Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-16
NEWS NOTES.

tlon postponing the canvaSsing of the
returns for Governor until an investi-
CATION of the charges of fraud in the
election can be had.
A delegation of Democrats from
Oklahoma is at the capital to urge the
territorial committee of the house to
report bill for statehood for Okla
homa with the Chickasaw Indian ma
tion attached.
Losses by Thursday nights fire in
Toronto amount to $3.50, 900. with in
surance of half that amount.
Senator Haggard has produced
sensation in the Indiana senate by in
Producing a resolution calling for an
investigation of all the state offices.
1t is understood the main attack is di-
rected toward the attorney generals
office.
\ dozen houses burned at State
Center, Iowa, late Friday afternoon.
Most of the goods were saved. Loss,
about S35, ,0G0; insurance, S12,0 900.
Ex-Mayor r. c. Cushing of Omaha
is in San Francisco to forward she
project of railroad between San
Francisco and Salt Lake. He says
that if the San Francisco road is not
built one connecting Los Angeles and
Salt Lake will be constructed.
Advices to the treasury department
from the sub b-treasury of New York
report the withdrawal of S., 800, O0G
gold for export. This leaves the
amount of the gold reserve ST., 474,
400.
The secretary of the treasury has
submitted to congress a request for
or ,.s,4s g 1 l.
immediate relief of the Navajo In
dians of New Mexico.
The Arapahoe county, Colorado,
Woman's Christian Temperance union
has adopted resolutions denouncing
the exhibition of Living pictures
now being given in Denver, and a
committee has been appointed to ask
the city council to suppress such
spectacles.
Bishop Hortsman of the Cleveland,
Ohio, diocese has issued a circular,
which includes the recent decree of
the pope on secret societies, to be
read at all of the diocese churches
next Sunday morning. The bishops
letter calls for prompt obedience to
the pope's decree.
The Indiana supreme court has
granted judgment of ST., 900 to
Anson Wolcott against the Chicago,
st. Louis and Pittsburg Railroad COM
pany. WolcOtt is the man for whom
the town of Wolcott is named. The
damages were awarded because the
road Disseminated against him in the
matter of freight charges and the
furnishing of cars.
Both branches of the Colorado legis-
lature have adopted the joint resolu-
tion which originated in the house
instructing the states senators and
representatives in congress to resist
any legislation looking to the re-
organization of the Pacific roads, an d
demanding an Independent receiver,
on the ground that the present board
of receivers represents the interests
that wre cked the Union Pacific.
Reports from the immigration au-
thorities at New York show the whole
number of immigrants arriving dur
ing December was 11,106. OF this
number 166 were debarred entrance
as paupers and 50 as contract labor
ers. Ten were admitted on bond.
At a meeting of the Western Base
Ball association in Des Moines, Iowa,
W. w. Kent of Jacksonville was
! elected president. st. Joseph was re-
instated, leaving out Sioux City, and
Rock Island was dropped to make
room for Rockford, Ill.
A terrific snow storm has swept
over Vienna, leaving the city almost
isolated. Railway and vehicle traffic
! is reduced to a minimum. Over $500
men are at work clearing the streets.
he supplies of vegeta bles, meat and
| mil oil fnS la1
seven feet of snow in the suburbs.
The suit brought by Mrs Helen NJ
Cougar to determ the rights of
women under the constitution,
whether they have the right to vote,
has begun at Lafayette, Ind, before
Judge f. B. Everett. At the last
election Mrs. Cougar attempted to
vote and, on being refused, sued the
president of the Woman's Suffrage
association.
After consideri ng the subject fo1
several weeks, the house co ommittee
on naval aft airs has agreed to favor
able report on a bill to reorgapize the
personnel of the navy.
Train loads of frozen oranges, the
fruit caught in the recent cold SNAP
in Florida, are being rushed to the
Chicago market. Eighteen carl Dads
are said to have been sold Thursday
The Arapahoe county, Colorado, w
C. T. o., has adopted resolution i'm
ploring the legislature to elect mar
to the United States senate who i:
not known to be man of immora
life.
The Corean government propose:
to signify its inde pendence of Chinese
traditions by discarding its tancient
calendar at the beginning of mex
year and adopting the same monthly
divisions as those recognized by the
Western countries and Japan.
BY vote of to 4 the house com
mittee on public buildings has decided
to report the senate bill providing fol
the purchase of the real estate owned
by ex-senator Malone of Virginia
| Ge neral Malone will receive $3.50, 00C
for the property if the action of the
committee is ratified by the house.