Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-11-20
NUMBER 27.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Nearly 1900 people attended mass
meeting at Boston to protest against
lynching.
A. T. Hatch. recently appointed min
lister from Hawaii to this country, has
reached San Francisco
A brother and sister named Perkins,
16 and IA, were murdered near Edo
rado, Ark. by parties unknown.
Michael Carroll climbed an electric
light pole at Racine, Wis, and was
electrocuted in the presence of 200 peo-
pie.
twentyton fly wheel burst at Al
bany, n. Y, killing John Pichl, injur-
ing three other men and causing
$50, 600 damase to property.
Fire destroyed the wire nail factory
OF Townsend & Co., Philadelphia, en-
200 men out of employment.
It is reported that the vice president
of Cuba is on board a fruit steamer,
which will land at Philadelphia. A
corps of detectives has been engaged
to prevent him from buying arms and
ammunition.
Maggie Stine, a servant in the
Oriental hotel at Dallas, Texas, who
sued the hotel for $50, 900 damages as
a result of injuries sustained in an
elevator accident, has been awarded
$4,000.
J. ]. Corbett has surrendered the
championship and belt TO Peter Ma.
her, and the latter has issued chal-
lenge to tight any man in the world at
any time and at any place. Corbctt
backs the Irishman against Fitzsim-
mons for $4,000.
A school house at Granada, West
Indies, in which were $50 children,
took fire and was destroyed. Thirty
one dead bodies have been taken from
the ruins.
The fire in Bozeman tunnel, on the
Northern Pacific in Montana, has
burned itself out after raging for nine
weeks. The railroad company will
line and arch the entire tunnel with
solid brick masonry.
President Mcbride OF the American
Federation of Labor has sent out the
call for the fifteenth annual conven-
tion OF the Federation, which will be
held in Madison Square Garden, New
York, beginning December o.
William Kuntz, formerly engineer
for lie Ferd Helm Brewing Company
at Is insas City, murdered his wife and
s-year-old girl at Laredo, Texas, and
then killed himself to avoid arrest.
Governor Stone has advised a post
ponement of Missouri on Wheels
until next year, on account of the late
ness of the season.
The wheat yield of Australia is
threatened with irretrievable disaster
as the result of prolonged drouth.
Six Ute Indians have been arrested
near Harcos, Colo, charged with the
murder of two Indian braves and a
squaw. No trouble is now expected.
A movement is on foot in the City of
Mexico to run cable road up the vol
cano Of Popocatapttl for the purpose
of securing the sulpur in the crater.
Attorney General Dawes of Kansas
has been forced to stop all public
speaking because of throat trouble.
John Pretty, Creek Indian thief,
was punished at Wewoka, Ind. Ter,
with fifty lashes on the bare back.
The penalty for the next offense will
be death.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, j. r. Burton
and Governor Morrill, are expected to
be the principal speakers at the Kan
sas boom meeting at Chicago Decem-
ber 2.
The Latter Day Saints laid the cor
ner-stone of their new college at
Lamont, Iowa. Bishop Kelley pre-
sided and Elder Joseph Smith deliv.
cred the principal address.
The district judge at Pierre. S. D.,
has sustained demurrer in the case
| of the State against ex-School Super
intendent Thomas II. Ruth, accused of
completely in ex-State Treasurer Tay-
lor's thefts.
Northern capitalists are investi-
eating for a site in the South for
building print cloth mill of 1000
looms
Leading Cuban tobacco growers
have organized $50, 900 company to
cultivate and manufacture tobacco in
Florida.
The Mexican government will soon
issue twenty cent pieces and call in
the quarters in order to make the
monetary system purely decimal
i Mrs Sarah Davis shot and fatally
wounded Mrs. Isabel Goodman, her
neighbor, at Rockport, Ind. They
quarreled over some chickens. Mrs.
Davis is in Jail.
Arch Eaton, nephew of ex-Prcsident
Harrison. died of consumption in Den
YER Mr.. Eaton was a travelling agent
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
General Wheaton has been ordered
to hold troops in readiness to go to the
scene of the murder of Ute Indians in
Colorado if the reservation agents de-
sire them.
c. s. Gilmore was killed at joplin,
No., by falling into a mining shaft ia
feet deep.
Four mangled bodies were removed
from the Southern Railway wreck
near america, Ala
Senator Hill of New York in an in
terview at Washington said that Nor
i. rison is the most available man the
Democrats can nominate for the pres
idencv.
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