Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-02
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY JANURAY ? 1895
NEWS BREvITIEs.
A saw mill boiler exploded at Bona
yer, Barren county, KY, killing five
men,

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Phallas, the celebrated stallion
owned by j. ]. Case, died THURSDAY
night. Phallas had record of 2:13%
In New Orleans Peter Murdoch, 6
motorman on the Carrollton street
car line, shot his wife and then blew
out his own brains with revolver.
The Norwegian ship Austriana, a
anchor in Pensacola bay, loaded with
1000, 900 feet of timber, was DESTROYED
by fire. Vessel and cargo will prove
a total loss. Insured.
Anthracite coal agents of the East
crn and Western territories have de.
clded to limit their production in Jan
uary to forty-five per cent OF their
capacity, which Is equal to produc-
tion of 2, 300,0 600 tons. No change was
made in prices
In Hot Springs, Ark, Miss Hattie
Clay, a f4-yea.-old girl, while sitting
near a hre IN room reading,
| suddenly found her dress on fire and
was quickly enveloped in flames and
before they could be quenched she
was burned to crisp.
United States District Attorney
| of California states that he would
shortly recommend to Attorney Gen
eral Olney to dismiss the charges
| against at least three fourths of the
~. X. u. men now under arrest in his
district charged with conspira cy
growing out of the recent strike.
Governor Oates of Alabama, who is
in Washington, has appointed COM
mission for his state, naming General
Joseph Wheeler as the chairman, to
cooperate with the national comm Is
sion in locating the positions of Ala
bama troops at Chickamauga and
Chattanooga This leaves but one
state which had soldiers engaged on
these fields without a commission
Dominick McCaffrey, the once we'll
known pugilist, was locked up in Ne w
York on SO fine for being drunk He
could not pay the fine.
Two convicts, Jack Edwards and
Smith, both serving larceny sentences
from st. Louis, escaped from the Mis-
souri, peDitentiary power house. They
were serving two years and had only
few months longer to remain.
Moody Bartholomew, in making a
coupling at Rocl1port, Mo-, had his
head caught between the bumpers
and his lower jaw and part of his face
was crushed. He will die.
Henry Bogby of Adrain, Mo-, while
rabbit hunting, was fatally shot
His companion attempted to hand him
gun, muZzle foremost through a
hedge, when the weapon was acci-
dentally discharged.
Thomas S. Davis sued the mayor
and marshal of Sturgeon, Mo-, for
$4,000 for false imprisonment
Lisbon Hauseley of Rose Hill, Texas,
who imagined himself governor of
Texas, killed himself at Dallas.
The only bank at Somonauk, ILL.,,
was looted by robbers, who blew the
vault to pieces and secured IS, 100 in
cash.
Alexander Williamson and William
Perry, rivals, met at their sweet
hearts home near Coalburg. Ala, and
killed one another.
Leo Green was to have married
Mae Patton at Roanoke, Mo-, but did
not appear at the last moment. John
Key took his place. A. G. Cowdy and
Miss Maggie Patton, a sister of Miss
Mae, accompanied the couple, and, to
the surprise of their friends were also
married.
Congressman-elect Edgar Wilson of
Idaho is dangerously i'll at Boise. He
had a relapse when recovering from
au attack of la grippe.
Five three-story buildings in Buf-
falo burned to the ground. They
were occupied by ten firms whose ag-
gregate losss will be $13O, 600.
Joseph Morris, aged 20 years, is on
fttn1 of f., 4 IL,
October 10, 1898, of W. W. Clause of
the alleged cause.
The State association of colored
teachers of Missouri, at it's meeting
at Sedalia, elected Joseph E. Herri-
ford of Chillicothe, president, w. II.
Dixon of Richmond, secretary and NJ.
L. Green of Joplin, treasurer.
The coal miners at Marshall mine
No. 2, near Boulder, Col, are ont on
a strike. The owners did not wish to
pay over sixty cents ton, while the
regular price heretofore has been
seventy five and eighty cents per ton.
The senate committee on railroads
will take up the pooling bill immedi-
ately after holiday recess.
The government has contracted
with the Navajo Indians for Is, 900 of
their wonderful water proof blankets.
Reports have it that Assistant Post
master General FrankH. Jones of ILL
nois is engaged to Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, General Grants daughter.
The Oklahoma Democratic commit
tee is pushing statehood claims of
that state on the ground that admis-
sion now will make the state Demo
cratic.
Highwaymen along the Hennepin
canal are now operating in the garb
of women.
Justice p. NJ. Wall of Leadville,
Col, decided that there is no law in
that state forbidding a man to burn
his own houses.
Two New York women celebrated
Christmas by giving birth to babies
one in a telegraph Office and the other
on the steps of DIR. Talmage's resi-
dence.
Secretary Carlisle has written let
ter declining to be candidate for
governor of Kentucky or United
States senator.
A company of New York and Chi
cago capitalists has been formed for
the purpose of securing concession
from the Mexican government for the
building of jetties and securing deep
water at Soto La Marina on the gulf
coast, situated about midway between
Tampico and the United States boun-
dary.
In Philadelphia six horses and two
mules were killed by coming in con-
tact with deadly electric light wires
which were blown down by the
storm.
The miners of the Massillon, O.,
district are holding a convention with
state and national officers present to
take action on the wage question.
The mines are all closed down.
Played With Powder.
NEosHo, Mo-, Dec. 81. - While
Charley Jones and Rosco Rose were
shooting giant powder, in celebration
of Christmas, at CRANKY, one of the
sticks failed to explode as soon as