Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-25
NEWS BOILED DOWN.
HAPPENINGS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
A Budget Of General Information Briefly
and CURLY Related In This Column for
Busy Observation-Disclosures and Eof-
eign Intelligence.
Opium smuggling is decreasing.

trade.
Yellow pine has advanced SO cents
per 1000 feet.
Kentucky mobs are still tearing down
toll gates.
New York dealers are trying to cor
ner Havana tobacco.
General Horace A. Porter is talked
of for secretary of war.
j. Ellen Fosters husband wants Ia
be governor of New Mexico.
President Cleveland is hard at work
on his message and receives few
callers.
Iowa's vote: Mckinley, 2s9, SIS:
Bryan, 223,266. McKinley's plurality;
66,312.
Illinois farmers have formed Chau-
tauqua association, to study farming.
Lower house of the Vermont 1egisla-
ture voted no on woman suffrage 135
to 80.
California wines have been raised to
20 cents, 5 cents over the 1895 price
and IA cents over 1894.
Warden McRae of Erie, Pa, jumped
from train after an escaping prisoner
and broke his neck.
Texas Republicans are booming Ma
tional Committeeman DIR. John Grant
of Dallas for the cabinet.
Mayor Waters of Hot Springs, Ark;
was acquitted of killing Harry Martin;
hotel drummer, last May.
Prairie fires are doing much damage
in Lincoln and Payne counties, Okla
homa. Two people were fatally burned.
BY fire damp explosion in col
1iery in Westphalia, Germany, twenty
five men were killed and fifty Ell
tombed alive.
Robert w. Deutch, a retired cloak
merchant of New York, committed
suicide in San Francisco by turning Oh
the gas.
S. Bloolnquist, Dawson, Mimi.
farmer, shot his brothers wife and
then committed suicide. The woman
may recover.
Up to date ten contests for seats in
the next Kansas legislature have been
announced. In each case the winner
has less than 100 majority.
National Grange resolved against
tural products. A resolution in favor
of reciprocity treaties was killed.
Newspaper men are highly indignant
at the treatment received at the Cleve-
land banquet given in Hanna's honor
and have published warm resolutions.
First National bank, Sioux City,
Iowa, has gone to the wall, pulling
down with it the Sioux City Savings
bank and j. Il. Pugh & Co., china and
queensware dealers.
George II. McCluskey, Chicago
ticket broker, deserted his wife; and to
get even she threw vitriol on him I'M
the Plaza hotel in Plymouth place. He
was badly burned.
General Attorney Waggener of the
Missouri Pacific denies in toto pub
lished reports concerning United states
Marshal Neely's alleged Indebtedness
to the railway.
Students of Lafayette college,
Easton, Pa, carried Henry NJ. Payne
OF South Wood, l.. l., to barber shop
and cut off his long black whiskers.
The victim has caused five arrests.
Lucas Reiner of Covington, XIV, is
being held in Germany by officials who
are trying to force him into the army
He left Germany when Ia years old
and is a naturalized American.
w. K. Vanderbilt got a check for
500, 477.69 from the owner of the
steamer III. f. Dimmock. which sank
Vanderbilt's steam yacht Alva three
years ago riear Boston.
James II. Childs of San francisco
was shot and killed by John Miller,
carpenter, who was shooting at Miss
Nellie Ryan when Childs passed the
door and interfered to save the woman
Seventy-six families of Eastern He
brews were lured to Logan county.
Col, by 7. Cheney, year ago, but as
they couldn't live on sand and sage
brush,' they are all now in Denver,
quartered on charitable friends.
Monongahela river coal miners
threaten general strike
Fred Funston of Kansas is big gun
among the Cuban insurgents
Appraisers have been appointed to
divide up James G. Fairs millions.
Council of Jewish Women has
adopted ''health and humanity as its
motto.
Over 100000 barrels of apples are
exported yearly and the trade is grow
ing.
Wages of the Pullman Palace Car
company shopmen have been cut ) per
cent.
Fifteen hundred employees of the
Michigan Car works, Detroit. have
been laid off.
Dan Stuart has formed a syndicate
to establish Monte Carlo at Juarez,
across the Mexican line from Ell Paso.
British steamer, Memphis. from
Montreal. went ashore id Dufiloueh
bay, England, and twelve men were
lost.
David S. Jordan, government COM
missioner, reports that but one-fifth as
many seals are on the Alaska islands
as there were ten years ago.
Fred Williams assaulted the 12-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Palm at Carbon,
Pike county, Ind, and was pursued
and slain by party of miners.
Spanish Premier Castillo says he will
brook no interference with Cuba by the
United States, and will not make any
concessions or yield to anybody.
Ten inches of rain and snow have
fallen in Nebraska in the past month
md the prospects for winter wheat as
we'll as the output of the present corn
crop are excellent.
James White, member of the Brit
tsh parliament and head of New York
firm, has assigned. and sailed for India,
because sued for breach of promise by
the daughter of q Scotch preacher.