Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-13
rELEcRAPHrc NEWS NOTES.

est on bonds.
A plasterer living near London
killed his wife and their six children
and committed suicide.
Nine. Collett, the Norwegian novel
ist and leader of that couutry's
Woman's Rights party, is dead.
The authorities of Parsons, Kan,
have ordered all disreputable women
and gamblers 10 leave town at once.
Ezra Ray was fatally stabbed by
boy named Woolkey near Otterville.
Mo. Both are not over 13 years of
age.
Otterville, No., citizens paid 81 per
head to be vaccinated by very clever
fraud when there was no occasion
for it.
A cabinet officer is said to be au-
thority for the statement that the
president may call an extra session of
the new congress.
1t is reported that American manu-
facturers are selling woolen goods in
English markets cheaper than the
Englishman ca1l.
In Philadelphia, Bromley Bros have
granted their art square weavers an
advance of six per cent in wages, to
go into effect at once.
Field Marshal Yamagata of Japan,
has been appointed minister of war
to replace Count Oyama. commander
of the Second Japanese army.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal of
Kansas, who has been examining
Southern Kansas banks, reports that
they are generally in first class con-
dition.
The steamer Rosedale sunk in the
Wabash near New Haven, Ill. One
man was drowned. She was loaded
with corn. The boat was valued sat
SIS, 600.
At Danville, KY, Vice President
Stevenson delivered a lecture before
the students of the law department
of Center college on parliamentary.
procedure.
A receiver has been asked for the
Colorado Security company of Denver,
Col, and an injunction restraining it
from transacting further business
has been granted.
The Oklahoma legislature has
passed bill fixing telegraph rates in
the territory at fifteen cents for the
first ten words and press rates at one
eighth of cent a word.
/ Colorado legislature has passed an
anti-foreign flag law.
Postmasters who failed of confirma-
tion in the senate were reappointed
by the president
Cashier Shropshire Of the Central
| rsilway of Georgia committed suicide
at Birmingham, Ala.
Ex-United States Senator Harlan of
Iowa is a candidate for the Repub-
| lican nomination for governor of Iowa.
The bill to grant full municipal
suffrage to women in Massachusetts,
was defeated in the house by vote
of 127 to 81.
Judge William Chestnut, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of
Platte county, Missouri, is dead.
A grand jury has indicted the ex-
sheriff of Clay county, Kentucky, for
usurpation of Office, the jailer for
malfeasance and another officer for
murder.
6. R. Thomas has been appointed
postmaster at Bernal, Reno county,
Kan, vice c. F. Thomas, resigned.
The First National bank of Tex
arkana, Ark. closed its doors through
| inability to meet its obligations.
Lieutenant Governor Mines of
| Michigan was nominated to succeed
| Congressman Burrows on the 116th
ballot.
The Rev. Joseph B. Cottrell of Rus
| sellville, KY, was standing on a half
sunken barge on the shore of Lake
Dora, Florida, when he was seized
| with an attack of vertigo. He fell
into the lake and was drowned.
The cordage works of William Wall
& Sons in Williamsburg. N. Y, have
been shut down and all the employees
discharged. The plant during the
last few years has been controlled by
! the Cordage trust. 1t gave employ
ment to nearly !, 900 men.
There is little change in the miners
strike in the Pittsburg distric. The
men are holding out for the GO cent
rate and reject all compromises.
About 1000 men have been granted
their demands and are at work, but
this is the case only at few mines
which are running to supply the
! local demand.
A terrific explosion of the tank of
the steamer Bawnmore, lying at the
Arctic oil works dock at the Potrero,
San Francisco. caused great excite
ment in that section of the city.
| Two men were terribly bruised and
burned, receiving what are thought
to be mortal injuries and the vessel
was badly strained.
Secretary Gresham is about to in
struct Ambassador Bayard to urge
upon Great Britain an adjustment of
the long pending trouble between
Venezuela and British Guina, and to
suggest arbitration of the question.
Manuel Almagro, accountant and
interpreter to the Argentine legation
| in Washington, has been arrested at
the Office of the legation and locked
up at the request of Minister Zeballos
on a charge of embezzling SO, 600 of
the funds of the legation.
Charles Lanman, the we'll known
author, artist and librarian, is dead.
Two car loads of oranges were
shipped from Los Angeles, Cal, for
Florida
An agricultural department. bulletin
| reports extreme cold and heavy
SHOWS in all parts of France and
heavy frosts and snow storms of ex.
ceptional severity in Great Britain
throughout January.
The Hon. Hannis Taylor, the Ameri-
can minister to Spain, visited Prime
Minister Sagasta and assured him the
United States government would do
its utmost to prevent the fitting out
OF filibustering expeditions TO the
island of Cuba
/ Bill Adler, the Kansas City tough
who knocked down Post Office In
spector Jesse Mcclure on the night of
the carnival last fall, and who died
from the effects of the fall, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and was given
ten months in Jail.
John Goodwin, prominent farmer
living near Holden, Mo-, accidentally
shot himself and died instantly.
The steamship Willapa has left Port