Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

In Philadelphia, Lambert Deakans
aged so years, and his wife died from
starvation.
Churles A. Wells has been nomi-
mated by the president for postmaster
at Coffeyvilie, Kan.
Richard OGorman, the Irish nation
allst, scholar and orator, died at his
home in New York city aged rs.
The Belgian episcopate has received
papal brief strongly condemning the
attitude of the Christian Socialists.
The president has nominated
George II. Small of Missouri to be
assistant treasurer of the United
States at St Louis.
The New Mexico legislature has ap-
propriated Sc, 500 for the relief of the
families Of the miners killed in the
explosion at Los Cerrillos
The citizens of Lexingt ton, Mo-, held
mass meeting in the interest of the
proposed new bridge. The subscrip-
tions now aggregate $4,000.
Jacob Wiley and Charles Graham
tried to stop a runaway team i'll the
square at Marshall, Mo-, and were
trampled on and probably fatally in
jured.
Prince Lobanoff- Rostowski, Russian
ambassador to Austria, has been APP
pointed Russian minister of foreign
affairs, in succession to the late M.
De Giers.
Two of the bondsmen of Sheriff
Royse of Sedgwick county, Kan,
have retired as protest against the
war on joints. Ultra Prohibitionists
have taken their place.
The Nebraska legislature has de-
cided to revive the beet sugar Iounty
by paying the producer S. per ton for
all beets produced. The last legisla-
ture suspended this law.
Secretary Smith has disbarred from
practice before the interior depart
ment John L. Moss of Chillicothe,
Mo-, and George NJ Van Leuven, of
Lime Springs, Iowa, for violating
pension laws.
A dispatch from Odessa says that
Madame Modjeska has been forbidden
to appear at the Warsaw theater be-
cause while at Chicago she lectured
at the worlds fair on Russia's oppres-
sion of Poland.
Secretary Morton has received re-
ports showing that from $4,000 to
$4,000 horses are imported annually
into the United Kingdom, most of
which have, in the past, come from
the continent of Europe.
Senior Idiarte Borda, president of
Uruguay, has offered his mediation to
Brazil in order to pacify the state of
Rio Grande do Sui, where a consid-
cradle number of insurgents are in
arms against the government.
Missionaries and others upon the
Labrador coast report great misery
and privatlon among the Nascapee
Indians, numbers of whom will, it is
feared, starve unless some means are
found for giving relief to them.
Rector Turner of the Episcopal
church of the Good Shepherd of
Rochester, N. Y, has been forbidden
by Bishop Cox to officlate anywhere
in the diocese of Western New York
because of his extremely high church
practices.
Governor Morrill, of Kansas, h as
named L. B. d. Taylor of Frankfort,
for quartermaster general, c. s.
Elliott of Topeka, for paymaster gen.
eral, and DIR. j. A. Mitchell of Arkan-
sas City, for surgeon general of his
staff.
The joint library committee of con-
gress has disapproved the application
of the Grand Army encampment COM
mittee to place the statue and pedes-
tai of General U. S. Grant in the ro-
tunda of the capitol building, because
the head of the statue did not convey
correct representation of the fea-
lures of General Grant.
Senator McLaurin of Mississippi
said of the proposed formation of
new silver party: 81 am for the I'M
limited coinage of silver at Is to 1,
but am Democrat and loyal to my
party, and 1 hope to see this accom-
| plished by the Democratic party. I
will not join any new party. The
Democratic party is good enough for
me-"
In speech in Chicago President
Oebs of the American Railway MON
said that he had little hope from
strikes to help workingmen. The
! only salvation he saw was for them
to cease their fights and unite at the
! ballot box TO elect good men to Office.
At joint meeting of the st. Louis
| Merchants Exchange and Mercantile
club to consider the appeals of farm
ers in the drought stricken districts
of Nebraska, Kansas, Western Iowa
aud Southern Dakota, it was agreed
| that st. Louis in common with other
cities, should extend aid to the suffer
| ing farmers in those states