Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-23
NUMBER 33.
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Fifty thousand Armenian children
under Il years OF age were made
orphans by the massacres.
The House committee on Indian
affairs viii report a bill to remove the
commissioner and create a board of
three members.
The First National bank of Beatrice,
Neb., which suspended payment Sep
tember 1, 1896, has been permitted to
reopen its doors for business.
A bill introduced by Representative
Bull of Rhode Island appropriates
S5O, 900 for the erection of a monu-
mental statue to James q. Blaine in
Washington.
The National Wool Growers Associ-
alton adjourned to meet January
next, preparatory to appearing before
the House committee on ways and
means in behalf of a revised wool and
woolen schedule.
The Cuban junta in New York has
little hope that the reports that Ma
Geo is alive are true.
j. r. Hetsch, postmaster at New
port, KY. is missing. An inspector
says that his accounts are wrong.
Fitzsimmons' suit against Sharkey
for the 1000 purse was thrown out
of court, and Sharkey got the purse.
Corbett has signed Dan Stuart's ar
ticles for finish fight March II, 1897,
with Fitzsimmons.
Convict labor in New York prisons
will be abolished January /.
The Bryan lecture contract has been
sold to an Atlanta syndicate.
Nebraska supreme court has decided
the sugar bounty law defective.
st. Louis has put on 200 extra police
men to try to stem the current of law
lesSness.
DIR. Fraker has located in Colorado
| Springs and will found a sanitarium
for consumptives.
Federation of Labor exonerated
| President Gompers from charges of un-
due activity in Bryan's behalf
At Porter, Ohio, three children of
William Stevens were burned to death
by fire started by themselves
Samuel Gompers was reelected
| president of the American Federation
of Labor unanimously. The resolution
condemning the courts for the Debs
decision was voted down and free sill
yer overwhelmingly indorsed.
Fitzsimmons is out with a challenge
o..
Sharkey preferred.
Mrs. Drayton, of scandalous noto-
riety, has been married to George
Haig, a divorced London whisky man.
Minnesota Dairymen's association
| has indorsed Ex-Governor Hoard of
| Wisconsin for secretary of agriculture.
Turkish notables and Circassian Ia
dies of the sultan's harem are being
arrested by wholesale at Constanti-
nople.
'Commonweal" Coxey is in Wash
ington lobbying in the interest of good
roads and non-interest bearing bonds.
American Bimetallic union is going
to keep silver to the front by litera-
ture, clubs, public lectures and meet
| ings.
Casino skating rink and theater in
| Schleny park, Pittsburg, burned; loss
100000 with only $4,000 insurance.
Hermann, the famous magician. died
suddenly of heart disease Thursday in
his private railroad car at Grain Val
| ley, New York.
John j. Thornton, editor of the Clay
| county Ala, Advance, was assassin
ated while sitting at his fireside, for
making war on lawless gangs.
At Bethel, Ohio, two women named
Moon and Shell, quarreled, and the
Shell woman threw bucket of I've on
Mrs. Moons and her baby's face kill
ing the child and fatally injuring the
mother.
John Sheehan attempted to steal
some geese from Mrs. Jennie Cohen's
store, and when she saw him fired at
her and killed Barnett Cooper. The
woman then cracked the thief's skull
with hatchet. This occurred in Chi
| cago
| Freeman Morrow, aged Al, was muir
dered while ASLEEP in a movers wagon
near Perkins, Okla, then robbed His
12-year-old daughter Ada was fatally
assaulted. A negro is is suspected, and
mob threats have precipitated a race
| war.
| The pension appropria ton bill was
| passed by the senate without division.
1t is identical to the bill as it passed
the house, and carries S141, ,32S. $50.
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