Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-09
NUMBER 81.
LATE NEWS NOTES.

The war department is considering
the advisability of establishing gar
rison in Alaska.
Ex-parte Investigations in pension
cases, except in criminal cases, has
been abolished by the pension bureau.
Thomas B. Wallace of Kansas CITY
has been appointed receiver of the
Missouri National bank of that city.
The Civic Federation of Chicago has
decided to start municipal pawnshop.
New York state expended sea, ia, $50
for the maintenance of schools last
year
Two Spanish detachments, mistak-
Ing each other insurgents, fought.
Nine men were killed.
Congressman Babcock said, after
visiting Mckinley, that an extra ses-
sion is probability.
The imports and exports of France
have fallen off to such an alarming ex-
tent that the question of tariff has be-
come serious one over there.
Owing to the short crop of wheat in
Australia, that country will be COM
PEELED to purchase 1O0,O tons of
wheat and flour from the United
States.
Dan Stuart is continuing his efforts
to get Corbett and Fitsimmons to-
gether.
Fitzsimmons has applied for an in
junction to prevent the payment of the
Sl0, 900 purse to Sharkey.
Queen Victoria may visit Ireland in
1897 in celebration of her reign being
the longest in English history.
Mrs. Sarah E. Mink. national presi-
dent of the Women's G. A. R., is dead
at Watertown, n. V, aged 50.
Unofficial returns give Bryan South
Dakota by 1s2. Populist congressman
get little larger pluralities.
DIR. j. Sydney Goodmanson of PEN
der, Neb., is accused of poisoning his
wife, Laura, to get $4,000 she had
when he married her.
William Emmel of Bell county.
Kentucky, accused Congressman d. c.
Colson of aiding Emmel's daughter to
| elope and assaulted him.
George Bliss, Canton, Texas. mill
ionaire, who died recently. left $50, 900
to Yale college, and SO, 900 or SEQ, 600
to each of seven hospitals and religious
| societies.
Fitzsimmons refuses to abide by the
referees decision of the San Francisco
/ fight and has appealsd to the courts
Meanwhile the bank is holding back
the $4,000 check fought for. Corbett
believes Sharkey won fairly.
| Joseph, 6, Rose, 4, Julia, ., and
Louis, /, children of Paul Bartcovitch,
Chicago, were left locked in by their
mother and when she returned the
house was burned and the children all
dead.
Justice Field says that Cleveland
shall not appoint his successor if he
can help it.
| 1t is stated that Olney has told Spain
that the Cuban war must be ended
within three months.
Bland's friends say that he will
surely lead the minority in the House.
Frank De Wolfe, an opera singer,
took his life, owing to dependency,
due to stage fright.
McKinley's majority of the popular
vote, with the official votes of but a
few districts missing, is 325, 135.
Godfred Hunter has the Kentucky
senatorial nomination in his grasp,
but Bradley may not call an extra ses-
sion.
A sewer pipe trust is being formed
at Pittsburg.
Paper mills are forming a pool to
hold up publishers.
Ohio and Pennsylvania minoSs are
preparing for their annual strike
Pittsburg Plate Glass company has
resumed work in all its factories.
DIR. A. III. Cowan, in Jail at Fort
Worth, Texas, killed himself by eating
glass.
Anthracite coal trust agreement,
which expires January 1, will be re-
newed.
Hebrews are raising $500, 900 for the
Hebrew Union college at Cincinnati.
Safe blowers got 1000 in diamonds
and cash from Jeweler Hirshburg's
safe in Omaha.
Carnegie library trustees have or
dered Sunday concerts in the Music
hall at Pittsburg, despite objections of
the ministers
Manager Henry E. Abbey left a $500
| estate