Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-13
There is not vacant house in Che

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The Hyer sisters are invading Kan.
sas again with Uncle Tom.
Major Cole, the evangelist, is max
ing it warm for the people of PaoIa.
George w. Jones of Hills City, wants
a position on the State Board of Par
dons
George Davis has been admitted to
the law firm of Harkness and Dawes
at Clay Center.
Judge Monroe of the twenty third
judicial district has just appointed E.
A. Rhea stenographer.
The wellington high school has 105
pupils in attendance. the largest in
the history of the school.
The Merchants Bank at Goodland
has gone into voluntary liquidation
as announced by the state bank com
missioner Depositors will be paid in
full.
Judge NJ. IIendy, one of the ear
ly settlers of Lawrence died suddenly
at noon last Tuesday while sitting in
a chair at home debating letters TO
his stenographer.
There is case in the Sedgwiclx
county court where two men are ac-
cused of stealing cattle at
Maize, Kansas, selling them at the
stock yards at Wichita. Both men
deny the charges
Marion Times: Mr.. j. NJ. Young of
Marion, is one of the jurors in the
HillmOn case. lie will be al least a
month older when he is through, and
probably in need of anime dyes to re-
store the color to his hair.
Norton Republicans petition is
in circulation asking the council to
call an election to vote additional
bonds to improve the water works. If
! there is anything that Norton people
/ like better than bonds it is more
/ bonds.
At o'clock Tuesday morning fire
broke ont in the opera house block at
/ Waukeeney. The building, worth
/ $4,000, is a total loss and several
stocks of merchandise therein were
/ damaged TO the extent of $4,000. No
insurance on the building. The stock
was insured for 50, Zoo. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
Mrs. George Shearer an old resident
1 of Lawrence died last Tuesday night
/ She leaves two children. j. Il. Shea"er
a dry-gOods merchant of this c.tv and
! Mrs. l.. q. Mclntire of springfield, Mo
/ A few hours before her death her bro
ther-in law, DR.. V. W. May. one of the
Oldest practicing physicians in the city
and member of the United States
pension board. dropped dead on the
/ street, having just left Mrs. Shearers
bedside Heart failure was the cause.
/ The diamond stolen from Samuel
! Usher in LeavenwOrth last Sunday
night was recovered by County Jailor
/ L. c. Biddle Saturday morning. The
theory that Charles Mccarthy an ex.
convict from the Kansas penitentiarv
had swallowed it after jerking it from
/ Usher's shirt bosom, was the correct
one. Mccarthy has been confined in
the county Jail and is not feeling any
/ too good physically as a result of his
eating the sinner. He will be tr led on
the 9th instant for grand larceny.
Laura Kerr, the 19-year-old daugh-
ter of q. w. Kerr, living two miles
northwest of Liberty, committed sui
eide by taking dose of strychnine.
She was attending school at Liberty,
and sat up Thursday night studying
after the rest of the family had gone
| n ha1 Gaf Il.
found dead in bed. Doctors pronounce
ed it a case of poisoning, aud upon in
quiry it was found she had purchased
some strychnine on her way home from
school. 1t is thought that she had
been disappointed in love,
The train which leaves Kansas CITY
at o'clock in the afternoon and goes
over what is known as the Emporia
cut off, was robbed Tuesday after
noon. 1t also leaves the main line at
Hutchinson and goes over the Hutch
inson cut off to Kinsley. 1t was on
this cut off that the robbery occurred.
The dispatches received at the Santa
Fe did not indicate how much was Sc.
cured by the robbers. They called on
the express messenger to open the car
and when he refused. they fired a few
random shots to frlghten him, and
failing in this left and turned their
attention to the passengers, The re-
ceivers have authorized reward OF
$500 for the capture and conviction Of
the robbers.
Smith County Pioneer: 1t is with
fear and trembling we watch this cut
ting down of names of town in Kan.
sas by the federal powers. El Dorado
was pretty name. but Eldorado
looks like a misft; Rush Center was
all right, but Rushcenter looks as
though it had been set up by the devil
and the proof reader had got drunk
that night; Walnutgrove don't look as
though it ever had grove. But when
they get to monkeying with the name
OF this fair town they will create sad
havoc. Smithcenter would drive all
the trade to Athoi and if they should
cut off the last part of the name we
would want to cut off the balance and
go without any name. Please let MS
Ihe Smith County Journal says
that there are now over LOO good
teams of work horses in Smith county
doing nothing and makes the good
suggestion that they and their owners
! go to work improving the roads,
Del Valentine has been reading
"rrilby," and this is his review of it in
| the Times: ''Trilby'' is fool story
and it is loss of time to read it.
II. L. McWhirk, receiver of the En-
terprise bank, has settled with the
stockholders for forty cents on
the dollar. The depositors were paid
in full.
Miss Abbie Freeman of Caldwell has
accepted a position as vocal teacher