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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-04
NUMBER 26.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Georgia's official vote shows Demo
cratic majority of 55,731
A traction car jumped the track at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, fatally injuring
three persons.
Warden Pace denies the charges of
the Sedalia board of trade that Jeffer-
son City is convict labor town.
The sultan is improving in temper as
result of Russian pressure.
Judge Grosscup at Chicago decided
that postal fraud orders were applica-
BILE to all frauds, not lotteries alone.
Iowa beat Kansas to o and Nebraska
beat Missouri to in the opening foot
ball games.
A London establishment has paid Dr.
Nansen $4,000 for his book, Arctic
Explorations"
Pat lyman, alleged dynamiter, has
arrived in New York from France with
nothing to say.
Arkansas supreme court holds that
legislators may be appointed by the
governor to fill a vacancy.
Senator Hearst's widow and other
wealthy persons have promised several
millions to endow California university.
Two men were killed and five injured
by nitro glycerine explosion at the
Acme Dynamite company's works,
Hutton, Pa.
Isaac I'll. Lionberger of st. Louis has
been appointed assistant attorney gen.
eral to succeed w. A. Little of Georgia,
resigned
The Long-Lochren pension case to
test veterans rights has been dismissed
by the United States court, Commits
sioner Lochren having been let out of
office.
Rev. James Vita Blake of the Third
Unitarian church, Chicago, saw smoke,
| and quietly dismissed his congregation
without a panic. The edifice was
burned.
Maceo shelled Artemisia with dyna-
mite, thus breaking the Spanish trocha
and joining other insurgent forces in
Havana province.
John r. Binns, Second infantry, has
resigned, because he expects war after
the election, and he doesn't want to
kill any of the people.
The gang that raided Carney re-
Gently descended upon the Sac and Fox
agency, but failing to find Agent
Thomas, they robbed Fannie Whis-
tiers, j. w. Mofitt's and Chief Keo-
kuk's stores of $625 and watches, and
| then escaped, shooting at every one in
sight.
Florida supreme court has declared
| unconstitutional the Sheets law, which
| made it a crime to teach colored chill
dren in white schools.
| Nine Fort Smith Jail birds escaped
Della and Aggie Lockwood of Nor
ton, Kan, ran away and travelled in a
buggy 200 miles to Newkirk, Ok, where
they were married to w. 81. Robinson
and S. L. Hampton.
Gustav Pabst, son of the millionaire
brewer, was quietly divorced from
Margaret Mather, his actress wife, at
| Milwaukee.
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BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
PRESSURE IN THE MONEY
MARKET.
Quotations on Call Loans at 100 Per
Cent the Feature of Last Week-Fewer
Failures Reported-Advance in Wool,
Leather, Iron, Wheat and Indian Corn.

New YORK, Oct. 31.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review says:
ga market without anything but
politics to rule it is not often seen.
Business is almost abolished until after
the election by the extraordinary pres
sure for money, by the indisposition of
anybody to sell who thinks a great
change for the better is near, by the
feeling that it IS now of no use to con-
mains before decision and by the gen
eral absorption of business men in po-
litical activity.
THE feature of the week has been
the pressure in the New York money
market, in spite of the heavy arrivals
of gold. Quotations of call loans at 100
per cent or more have no real mean
ing, except that, with practically four
holidays to come in succession, there is
really no market.
Wheat has declined sharply, but is
rising again, closing about &c lower
for the week.
can encouraging feature is further
advance in the prices of leather, wool,
bessemer pig iron, wheat, Indian corn,
lard, raw and refined sugar and for
crude and refined petroleum. Only
moderate orders have been placed for
woolen goods for spring delivery, but
manufacturers are disposed to buy
some raw material.
Mercantile failures throughout the
United States have declined in number
this week, the total being 246, against
292 last week, 299 in the same week
one year ago, 253 in the corresponding
period two years ago and as compared
with 353 in the like week of 1893" :"
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crutches, avick, is more nor can

