Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-08
NUMBER 8.

Amos Allen, Reeds private secre-
tary, says the speaker IS a candidate
for denomination for congress
Glass factories throughout South
New Jersey have closed down for two
months, making 5000 workmen idle.
Mine officials say there are ffty-nine
men imprisoned In the Pit.ston, Pa,
mine, but miners families claim there
are others
Governor Stone has offered a reward
of $500 for the arrest of Noble Shep-
herd, condemned murderer, who es-
capped from the St. Louis Jail.
Jones & Loughlin. Pittsburg, signed
the special .el scale of the almaga-
mated assoc alton at Pittsburg and
will keep the American Iron and Steel
works running with 4, 500 men.
ALI the iron mills in the Mahoninp
valley are closed, and $500 men are
Idle. because the Amalgamated Asso-
ciatjon men demand 81. so and the
bosses will only pay 81 per ton for
boiling.
Wind and rain did much damage
near Cambridge, Neb. A Burlington
bridge was washed out. Mrs. Kinser,
aged 20, and little granddaughter
waded water waist deep to get to a
neighbors.
All the union green bottle glass
factories and some departments of the
flint glass factories have closed for
two months In the latter 1 500 men
in Pittsburg alone are idle. and the
green bottle branch, 1000 men, are
laid off
Sixteen prisoners broke Jail at Te-
cumseh. Ok.
Antonio Cuneo, the millionaire ba-
naua king of New York, is a common
drunkard.
Hiram ii. Cole, aged 90, fell from
his balloon at Grand Rapids, Mich,
and was killed.
The wife and daughter of United
States Senator PETER are summering
at wood-by-the-Sea.
The Cooks Inlet mining boom has
fzzled and miners are returning from
Alaska much discouraged.
Jessie Kelso, Sadie Reese and John
Samson, picnickers, were drowned in
the Missouri at Tekamah, Neb.
A Colorado Springs, Col. burglar
killed Frank Bish, a policeman, and
when run down by a crowd killed him
self.
A pier gave way at Marine park +,
Boston, aud many people were thrown
into the water, some being drowned.
Frank Brown is under arrest at
Parsons, Kan, charged with robbing
the NJ. K. & L. depot at Monroe
| City, Mo.
James Romkey, aged a years,
killed his wife and himself at New
| London, Conn. Cause, the wife's un-
| falthfulness.
Braddock. Pa, wire works have
been closed up by the wire nail trust
until August or September. Between
800 and 1000 men are out of work
Captain Ralph Wishon of Ohio was
killed by Spaniards in Cuba.
The National forestry commission
is ready TO begin work on the Western
| forest reserves.
Edward j. jackson, who was arrested
at Mexico, Mo-, for the abduction OF
Ada Wallace, married the girl and was
released from Jail
John O'Brien, who is wanted at Sa-
vannah, Mo-, for robbing a bank OF
200 in bonds, was arrested at Van
couver, WASH, together with John
McGinner and Fred Martin. The ti io
were found to be equipped with
pistols, dark lanterns, dynamite, skel-
eton keys and oar locks. 1t is sup
posed that they intended to rob a
bank and escape by boat.
The st. Louis & San Francisco Rail-
road Company has filed its articles OF
| reorganization. The capital stock is
$50, 900, 900, and is held by the purchas-
ing committee of the old organization,
all of whom are residents of st. Louis.
The incorporation tax was S5 ,025, and
| what is known as the university free
scholarship tax" amounted to sI2, SEQ,
and this latter sum was paid into the
State treasury under protest
The past week has been a generally
beneficial one for crops, as the
weather conditions have been favor
able in most parts of the country.
| Rapid progress has been made in the
| cultivation of crops, a I'D corn especial
| ly showed considerable Improvement,
| while winter wheat is being harvested
in Northern states, and is already laid
away in the Southern and many West
ern states. In Texas, Oklahoma,
Colorado, Arkansas and New Mexico
drouth is causing considerable dam
age, and in many sections of these
| states crops are beyond help