Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-16
LATE NEWS NOTES

James Lewis, the celebrated come
dian, is dead.
Queen Victoria has knighted Il
Hung Chang.
New Orleans had three bank fail
ures in three days
Candee Rubber Company, New
Haven, Conn, has resumed operations.
Sam Allen, Houston. Tex, lumber
dealer, failed for $500, oc0; assets,
300, 900.
Lake Shore express train caught fire
near Goshen, Ind, and much property
In transit was destroyed.
An earthquake of thirty seconds
duration " as felt in Southern Illinois,
Indiana and Kentucky.
M. T. Dowd of ST. LOUIS, chairman
Of the state executive committee of r
the Timetable league, has been de-
posed for alleged coquetry with the
Republican leaders
Indian Commissioner Browning says
the Indians are in better condition
1ow than at any previous time He
| urges division of lands in severalty.
At wedding supper near Bondur-
poisoned by eating ice-cream The
health authorities are investigating.
also at party given by w. l.. Ken
uedy at Guthrie, Ok, fifteen persons
were similarly poisoned
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, "a years
old, has the whooping cough. which
at her age is serious affiiction.
The New York police think they
have Bill Dalton, the notorious West
ern desperado, who has been slain
times without number, located in
Gotham and they are searching for
him A young man supposed to be :
Bill Daltons son is under arrest for
| robbery, and it is believed that Dali
ton, pater, was his accomplice.
The condition of winter and spring
wheat is at against T5.4 in 1895 and
and SO. 6 in 1884, Corn 81.
Charlie Bryan, cashier of the Detroit
custom house, is short Sc, 900 in his
accounts, which he lost in wheat spec
ulation.
Nelson E<ter, negro outlaw, was
killed in the Indian Territory.
Little Mercantile Co., Hot Springs,
Ark, has failed; liabilities, SsO,OO0
EX-President Harrison refuses to
accept the presidency of the Univers-
ity of indianapolis.
Harry Ii. Webb Of San Francisco.
has been selected as John Hays Ham,
mond's successor in the South Africa
gold fields.
Jake Gandaur won the rowing
championship of the world and 81. 500
In addition to the Sportsman cup at
Putney, England.
Deputy Postmaster Boyd of Berwin,
Okla, has been arrested charged with
rifiing the mails of 5000 worth of reg
istered letters.
Mrs. Warren, a Sharptown, Del,
widow, thought the world was coming
to end. and distributed her goods
among her neIghbors. Her predictions
were not verified. and she is now
bringing suit to recover her belong
ings.
The coal miners and coal dealers of
Missouri and Kansas are said to have
com bined and raised prices
General Miles has written book of
his army life.
Eight buildings were destroyed 6y
fire at Hale. Mo. Loss $1,000.
Lizzie Everson. handsome and %
years of age, committed suicide near
St Louis by burning herself to death
in a haystack
The relay bicycle race from San
Francisco to New YORK was completed
in Ii days, 30 minutes and - Sec
onds. Distance covered, 1855 miles.
Jackson and Walling, the convicted
Pearl Bryan murderers, almost es-
capped from jail.
The bimetallic smeltsr at Lead
Vile, Col. employing some 200 men,
has been shut down owing to inabiI-
ity to procure sufficient ore to con-
time in operation. Its daily caDacitv
is about 100 tons.
Kate Fields body will be cremated.
Senator Voorhees, is very i'll at his
home in Terrc Haute
A Carlist outbreak is considered not
impossible in Spain.
The outbreak In the PHILIPPINE
Islands is growing more serious
Sickness led to the suicide of Mrs
John Fitzgerald of Yeddell, Okla.
w. S. kellogg Of Little Rock, Ark.
has patented chainless bicycle.
Whitehead, the Irish dynamiter,
who disappeared after his release
from prison, has been found in Cork,
Percy Gaunt, author of "The Bow.
cry" and many other popular songs,
died penniless in the Catskill mouni
tains.
Preparations are being made for a
strike of all the dock laborers OF the
world.
Sewali Gillian, father of the late
Bernard Gillian. the famous cartoonist,
is dead
Revenue cutters have captured six
schooners within the prescribed limitd
IN the Behring Sea.