Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-30
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS. WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30 1895
TELEoRAPHIc NEWS NOTES.

" Oil, d was
instantly killed at Olathe, Kan, by
falling from the cars.
The trial of Sheriff Henry Troll of
st. Louis on charge of bribery at the
recent election ended in acquittal.
Some serious charges have been
preferred against Judge McAtee of
Oklahoma and filed with the attorney
general.
Mining companies in Macon, Mo,
have discharged all farmers and sim
gle men who have been mining coal
in that region.
In Binghampton, New York, Bank
Examiner Prescott has closed the
Chenago Valley Savings bank pend
ing an investigation.
Dispatches definitely confirm prcvi-
GUS reports that at least three lives
were lost by the sinking of the
steamer State Of Missouri.
Mrs Maggie Gill was arraigned in
Jefferson Market police court, New
York, and confessed to the murder of
her mother She was held without
bail.
Secretary Smith has approved the
applications made by Colonel Cody
and the manager of Barnum & Bal
ley's circus for permission to employ
Indians in their performances.
A general snow storm of generous
proportions prevails in Nebraska.
| The weather is warm and no suffer
ing will result 1t is much needed to
put wheat in a safer condition.
Mr.. Pritchard, the new Republican
senator from North Carolina, who was
sworn in Thursday, is tall and of
| athletic build. He is one of the
youngest members of she senate.
At Sedalia, Mo-, G.. w. Bradley was
/ arrested on charge of abduct-
ing Miss Belle Hays from her home in
| Washington, Iowa.
The Chicago board of trade firm of
| William Young 81 Co., failed The
| firm was one of the oldest on the
board. The failure caused considera-
| BILE excitement in the pits.
Two 15-year-old boys, Dock Dukes
and Lee Day of O6en, H., while re-
| turning from school at that place en-
! gagged in a fight Dukes fatally
stabbed Day. The parents of the
lads are highly est eemed people.
It's now settled that the state has
been furnished with the names of
every man who assisted in hanging
Barrett Scott One of the lynchers
has confessed. However, members of
! the vigilantes do not appear dis
! turb ed.
A free home league for the Chero-
kee strip containing 5000, 900 acres of
land which cost the settlers an aver
age of s. per acre has been organized
| in Perry. Committees were sent to
! tn st in fn.
| homes to settlers.
Colonel j. d. Hopkins, on behalf of
Dan Creedon, has accepted the chal-
lenge of Frank Craig, the "Harlcm m
| Coffee Cooler" for fight before the
The club offers purse of So 600 and
allows $500 expenses.
Consul General ]. Diaxduran of
Guatemala has been recalled from
San Francisco by President Barrios 70
take command of a military force in
the war which he believes to be i'm
pending with Mexico.
The grand jury of Jackson county,
Arkansas, has indicted Walter An
derson for perjury. Anderson was n
quilted Pennyweight Powell, one of
the Oliphant train robbers and muir
derer of Conductor McNally 1t is
charged that Anderson before the
trial declared he would vote to cquit
if he was on the jury.
Bank Examiner Backus has take n
charge of the Broome county. New
York, National bank The bank had
an authorized circulation of 800, 900,
and was capitalized at $1OO, 900.
The Mendoza, Mo, coal and mining
company, its miners and employees
sent to the Nebraska sufferers on the
! 22d inst, train of coal consisting of
thirteen cars in all, or 105 tons of
clean lump coal. Mcndota's coal out
put is perhaps the greatest in North
| Missouri.
The attorney general has sent a
recommendation to the house favor
ing an appropriation to cover travel
ing expenses of the justices of Okla
homa. He says the salary of the just
ices is low, and that many times they
are compelled to make long overland
trips which are expensive.
Senator Berry's bill makes il com.
pulsory on all roads in the Indian
territory to carry passengers on local
freight trains, and provides penalty
OF $50 for each day any road shall fail
or refuse to do so.
Secretary Gresham has submitted
to congress an estimate for an appro-
priatiOn of IS. 900 for the execution of
the oblgat ons of the United States
and the protection of its interests and
property in the Samoan islands.
The senate committee on foreign
relations has authorized a favora bic
report on Senator Morgan's amend
ment to the naval appropriation bill
making an appropriation of Sl1O, 900
for dredging the Pearl Harbor (Ha-
waii) bar.
The house committee on election of
president AMI vice president has
agreed to report n joint resolution
amending the constitution 50 as to
provide that the president shall be
eligible to service for but one term.
There was no dissenting vote.
Twelve carloads of supplies arrived
in Lincoln from Georgia and were
promptly distributed to various points
in Southwestern Nebraska. Eighteen
carloads of provisions from New
| Orleans and two from South Carolina
are reported on the way.
The permanent fund of the Smith
1
81, 600, 900
/ United States Consul C'Neill at
Stockholm, Sweden, reports to the
state department that a bill was
passed by the Swedish government
on the eth instant raising the duty on
grain and flour to the following rates:
All kinds of grain per 200 pounds, 81
cents; matt, S1.70; -four, S1.74.
j. d. Luttrell of Spokane, Wash.
has received the welcome news that
he is one of four heirs to an estate in
Ireland valued at s., 900, 900.
The corner stone of new Masonic
temple was laid in Detroit, Mich, by
the grand master of the state, in the
presence of large crowd. The
building will cost $500, 000
The secretary of the interior has