Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-13
TELEoRAPHIc NEWS NOTES.

~ destroyed by fire, involving loss
of 81, 500.
Henry A. v. Post and Thomas Car
michael of New York were appointed
receivers of the Hicks Stock Car COM
pany by Judge Jenkins.
The tug Welcome has returned to
Milwaukee without having discovered
the missing men. She coursed mp and
down the coast for twenty miles from
shore.
Senator Lodge by request has in.
troduced bill in the senate to pro.
vide for the issue of Sl,25O, 900, 600
worth OF bonds payable in gold coin
at 214 per cent interest to run from
ten to twenty five years
The National association of poplar
lumber dealers and manufacturers
met in Cincinnati Friday. Reports
showed that business had been I'M
profitable for two years and a plan
was presented for national corpora
don with division offices in various
lumber sections
While digging out a snow bound
train on the Pennsylvania road near
Harrisburg, ten men were run down
by section of the Pacific express.
Two were killed instantly, two in
jured so badly that they lived but a
short time, and a fifth is at the city
hospital with a fractured skull.
The next move of the Western
members who desire the government
to take possession of the bond-aided
Pacific railroads for default in paw
ment of their obligations will be to
try to prevent them from disposing of
their granted lands until their finan-
cial relations with the government
have been settled.
The Golden Gate is to be protected
by three of the biggest guns in use in
the United States. They will be
pointed seaward from vantage posi-
tlons on either side of the gate, and
they are calculated to furnish a com
plete defense against any craft that
might escape the she ellis which the
new mortar batteries will send ont
TO sea for the d Stance of six miles
These guns are as long as seven aver
age sized guns and two men might
easily crawl into the bore of one of
the wonders
The lower house of the Arkansas
Legislature by vote of - to 20 passed
pill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and cigarette matter
Horace \. White, division superin-
tendent of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad company, died at
bis home in Trenton. Mo
y mandam mus has been issued
against the commissioner of pensions
to enforce the restoration of pension
of 81: month to Judge Long of
Michigan. The suit against the secre-
tary of the interior has been dis
missed.
Philadelphia sugar refneries cut
the price of sugars one sixteenth of
cent Thursday. The reduction is said
to have been caused by Molenhauer.
the independent refiner of New York.
and subsequent reduction by Have
meyer.
telegram signed by Cleveland,
Chicago and Detroit men, represent
ing So, 600, 900 worth of vessel prop
erty, was sent to President Cleveland
requesting him to sign the White bill.
which embodies the sailing rules for
the great lakes.
In New York FL. Beerbohm Tree and
his company of players gave special
matinee performance at Abbey's thea
ter for the benefit of the sufferers of
the Elbe disaster. a large and fash
ionable audience witnessed the per-
formance of Captain Smith, The
proceeds of the benefit amounted to
$1,000.
Bethaven female college at Jackson,
Miss, was burned Thursday morning.
The teachers and boarding pupils
saved most of their effects Loss,
$50, 600: insurance, S37, 800
In Brooklyn Mayor Schieren has
vetoed the resolution adopted by the
board of aldermen revoking the troll
ley franchise of the BROOKLYN Citv
and Atlantic Avenue street railroad
companies
j. A. r. Elliott and George Work
shot match at Westminster grounds,
New York, for SlO0 side, 100 birds,
twenty-one yards boundary. The
Western man won with a score of "a
against So
Rutino Blanco, 81 years old, consul
from Venezuela at the port of Phila-
delphIa, has been fined $500 in the
New York court of general sessions
by Recorder Golf, a jury finding him
guilty of carrying concealed weapons.
The children of the late James E.
Fair have decided to contest their
fathers will One of the daughters
attorneys, Mrs Herman Oelrichs and
Miss Virginia Fair, made the state
ment in a San Francisco court that
the probated will would be opposed
and the court allowed a continuance
of two weeks to inaugurate the con-
test
The threatened trouble between
the Southern Pacific company and its
locomotive engineers has been
averted.
The president has sent these nomi-
nations to the senate: Postmasters-
John Schuyler, Hayes, Kan; John W.
Cox, Ellis Kan.
Count Gebacoa, a Spanish noble man
from Havana, is in Fargo. n. D., to
obtain divorce under the lenient
North Dakota law. Sonora De Pedro,
also of Havana. an acquaintance of
the count, is there for the same pur-
pose
Senator Morgan has bill for the
reorganization of the diplomatic SER
vice.
The president may invoke the law
of retaliation if Germany insists on
shutting ous American meat
j. Matthew Aubrey, SON. in law of
Chief Justice Fuller, is under arrest
at Sioux City.
The president has decided the dis
pute between Brazil and the Argen-
tine Republic over the Missiones
country in favor of Brazil. Both
countries left the matter to his arbi-
tration.
Aliens are forbidden the right of
suffrage under a measure introduced
in the Texas house.
Doc j. E. RAIDER, the noted Ken
lucky desperado. was killed by the
lover of widow he was courting
One man was killed and several
others were badly injured in Klaess'
coal mine near Belleville. Ill.
A bill was Introduced in the Ar
kansas legislature providing for a
railroad commission.
Senator Brice says he thinks the