Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-05-27
NUMBER 9.

Central and Northwestern Missouri
suffered considerable damage from
Tuesdays ele ctrical storm.
Secretary Carlisle is out in letter
denying tlat he made free silver
speech in 1878 or any other time, as
has been SO frequently charged.
The House committee on public
lands has ordered report on the bill
for the maintenance of school of
mines on the public lands in the States
and territories by granting each State
from the sale of mineral lands Si5, 900
for the current year and an annual
increase of $1,000 per year for ten
years.
Irving L. Ford, the negro who muir
dered Elsie kregle at Washington,
has been found guilty.
In the Golfers of the Russian gov
ernment are $40, 76o, llo in good United
States gold coin. This WAS purchased
in London and Paris, and is part of
Russia's enormous gold reserve.
In the Senate a bill was passed
amending the pension laws so that
those who served in the Confederate
service and thereafter entered the
Union service prior to September,
1854, serving for ninety days, shall
no be debarred from pension by rea-
son of previous Confederate services.
Impressed with the conviction that
her recent defeat by Japan was due
to the inculcation by the latter of
Western methods, China has decided
to send twenty China boys, ranging
in age from 10 to II years, to this
country to become skilled in the me-
chanical arts.
Resolutions protesting against any
departure from the existing monetary
standard of this nation have been
adopted by the Savings Bank Associa-
tion of the State of New York In
the preamble the association claims to
represent 1000 600 depositors, with
deposits amounting to 500, ,OOO, 900.
A majority of the members of the
Senate committee on military affairs
have declared in favor of establishing
a national military academy at For {
Omaha.
Nearly every mandatory in Chica-
go engaged in making Havana cigars
will be shut down within ninety davs,
as one result of General Weyler's or
der forbidding the exporting of leaf
tobacco from Cuba.
A movement is on foot in London,
Paris and Brussels in favor of a recon-
ciliation of the Armenians with Tur-
key, and there is reason to believe
this movement has been started with
the consent of the Sultan.
In the Fort Scott district court
Judge Simons refused to grant di-
vorce to Mrs. Albert Bigelow Paine,
wife of the Kansas poet.
The Methodist Protestant General
Conference at Kansas City, Kan, has
referred the woman question back to
the district conference for action.
This is a bad set back for the women.
The word Catholic" was struck from
the apostles creed. 1t required toe
much explaining.
Schlatter, the healer, is now oper.
ating in the western part of Chihua-
hua, Mexico.
Edward w. Hoy, Springfield drug
gist, is charged with planning the
bank robbery committed at Buffalo
Ill.
Frank L. Howe of Pine Bluff, Ark.
who was shot by Deputy Constable
Goode, is dead
The Senate has passed the bill i'm.
posing fine and imprisonment foi
shooting at trains in the Indian ter.
ritory. 1t now goes TO the president
Terrible forest fires are raging
about Davis. w. Va. Loss over $500,
600.
A colony of 5000 Armenians is to be
located in Alabama.
Tabor Grand theater, Denver, is tc
be sold at auction under mortgage.
Rockford, Ill, women 'conducted'
the street cars one day for sweet
charity.
E. 81. NcClun, Chicago real estate
man, took 500 of a clients money
and not being able to repay it com.
mited suicide.
Anna Devaney, aged 65, Fort Dodge,
Iowa, blew out the gas at her son-in.
laws in Omaha and killed herself and
9-year-old grandson, Elmer Atherton.
Robert Z. Edwards. a Chicago paper
hanger. found letter from "a man In
his wife's things. SO shot her in the
face while she slept and then killed
himself.