Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-08
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LATE NEWS NOTES.

Mime. Duret Berthel, leading con-
tralto of Louisville, was stricken
blind.
France io making ready her battle
ships at Toulon in great haste for war.
Woodmen of the World erected a
monument to Mayor j. III. Snyder of
Menden, Ok
Outlaw Carl Thorn was killed by
Deputy Marshal George Richards, at
Dover, Ok.
Sugar producers demand that special
protective duty be placed on the Ger
man article.
Standard Oil company will attempt
to tow a barge across the Atlantic
ocean this summer.
Mamea, the caDnibal queen of the
Society islands, desires annexation to
the United States.
Crisp and Smith held their first
financial debate at Augusta, Ga, and
the next at Atlanta.
Mrs nj. A. Stockton, who figured in
the Brown scandal at San Francisco.
has been turned out of church.
Colonel John b. Beasley has sued
Chief Justice Snodgrass of Chatta-
nooga for SIC, 600 damages for shooting
him.
Mrs Olga Deuss of San Francisco,
wife OF jeweler. killed herself and
three children because of domestic
discord.
The 6-weeks-old child of the Booth
fuckers is dead, also daughter of
Mrs Booth-Hellberg of the Indian
army.
Rev. Fred C. Wellman, Congrega-
tional minister OF Guthrie Okla, will
go to Angola, Africa, as a medical
missionary.
James Coleman, wanted at Okla
homa City for perjury, has escaped a
second time from the officers and IS
now at large.
d. Landreth & Sons, Philadelpnia,
got 1900 contract from Secretary
Morton for 0,0G0,O packets of vege-
table seeds.
A Sl0, 600 company has been formed
at Guthrie, Okla, to furnish water
ing place. Cimarron river water being
medicinal, it is alleged.
Capital stock of the Bell Telephone
company has been increased to S23.-
6oO,OOO Net earnings for last year
were sixteen per cent.
Shady Childers, aged 50, met the
Widow Winters of Green county, In
diana, at Muncie Sunday, proposed
marriage at once and the knot was
tied Tuesday.
AT Burbank, Wayne county, Ohio,
Irene V. and Irena V. Repp, twin Sis
ters, and Vernon II. and Vertol r.
STAR, twin brothers, were married by
the Rev. Nathaniel Lewis.
Headquarters of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints have been
changed from Council Bluffs to Kan
sas City. Indiana conference has lust
adjourned at Marion.
Anti-Cigarette Association now has
$4,000 members in the sixth, seventh
and eighth grades of the Chicago pub
lie schools. They wear blue silk but
tons on which are the letters A. C. b.
Act authorizing the St. Louis, Okla
homa & Southern Railway Company
to construct railway through the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma has
become law without the Presidents
approval
March went out with roar in
Minnesota and the Dakotas. Business
was suspended, street cars blocked
with snow, schools dismissed, etc.
Nebraska reported blizzard and in
Representative Mahaney of New
York has introduced bill to appro-
pirate 1000, 900 to widen the locks of
the Erie canal so as to permit the
passage of modern torpedo boats for
the protection of the lake cities.
A forger who issued checks on the
ZONES Manufacturing company, Bos-
ton, caught, among other victims, the
Caldwell Plumbing and Heating Com
pany of Kearnev. Neb, the First Ma
tional Bank of Leavenworth, Kan.
Prescott Steam Heating Company of
Topeka, Kan, and Grand Island
Plumbing Company of Grand Island,
Net.
KING Menelik has ordered that the
prisoners held by him be killed.
Osman Fasha, with large force, is
threatening Sinkat in the Soudan.
The Duke and Duchess of Marl-
borough were welcomed to their castle
at Blenheim.
The Prince of Wales declined to be-
come a member of the New York
Thirteen Club.