Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-27
TELEoRAPHIc NEWS NOTES.

Mr. Mckinley was thesguest Of the
Michigan club at Detroit and made a
speech.
American Newspaper Publishers
association has just closed a meeting
in New York.
Governor Morton of New York has
signed the Lawson bill, preventing
the display of foreign flags on public
buildings.
In Salem, Ore, in the senatorial
vote Friday, Senator Dolph lost two
more votes. The ballot stood Dolph
81, Williams 30, Hare 10, Raley 6,
scattering =
Representative McGann of Illinois
has introduced bill in the house.se
curing to sailors of vessels the pay
ment of their wages by giving them a
lien upon the vessel.
In Baltimore there was unveiled a
tablet 20 mark the site of the old
court house" from the stairs of which
was read first to the people of Balti-
more the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
The reduction of the wages of the
, Trenton, n. j., potters from % to 80
per cent will have an effect on the
Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsvl-
vania potters. A general strike may
result.
Representative Haugheon of Wis
consin has introduced a bill i n the
house to extend the provisions of the
Interstate commerce act to include
express companies acting as common
carriers.
Dennis Dunn. Bull Hill man, who
was engaged in the Cripple Creek
war, has been found guilty of assault
with intent to kill Captain Defen-
baugh of the Coloraco National guard
last July.
The German commercial congress,
by unanimous vote, adopted a reso-
luton regretting the adoption by the
reichstag of Count Won Mirbach's mo-
tlon for an international monetary
conference.
The house elections committee by a
vote of to 4, decided the contest for
the seat of the Fourth district of Vir-
ginia In favor of Epes, the Democrat
who holds the seat, rejecting the
claims of Goode, who ran on fusion
ticket
Secretary Gresham has decided he
will make no further effort to induce
congress to pass the bill appropriate
ing Si2J, 900 to pay damages sustained
by British sealers seized by our naval
ships and revenue cutters in Behring
Sea before the making of the modus
vivendi.
Chairman Hatch of the agricultural
committee says he proposes to de-
mand vote in the house upon the
resolution to print the dairy tests
made at the Worlds fair, which reso-
luton was adversely reported by the
committee on printing on account of
the cost involved:
A deputation of senators and MEM
bers of the French chamber of depu-
ties waited upon the Minister of Hus-
bandry and discussed with him the
question of the importation of Ameri-
can wheat They also urged upon
the prohibition of the importation of
American cattle.
A the sitting of the budget commit
tee of the Reichstag Vice Admiral
HOLMAN announced experiments had
been made at the Krupp works of
some new armor plate which had
been hardened by new process and
that the results obtained were won
derful. The process, he also said,
greatly increased the resisting power
of the plates.
The Harvard faculty has voted to
abolish intercollegiate foot ball.
Mrs. Ramey, wife of Rev. Mr.. Ramey
of Newport, Mo-, was terribly gored
by vicious COW.
Charles +. Warwick, Republican.
was elected mayor of Philadelphia by
over 10000 majority.
The Republicans of Chicago have
nominated George Il. Swift for mayor
Governor Richards of Wyoming has
vetoed the bill providing for a board
of arbitration to settle labor disputes
in that state. lie says it is unconsti-
tutional.
The house of Jacob Gaull<el, near
Star City, Mich, burned during the
absence of Mrs Gaulkel and her two
children, aged 5 and years, were
burned to death.
At Huntington, w. Va, the Ensign
car manufacturing company, which
has been idle for over a year, will re-
sumo operations in full force March
l. The plant will employ 1000 men.
The house committee on public
lands voted to favorablv report Rep
resentative Camietti's bill for the for
feiture of the granted lands of the
Pacific railroads where the corpora
tions have failed or refused to redeem
their bonds.
The Trenton Pottery company, the
Sanitary Pottery syndicate has given
notice to its pressers of a reduction
from twenty-five to fifty per cent
from presenl working prices. AS the
reduction is so sweeping it is feared
it will lead to strike.
An immense electric power house
next In size to the Niagara Falls
plant, is to be built this year in the
Stuck valley, ten miles east of Ia
coma, Wash. To carry out the pro-
ject the White River Water Power
company has been Incorporated under
the laws of New Jersey.
The Yale and Princeton debating
societies have chosen this subject for
their debate at New Haven on Nav
10: Resolved, That the income tax of
"a was justifable measure. 1t has
been decided that the question of the
constitutlonality of the measure shall
not be debated.
Eighty five per cent of the window
glass production of the country is
represented in Columbus, Ohio, for
the purpose of bracing up business.
The California Assembly has passed
the bill to prevent the wearing of
hats or bonnets in theaters or other
places of public amusement. The bill
imposes penalty of $50 for violation
of the law.
The sundry civil bill reported to the
senate contains intact the provision
for the United States penitentiary.
which the people of Leavenworth had
hoped to have stricken out, also the
appropriation for military school at
that place.
For the first time in ten years every
coal mine in the Salineville, Ohio, dis
trict is working with full force of
men.
At Brooklyn fire in the eight-story
building owned by Arbuckle Bros,
and known as the ArhuclxIa caffaa