Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

iSoh Iva "tiIS, w HO
gambling boat was dynamited at
Burnside, Ky
j. ". Mcbride has charge of the
labor bureau in connection with the
De mocratic national committee.
The w. Deweese- Wood Iron mills.
McKeesport, Pa, Cambria Iron Works.
Johnstown, Pa, Arlington Cotton
Mills, Wilmington, Del, Joliet branch
OF the Illinois Steel Company. have
resumed work, employing about 5000
men.
Colorado mine owners propose de-
handing of the smelters that gold
coin be paid them for the product of
their mines. which gold will be used
in paying off employees and will thus
go into circulation.
Frank P. Slavin knocked out Jake
hiirain at Baltimore in one round.
Near Watonga, Ok, Farmer John
RuclSer was robbed and murdered by
two unknown negroes. whom the
Anti Horse Thief association" is
trailing.
Peter Henshaw, aged %, committed
suicide at Nevada, Mo, by taking
strychnine. after call on a young
lady to whom ne had been paving at
tentions
The Bennett National bank of New
Whatcomb, Wash, has suspended be-
cause OF the withdrawal of deposits
beyond the power of the bank to re-
spond.
S. c. Ruckman of Fay, Blaine
county, Ok, was murdered by negroes.
Coffin. Altemus g. Co., the Oldest
dry goods house in Philadelphia, has
failed.
Herman Parker. aged 4, was suffo-
Gated in flaxseed bin in his fathers
barn near O'Neill. Neb.
Pawnee Indians drew SOS. 900 an
nuity money. and the skin game ICON"
men got lots of it.
L. j. Bryan, a cousin of the pres.
1dentIal anc-date, is in Jail at Little
Rock for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Spain has backed down and con-
ceded civil trials TO the Competitor
crew, among whom is Owen Melton,
the Kansan.
Ascending Cashier Thompson of
Sedalia is now tie and wood inspector
on the Mexican Central, with head
quarters in the City of Mexico.
Two men and twenty-five horses
lost their lives in IA fire which par
TALLY destroyed Albert Managers liv-
cry stable in Milwaukee, Wis
Cashier William G. Porter. Jr.. of
the failed Bank of Kansas CITY. Kan.
is under arrest for receiving deposits
when he knew the bank was insoly
ent.
Six Indians got drunk and wounded
Agent GiIlaim at Big jim S crossing on
Little river in attempting to mold him
up. A posse pursued the reds and
killed every one of them.
President Stewart of Fort Scott's
police board, has Withdrawn his resir-
nation as commissioner and will leave
the Methodist church instead of
throwing uD his job. He had been
condemned by quarterly conference
Tor allowing open saloons in Fort
Scott.
The New York police think they
nave Bill Dalton, the notorious West
ern desperate, who has been slain
times without mum Der, located in
Gotham and they are searching for
him. young man supposed to be
Bill Dalton S son is under arrest for
robbery, and it is believed that Dali
ton, pater, was his accomplice.
Dress shirts are laundered in Chi
cago now for 3 cents, because of a cut
rate war,
At Las Vegas, n NJ, Jose Perea
shot himself and his fance in fit of
jealous rage.
Nellie Sparks of Man shall started to
school at st. Louis but eloped with
Newman Newell and was married and
obtained parental forgiveness instead.
Charles A. Huff, who has been cut.
ting wide swath in Topeka society.
is an ex-convict and his money being
all spent he has disappeared, LEAVING
creditors Id the lurch.
Leaders of the conspiracy against
SPAN In the Province of Gazette, Phil
Hppine Islands, have been shot.
Foreigners in Constantinople saw
that 5000 Armenians were killed dur
Ing the recent riots.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons have
agreed TO finish fight some time next
spring.
Four persons killed and sixteen seri.
ously injured is the result of a wreck
on the Arcata ard Mad River railroad.
about i've miles north of Arcata, Cal
Provided satisfactory freight ar.
engagements can be made with the
Canadian Pacific railroad, large ore
smelter will be established at Van
Couver, Il. c.. with capital of at
least $1,000 900.
Labor unions of Sedalia, Mo-, have
formed federation.
A negro stealing a ride was shot bv
a brakeman at Warrenton, Mo.
Rev. d. w. Fielder of Moberly. Mo-
was stricken with paralysis while
kneeling in prayer in his pulpit.
William Hepburn Russell, a high
authority on Constitutional law. re.
plies to Attorney Genera, Harmon
concerning the use of Federal troops.
Governor Stone has committed the
sentence of Charles Turner, Vernon
county burglar, to two years in the re-
form school
Jay Fl. Neff of Kansas City, carried
the Repu blican primaries for Con-
gress in the Fifth Missouri district. n
Mrs. l. J. Roberts shot and killed
Or. William Drake at Hillsboro. Tex.
Mr.. Bryan will not be able to visit
Kansas until the last week in October.
Samuel Culbertson, aged so, fell
into cistern near Birmingham, Iowa.
and was drowned. He was a wealthy
stockman.
John Stevens took Horace Greeley's