Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-24
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Bicycle factories at Toledo have
shut down and 5000 men are idle
Chicago brick trust has collapsed
and So brick are selling at 81 20.
supply of West Point graduates
greatly outnumbers army vacancies
A four cent street car fare ordinance
has been passed by the Milwaukee
city council.
Oregon militia have been called out
to quiet rio,ous fishermen on the Col
umbia river near Astoria.
DR.. E. w. Mueller, president of the
hansas ives yam university at Salina
since 1894, h, resigned.
Professor w. c. Lansdon. late editor
OF the Fort Scott Monitor, has been
elected principal of the Fort Scott
high school.
Wyeth City, in Northern Alabama,
was struck by a tornado, thirteen
houses leveled, two persons killed and
100 injured.
Martial law has been declared in
barcelona, Spain. Eight victims of
the bomb thrower are dead. twenty.
one dying and eighteen injured.
Commission appointed to establish
the state line between Missouri and
Iowa have completed their labors and
will report to the Supreme court
Missouri is slight gamer.
EX-Congressman John G. Otis of
Kansas, who Joined Anna Dlggs' CO.
operative colony in Colorado, is work.
ing in the huge irrigation ditch which
the colonists are digging.
Spain will import 60, QUO, 600 pounds
of wheat this year.
The engagement of Cornelius Van
derbilt, jr,, and Miss Grace Wilson
Is announced.
The suit of Actress Mary Gore for
S75, COO damages for breach of promise
against the eldest son of the Earl of
Arran resulted in a verdict for the
defendant.
The salaries of Fort Scott, Kan,
school teachers have been reduced 5
FER cent.
r. +. Tyler. a son of President John
Tyler, is prisoner at Richmond, Va.
charged with shooting with intent to
XIII Jack Carr, young negro. Tyler
Is a dairyman.
The funeral of Austin Corbin took
place from st. Bartholomew's church,
New York. Tuesday. Bishop Williams
OF New York officiated, assisted by
Rev. K c. Booth, assistant rector of
st. Bartholomews, and Rev. DR.. r
w. huntington, rector of Grace
church. The church was crowded
with relatives and friends
Over sixty of the los FORMAL insti-
eutes In Kansas opened June 8.
w. j. Young. millionaire Iowa lum-
herman, is dead at Lyons, Ia.
Oklahoma's wheat crop just har-
vested Is the largest in its history.
American troops may now cross
Into Mexico after marauding Indians.
Captain John G.. Bourke, Indian
lighter, anthropologist and author, is
dead.
Anthrax is raging among cattle in
Chicol county, Arkansas. and con-
tiguous territory in Louisiana and
Missouri.
Union printers of st. Paul and Min
neapolis are on a strike for $50 per
week for day work and S23 for night
work on the daily papers
Frank Mayo. the veteran American
actor, died of fatty degeneration of
the heart on n train near Grand
Island, Neb. His impersonation of
"Davy Crockett made him famous all
over the country.
Jules Simon, famous French states
man and publicist, is dead.
John Bristow. editor of the Ottawa,
Kan, Herald, is dead, aged % years.
One hundred and eighty cans of
dynamite exploded about mile below
Lilly, Pa, with frightful results.
One man was killed and seven seri-
ously injured.
The Western cyclones have caused
q sudden demand for window glass
and stocks at the various selling agen-
cies in the West have been greatly re-
duced.
Thomas Fl. Swopc CT Kansas City.
Mo-, has presented the city 1913.
acre tract of land to be used for a
park. This makes Kansas Citv the
possessor of the second largest single
piece of park property in the United
States.
Cass county, Missouri, has paid
sl42, 600 on railroad judgment bonds.
There still remains 500, 900 outstand-
ing. All claims were settled at sew
enty cents on the dollar. They were
incurred many years ago for a rail-
road that was never built.