Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-20
TELEoRAPHIc NEWS NOTES.

At Dallas, Texas, Waters Pierce Oh
companys warehouse, containing
500, 600 gallons of oil, was destroyed
by fire.
At Hamilton, Ont, Clara K. broke
the worlds ice trotting record for the
distance. She made five miles il
'2:4619.
Fridays statement of the condition
OF the treasury shows: Available
cash balance. Sl46, SIS, O93; gold re-
aerve, SIS, $40, 30l.
The president has appointed Rt.
Rev. Bishop Henry B. Whipple OF
minnesota, member of the board OF
Indian commissioners.
The committee on woman suffrage
of the Massachusetts legislature de-
clded, to 3, to report bill in favor
OF municipal suffrage for women.
A large boiler exploded in Cobb's
saw mill two miles west of Towanda
Pa. Theodore Pencil fireman, and
John Mack, teamster, were instant
ly killed, and Frank Myers, a mil
hand, fatally injured.
The loss by the burning of the
Doherty and Wadsworth silk mills al
Patterson, n. j., is $3.50, 900 on build
ing, machinery and stock. One
thousand hands are thrown out of
employment by the fire.
The British steamer Topaz, CAPTAIN
Gray, at Havre from Savannah. re-
ports that when in latitude 40. lonri-
tude II west she sighted vessel
about $50 feet long on fire. There
was no sign of life on board the burn
ing vessel.
The Lady of the Lake, one of the
Oldest steamers on the Potomac.
burned to the waters edge at her
wharf in Washington. The vessel
was the property of the Peoples
Transportation company, a negro ex
cursion organization.
Jose Cara bajai and his son, Juan.
have been found frozen to death on
the mesa east of Albuquerque, N. M.
They 'left Wednesday night with
some supplies during the binding
storm. and went into camp where the
bodies were frozen stiff.
Judge Arthur, joint Judge of the SUI
perior court for Spokane, Wash. is
accused of perjury, of having ac-
cepted brihes, of malfeasance in office,
OF drunkenness, of being a slave to
the morphine habit and of general
and wilfull neglect of his judicial
duties.
Commanding officer of the Atlanta.
Captain Cromwell, reports from Colon
under date of February ii that the
rebellion in Colombia is considered
at an end, thus confirming the ad-
vices received by the state depart
ment from Minister Mckinney.
An application for a referee in
the suit of the heirs of the late jaw
Gould to obtain exemption from
taxation of certain personal property
inherited under the will of the la te
millionaire has been granted by JUS
tice Barrett in the special term of
the supreme court.
Count Won Mirbach, German con-
servative, introduced resolution in
the reichstag instructing the federal
government of Germany to issue in
vltations for an international none
tary congress to take measures to
bring about the rehabilitation of
silver as circulating medium.
Frank b. Woodruff, president of the
Pacific Commercial company, Tacoma.
Wash, who has returned from a bus
iness trip to Japan, says that country
is destined to become the greatest
manufacturing and exporting country
IN the world on account of japanese
ingenuity and their cheap labor
Samoa has been visited bv plague
in the form of the dengue fever,
which has laid up almost every for
eign resident and most of the natives.
At present Consul General Mulligan
is severely attacked. Many deaths
have resulted and although the fever
has nearly abated in Upolu it is rag
ing fercely in the other islands.
President Cleveland has signed tn e
bills granting pension of S12 a
month to Mrs. Harriet Clayton of Pike
county, Missouri, widow of a Mexican
war veteran; placing on the pension
roll the name of Nancy Gabrilla An
derson of Kansas, wholly and perma-
nently helpless, daughter of Payton
w. Anderson, and granting S25 a
month to Marcus ID. Box, Company d,
First Missouri volunteer infantry,
who is totally blind.
Wade Chamberlee. charged with
being with Cherokee Bill in the
Blackstone train robbery, was ar
rested at Fort Smith, Ark
The agricultural department re-
ports that 800 of this years cotton
crop has been moved and that the
entire crop will aggregate about
$500, 900 bales.
j. S. Clarkson, member of the Re-
publican national committee for
Iowa thinks that some time between
May 20 and 80 will be the best time
to name the Republican candidate for
the next president of the United
States.
Ex-Chancellor L. C. Garland of
Vanderbilt university died suddenly
of heart disease. He was "a years
old and for nearly half a century he
had been one of the leading educa-
tors of the country. DIR. Garland was
native of Nelson county, Virginia.
The Moundville, Mo-, Times. edited
by Frank Hughes, has suspended pub
lication for lack of patronage.
The st. Joseph union depot, de-
stroyed by the fire of Saturday night
will be rebuilt on more pretentious
scale than ever.
The schooner Fl. c. Holburp, Can
tain Martin, on arrival at San Diego.
Cal, was seized by Collector Fisher
on a charge of having delivered arms
to the revolutionists at the Hawaiian
islands.
The Association of California Wine
Growers now controlling the market
for California vintage, recently sold
10000 gallons of new wines at 12k
cents, and has since advanced the
price TO Is cents, at which rate it has
several orders for large quantities.
In New York George F. Slosson
and Charles Hammacher, manager
for Maurice DAILY, whose billiard halls
were raided on Sunday, February 3,
were found guilty and fined $40 each
In the court of special sessions. JUS
tlces Hogan, Meade and Rayn de-
cided the billiard halls were public
places.
1t is reported that Contractor Davis
Paige, who left the United States a
few years ago to escape the con-
sequence of having forged John