Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-29

The iron output for the past year
shows an increase of "a per cent
St Albans, Vt, suffered loss of
over half a million dollars by fire.
President Cleveland has retired Ad-
miral Meade with i severe rcprimand.
Railway telegraphers are holding
their ninth annual session in st.
Louis.
5Venezuela has asked the United
States to act es intermediary between
1t and France.
the supreme court has declared the
income tax law unconstitutional by n
vote of to 4.
Crawford & Valentine, Chicago
grain brokers, failed on account of the
rise in wheat.
A number of warehouses and factor
les were burned in London recently.
Loss 81, 900, 900.
A petition was filed last week for
receiver for the Kansas City Police Re-
| lief Association.
The retirement of Admiral Meade
has resulted in the promotion of Com
modore Beardslce.
Frank w. Harris shot and fatally
wounded Charles Benglc, ut Freeport,
ILL.,, over a woman.
For the first week in May earnings
of nearly all the St Louis lines show 4
substantial increase
Surgeon General Wyman, who has
been investigating, says there is no
yellow jack in Cuba.
United States citizens are charged
with violating Choctaw Nation laws
at South McAlester, l. T.
Captain Frederick Trench, who was
British governor OF Corinto during the
recent occupation, is dead.
a church and hotel were blown
down by the .wird at Rockport, Tex.
and preacher injured.
Mexico proposes TO tax all silver
mine products 2I6 per cent and all
gold products 315 per cent
DIR. McFarlan Moore, a new Jersey
electrician, believes that he has dis
covered method of producing light
without heat.
The United States court of appeals
has reversed the decision of Judge
Carpenter, declaring the Berllner tele-
phone patent invalid.
The Mexican Congress has passed q
law prescribing the death penalty for
train robbery, and permitting captors
to kill robbers where caught
There is extraordinary activity in
railway building in West Virginia.
Many important roads are under con
struction, aud others are projected.
Fire at Gate City, Ala, burned a
block of buildings Monday. Fifteen
drunken iron mill men were rescued
with difficulty. Three men perished.
Jericho Shivers, a negro who. with
two others, kept three white girls in
the woods for n week, was drowned
by mob in Coffee county, Alabama,
Saturday.
The constitutionality of State laws
requiring railways to furnish separate
cars for the transportation of negroes
is to be brought before tho United
States supreme court at an early date
w. d. Dunnaway, who resides about
five miles southeast of Walker. Yer.
non county, Mo-, carved his name and
date on the back of terrapin July 4,
1874. Last Sunday Mr.. Dunnaway
saw the same terrapin about $50 feet
from where he had parted company
with it nearly twenty-oue years ago.
1t still bore the name and Gate carved
by Mr.. Dunnaway.
Near Klamath Falls, Ore, the AlgeT
stage was stopped by road agents at .
lonely place in the road. The bandits
were masked and ordered the passen.
gers to get out, and then lined them
up by the roadside. While one of the
robbers stood guard overthe line, an.
other passed along and saw that each
passenger turr ed over his valuables.
One passenger was then forced to cut
open the mail sacks, and the driver
was called upon to open the express
box. The robbers then drove the pas
sengers back into tho stage and order
ed them to resume their journey. The
amount stolen is not known, but is
large. This is the second time within
a month that this stage has been rob
bed.
A young girl baby was picked ur
along the Illinois Central railroad
Tuesday morning near Dixon, ILL.,, by
Arthur Wasson, engineer of a north
bound freight, where the child has
been thrown by its heartless mothef
investigation by the officers show
that about three weeks ago a woman
went to Dixon from Minonl1, Ill, Civ
ing her name as Laura Stonier, anC
went to board at Miss Garrison's, ant
while there was visited by q strang
man whom she refused TO see Tues
day morning she left for the south ol
the o'clock passenger train with he
baby in cardboard box After tn
J train was outside the limits she threy
. it from the window. Both the ma
and woman were placed under arres,
, The citizens of North Carolina cels
E brated last Monday the anniversar
. of the Mechl;nburgh declaration G
a independence promulgated May q
: IT'S.
e Many people of St Joseph, Mo, ar
1 affrighted by reports that mad dog
4 are abroad. Several persons hay
e been bitten recently.
+ Governor Ciough, of Minnesota
o signed the death warrant Monday fc
: Harry Hayward. convicted of incitin
S and planning the murder of Catherin
b Cling in Minneapolis. The governs
sets the execution for June 2L
: The eth birthday of the car
n Russia was celebrated last Saturds
and Sunday. Grand religious servic,
y were the Sunday features.