Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17

| mas oocn cIectcQ speaker OF the llli-
nois House.
The New York State Bankers asso-
clatlon just closed q session at Sara
toga, n. Y.
Chauncey Depev of New York, has
gone to Europe to interview Emperor
William of Germany.
The eighteenth annual session of the
Alabama Bar association is in session
at Montgomery.
Nicholas Pierola, leader of the Rev
dictionary party. has been elected
| president of Peru,
Treasury officials are investigating
the accounts of the librarian of the
Congressional library.
The long expected official report on
Missourfs lead and zinc deposits has
at last been made public.
The First Regiment, ". q. NJ, in
camp at Moberly, Mo-, were reviewed
Wednesday by Governor Stone.
Seventh Day Adventists are not ex-
cmlted from the new barber shop
Sunday closing law in Illinois.
The Chinese Foreign office an
nounces that half of its second loan
will be given to Great Britain
The international Railway congress
in session at London dissolved Tues
day. The next congress will meet in
| Paris in 1900.
Advices from Corca state that the
Corean Minister of the Interior,
! Prince PAX, has fed the country,
charged with treason.
Gen. G. n. Drake of Centerville, was
nominated for governor by the Iowa
Republicans, in State convention ut
Des MONIES, Wednesday,.
A brewery company has purchased
property adjoining the Assembly
Grounds ut Chautaulua, N Y. 1t is
said that beer garden will be estab-
lished. Great indignation is expressed
by Chautauquans.
A. Roux, a young man of Stanford,
| Conn, killed himself at his mothers
grave. because, as he said in letter
sent by Linn to an undertaken of STAN
ford telling HIN where to find his
body, he found that he was gradually
growing deaf
Dr. Edward Jones, a prominent ply
sician and formerly assistant superin-
tendent of the Eastern Kentucky
Lunatic asylum, fell out of second
story window of that institution, re-
ceiving injuries from which he died.
He was 81 years old.
2The National Christian Endeavor
convention at Boston began Wednes-
day. Provision has been maGlc for 65,-
600 delegates. Two large tents, 9s4
by $50 feet, with seating capacity of
5000 each, have been pitched on Bos-
ton Common, and will be, Nth the
Mechanics building, the princip pal
meeting places.
The Horn. Harvey silver debate will
begin next Tuesday, July l6, at Chi
cago The main provisions are that
the doctrines set forth in Coins FL
nanclal School" shall form the basis
of the discussion, one chapter being
discussed each day. in three hours
session. Each disputant will be al
lowed 10 consulting authorities or as
sistants
The race at Henley on the-Thames,
England, between the Cornell uniyer-
slty boat crew of America and the
Leander boat club crew, composed of
Oxford and Cambridge oarsmon, said
to be the strongest in England, which
CAME off Tuesday. was 4 disappoint-
inent to the throng of spectators The
i.eander was not ready when the UNI
pire gave the word to start, although
he claims they answered yes" to his
inquiry. They did not make the start.
but the Cornell crew shot away, and the
umpire allowed them to pull over the
course and awarded them the race
The board of ste vards upheld the uin.
pres decision.
Chicago was visited Sunday evening
by one of the most furious wind and
rain storms ever known in the history
of that city. TIE storm came up sud-
denly and it was fcured that manv
people out on the lake In sailboats
would be drowned, but there were no
accidents on the lake. Iucalculable
damage was done all over the city.
The big store of the Rothschilds, oc-
cupying nearlya whole block on State
street. was badly damaged, the entire
front of plate glass windows being
blown in.
Several farmers have been victim.
lied in the vicinity of Creston, To-, re-
Gently, by smooth gang of piano
swindlcrs. A salesman calls at u
house and offers to leave q niano at
the house fo- four months on trial,
and if fo:r are sold in the vicinity,
will present the instrument to the par
ties Tree. They ask no money, but re-
quest the farmer to sign n card de-
scribing the piano, etc. 1t turns out
to be promissory cote for $3.50. The
piano is not worth over $50. Several
farmers have been caught
Refunding payments on account of
the income tax have begun at the in
ternal revenue bureau at Washington.
Tho Grand Lodge of Ellss, in session
at Atlantic City, n. j., were holding 4
social session at The Baltic Avenue
casino Wednesday evening, when.
without 4 moments warming, the
building, which had not been used for
years, collapsed. and fully thousand
people were thrown to the floor be-
meath. In few minutes the streets
were crowded with people, and great
excitement prevailed. No one was
killed, but 200 people we're injured.
General Ezcta OF Salvador, who has