Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
NUMBER 33.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A tidal wave destroyed the greater
part of the town of Santa Marta,
Colombia, causing the loss of many
lives
Charls, Rupert and Maggie Jones,
and Ida Ball were drowned in Lathrop
lake near Arvada, COL, while skating.
The Rad Star steamship Berlin sank
the British steamer Willowbank on
the British coast. Only the pilot of
the lost vessel was drowned.
Mrs. Tennie Willard of Bismarck,
No., her infant and her sister, Ada
Hardage, were drowned while trying
to ford Forchee creek near Hot
Springs, Ark.
NJ. Currans, a cigarmaker of Atchi-
SON, Kan, eloped with Mrs. j. AZ
Head of Howard county, No., taking
the woman's four children. The guilty
pair were arrested.
All of the rooms at the Southern
hotel, st. Louis, have been engaged
for the Republican National conven-
ton.
Hester Curtis, an aged woman, who
lived alonc in Lafayette, Ind, was
found sitting dead in a chair in her
home with her skull crushed and a
bank book in her hand. Robbers un-
doubtedly murdered her.
Judge Bingham of the District of
Columbia Supreme court has decided
that the action of Congress on the
Mexican land grant question took title
from the United States, and placed it
in the appointces under Mexican
grants.
A 1equisItion on the treasury for
SIC, ,275, 900 for payment of pensions
for the next quarter, was issued by
the secretary of the interior.
The stocks of seventeen firms at
Kossea, Texas, were destroyed by fire.
Twelve business houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Brookston. Texas
A jury has decided that part of the
Shiloh battlefield is worth $50 an acre.
William Myers, who was on trial at
Neosho, Mo-, for murder, was ac-
quilted.
The production of the Leadville
mines for 1895 exceeds in value that of
1894 by 5000, 900.
Fire at Bluefield, W. Va, DESTROYED
hotel One life was lost and several
persons were injured.
Charles Brandan, who had been a
fugitive for seventeen years, returned
to his home in Chattanooga and was
captured.
st. Clair county, Missouri, lost two
bridges by the high water that cost
$4,000.
The proposition for a new S25, 900
high school building at atColumbia, Mo-,
was voted down.
EX-Congressman McShane of Omaha
is at the head of the new st. Joe pack
ing and stock yards company.
1t is reported that the British con.
suls have been called to Washington
to tell the ambassador the real State
of feeling on the question of war.
The Atlantic liner Spree has been
towed off Warden Ledge, where she
was stuck for three days.
The Atlantic liner Berlin collided
with and sank the British ship Willow
bark. The Willow bark's crew was
rescued by the Berlin.
Sir A. K. Rollitt, president of the
London Chamber of Commerce, saws
that mutual concessions should be
made by the United States and Great
Britain.
Las Cruces (N. NJ citizens have of
fered Peter Maher inducements to
train there.
The silver men have a majority of
twelve in the Senate and say that
none of the Presidents financial plans
can pass that body
c. I. Meter of Quincy was caught
trying to open a safe of the Wander
boom chair factory. He is under ar
rest.
The lumbermen of seven Southern
States will meet in Birmingham, Ala,
January to consider an advance in
prices.
Mrs. Hester Curtis, aged 63 years
was found dead in her bed at Lafay-
cite, Ind. She had evidently been
murdered by robbers
Members of the New York exchange
who issued request for meeting
decided to wait until the. United
States took further action on the Ven
ezuelan question.
Utah will become State January 4.