Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-12-30
NUMBER "a.

Juogc hazen of Topeka issued a re-
| straining order to prevent William
Youngman from trouncing his wife
for staying too late at a high five party.
Representative Blues bill for an ap-
preparation of $500 to begin work
| on the federal penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth has passed the house as
part OF the urgent deficiency measure,
and now goes to the senate, where it
will undoubtedly be approved.
John Bobo and Frank Farrell of
West PLANES, No., quarreled over q
dog. Both drew knives. Result: Bobo
is dead and Farrell in Jail. Both were
colored.
Ex-Governor A. j. Seay has finally
announced his candidacy for the gov
ernorship of Oklahoma Territory.
In Emporia Robert Love, a young
colored barber, shot his father with q
double-barrel shotgun, blowing the
entire side of his head off. Cause, was
an attempt of the father, who was
drunk, to brain the boy.
Cattle thieves have been at work in
the vicinity of Pawhuska during the
past week, fully 200 head having been
stolen from the large pastures of the
reservation. 1t is believed that an or
ganized gang is carrying on the steal
lug.
Henry S. Julian, lawyer and polite
ian, is Kansas City's new chief of police.
1t is said that President-elect Nc
klnley is opposed to Cuban action at
the present time.
Fire in the clothing department of
the Missouri penitentiary did 81, 900
damage.
The Mckinley inaugural ball will be
held in the pension building.
A bill introduced by Representative
Bull of Rhode Island appropriates
$4,000 for the erection of monu-
mental statue to James G. Blaine in
Washington.
American Bimetallic union is going
to keep silver to the front by Gtera-
ture, clubs, public lectures and meet
ings.
Casino skating rink and theater In
Schleny park, PittsScrg, burned; loss
S400, 900 with only S75.O 900 insurance.
Hermann, the famous magician, died
suddenly of heart disease Thursday in
his private railroad car at Grain VAL
ley, New York.
John j: Thornton, editor, of the Clay
county Ala, Advance, was assassin
ated while sitting at his fireside, for
making war on lawless gangs.
At Bethel, Ohio, two women named
Moon and Shell, quarreled, and the
Shell woman threw a bucket of I've ON
Mrs. Moons and her baby's face kill
ing the child and fatally injuring the
mother.
Cleveland club of Indianapolis tore
Cleveland's picture to pieces.
Negroes are urging Booker T. WASH
ington of Alabama for a place in the
cabinet.
James Sheppard of Galveston, II
years old, shot servant girl dead be-
cause she teased him.
Four additional battalions of Spanish
troops have been dispatched to tho
PHILIPPINE islands.
Five hundred men are to be dis
missed from the Brooklyn navy yard
for lack of appropriations.
Secretary of the treasury has ruled
that foreign nurses are alien laborers
and may be deported.
Captain George E. Lemon, Washing
ton pension agent and publisher, Is
dead at Coronado Beach, Cal
Lard, hams and bacon are being
rushed into Cuba because Weyler will
put up the tariff per cent January 1.
Roswell G. Horr died at Plainfield,
n. j., Friday, after two weeks illness
of bronchitis and Brights disease.
Rev. Benjamin T. Trego, an Episco-
palian preacher of Saginaw, Mich,
has abandoned the pulpit for the
stage.
Frank C. Miles, for twenty years
treasurer of the Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust company, has defaulted for
500, 900.
Three Proctor boys were lynched by
mob at Russellville, KY. Will Proc
tor was shot dead in his cell and the
other two hanged. Arch Proctor, aged
20. had stabbed Aaron and Doc Grafton
to death at Adairville.
Mary Lord Drake, daughter of Gov
ernor Drake of Iowa, was married in
Denver October % to George Sturdi-
want of Centerville, Ia, and the gov
ernor knew nothing of it until he went
day or so ago to bring his daughter
home and his niece, Mary Carpenter,
told him.