator PETERS seat
Richard De Barrows, recently ac-
Quilted at Topeka of the murder of J.
ID. Ross at Rossville, Kan, was run
over by train and fatally injured.
The recent murder of two Ute In
dian men and a woman on the re serva-
ton In Colorado has been traced to "A
renegade son of the notorious Chief
Hatch.
The wife of Mayor William McClan-
ahan of Milan, Mo-, was fatally shot
by her I-year-old son Charles while
the boy was playing with a revolver.
George Merchant. leading citizen
of Chickaska. Ind. Ter. shot three
times at Deputy United States Marshal
Cloud while drunk and was then killed
by the officer.
Because Mrs. Fannie Thompson had
repeatedly rejected him, George Sai-
ley shot her through both arms and
then killed himself in Topeka, Kan.
Both were colored.
a requisition has been issued bv the
governor of Kansas for the Rev.
Robert Seymour of Fort Scott accused
of an assault on Lizzie Hancock, aged
II. lie has been found in Kentucky.
The Missouri supreme court has
afhrmed the ten years sentence cf cx-
Representative Charles ii. harlan of
Callaway county for shooting Charles
Moore dead at jefferson City in March,
1894.
As the result of feud between the
Handley, Jones and Kilgore families
near Marietta, Ala, Joseph Kilgore
and John Jones were killed and John
Handley fatally wounded.
Alcaceus Hooper, the first RcpubIi-
can mayor of baltimore in thirty
years, has been inaugurated.
When the Fifty-fourth Congress
meets it will be asked to authorize the
payment by the United States govern
ment of S3,636, 900 for money which.
it is claimed, was loaned the CONT
mental government during the revolu-
ton. The original sum was $3.50. 600.
The claimants against the government
are the heirs of Jacob De Haven
At special meeting at Wichita the
Mystic Brotherhood. newly born secret
organization having for its object the
overthrow of prohibition, took into
full fellowship all the delegates of the
State to the grand lodge meeting of
the Sons of Herman. thus giving each
delegate full authority to institute
similar lodges of the brotherhood in
his county. This will bring the new
organization in every county in the
State.
Alvin Thomas. 13 wears old. of
English, Ind. killed his brother, two
years younger, and committed suicide.
The murder was caused by William.
the younger brother, reporting Alvi N
for playing truant-
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform League will be
held at Washington on Thursday and
Friday, December ~ and II. The an
nual address Will be delivered by the
president, Hon. Carl Schurz, on Thurs
day evening, December L.
A cabinet officer says that in all
probability President Cleveland's mes
sage will not contain a direct recon-
mendation for increased revenue, but
will urge the issue of the Allison ex-
chequer notes to provide for current
expenses, and possibly to be used as
the means of retiring the greenbacks
In factory fire in New York one
person was killed and number in
jured.
August Rogers, motorman on the
car that fell into the river at Cleve-
land, Ohio, has been released on
Si5, 900 bond.
The question of permitting fire in
suranee companies of Prussia to trans
act business in this country is being
discussed.
Alex Nally of Moberly, Mo-, eloped
with Miss Mary Z. Smith of Louisville,
KY, and they were married at Jeffer-
sonyilIe, Ic1