Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

/ Idy1or hickman, 13-year-old In
dian boy, is in the Ohio pen for life for
murder.
| Texas courts decide that the gove,-
nor cannot pardon prisoners held for
contempt of court.
| Senior Jose Acufna. Spanish vice con-
sui in New York, was robbed of S2O,-
| 600 in cash and jewels.
Oklahoma's law making it criminal
/ to receive deposits in failing bank is
null and void, never having passed the
! lower house.
The Missouri house adopted strong
resolutions attacking Cleveland for
the course of his administration in ref
erence to Cuba.
! Charles Calender, n veteran actor
/ and one of the pioneers of minstrels,
| died suddenly at the Quincy hotel in
Chicago, aged 81 years.
Arizona people are angry at Con-
| gress for its recent bond action, com
pelling the Arizona Loan commission
to fund 100000 railroad bonds
| III. 5. JONES and other Idaho repre-
| sentatives are making affidavit that
they We're bribed to vote for Henry
Heitfeld for United States senator.
DR.. Nansen will visit the United
| States next fall and deliver a series
of lectures illustrated by the clothing,
| etc, used by him in his Arctic explor-
| alton.
Mrs. Martin Julian, Fitzsimmons'
mother-in-law, is dead in New York,
but neither the husband nor son-in-
law can leave Carson to attend the
| funeral
The appropriation committee OF the
| senate has inserted in the sundrv civil
bill an amendment carrying Sl,0S3. l56
to pay additional sugar bounty claims.
An electric car on the 103d street
line in Chicago was caught between
two Chicago and Eastern railway
trains and three of the occupants
killed and three injured.
Clarence \. Austin of Marion. y. Y.
was made raving maniac as a result
of the hazing he received at the hands
of the sophomore class of the Uni
versity of Rochester.
Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson. wife
of the retiring Vice President of the
United States. was reelected presi-
dent-General of the Daughters of the
American Revolution
Russia has again warned Greece that
her troops must be withdrawn from
| Crete and adds that annexation will
not be permitted. but that Crete NAV
have autonomy under suzerainty of
Turkey.
Women will he admitted to the Cor
bett-Fitzsimmons social
German bank of Tona-
wanda, y. Y. has been forced to close.
Millbank, ;. d.. had Il $50. 600 fire
and Andrew - Nyg was burned to
death.
There is much Indignation in Eng
land over the governments Cretan
policy.
President Cleveland has called the
usual 4th of March extra session of
the Senate.
Corner stone of the new temple of
theosophy was laid at San Diego, Cal.
EN-President Harrison's new baby
has been named Elizabeth, after it's
maternal grandma.
Farmers and lumbermen in Monon-
gahela valley will lose 81 900, 900 by
the recent flood.
EX-President Montt of Chilli is in
America studying up methods to inn
prove the Chilian navy.
The truly good people of Tyler, w.
Va. set fire to a speak-easy and Gre
mated four inmates.
Ex-Auditor of state Eugene V.
Moore of Nebraska has surrendered to
answer to embezzlement
Swedish Vice Consul Palm of Austin,
Texas, has presented Texas university
$4,000 books worth slO0, 900.
President Cleveland has pardoned
two Missourians: Hamilton Z. Baker.
postoffice embezzler, and Henry
Mullaney, fraudulent registration.
President Cleveland has no pity for
viciousness. In refusing to pardon
James Il. Wilson of Indiana he scath-
ingly criticised the plea for mercy for
the vile editor.
Dingley's committee has put tha
rates on lemons, lines and oranges
Eshigher than those of the Mckinley act
Silver Republican Senator'S amt Rep
resentatives have called nasional
committee meeting for June in Chi
cago.
John W. Hart. owner of the Laura
da, was convicted of fitting out a
Cuban expedition.
| Fort Leavenworth, Kan, will be built
| by federal convicts.
A strong anti-gold and national bank
reaolution was passed by the Okla
Iiomd legislature.
Iowa retail dealers in farm machin-
cry have formed a combine to make
the business more profitable.
Miss Montaine. a society young
| woman of Knoxville. Tenn. attempted
suicide by jumoing from hotel win
dow at Bristol, Tenn.
| Six men were almost blown to atoms
and three others fatally mutilated by
the explosion of dynamite cartridge
| dropping into the fire near which they
| were eating dinner a mile south of
Paducah, Ky.
Cholera has broken out along the
relief works in one state of India.
| The fanatical rebels have defeated
Brazilian troops in an important en-
| gagement.
Wisconsin supreme court decided
| compulsory vaccination invalid
| Merchants exchange building, St
Louis, was damaged $50, 900 by fire
| Fitzhugh Lee has resigned as consul
| general at Havana. but will likely re-
main awhile at olney's request
Mrs. Folsom. the three Cleveland
J girl babies and their nurse have moved
TO Princeton. going in railroad presi-
dents private car.
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