crutches, avick, is more nor / can
tell
''NabocklishT lightly answered
young Shaun, joyous at having carried
his point. Il can get there on my two
crutches, gran'dad; an'-an' sure NAV.
be thereH be dad himself to carry me
home.''
But old Shaun shook his head sadly,
and a great tear rolled down the
ridges of his time-worn cheek.
1t was about the full of the moon
that night that the two Shauns. the
old man and his crippled grandson,
cIambered over the rude stiie and
slowly asccnded the mountain road.
Young Shaun hObbled manfully on
ward and upwacd; for hope lent him a
third crutch to aid his steps. But old
Shaun walked as Ole in q dream, with
bent head and laboled gait
The distance was not long: and pres
emily they stood side by side upon the
breezy heath, from which rose an an
cient ''rath,' or deserted fort. grass.
grown and, like all raths. reputed to
he the nightly haunts of elf and fay.
Overhead the stars twinkled blithely,
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New Hampshire Bear Stories.

Bear stories are being told in Lancas-
ter, from what is supposed to be relia-
bic authority, to the effect that man
in Colebrook, while moving oats re-
Gently saw a bear a few rods ahead
of him. leisurely eating the grain. The
farmer started for him with a scythe
to NOW him down. and in the scrim-
mage lost his scytha, and barely es-
capped losing most of his pants. An
other is that a bear in Whitfield was
attacked by bulldog. who got him
by the leg, and hung to MIN. The bear
climbed a tall pine tree to a height of
sixty feet, taking the dog with him.
The dog finally let go, and was picked
up with broken back.-Boston Her-
aid.
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gIaa'dad here really wanted me back
again"
Then, raising the old mans head ten
derly, he whispered: "We'n cure his
crooked leg yet, father. 'Tis plenty O.
money I've been making all these
years in America beyond: but now I'll
come home to spend my days and my
dollars with you and the boy. 'Tis the
finest surgeons in the land he'll have;
an a grand man We'll make of him
entirely"
Old Shaun smiled through his tears.
Just the same as ever" he said; my
own, Hght-hearted Shaunr'
Young Shaun was right when he de-
ciared that his return home would be
cssy On th2t eventful night. His new
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STORM IN OKLAHOMA.
FIVE KILLED BY A TERRI
BILE TORNADO.
The Wind Carries OF Houses, Uproots
Trees and Does other Damage-Post-
office at Mitchell Demolished and POST
master and Wife Kflled-Storm News.

GUTHRIE, Okla, Oct. "Wednesday
night disastrous tornado swept over
the little town of Carney, thirty miles
east of here, which was recently held
up by outlaws.
The tornado came from the south
west and traversed northeast Its
track was about six miles long, and
varied from 100 to $50 feet in width
The first house struck was that of a
farmer named Miles Tobe. Tobe' IS
house was blown down and Tobe. with
his 10-year-old son Millard, was killed
in the ruins. The barns and fences
were razed, and fourteen head of stock
were killed.
One mile from Tobe's place is the
Mitchell postoffice. NJ. L. Mullin kept
the postoffice, which was in his store
Postmaster Mullins residence was
lifted from its foundation and carried
seventy-ive feet, where it was smashed
to smithereens. A bedstead which
was in the house was blown over a
mile.
Yesterday morning the bodies of Mr..
and Mrs. Mullin were found in the
rain and mud about sixty feet from
where the houses were shattered to
pieces. The two bodies were locked
together, and stick a yard long and
two inches thick was driven through
Mullins head.
Mullin was a man of considerable
means and moved to Mitchell from
this city.
Two miles northeast of Mitchell post
Office the dead body of John Seabright
was found buried in the ruins of his
own home. Near him lay his nephew,
Robert Towers, who is SO badly hurt
that little hopes are entertained for
his recovery.
According to all reports four dwell
ings were totally demolished and at
least twenty wrecked. Huge trees were
torn up by the roots and sent flying
through the air forty to fifty feet. 1t
is reported that several people were
killed and number injured by the
tornado in Payne, but nothing definite
can be learned, since the telephone
wires are down. A heavy rain accom-
panied the storm and continued several
hours. In this city rain fell in tor
rents, but the blow was light.
At Wewoka, Ind. Ter, the same cy-
clone destroyed Governor Browns
store, new church and four other
buildings. Several persons were hurt,
but none seriously.
AT mine No. L, at KrebS, it is re-
ported that five people were killed.
In Lincoln county Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mclaughlin have been found dead in
the ruins of their home, and Harrison
Jones will die of his injuries.
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THE KISSING PROBLEM.
Lndiana's Board of Health Secretary
Advises the Use of a Disinfectant.

