Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-17
NUMBER 5.
LATE NEWS NOTES.

The town of Topaz, State of Jalisco,
Mexico, was destroyed by a water
spout and tornado and many lives lost.
Mrs Annie Dyer, baby farmer of
Heading, England. was hanged at
Newgate prison, London, for whole
sale child murder.
Chicago.is threatened with the loss
OF three -fifths of next years revenue.
because there is no money to paw the
expense of South Town assessment
Bicycle factories at Toledo have
shut down and 5000 men are idle.
Chicago brick trust has collapsed
and So brick are selling at SAL
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 ont
to quiet riotous fishermen on the Col
umbia river near Astoria.
DIR. E. w. Mueller, president of the
Kansas Wesleyan university at Salina
since 1894, has 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 DIggs' 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
derbils, jr., and Miss Grace Wilson
is announced.
The suit of Actress Mary Gore for
S75,OOO damages for breach of promise
against the eldest son of the Earl of
Arran resulted in verdict for the
defendant.
The salaries of Fort Scott, Kan.
school teachers have been reduced
FER cent.
r. +. Tyler, a son of President John
Tyler, is a prisoner at Richmond, Va.
charged with shooting with intent to
Kill Jack Carr, young negro. Tyler
is a dairyman.
The funeral of Austin Corbin took
place from st. Bartholomew church,
New York, Tuesday. Bishop Williams
OF New York officiated, assisted by
Rev. X. c. Booth, assistant rector of
St Bartholomew's, and Rev. DR.. &.
w. Huntington, rector of Grace
church. The church was crowded
with relatives and friends
Over sixty of the los normal insti-
tutes in Kansas opened June g.
W. j. Young, millionaire Iowa lum-
herman, is dead at Lyons, Ia.
Oklah oma's wheat crop just har.
vested is the largest in it's history.
American troops may now cross
into Mexico after marauding Indians.
Captain John G.. Bourke, Indian
tighter, 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
peapolis are on strike for SEQ 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 a 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
a sudden demand for window glass
and stocks at the various selling apen-
cies in the West have been greatly re-
duced.