Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Vienna has grown wild against the


Chicago's floating indebtedness.
The Iowa silver conference declared
for l6 to l, and appointed a state COM
mittee.
There is now prospect that the
Armenian controversy will be settled
peaceably.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, vetoed
a bill to prohibit the making of cigars
by convicts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone have left
England to attend the celebration AT
Kiel, Germany.
q. E. Metcalfc, n noted railway
agent and forger, has been arrested
at Lexington, KY.
]. D. Hancock of Houston county,
Georgia, killed his wife by crushing
her skull with hoe.
Lee Mcrriweathcr OF st. Louis, was
appointed labor commissioner of Mis-
souri, a second term
Signor 4. Viela is tie italian gov
ernment's candidate for president of
the Chamber of DepItics.
Postmaster General Wilson address
ed the graduates at Central college,
Fayctte, Mo, Wednesday.
General Farmer vas acquitted of the
charge of numbering Rufus Stone in
Camden county, Missouri.
The Prolibitionists of Dallas coun-
ty, Texas, decided to call local cleo
tion not later than August Is.
Tho British steamer Why Not
caught fire. and the passengers and
boat were deserted by the crew.
General Campos asked Spain to send
six moro battalions to Cuba and the
government decided to send ten.
The National German Baptist con-
ference adjourned at Decatur, ILL.,. to
meet next year at Ottawa, Kan.
Three convicts who escaped from
the Indiana Prison South are said to
be hiding in cave near Aurora, Iud.
Nh14 10 JULIUS, u Dt. LOUIS ConNlCC,
stabbed John >;kinnar, also of st. Lou
is, at the Jefferson City penitcntiary
MeXico's mild treatment OF General
Marquee, who has returned after 80
years exile, is attracting favora BILE
comment.
John A. Forepaugh, owner and
manager of the Forepaugh theater in
Philadelphia, died 1T his home in that
city Saturday.
A bulletin from the Agricultural de-
partment at Washington shows the
peach and apple crops prospects to be
from good TO excellent.
The naval commander at Havana
has been authorized to purchase mer-
chanvessels and use them as cruisers
to prevent filibustering.
The State department has been no.
titled of the appointment of w. r Cas-
tie as minister from Hawaii to the
United States, vice Thurston, tired.
The mobs at Cheng Tu, China, that
destroyed tine mission houses and 9TH
er property of the missionaries were
encouraged by the Chinese officials.
An Englishman named Woodward
insulted Pauline Hall. the opera sing
er, on the steamship Paris He was
punished by Duncan Harrison, the ac-
tor.
Florizel, owned by the Prince of
Wales, won the Manchester cup, val
ued at 1000 sovereigns. Thursday.
Fully $4,000 spectators witnessed the
great race.
Officials say that the rule forbidding
railway employees to enter saloons,
willie on or off duty, has already re-
suited in increased efficiency. The
rule will probably be adopted by all
roads.
Forest fires have broken out again
near Bradford, Penn. Several oil
wells aud the property connected
with them are in danger of entire de-
struction. Nearly 100000 feet of
lumber, worth S15, 200, was destroyed.
The FREQ silver convention at Mem
phi;, Tena., was called TO order at .
p. m, Wednesday, with fully 1,5Oo
delegates present, representing al
most every state south of the Ohio
river and west OF the Mississippi, from
Puget sound TO the Keys of Florida,
from the Mexican boundary TO the
Potomac. This is said to be the larg-
est meeting ever held in this country
for the discussion of single economic
question.
The guests of the Pheuix hotel at
Winston, N. e., rose in revolt a.ains.
George w. Kittclle. proprietor of the
hotel, n few evenings ago, because
they learned that the ice used in their
iced tea and other cool drinks had
been first utilized in cooling 4 corpse.
1t was claimed that rubber sheet
was between the ice and the body,
and that the cooling material was not
therefore injured in any way, but was
rs pure as ever. Tho guests could not
see it that way, however.
Attorney General Olney has been
appointed by President Cleveland to
succeed Walter Q. Gresham as Secrc-
tary OF State. Judge Judson Harmon,
of Cincinnati, o., Will be olney's sue
cessor.
A boiler explosion at Mines. France,
killed six persons.
The Missouri river Is within 10 feet
of the danger line at Omaha. Neb.
Tin Gardia, acting Chief of Police
at Porto Principe, Havana, has desert.
ed the island.
New fast train service between st.
Louis and Galveston was instituted
Sunday night by tie Frisco and the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe. The
time between St. Louis and the Cult
is reduced to SO hours