Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.


kota, has resigned.
At meeting of the grand lodge of
Tennessee Masons, an appeal was is
sued to all Masons throughout the
world to lend their aid in preserving
peace and averting war.
Miss Mary A. Quay, the eldest
daughter of Senator and Mrs. Matthew
Stanley Quay, was married to Louis
h Davidson of Beaver, Pa
In the Canadian house of commons
Mr.. Taylor, Conservative, introduced
a bill prohibiting the Importation and
immigration of foreigners and aliens
under contract or agreement to per-
form labor IN Canada.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
says that physician of that city de-
clares that he has found cure which
is almost certain in its effects in yell
low fever. 1t consists of the internal
use of doses of the extract of euca-
lyptns.
9homas Dwyer, aged 20, the wealth
lest man n Washington county, Tex
as, was assasslnaJe1 n his office by
unknown parties, the uIv.;re being
robbery. There will be a lyncnlns
when the perpetrators are caught.
Tenders of service in the event of
war are coming to the Navy depart
ment from all parts of the earth, not
to speak of all corners of the United
States. They come from Canada and
faraway Johannesburg.
Albert Fl. Verrill, 81 years old, SON
of Professor Verrill, of Yale college,
and himself a graduate of Yale, class
of '93, has confessed to stealing $40, 600
worth of rare specimens of taxidermy
from Peabody institute of Yale
John L. Sullivan, while drunk, fell
off train near Lafayette, Ind. He
was not badly hurt.
The New York delegation in Con-
gress are booming Morton for Pres
ident.
At Houston, Texas, Mike Ryan shot
dead John Dalton, who was unarmed.
John X. Gowdy was reelected chair
man of the Indiana Republican Cen
tral Committee.
The Stanford case was taken up by
the Supreme court and argument for
the Government presented
Insolvent Kentucky distillers were
charged by their assignees with hav-
ing obtained $160,O00 fraudulently.
EX-Minister Scruggs says that the
Venezuelans are distrustful of Eng
lands proposal to arbitrate the bound
ary question.
Phillips Watson, bookkeeper of the
Belle of Nelson Distilling company,
was indicted on a charge of issuing
duplicate warehouse receipts.
Bicyclist Sachtleben has written
from Erzeroum that it seems impossi-
In 10 70 Il
the Turkish murderers of Bicyclist
LEM
A juror in the Keeler murder trial
at Terre Haute, Ind, entered the court
room in drunken condition and was
sent to Jail for contempt.
English residents of johannesburg
threaten another revolt if they are
not freed from what they call their
serf-like situation.
All the bodies of the men killed in
the mine explosion at Taylorstown,
Wales, have been recovered. Fifty-six
men were killed.
A bill has been introduced providing
that no whisky shall be sold to In
dlans who take Government allot-
mentS.
An ice trust is being formed in New
York.
Redfield, S. d. college burned. Loss,
$50, ,00c; insurance, Ss,0
Spanish generals expect to capture
Maceo without much trouble.
Germany is pressing Venezuela for
payment of railway demands.
Mrs. Edmund Tucker, of Yonkers,
n. Y, was choked to death by a
burglar.
Canada is preparing for defense by
spending more money on her militia.
Rose Petite of Decatur, Neb, killed
her lover, John Williams, and has be-
come demented.
Wisconsin will try to send a dele
CATION to st. Louis instructed for John
G. Spooner for President.
Reed and Mckinley factions held
| separate conventions in the Fifth
Louisiana district at Delta.
Potter Palmer of Chicago is talked
| of to succeed Theodore Runyon as am
baSSador to Germany.
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