Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-11
NUMBER 43.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Professor Daniel &. Elliot. the
author. IS off for Africa with $50 mea
to secure big game for the Field
Columbian museum, Chicago
Senator Thurston calls on Nebraska
Republicans to stand by Mckinley,
and declares Manderson's alleged can
dIcacy is only ruse.
Mississippi Republican convention
split and the Hill and Lynch factions
each named St. Louis delegations All
are for Mckinley, however.
House hill putting United States at
torneys and marshals on salaries. fixes
$1,000 as the salary to be paid in Kan
sas, Missouri and oklahoma
Senator Flood of Virginia beat Sem
ator Flonagan over the head fatally
with n cane in the Senate chamber.
Flanagan said Flood had falsified him.
Harry Sortman and William Sohn of
Perry, Okla, paid 81, 900 for six
months lease on an eighty-acre tract
within one mile of Perry and have n
big lot of hands digging for gold.
Six lives were lost and s.. 900, 900
damage done TO property in the New
England States the first three days of
March, not counting loss of wages to
employees, by suspension of work.
w. J. Campbell. Republican national
committeeman from Illinois, Is dead
in Chicago, from pneumonia
Students of Madrid university pub
licly burned the United States flag in
the street, and the cabinet council has
decided to close until the students get
over the excitement. Senor Elduayen.
Spanish minister of foreign affairs,
has resigned.
a bill has been reported favorably
in the Iowa senate to allow the manu-
facture of liquors when sixty-five per
cent of the voters consent No sales
of less than four gallons to be al
lowed, and no manufactory to be To-
Gated within zoo feet of a church or
school house.
The Senate committee on Foreign
Relations decided to favorably report
Dingley's bill for exterminating the
seals.
Secretary Carlisle has ordered the
first installment of debt certificates
for the purchase of the Cherokee Strip
paid.
y delegation of authors, photog-
raphers and publishers from New
York entered protests against Tre-
loar's copyright bill.
The Senate passed a bill for the re-
lief of st. Charles College at st.
Charles, Mo-, which was used as bar
racks and prison during the war.
The board of army engineers de-
tailed to examine the scheme for
canal from the lake TO the Ohio river
reported the scheme feasible but not
advisable.
State Auditor Seibert of Missouri
says positively that he is not a candi-
date for governor.
The kentucky Republican commit
tee started Governor Bradley's presi-
Dental boom.
At the Presbyterian mission meeting
over which Mr.. Cleveland presided
$500 was subscribed.
A Kansan has invented n gun which
he claims will produce rain in large
quantities and whenever it is wanted.
The twelve Republican Congress
ional district delegates elected in Ar
kansas were instructed for Mckinley.
Judge Parker at Fort Smith, Ark
pronounced the death sentence upon
five murderers, thereby increasing the
number he has sentenced To I5G.
The schooner 7. B. Mallory has been
seized on charge of filibustering
against Cuba.
Word has been received from Cuba
that four filibustering expeditions
have been safely landed in the last few
weeks.
Ramon o. Williams, United States
consul for twenty-one years in Ha-
vana, has resigned.
Mrs Georgia F. Harris, stamp clerk
in the Memphis postoffice. is under ar
rest for the embezziement of 5000.
Governor McLaurin proposes legIs-
lation in Mississippi to make illegal
contracts payable in gold alone.
Robbers shot Postmaster Gates of
Oalzdale, Okla, secured S1.2 of office
money, stole two horses and escaped
Oxford university in England, by a
vote of 2l5 to l40 refused 10 allow
women to take the degree of bachelor
of arts.
Republican county convention at
| Springfield, ILL.,, indorsed Shelby NJ
| Cullom for president but cheered Me-
KInley.
The defeat of the Italians in Abys-
sinia has caused the widest excite
ment throughout Italy Riots have
occurred in nearly all the big cities.
| The government is denounced on all
sides for its conduct of the war. The
mobs march through the streets shout
ing "Down with the ministry"
John Connolly of New York, we'll
known baseball umpire, is dead
John V. Crum of Iowa, the grea
sprinter, has been elected city attor-
ney of Creston.
w. q. Cowan & Sons, Pittsburg, has
disappeared after perfecting an $50
600 swindle.