Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-01
NUMBER 46.
LATE NEWS NOTES

President Hippolyte of Hayti is dead.
Benton, Ark, was almost wiped out
by fire.
The greater New York bill passed
the assembly 81 10 81.
French chamber of deputies voted
Tor an income tax, ESQ to ::7O.
New York attorneys are drafting a
DILL for international arbitration.
Chicago purchasers of unclaimed
baggage bought a corpse at auction
Four men were suffocated in a car
| OF oats in wreck at North Judson.
Ind.
Pulls Bros Iron Company. 81.
Louis, has assigned. Liabilities, S5U,-
600; assets, S5l5, 0O9
w. c. T. Z. ladies praise Speaker
Reed for prohibiting smoking IN the
House of Representatives.
! Perry Belmont is the proba BILE nom
| inee of the New York Democrats for
Governor this fall.
The premium on gold bars has been
raised, with the object of makiug its
export less probable.
Major Edward Leslie. well known
inventor. committed suicide at Patter-
son. \. j., By taking morphine.
Senator Sewell of New Jersey has
been awarded n medal for bravery a;
the battle of Charlottesville in lS63.
By fire damp explosion in mine
at Bruunerton. New Zealand. five men
were killed and sixty buried alive.
Luther A. Lawson, "a Populist news
paper man, has been nominated to
succeed Congressman Grain of Texas
Robert Mantell married Charlotte
Behrens, his leading lady, the day
after she was divorced from Mr.. Huhn.
British royalty is asking for an in
creased allowance for the Prince of
Wales on behalf of his children.
Miss Mamie Cabanne, member of an
old and wealthy st. Louis family, has
taken the veil and become a nun.
The Senate passed joint resolution
allowing exPresident Harrison to ac-
cept decorations from Brazil and
Spain.
Clara Barton is allowed to work in
Armenia only under Turkish commits
sion and by lists furnished by the
Turks.
W. Il. Davidson of Montreal has
sued Queen Victoria for 81. 900 for flow
ers furnished at the funeral of Sir
John Thompson.
Shops of the Baltimore Il Ohio
Southwestern at Washington, Ind,
have been closed, throwing 400 men
out of employment
A. n. Wiley of Bertrand. Neb., ac-
cused of insulting girl. was brutally
whipped by mob of excited women
and driven out of town.
General Weyler is out with another
proclamation calling the insurgents
bandits and incendiaries and declaring
they will be shot when caught.
Spaniards at Madrid expect war be-
tween Spain and Uncle Sam to be the
result of the Cuban resolutions
Huldah Smell of Kern county Cali
fornia, claims she is the widow of
Andrew j. Davis, the millionaire
whose estate has long been in litiga-
tion at Butte. Mont.
Senator Allen introduced a resolu-
ton declaring that Congress should
not adjourn without restoring the
free coinage of silver and taking from
the Secretary Of the Treasury the
power to issue bonds
Mrs. Ballingion Booth lectured at
Sewickiey. Pa. on "Sium and Shelter
Work in Large Cities and in an in
too much Americanizcd was the cause
OF the Salvation Army split
George Hall. who broke ont of the
Milan Jail, where he was confined on
a charge of forgery, was shot and
killed at Vancouver. Il. C.. in attempt
ing 10 evade arrest.
Twenty-six water companies in
Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys in
Pennsylvania. have Leen purchased
and combined by New York syndi-
cate, s. o0O.G10 deal.
Governor Aitgeid and the board of
trustees OF Ike University of Illinois
have been indicted at Charnpaipn for
failure TO fly the National flag over the
school buildings.
The equestrian statue of General
Hancock will 5e unveiled at Washing
ton, llay ]. An iliega, levy was made
ON it by a creditor of Henry Elliott. it,
sculptor. for n $50 debt
Engineer Jack Smith of the Hot
Springs railroad went to Chicago on
bridal trip. and while the bridegroom
slept the bride took "A 5000 wallet, two
trunk checks and bicycle and started
for Reed City, Mich, but was arrested
on board the train
The statement of Kansas national
banks shows "a reserve of 3D. 81 per
cent
William Cobb OF Athens. Ga. has
been appointed private secretary of
Secretary Hoke Smith.
The Senate Committee on Education
has presented bill providing for
large industrial commission.