Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Chickasaw nation is S7s, 200 in debt
Utah is ishing for a part of Arizona.
Campos was Missed in the streets of
Madrid.
The Turks are impeding relief work
for Armenians
A verdict against the Richardson's
has been obtained at Perry, Okla In
the First State bank case.
Steamship st. Paul was released
after lying on a Long Branch sand
bar for ten days.
Ladies in Dayton, Ohio, are protest.
ing to Congress against the ninety.
day divorce industry in Oklahoma
Five of the Central American States
have accepted the invitation to join in
convention of American republics
and adopt the Monroe doctrine.
The fire and police departments of
Denver are to be reorganized with q
view of stopping gambling and kim
dred evils.
Pension bills have been favorably
reported giving Mrs. Walter Q. Gres-
ham $500 and Mrs. Thomas Ewing
SlOO per month.
Matthew Rollinger, Chicago car
penter, killed John J. Delmo through
Jealousy, mistaking him for a man
named Mueller.
Joseph Il. Dunlop, proprietor of the
chicago Dispatch, has been convicted
in the United States court OF sending
indecent matter-copies of his paper
through the mails.
A 100000, 900 lumber trust has been
formed on the Pacific coast, with head
quarters at Port Townsend, Wash.
Lumber was advanced So per thou
sand feet on the first lump.
The Fair will has been broken.
Judge Slack decides the ironclad trust
clause unconstitutional. Real eftate
can't be tied up after death according
to the laws of California. There can
be no trusts as to real property, but
not so as to personal effects.
A battle in Cuba is reported to have
occurred, in which sixty-two insur-
gents were killed and 200 wounded.
Spanish claim a victory, although
their general, Luque was wounded.
An ammendment(t to the Indian ap-
preparation bill will provide that chill
dren of white father and Indian
mother shall have all rights and priv
lleges any other member of the tribe
has.
The Venezuela question is to be de-
bated in parliament. The Liberals
and many Unionists favor arbitration.
The government will also be arraigned
by the opposition for its abandonment
of Armenia.
ID. Ii. Keen, a business man of Perry;
Okla, has been arrested on atcharge of
perjury.
Miss Lily Cooper of Chillicothe, Mo-,
died from the effects of poison taken
with suicidal intent Disappointed in
love.
By vote of to the House COM
mittee of the Ohio Legislature decided
to report the Harris local option bill
back without recommendation.
The remains of Lord Leighton were
placed in crypt in st. Paul's Cathe-
dral.
1t is reported that two of Jameson's
men were tortured by Beers and then
ordered to be shot.
The Senate Judiciary committee has
reported tavorably on the appoint
ment of Nagle for marshal of Okla
homa.
Wheelock & Co., piano manufac-
turers of New York, assigned
Stephen B. French, formerly police
commissioner of New York, commit
ted suicide.
The Navy department has given up
the search for the filibusterinp
steamer j. w. Hawkins. although the
report that it was wrecked off Long
Island is not credited
Last December more fruit was ex-
ported from Sicily to the United States
than ever before in that month. the
aggregate being 373 900 boxes of green
fruit, 16O, of which were oranges
The market is now .glutted.
Fire in the Beaufort insane asylum
near Quebec, Ontario, drove the 900
inmates from the institution, but did
not do great damage. Five or six of
the inmates escaped from the keepers.
BY the collision of two Wabash
freight trains at Carpenter, ILL.,, Fire
man Huff was killed and Engineer
Hardgowe and Brakeman May were
badly injured. One of the trains was
ahead of time.