Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

The Grand Army proposes to test
the question whether or not a pension
granted is a vested right
Miss Virginia Hearne, daughter of
DR.. J. C. Hearne indicted on a charge
of numbering Amos >. Stillwell at
Hannibal, Mo-, has taken clerical
position with building association.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge 1. o. O.
F., adopted an amendment to the con-
stitution excluding saloonkeepers, bar
tenders and professional gamblers.
A. Brain of Rochelle, ILL.,, was afraid
to take room lighted by electricity
at the Union Depot hotel, Atchison,
Kan, but accepted a gas-lighted room
instead. He blew out the gas. but was
rescued in time to save his life.
Kansas City has routed the bond
syno icate in the waterworks contro-
versy and they have withdrawn the
application for Intervention made to
Justice Brewer, and now the city has
brought suit against the syndicate.
American Plate Glass works at An
derson, Ind, the largest iu the world,
were destroyed by fire. throwing 500
men out of employment. Works will
be rebuilt
At Scribner. Neb., Fred Hartman
was found hanging in an upper room
of his house and his wife in lower
room with bullet hole in her neck,
both dead.
| Executive committee of the Illinois
State Democratic Literary bureau has
issued an appeal to voters crying down
the agitation of free silver, 16 to ].
John r. Gentry, the fastest pacing
stallion in the world, beat Joe Patchen
| in hra cfr ainI ha foi,
grounds, Milwaukee, Wis.
Spain has arranged with Paris bank
ers for loan OF "a, 600, 600 to prosecute
the war in Cuba.
/ Rev. James Woodward. Baptist min
lister at Rochester, O., committed sui
eide by taking aconite.
Advertisements for the building of
two new battleships have been issued
by the navy department.
Sims Reeves, celebrated English tenor
IS years of age, has married young
and handsome woman.
Charles Leclercq, one of the best
character actors in America, is dead,
aged 55 years.
Henry NJ Stanley is now associate
editor of ILLUSTRATED Africa" pub
] lished at New York city.
L ne DuSlHeSS men VI MdTSDdl MO-.
have organized board of trade.
] Spain has appointed four new con-
suls to watch filibusters in Florida.
The 16-year-old daughter of c. S.
Frame was outraged by tramp near
e Liberal Mo.
y Seven indictments are expected in
: the legislative Doodle investigation at
!. Springfield, Ill.
a Two hundred employees of the Con-
. solidated Steel and Wire company
struck at Joliet, Ill.
Uncle Sam is preparing to satisfy
himself whether France is Juggling
. with the Waller case.
!. The University Y. NJ c. A. at Colum
:, bia, Mo-. has bought lot and will
:. :. erect $4,000 building.
Secretary Lamont is preparing tc
i' cover the deficiencies of salaries to en-
listed men as well as to officers.
u The venerable ex-senator Georg.
u w. Jones of Iowa is threatened will
u total blindness.
} Governor Morrill, of Kansas has los
y POI fine hogs on his farm near Hia
II watha, from the effects of cholera.
= The political 81 uation in North Car
l. olina is re, ar.Ied with some apprehen
ie sion by straight out Democrats.
l. Shannon Jarman, who was nearl-
IA killed by Ollie Crawford at Centralia
u Mo-, was indicted for rape at Mexico
a. 1t is said that the litigation over tn
- Santa Fe's Chicago terminals will ne
- Gen. Terrence a profit of somethin
10 like 81, ,000, 900.
The steamer Catterthun sank o.
y Port Stephens, New South Wales, an
vs. fifty-five people were drowned
l. At Fort Smith, Ark, Henry Star
Is the noted Oklahoma outlaw, on a ne
nd trial, was fund guilty of murder
at the first degree for killing Deput
o. Marshal Floyd Wilson
yh The Spanish government has ordere
e. 10000 Mauser rifles for the use of II
al government troops in Cuba
OF G. r Singer. merchant and pos
he master at Dunfee. Ind, a small st
tioD, was found murdered in his roor
having been pounded to death wit
clubs.