Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


for congress next year on the Populist
ticket.
The Wire Nail Manufacturers asso-
citation has advanced prices from 81 Is
to 81. IS per keg in car loads and from
81 25 to 81. 40 per keg in less than car
loads.
The Rev. George Hibbard, recently
rector of st. Luke's church, was found
dead on the railway track at Little
Ferry, N. j. 1t is supposed that he
was struck by train while walking
on the track.
At Cripple Creek, Col, every availa-
Bile space throughout the district is
covered with flowing posters announc-
ing the coming bull fight at Gillet
Fifty carpenters are putting the finish
ing touches on the bull ring.
Over 5000 people were at the inde-
pendent rally at Shelby, Neb., to hear
Coxey speak two hours on cause and
Cure" Banks and corporations were
assailed and the silver question well
gone over.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, William J.
Winberg, aged 35, an East New York
banker, shot his wife fatally, and then
committed suicide as a result of a
quarrel growing out of jealousy.
The trial of the new American line
steamer st. Louis over a measured
course in the English channel was a
complete success
Rev. Thomas Irwin, who was ap-
pointed by new religious sect at
Pond Creek, Ok, to solicit aid for suf-
ferers in Grant county, has Joined the
Mormon church in Utah. He came to
the strip from Kansas as a lawyer, but
soon became converted to the new re-
hgion and began preaching.
Bernard Hoeffer, a wealthy Chi
cagoan, has been arrested for arson
and conspiracy in connection with the
burning of the factory of the Chicago
Bedding company. This makes seven
men now under arrest on the same
charge. The police are after two
more Chicago men.
At Atchison, Kan, highwaymen and
burglars are busy and the police do
not seem to be able to cope with them.
They hold up pedestrians on the streets
with impunity at night. Ingalls, Gale,
an employe of the postoffice, boasted
in a crowd that no highwayman could
hold him up, but he was held mp that
night and relieved of his valuables-
The steamer City of Sheffield, from
st. Louis to the Tennessee river, struck
an obstruction in the Mississippi river
below Cairo. Ill, and sank. No lives
were lost.
DIR. Samuel s. Laws, formerly presi-
dent of the Missouri State university
and for many years one of the most
prominent men in the state, is hope
lessly insane at Columbia, S. c.
Claus SprecIels, the sugar king. has
let contracts for the construction in
San Francisco of the tallest building
west of Chicago. 1t will be fifteen
stories high. The estimated cost is
81, ,000, 900.
The Standard Oil Company and
Russian syndicate have reached an
agreement and divided the earth, the
former taking the Americas and a por-
tion of the East European trade and
the Russians taking the rest of the
world.
The Bank of Tacoma, formerly the
Tacoma Trust and Savings company,
has made an assignment to its cred
itors- The statement shows cash on
hand S444, and total liabilities $780,
600, of which $4,000 is city money.
Twenty-Five of the twenty-nine
Spring Valley men arrested for being
members of the mob that drove the
colored people from their homes in
Spring Valley have been bound over
to await the action of the grand jury.
Twenty-eight states and the West
Indies were represented at the colored
Knights of Pythias supreme lodge
meeting at Chicago.
Senator Quay carried the Pennsylva-
mia Republican primaries and will be
chairman of the new state committee,
after one of the hottest political fights
in the history of the state.
Attorney Charles S. Gleed of Topeka
says the Santa Fe railroad will be sold
about December /. The road will go
out of the hands of the receivers the
last of October.
The Republicans of Crawford coun-
ty, Kan, in convention, indorsed free
coinage but refused to pass a resolu-
tion standing by the state administra-
tion.
The racing at Washington park,
Chicago is declared q failure without
the betting feature. Good sport draws
but slim attendance.
Ex-senator Butler of South Caroliua
suggests to white metal Democrats the
repeal of the tax on state bank circu-
lation; retire greenbacks and coin GER
tificates; change national banks to
state banks and stop issue of long
time bonds.
An agreement has been signed by
Secretary of State Olney, Minister Du-
puy de LONE of Spain and Antonio
Maxine Mora and Mr.. Mora's counsel.
providing for the settlement of the
Mora claim on the basis of 81, 500, 900
September Is.
Colonel James Andrews, the Pitts
burg engineer, has plan for building
an electric railway motor that will
run 400 miles an hour.
The Grand Union hotel at Congers,
N. Y, was burned with its contents.
Loss ss5,000. In jumping from a win
dow William A. Webb, guest, was
fatally injured.
Owen Zeigler of Philadelphia de-
feated Stanton Abbott, the English
lightweight champion in twenty rounds
at Baltimore.
Chicago railroad reports to the tax
| assessors show an enormous decrease
| in cars over the number usually sup
posed to be owned by them.
George s. Montgomery, a wealthy
member of the Salvation army of Oak
land, Cal, is organizing an expedition
to 60 to Japan to Christianize the in
| habitants.
Forest fires in Stevens county, Wash,
and Kotsni and Shoshone counties,
Idaho, have destroyed many cabins of
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