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

The latest presidential candidacy
story is that Allison is to get Harri-
sons strength whenever it appears
that the eX-president cannot be nomi-
mated.
At Washington, ID. C.. the general
assembly, *. of L.. after some discus
sion, indorsed the boycott of national
bank notes ordered by Mr.. Sovereign
last spring.
Advices from Constantinople say
the sultan has consented to
allow the passage through the
Dardanelles of a second guard
ship for each power, in accord
ance with the requests of the Austrian
italian. Russian and British represen-
tatives.
The Shawnee county tax rolls
show that Mrs. Simon Greenspan.
widow of Allen Sells, the circus
man, is the richest woman in
Topeka. She is worth $3.50, -OO6.
Other rich women in Topeka are
Mrs. Eliza Chrisman, whose property
is valued at S250,OO0, and Mrs Julia
Wilhouse, who is worth 500. OO0.
good many Kansas gentle
men who have been riding on
railroad passes for several years
will after January pnt up the
cash or walk. Under the new
agreement of the Kansas authorities
no passes will be given to state officers
who collect mileage fees in the dis
charge of their official duties. This
applies to members of state boards.
Sheriffs will have passes as heretofore.
Clerks of district courts will also have
passes next year.
Otto Irotman, Il young man
of Parsons Kan, was arrested
last night and placed in Jail,
charged with the murder of his wife,
who died under suspicious circum-
stances last September. An investiga-
tion has been quietly instituted by
City Marshal Mason, and evidence Sc
cured tending to show that Mrs. Trot-
mans death was due to injuries in
tiicted by her husband. The affair has
caused considerable excitement.
The Business Mems League of
st. Louis has issued an ad-
dress to the members of the
national Republican committee noti-
fying them that committee of twen-
ty-five citizens of this city would at
tend the meeting at Washington
December 10, with guarantee for all
expenses connected with the national
convention. The league claims to
have pledges from two-thirds of the
members of the committee. with
enough second choice promises from
among San Francisco advocates to Sc
cure the convention for st. Louis. The
finance committee has called a mass
meeting for December =, when the
fund will be completed.
Mr.. Otey, Virginia Congressman,
announces his purpose to introduce a
bill to appropriate S27, GOO, 600 for the
benefit of ey-Confederat soldiers, con-
ditional upon an equal amount being
appropriated by the States in which
the Confederates live. His PROPOSE
tion is founded on the plea that the
S27, 100000 represents the proceeds of
captured property turned into the
Federal treasury during the war. and
that the people of the South have a
moral claim for the money.
Ex-Territorial Treasurer Samuel
Murphy at Oklahoma City resented an
indecent epithet hurled at him by l..
p. Ross, receiver of the Oklahoma
City land Office and dictator of Federal
appointments in Oklahoma. Murphy
shot Ross in the mouth with der
ringer, producing a troublesome but
nOI d dangerous HOuuus ne
was smoothed and no arrests were
made.
At Ozark, Mo-. the jury in the case of
Bud Ray. charged with numbering
ex-Sheriff A. c. Grain of Christian
county, brought in verdict of muir
der in the second degree and assessed
his punishment at twenty five years
in the penitentiary. Ray had a fight
with Grain several months ago and the
same day drove up to Grains house
and shot him dead with shotgun.
Ray went ont to Montana, but was
recaptured.
United States Treasurer Morgan,
in his annual report, says the net or
binary revenues of the government for
the fiscal year ended June 30. were
S313. 800, ,075, an increase of Sis, 66S, ,O5J
as compared with the year before; net
ordinary expenditures, 1856, 195, ,29s, a
decrease of S11, ,32s, ,9s1. Including the
public debt the total receipts on all
accounts were S720, 5l6, ,625, and the
expenditures s7lO, O,472, Isl. A further
sum of S3i. .l57, 200 was. deposited in
the treasury prior to the end of june
on account of purchase of gold coir
to maintain the reserve, but was moi
formally covered in, and therefor.
does not appear in the accounts for the
current fiscal wear,