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

tuu carrying many pcOpic are OVSTuu6
at San Francisco.
c. ii. Lathrop. a Lawrence, Kan,
farmer, cut his throat because of i'll
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.
Miners at Mullen, Idaho, are threat
ening trouble. The Governor will de-
clare martial law if there is an out
break.
Custer Post, G. A. R., at Tacoma,
Wash, rejected a resolution asking
Congress to admit ex-Confederates to
soldiers homes.
Lord Salisbury is said to be suffer-
ing from Bright's disease.
The property of the late Comte de
Paris is to be sold at auction.
President Cleveland is said to be-
suffering from another attack of the
govt.
There are 10000 cases on the docket
of the United States Court of Claims.
Canada's counselors in the coming
Behring Sea conference have arrived
in Washington.
The State and Treasury Depart
ments are planning how to stop under
valuation of goods to be exported from
other countries to the United States.
The Washington Post states that the
Venezuelan question is the gravest the
country has had to face since 1912.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois, says he
is not candidate for any office this
year or next.
Leon Willhoyte was shot and killed
as a result of a law suit in jefferson
county, Kentucky.
Rev. w. G. Clapp, who a year ago
left the Episcopal for the Catholic
church wishes toreturn.
Simon Schafer, Il member of the Illi-
nois Legislature, was indicted at Pc
ora on charge of soliciting bride.
Durrants mysterious letter has been
opened. 1t is found to charge Rev. J.
d. Gibson with the murder of Blanche
Lamont.
Mrs j. r. Eustis, wife of the United
States ambassador to France, died in
Ireland.
The Empress of Germany is in bad
health. All court ceremonies were
omitted on her birthday.
j. r. Burton is said to be figuring on
securing the Topeka Capital in case it
is forced to be sold,
A lot of Cuban filibusters who start
ed for Cuba from Wilmington, Del. /,
have been arrested on one of the Ra-
hama islands.
General Miura, eX-Japanese minister
to Corea, has beea arrested on sus-
plcion of being concerned in the MUIR
der of the queen.
Miss Frances Willard was again
elected president of the National Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union.
Fully 100000 bushels of potatoes
have been frozen in the ground by the
sharp frosts of the past few nights
near Plainfield, Wis.
Mrs. Hannah Brink of Coffeyville,
Kan, fell dead while talking to her
husband. She was go years of age.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was in
stalled as co-pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, Washington.
The High school building at Delta,
Iowa, was burned, and nine children
were injured.
The voice of Honorable Allen G.
Thurman is to be heard again soon in
Ohio politics.
1t is estimated that the liabilities Of
the Fort Scott State bank exceed the
assets by $4,000
The Government armor testers have
found that annealed deck plates are
superior to the Harveyized plate.
The Pennsylvania miners strike is
growing. 1t is asserted that IL, 500
men are out.
The government is sore at illinois
for selling the brick ship Illinois and
pocketing the money.
Archbishop Langevin has suggested
a compromise on the parochial school
question to the Manitoba government.
Fourteen business blocks burned at
Alta, Iowa; loss, $4,000
To form National Prohibition
church is the newest move in religious
life.
Fire, starting in Whitney & Powers
grocery at GIbsonburg, Ohio, burned
seventy buildings; loss, 100000.
Enoch A. Thompson of MINNEAPOLIS
lays claim to an $50, 600, 600 estate in
Ireland.
Columbia National bank, Tacoma.
Wash, has been closed by Comptroller
EclSles.
Mrs. George Merck hung herself at
North English, Iowa, because of her
daughters death.
The japanese ports of Shimonoseki,
Kokokaichi, Toxic, Sendal, Aomori
and Otarunal are shortly to be opened
to-international trade.
One of the Eclipse hay press facto-
ries in Lawrence, Kan, was DESTROYED
by fire, causing SIS, coo loss
Another company has been organ.
lied to build a road from Eldorado to
Nevada, Mo-, the old organization
having been dissolved
Fraud orders were issued against
the Kansas City Bond Coupon Invest
ment Company.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Mil
ler's annual report will not contain
any recommendation to increase the
tax upon beer.
Cassius NJ. Clay, Jr., refuses to
speak in kentucky for Hardin, the
free silver candidate for governor.
One man was killed and another
badly wounded in a street duel at
Uniontown, Ala.
Senator Vest says in letter that it
Is time the Democrats were beginning
to organize.
AT Miller's Station, Ohio, a wagon,
IN which were four men, was struck
by train. All the men were killed.