Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-04
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Admiral James Fyffe is dead at
fierce, Neb
Postmaster Krebs, Indian Territory,
short $3.50, and his bondsmeh are in
harge.
Samuel Edison, father of the inven-
or, died at Milan, Ohio, aged 81.
Twenty counties in Alabama so far
,ut of sixty-six have chosen Mckinley
delegates
McKinley's friends claim 443 votes
or him on the first ballot in the Ma
ional convention.
w. F. Yardley, negro lawyer, viii
un as an independent candidate for
governor of Tennessee
New York chamber of commerce has
.ecided to make vigorous campaign
or sound money.
Ice in the Missouri river at Omaha
broke up Wednesday, February 26, the
EARLIEST on record.
Colonel Nicol says the Salvation
Army crisis is over, and there will be
% split in the organization.
Matthew j. Robbins, a New York
anitor, aged SO, died from blood
poisoning caused by a cat bite.
Two Democratic delegations will go
rom Nebraska to the national con-
'ention, the party being split on silver.
House committee on naval affairs
will recommend the building at once
Of six battle ships and fifteen torpedo
boats.
Professor Ii. p. Pratt of Chicago
photographs through opaque sub
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horseshoe magnet,
Marshal Frank Ellis was shot ana
Killed at Junction City, KY, by John
Murphy, whose brother Ellis murdered
year ago.
Claycomb, the Omaha body snatcher
had contract with the Des Moines
Medical college to furnish seventy-five
bodies at $50 each.
John Charlton has bill in the Cam
idian parliament to suppress newspa-
2ers, close the canals and stop railway
traffic on Sunday.
Major Peter Glenn, one of the oldest
Salvation army leaders in New York.
has resigned as protest against the
removal of Ballington Booth.
House postoffice committee inserted
in the postoffice appropriation bill an
item for special facilities from Kansas
City to Newton, Kan, sS1, ZOO.
Jesse T. Tacey, aged 81, and son
Jesse, aged 81, were killed in their
yard at Providence. r. l., by a tele-
phone wire that was crossed by an
electric light wire.
L. L. Bull, conductor on the Balti-
more & Ohio, is charged with breaking
into and stealing from express cars
while they were gong at full speed.
Gold has been discovered in the City
Creek canon, within the city limits OF
Salt Lake City, Utah. Assays are re-
ported running as high as $500 gold
and $40 in silver per ton.
A motor car ran away at Cleveland
and dashed down hill mile a minute.
1t struck two wagons, fatally injuring
William Marx, driver of one of them.
Passengers could not get out to jump
off so escaped injury.
DIR. Joaquin Castillo, just from the
field, says that the insurgent army
has been reorganized and is in excel.
lent condition.
Arsene Houssaye, French author, ID
dead.
William Schaffer of st. Joseph, Mo-,
shot himself. He may die.
James Bagwell shot two men dead
at a dance held near Henderson, Tenn
The National Spiritualist Associa.
tion is holding convention in New
York.
Samuel Edison, father of Thoma.
Edison, the inventor, died at Norwalk
Ohio.
Thirteenth Missouri District Repub
licans indorsed Hon. B. B. Cahoon 70,
governor.
Indian Agent Wisdom will soon dis
tribute about $500, 900, due on Chero
kee Strip land
The proposed joint parade of G. A
| r. veterans and ex-Confederates a.
New York is off.
The United States Leather com
| pany's report showed q surplus, aftel
paying dividends, of So, 40, 900.
More Spanish troops have embarked
from Bilboa for Cuba.
DIR. jameson, the TransvaaI invader
is a popular hero in London.