Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-17

The British Parliament was pro-
regued until July 2E
All the Cabinet officers but one are
out of Washington this week
John Fritz, of Bosworth, Mo-, was
killed by train at CORN, Mo.
There are So, Christian Endeav-
orers at the national convention at
Boston.
Arrangements arc being made to es-
Ia dish packing Plant at jackson,
Miss.
Great damage was done in and
around Pine Bluff, Ark, by a cyclone
Sunday.
Newfoundland's new tariff makes
retaliatory Determinations against the
United States.
There are 800 Cubans drilling in
New York who will soon go to join the
insurgents.
The Pullman Palace Car company
has increased the wages of 1000 en-
ployes 10 per cent
Miss Kate Cornell of Wilkes barre.
Pa, while shooting at sparrows, kill
ed an aged woman.
Francis Clark, successor to John
Brown as Queen Victorias personal
attendant, is dead.
The two new revenue cutters have
been named the Waiter Q. Gresham
and Daniel Manning.
A movement is on foot to hold an
Inter American Exposition at Calves
ton, Tex, in 1896.
Jersey City was chosen as the place
to hold the National Christian Endea-
vor convention of 1896
Two vessels from South America
were quarantined at New York. Vel
low fever was suspected.
The United States attorney for
Alaska, Lytton Taylor, has resigned,
to go into the mining business
1t is said that Lord Roseberry, OK
Premier of England, is to marry q
daughter of the Prince of wales.
Three boys, aged 7, and years,
of Slatersville, Rhode Island, were
drowned while fishing Thursday.
Thomas Palma has been elected to
the presidency of the Cuban republic,
nude vacant by the death of Jose
Marti.
1t is expected that commission will
soor be appointed to examine q route
for canal from the Atlantic to the
Great Lakes.
Tie delegates to tho International
Railway Congress, in session IN Lon
don, srcnt day at Windsor castle
and were presented to the Queen.
A big fire at Osceola, Ia, Thursday
night resulted in the loss of eight
brick buildings and stocks, valued at
800, 1000 A number of citizens were
burned and bruised in attempting to
stay the flames.
Rev. 5. w. Anderson, a Baptist
preacher and leading colored citizen
of Peoria, Ill, committed suicide in n
barn Thursday. BE shot himself in
the region of the heart with re-
volver and cut his throat with razor.
William Conway, grocer of Phila-
delphia, was to have been married
Sunday last at $50 p. M, to Miss Mary
harrington, and had furnished a
home and made every arrangement for
the wedding, which, however, did not
come off. At the hour appointed the
groom did not appear, and could not
be found. 1t was discovered Monday
that he had drawn all the firms mon
ey from the bank and gone. The next
day the sheriff levied upon the stock
of the firm on an execution issued on a
judgment note.
q. II. Lewis, q bond broker of Ur-
bana, O., has been discovered to have
been dealing in bogus bonds, and has
left suddenly for parts unknown. His
forgeries amount to over 500, 900. He
made specially of school bonds.
Monday afternoon, July 8. another
little daughter was born to President
and Mrs. Cleveland, at their summer
home at Gray Gables, Buzzards' Bay,
Mass.
The Teachers National association
meeting at Denver is an event of much
interest and immense crowds. The
total mum Der of visitors is estimated
ut IA, 600.
1t is limited that Republican and
Democratic executive committees will
soon hold Il conference with view of
putting off the next national conven-
tions until September.
A terrible accident occurred at 3
o'clock Tuesday morning on the Grand
Trunk railway near Quebec. A large
number of people were en- route TO the
Shrine OF St Anne. The train was in
two sections, and while the Grst one
stopped to take water, the second one
ran into it. There were Is persons
killed, and % injured.
The sensational story of the lsidrsp-
ping in London of Mrs. Gordon, the
widow of the late Hon. Sacliville Cor
don, was fully ventilated in the police
court at London Monday, when Ernst
Crane, Henry Crane and James Hook
were committed for tria' charged with
in the crime. The alb
duction, 1t is claimed. was done at the
instance of an American named Clamp.
She was taken to house On the pre-
tense of looking at some furniture,
and there robbed of SIS, 900 in money
and oil of her iewelry, consisting
largely of diamonds, which she was
on her person.
The trustees of the National Chris
tan Endeuvor society rejected the Of
fer of Ii. II. Kohlsuat, of the CHICAGO
Times Herald, to move their national
from Boston to Chicago.
He pledged $1,000 year for three
years for the maintainence of the so.
ciety if the offer was accepted.
Dispatches from Havana tell of a
serious engagement which has taken
place between the Spanish troops un.
der Colonel Azuar, and Rabi, an in