Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-22
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LATE NEWS NOTES

Population of Chicago, 1,170. 900.
Swedish meat duties are increased.
Ex-Consul Waller is in Washington.
Joseph w. Miller, Guthrie lawyer, is
crazy.
tornado killed two Faulk county,
S. D., people.
Steel pool members each have up a
$40, 900 forfeit.
The Conservatives carried the Span
ish elections almost unanimously.
Eighteen miners lost their lives in q
colliery explosion at Wilmington, Eng
land.
Pipes made from pine burrs in Cal
ifornia are rapidly displacing Missou-
ri's corn cob pipes.
Davies, the Peru bank wrecker, re-
Gently captured in New York, broke
jail at Winterset, Iowa.
Three convicts in the Western, Pa,
penitentiary were cured of consump-
tion by the new aseptolin cure.
Des Moines river is so high that for
the first time in years fish are getting
up over the dams below Des Moines.
Prairie fires are frequent in Okla
homa. A man named Jones will
likely be lynched for disobeying the
prairie fire laws.
New York senate passed the Greater
New York bill over the vetoes of the
mayors of New York and BROOKLYN,
81 to ii.
Eva Booth, youngest daughter of
General Booth, has been appointed
commandant of the Salvation army in
Canada and Newfoundland.
st. Louis street car companies will
probably make cent rate for the
benefit of working people. Rate to be
limited to two hours morning and
evening.
The Oratorical Association of Chi
cago university decided to invite Debs
to speak but the faculty sat down
upon the scheme and excluded the
labor agitator from the institution
because he represented a dangerous
element.
Senator PETER has introduced
new bill, which is intended to extend
the pension law of ,s73 so as to include
al officers and privates of the Kansas
State militia who served in Missouri
and Kansas under command of United
States officers during the war of the
reoellion since March /, 1861, and
all such persons now on the pension
! rolls, or who may hereafter apply and
be admitted thereto.
United States Trust Company is
foreclosing on the Atlantic & Pacific.
The Mississippi is sweeping away
bridges and dams in Minnesota.
Alonzo Walling, one of Pearl
Bryan's murderers, will go to trial
May 5.
A Missouri Pacific freight went
through bridge across the Gascon-
ade river.
Every window glass factory in the
United States will be closed down
May %.
favorable report has been made
tc the House on the Arizona state
hood bill.
South Dakota Supreme court up
held the Yanlltop city ordinance
/ licensing saloons.
Over three-fourths of the Methodist
conferences have voted to admit
women delegates.
! Spontaneous combustion caused a
! 1925, 900 fire in Walton Brothers brick
block at Fairbury, Ill.
Ex-Mayor w. w. Gilreath of Green
vile, S. c., committed suicide in his
office by shooting.
New charges of unministerial con.
duct have been filed against Rev. c.
| o. Brown of San Francisco.
France has turned over to Russia
the matter of negotiating with Eng
land concerning the Nile expedition.
Insurance Inspector Gray says that
at least five of arch criminal Holmes
alleged victims were not killed by
| him.
L. B. Jennings of tie United States
weather bureau says the recent rain $
have put the Kansas crops in splen-
did condition.
w. l.. Oliver and T. G. Powell
fought at Bassett, Texas. Powell was
fatally wounded and two ladies on a
near by veranda were shot
A favorable report has been ordered
made TO the House on the bill to pro-
vide for director-in-chief of the sci
entific bureaus of the Agricultural de-
Dartment.