Indiana's Board of Health Secretary
Advises the Use of Disinfectant.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 31.-The
secretary of the state health board re-
ports that at Columbus man persisted
in kissing his sweetheart, who was
alarmingly i'll of diphtheria, by which
he also contracted the disease. He
therefore wants to interdict all kiss
ing, concerning which he says: Il am
convinced of the difficulty the health
board will meet in trying to taboo
kissing among sweethearts. Although
most dangerous pastime, there
seems to be an inherent tendency to
indulge in it, and we have little hope
of ever being able to do away with it.
All that would be necessary would be
to rinse the teeth well with it and rub
it well on the lips. That would insure
devotees against the dangers from
oSculation.''
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frame for the hammer, which was a
round piece of cast iron, with a hole in
the center for guide rod
Attached to the hammer block were
twenty-seven ropes, carried up to the
top of the frame and down on the out
side, looking very much like the old
fashioned May pole. Twenty-seven
women had hold of the ends, and with
a sing-song, all together pulled down;
up the rod, four feet, Travelled the ham,
mer; then, at scream, all let go, and
down it came on top of the pile, which
was unprotected by band or ring.
The women were paid 20 cents in gold
per day. This May. pole driver is in
general use throughout Japan and
China.-Cassier's Magazine.
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Counterfeit Silver Dollars.

WARRENsBURG, Mo-, Oct. 29.-Coun-
terfeit silver dollars have circulated
freely in Warrensburg the past week,
and number have turned up at the
banks. Inquiry developes that almost
every merchant in the city has ac-
cepted one or more pieces cf the spu-
rlous coins. The counterfeit is dated
1886, and is 11O grains short in weight.
1t is almost perfectly milled and can
be.,detected from the genuine cnlv by
its weight. From the number in circu-
lation it is thought that the coins are
made near Warrensburg.
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and the queenly orb of night, moving
near her highest nOOn," told them that
the moment for their appeal to the
fairy tree was at hand.
Slowly - somewhat fearfully - they
passed through the protecting belt of
heather. towards that side of tie rath
from which, black against the moon
light, they could see the rugged
branches of the thorn tree, the Tree
o the Lost Children" Here and there
hare, startled from it's form, set
young Shaun's heart humping vigor-
ouSly; or the call OF q Screech owl
made him almost wish he had not
come on this midnight Journey.
At length they reached the tree, and
the old farmer, removing his caubeen,
and sOlemnly lifting his eyes to the
starry heavens, repeated three times
the words:
''Shaun, my son, implore you to re-
turn"
There was a rustling among the
furZe bushes on the side of the rath:
and stalwart figure leaped into the
open.
Il am here" cried a voice, and two
braWny arms rested lovingly on old
Shaun's shoulders.
violently, and must have fallen had
not those same strong hands held him
up. Then he stared into the face of
the new conner.
Don't We know me. father?" ex-
claimed this very palpable apparition;
and then, at last, old Shaun found
voice.
'Tis my boy!" he cried. "'Tis my
lost Shaun" And, falling upon his
sons neck, like the king in the old BIZ
bic story, he wept for very joy.
But young Shaun hobbled forward
and plucked the old man who held his
granfather by the sleeve
Sure. ye're the same that spoke to
me by the dyke, beyondr' he faltered.
AYE, aviclz," answered old Shaun S
son. "'Twas myself, sure enough. l
wanted to learn if you and your old
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A Young Couple Drowned.

Topeka, Kan, Oct. 31.-Ira Burnige,
aged II, and Grace Sayler, aged 49,,
were drowned at Wheaton. Kan, last
night. They attended a political
meeting that was addressed by Con-
gresham Broderick, and while the
meeting was in progress it rained hard
They attempted to ford Clear creek
and went down. The young couple
were the only children of their re-
spective families and they have been
lovers for over year. They were
buried together.
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Mrs. Maybrick May Be Free.

LONDON, Oct. 31.-The Daily Mail
publishes an interview with recently
released prisoner, who has been in
daily contact with Mrs. Florence May
brick, undergoing Imprisonment for
poisoning her husband. This prisoner
said dress had twice been prepared
for the liberation of Mrs. Maybrick,
but that the liberation had been de-
ferred, owing to her attempts at sui
eide. The officials of the prison are
said to believe that Mrs. May brick is to
be liberated in 1899.
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Scion OF ROYALTY in Police Court.

TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 29.--In the police
court yesterday the prosecution of &
mysterious Spanish woman produced &
sensation of a very remarkable sort
There is every reason to believe thai
the woman, Pauline Fernandezia, is il
reality a granddaughter of the lat.
Emperor Macmillan, who was deposet
and executed in Mexico. Singularl,
enough, this woman is being tried OF
the charge of keeping an immora
house.
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Huge Apple Crop,

New YoRK, Oct. O.-Throughout the
States of chief commercial production,
including New England and New York,
the crop of winter apples is large, ac-
cording to the special report in the
New England Homestead which places
the aggregate yield at almost 59.OOO.-
600 barrels for all of the United States.
against 60,500,0 900 barrels in 1895 and
57,000,000 barrels two years ago
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Two Bullets in His Brain.

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 31.-William
Payne, alias Pratt, said to have been a
desperate from Oklahoma killed him.
self at 1870 last night while in a fit of
dependency. He fired two shots from
a 3s-calibre revolver through his head
and died instantly. The act was COM
mitted in the yard in the rear of 413
Cherry street, where he had been liY-
ing for sorae time.
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England and Arbitration.

LONDON, Oct. 29.-The Marquis, of
Lansdowne, secretary of state for war,
in an address on political issues at
Leeds last night, expressed the belief
that the Venezuelan question would
soon be dealt with by an arbiter or by
an amicable compromise. The Indian
government felt the gravest fears as
to the possible loss of life from famine,
and he suggested that the undertaking
of irrigation works would do the most
good towards relieving distress.
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A FARMERS DEED.
Domestic Troubles Cause a Serious Double
Shooting and Suicide.

MCPHERSON, Kan, Oct. 3O.@Sher-
man Rowland, prosperous farmer
who lived five miles south, quarreled
with his wife till she came here to live.
Whenever he came to town he would
take his meals with her. Yesterday
she said she was going into the coun-
try to visit relatives, but he objected,
whereat she called in Marshal Wolf to
protect her. Rowland opened fire and
each of the others received a bullet in
an arm. Wolf shot Rowland in the
back, but the latter mounted his horse
and started homeward. Three miles
from town Rowland's corpse was found
with bullet in the head, which Row
land had put there himself
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Mercy Asked for Gentry.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.-The attor.
neys for Actor James B. Gentry, who
is under sentence of death for the kill
ing of Margaret w. Drysdale, or Madge
York, the actress, have discontinued
the appeal to the Supreme court and
have taken the case to the board of
pardons, where Communication of the
death sentence to life imprisonment
will be asked
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Robbery Leads to Suicide.

DENVER, Colo,, Oct. 3O.-John B
Long, a cattle dealer and Mason O.
Pleasantviiie, Iowa, committed suicid,
in a room at the Oxford hotel yester
day by shooting himself in the head
In note which he wrote to the clerl
of the hotel, he requested that the DO
lice be notified that he had been robbed
of three drafts of 81 900 each.
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A Once Noted Man a Defaulter.

DENVER, Col, Oct 31.-Postofice In
spector McMechene has been notified
OF the arrest of Assistant Postmaster
u. j. NJ. A. Jewett of Fort Stanton,
n. NJ, charged with embezzlement of
Sl51: Jewett was chairman of the
louisiana returning board of 1876 that
declded in favor of the Hayes electors,
defeating Tilden for the Presidency.
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Three Men Under a Wreck.

WAPAKoNETA, Ohio, Oct. 31.-A dis
astrous collision happened on the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway
last night. The through fast freight
train ran into three loaded oil car
tanks, which were left on the main
track by local freight. They were
set on fire by the engine, destroying
the engine and about twelve loaded
freight cars. The engineer, fireman
and brakeman cannot be found and are
supposed to be in the ruins
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Crescent City Damaged.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 3O.-About
4:3o o'clock this afternoon cyclone or
twister struck this city on the river
front just above Pension street, and
swept over distance of about a mile
and half, or thirty blocks from PEN
iston street, to Robin street, the track
OF the storm being about 1,5OO feet
wide from the river to Annunciation
street. Property loss is estimated at
S1OO OO0
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Stabbed by a School Teacher.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Oct 3O.-Clarence
Bremen, an enthusiastic Republican,
was testing his lungs yesterday shout
ing for Mckinley, when T. j. Bowen,
a school teacher, took offense and
plunged knife into Bremen in the re-
glon of the heart. Bremen lies at his
home in precarious condition A war
rant was issued for the arrest of
ROweO
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Many Oklahoma Farmers Robbed.

