Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-11-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Port Townsend, Wash, has been
coal and dead timber in a mountain
ravine.
Valuable concessions to secure rail-
way extentions have been granted to
Americans by the Mexican govern
ment
Crazy Bruce Collan killed Phillip
and Martin Koch in Washita county.
Oklahoma, for testifying against his
father, who had killed another Ger
man.
Statistics show that the Northwest
ern roads have lost and are losing
enormous sums through ticket scalp
ing. A pool is regarded as the only
remedy.
Edna Schmidt, aged Is, daughter Of
the millionaire Chicago brewer, went
from her mothers grave to elope with
her fathers coachmen.
Senator Sherman will not run for
presidential nomination any more, but
is out for Mckinley, and will attend
the convention in his interest.
Mrs. Granville Lancaster, wife of q
farmer at Livingstone. Ala, locked
her three children in the house, and
while she gossiped with neighbor
the children were roasted alive.
A. X. Ward, the Memphis forger
who defrauded banks and business
men of $40, 900, is at Puerto Cortez,
Honduras, under close surveillance.
Miss Jennie Dart, a bright and en-
ergetic young lady of Kansas City,
Kan, has started for India, where she
goes as a medical missionary. Miss
Dart is a graduate from the highest
medical colleges of this country, Of
both the new and old schools, and is
well equipped for her work.
The assistant chief of Police and DO
lice clerk of Fort Worth, Texas, are to
be discharged because of an alleged
shortage in police funds.
A fellow named Graham attempted
daylight robbery of the Banner
county bank, Harrisburg, Neb., but
was shot and captured through the
quick work of Cashier Carlisle.
Bank robbers all but secured $40, 900
from j. NJ. Morley's bank at Sever
ance, Kan, when they were fright
ened off.
Four men were killed and one seri-
ously injured by boiler explosion on
tugboat in Chicago.
A. S. Wightman, San Antonio.
Texas, bookkeeper, is $4,000 short in
his accounts.
Hamburger, Bloom & Co., Louisville's
largest dry goods firm, has assigned.
Liabilities, 81, 200, 900; assets about
same.
The Missouri University football
team defeated DePauw, Ind, unlver-
sity by score of too.
The Queen of Madagascar has ac-
cepted the terms of France, establish
ing protectorate.
Ships aggregating sc, 0O0, 900 in value
and carrying many people are overdue
at San Francisco.
c. III. Lathrop, a Lawrence, Kan,
| farmer, cut his throat because of ill
health and financial troubles.
A Spanish lieutenant. who wounded
three of his own soldiers, was arrested
and committed suicide.
Colonel John s. Mosby, the noted
Confederate leader, is critically ill at
his home in Marshall, VT.
Zeke and Dick Crittenden, Cherokee
Indian brothers, were shot dead by
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Ter. They were drunk and began the
| firing.
| The United States court of private
land claims has rendered it's final de-
cision declaring the alleged Peralta
Arizona fraudulent.
| In a collision between an express
train and a locomotive at Valley juno.
tion. Iowa, Mrs. Mary Hillhouse OF
Burlington, Iowa, was killed and two
men injured.
The Eureka Endowment Relief As
sociation and the Eureka Relief Asso
citation, both of Baxter Springs, Kan,
have been excluded from the mails fol
conducting forms of lotteries
w. T. Purcell, a druggist and livery
man of South Greenfield, Mo-, was
found dead with his skull crushed or
the track near there. Murder is sus
pected bat the body was not robbed
Mrs. Parnell's household goods were
sold at auction for about $500.
Mckinney, the county seat of Collin:
county, Texas, had $500, 900 fire.
Carter, Clarkson and Platt will worl
for Chicago or Pittsburg as the M
tional Republican convention city.
The sugar production of Germany
Austria, France. Belgian, Holland ant
Russia for 1866 is estimated at 8, $50,
923 tons.
Mint Director Preston estimate,
this years output of gold at $500, ,000,.
900.
In row over a game of cards a
Chicago, Joseph Maher was sho
through the heart.
The saloons and drug stores of De
Moines, Iowa, which have been sellin,
LIQUOR. were raided by the police.