Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-04
NUMBER 16.
LATE NEWS NOTES.

The treasury department has made
arrangements to supply small bills
with which to move crops.
Ben Pillow shot and killed James
Garvin near Texarkana, Ark. The
men were looking for each other with
guns.
A farmer named Joe Linehoss COM
mitted suicide at Clinton, Mo-, because
he had been arrested for forging S24
note.
John Brown, aged %. cut the throat
cf Miss Boone, aged 13, and then his
own, near Hillsboro, Texas.
Jacques Nalthenius, the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas trust official ar
rested in New York for attempted
smuggling, has been released on S., 900
bail.
The comet recently discovered has
been decided by the astronomers to be
a periodic Gomez.
Current gossip, unconfirmed, is to
the effect that A. A. Robinson was
offered and declined the Santa Fe
presidency.
Special military trains have been
equipped by the Canadian Pacific for
the transportation of troops across the
continent
Western roads will probably find Il
necessary to make lower rates for the
Atlanta exposition than were proposed
at first.
At Sioux City Maud Hoyle and Dan
Berry, pugilist, have been arrested,
charged with the murder of Max
Noack and Ora Minter, alias Hazel
Hammond
In the Montana Methodist confer
ence the question of admitting women
to the general conference on the same
footing as men was decided in favor of
the women by a vote of "a to4
At Grant City, Mo-, J. ]. Hibbs, ex-
treasurer of Worth county, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head. He left note stating that he
took his life to avoid shame.
The members of the New York Wine
| and Beer Dealers Central association
voted 54 to 40, to ratify the resolutions
reported recently by the committe on
excise to close all saloons on Sunday.
At Vienna, Prince Earnest Rohan
Guemeneo, who escaped from a lunatic
asylum recently was found dead in q
stable with bullet in his head.
A New York-New Jersey-St Louis
combine is said to be trying to crib
the Uncompahgre gilscnite lands.
Arthur Master, SON of Lord Arthur
Master of London, England, and Sec
| ond cousin to the marquis of Salisbury,
| fell from second story window at
Middlesboro, KY, and was fatally in
| jured.
The sultan has sent a dispatch to
| the Turkish ambassadors at Paris and
| st. Petersburg bitterly complaining in
regard to Great Britain's attitude re-
| garding Armenia, which is described
as discourteous and derogatory to the
sultan's prestige.
Lucy Singleton, an ls-year-old girl,
committed suicide at Bolckow, Mo-, by
taking morphine. She was respondent
on account of love affair.
The barn of Foxhall Keene of New
York, near Lexington, KY, was de-
stroyed by fire, and his imported stall
lions, KaHacrates, by Hermit, and the
American stallion Hyderabad, by Hy-
derali, were burned.
Reports from Burns, Albany county,
Ore, believed to be authentic, are
| that no Indian massacre took place IN
Diamond valley as reported.
Armenians have appealed to ambas-
sadors of the foreign powers at Con-
stantinople for protection.
Miss Mamie Benson horsewhipped
DIR. L. M. Bridgers at Brenham, Texas,
at the point of a pistol.
George S. Morris, an American min
ing man, was shot and wounded in a
duel at Ameca, town west of Guada-
lajara, Mexico, by a Spaniard named
| Jose Salsazar. The two men had a
| quarrel over a business deal, and the
| Spaniard issued the challenge to fight
the duel. Morris accepted and was
| shot in the breast.
The attorney general of Texas has
handed down an opinion that il is the
duty of the sheriff of Dallas county to
use firearms If necessary in the sup
| preston of the Corbett- Fitzsmmons
| fight
The weather bureau proposes now
to tell, instead of how hot the weather
is, how hot we are.
| President Cleveland has commuted
the death sentence of Cephas Wright,a
Choctaw murderer, TO life imprison-
| ment.
| Attorney General Harmon has de
cided that the Wyoming state laws do
not abrogate treaty rights of the Ban
| mock and Shoshone Indians to hunt
on unoccupied land.
Oscar Baughman, city alderman of
Lewiston, ILL.,, has been arrested in
Chicago charged with burning the
Fulton county court house.
Walter Gibson was stung by a bee
and died near Hume, Mo.
j. c. Wilmerding of San Francisco
has bequeathed S400, 900 to the Cali
fornia university for the establishment
| Of trades school
| Preparations are in progress at the
war department to secure the incor-
poration of another star on the United
States flag to represent Utah. The
flags having the additional star are
not authorized to be used until July 4,
1896, the date of the admission of Utah
as state, and an official order will be
issued requiring the change to take
effect on that date.
Trouble has again broken out be-
tween the Kalispel Indians and set
tiers along the east side of the Pend
| D'Oreille river in Idaho over the dis
puted possession of what the Indians
| claim is their reservation. but which
| is In reality government land. A large
delegation of white settlers came to
Spokane and state that they were
driven off from their farms by Indiana
The Paris police have definitely as
| certained that the letter, or Internal
/ machine, which exploded in the Office
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