PERRY, Okla, Oct. 31.-Twenty miles
east of here five masked highwaymen
went from farm house to farm house
Wednesday night and forced the peo
pie in each to stand in line under guard
of two of the men while the others
went through each house. Girls Jones
fired on the band as they left his house
and several shots were fired but nc
one was known to have been hurt The
robbers were followed into the Usage
Indians country where they were lost
track of
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AGED Ten and a Bride.

LINN CREEK, Mo-, Oct. 31.-Nathan
jackson and Effie Woods of Nonsuch,
Camden county, were granted license
to marry by Recorder Laswell yester-
day. The bride is a mere child of 10
years and the groom 26. 1t is the OILY
marriage on record in this county
where the bride was under Il years of
age and the people of the community
are indignant at the parents giving
their consent to the marriage.
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"Jae:s the Hugger- Fined.

ST. JOS III, No, Oct I3o.-Henry
Gist. known to the police as Jack the
hugger, was fined 5000 in police court
on the charge of disturbing the
peace. Nine women, some of them
girls not yet out of short dresses, while
few were middle-aged, testified that
Gist had forcibly hugged them.
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Names for the New warsb;,s.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-Secretary of
the Navy Herbert, before leaving for
Alabama, selected the names for the
new battleships and gunboats now un-
der construction. The three battleships
will be known as the Alabama. Illinois
and Wisconsin. The gunboats will
bear the names Annapolis, Marietta,
Newport, Princeton, Vicksburg and
Wheeling
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She sleeps An the Time.

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 3o.-Mrs. James
Keller OF Topeka is sleeping her life
away. She has not been awake on an
average of three hours day for two
years, and lately she has been asleep
all the time, it being impossible to
arouse her. The doctors call her dis.
ease paralysis of the brain.
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Judge Dundy of Nebraska Dead.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 30.-Judge Elmer
s. Dundy, for thirty-three years federal
district judge for Nebraska, died yes
terday of neuralgia of the stomach.
He was appointed territorial Judge by
President Lincoln in 1868, Since that
time he has participated in the trial of
many famous cases. He recently re-
turned from a tri ip around the world.
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A Brick Country Road.

MONMOUTH, ILL.,, Oct 3O.-Monmoutl
township, Warren county, has com
pleted 5000 feet of brick pavement, tn.
first hard country road ever put down
in the United States The brick i
single course, laid on six inches of sand
supported on either side by two and
one-half feet of crushed stone. Th
cost will be less than S., 900 a mile.
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Fatal Gas ExpIosion.

PITTsBURG. Pa, Oct. 29.-An explo-
sion of natural gas at Avalon, suburb
of Allegheny, about ITO yesterday
morning, killed Bessie Osborne, aged
13 years, and seriously injured her
brother, Dale. aged 9 years, and her
sister, Edith, aged 6 years. The house
was badly wrecked. The explosion
was caused by a leak in the kitchen
pipes. Walter S. Ritchey, a cousin Of
Miss Osborne, became violently insane.
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Murdered HIS Enemy,s Little Rov,

GATEsvnLE, Wis, Oct. 29.-Farme
Oscar Marshall of North Bend and .
hired boy, named Palmer, aged is
quarreled, whereat the latter crushei
the skull of Marshall's 3-year-old sol
with an ak in a barn. Palmer pre-
tended to poison himself, then coz
fessed and lynching is likely.
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Crushed to Death fin His Mil.

ABILENE, Kan, Oct. 30.-Councilman
P. r. Pitts, one of the proprietors of
the city mills, while putting on belt
in the mill this morning, was caught
by the belt, wound on the shaft and
killed He was prominent in A. o. u.
W. circles and leading miller of Gen.
tral Kansas