Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-02
NUMBER 80.
NEWS BOILED DOWN.
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL
OVER. THE WORLD.
A Budget OF General Information Briefly
and CurtIy Related In This Column for
Busy Observation-Disclosures and For
eign InteIligence.

rumor of civil war in Chilli has
reached Washington, where it is not
credited.
Reports on rural free delivery expert
inents say that they are, in the main,
satisfactory.
The congressional committee decided
not to investigate the accounts of Liz
brarian Spofford.
An effort to pass the Pacific Cable
bill probably will be made at the COM
ing session of congress
Senator Quays plans are to pass the
Dngley bill and retire the green
backs.
DIR. Veatch was acquitted at Car
thage, ILL.,, of the murder of Miss Mira
Jones.
e. w. Nelson, a cholr-singer. fell
dead during services at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
steamer carrying 200 persons
foundered off Sandy Hook. All on
board were rescued.
One man was killed and another
probably fatally injured during the
road race at New Orleans.
The Chillicothe Constitution has been
sold by w. l.. Watkins to f. A Leon
ard of Browning, Mo.
Robert NJ. Douglas, son of Stephen
A. Douglas, was elected Judge of a
state court of North Carolina.
b. G. Hill was arrested in Clark
county, Missouri, for the murder some
time ago of r. r. Taylor in Illinois.
negro murderer hanged at Tus-
kogee, Ala, is reported to have been
To L
The president and cashier of the
Eagle Grove, Iowa, First National
Bank. were arrested on a charge of
embezzlement
Miss Ella McGrath took a big dose
OF laudanum at Burlington, Iowa. and
left note saying it was because she
had no clothes.
Purdue and the University of Him
ols played at Lafayette, Ind, the game
resulting to 4.
The Kansas university football team
defeated the Missouri Tigers at Kansas
City by score of 30 to o.
Northwestern and Wisconsin uni
versities played a tie game-6 to 6.
Chicago university defeated the
University of Michigan at football.
The game was played in the Coliseum
at Chicago.
Kansas physicians are baffled over
the case of Engineer Fox at Topeka,
who went to sleep and never awoke.
Sarah Fuller, the pacing mare (2:Os),
is dead.
Wire nail trust has collapsed.
Topeka will be forty-two wears old
December ).
Hamilton, Wash, was wrecked by
recent floods.
Abnormal activity is reported in the
whisky market.
son of the late Captain Charles
Harper sold his mothers grave and her
remains were buried in potter's field
at Louisville.
Charles May took poison and died at
st. Joseph because of poverty.
Senator Morgan says gold Democrats
will not be admitted to caucus pro-
ceedings.
Maud Lewis has been taken to Jeffer-
son City to serve fifteen years for
killing Senator Morrissey at ST. Louis.
ERobert A. Whitehead of the Old
Curiosity shop OH ID street in Wash
inaton, blew out his brains, being tired
of living.
The system of paying overtime to
letter-carriers will be practically
abolished soon
H. B. Plant was reelected president
OF the Southern Express company.
Senator Cullom is strong advocate
of non-partisan tariff commission.
letter from General Gomez saws
that he will move into Havana province.
Richard Croker says that now is the
time for all Democrats to get together.
The w. c. I. u. ladies are making
war on the whisky men at Texarkana.
Ark.