Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-08

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him on condition that the two societies |
would raise 1896, 900.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party went |
to Columbus, o., on the Sd as guests of |
the Ohio state board of agriculture. |
After luncheon the president went |
to the fair grounds, where he addressed |
the school children from many parts of
the state, all of whom had been invited |
by card.
On the Sd the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers
agreed to recommend to the striking
miners a proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for straight price of
65 cents a ton. to continue in force
until the end of the year, and circu-
lar has been issued TO that effect call
ing for delegate convention of all
miners who have suspended work to
meet at Columbus, o., September g.
This proposition, it was thought, will
end the coal strike.
A CALL for a convention of all labor
organizations has been issued to meet
at Chicago on September 81. This was
made in pursuance of the action of the
recent labor conference at st. Louis.
SHERIFF BAGLEY, with the regular
police force and eight sworn deputies,
made raid on the tramps and over
400 were driven out of Arcola, Ill.
They had caused much annoyance in
plundering gardens and fields of eat
ables.
The Madison elevator at Madison,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire the other
night, entailing loss of about 800, ,000
DIsARRANGEMENT of the block signal
system led to freight train running
head on into a passenger train stand
ing at Floral park, on the Long Island
railroad, and four passengers were
badly injured.
WORD was received by Mrs. John
Brechtel on the Sd at Tacoma, WASH,
from her husband at Sandon. B. c.,
that the people were fleeing for their
lives from the town on account of
cholera.
ROBERT HENRY, colored, was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla. on the 2d, for the
murder of his wife in February, 1896.
The New York vestibule train on
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
railroad, which left Syracuse, n. V,
at nine o'clock on the morning of the
I'd, jumped the track at Blodgett's
Mills and plunged through the station
buildings. The locomotive, baggage
car and two coaches went entirely
through the structure. Mrs. j. ii. Nc
Quillan. of Philadelphia. was killed
and II other passengers were more or
less injured. The accident was caused
by n broken rail.
The principal point brought out in
the trial on the I'd of Luetgert, the
| Chicago osausage-makera accused of max
ing away with his wife in one of his
watts, was his Indifference at her disap-
pearance and his not having reported
anything to the police or assisted them
in any way in clearing up the mystery.
JIMMY MICHAEL broke the American
hour paced record on the I'd at Detroit,
Mich. The broken record was 81 miles,
1,020 yards and ten inches and was made
by Lesna at Boston. Michael covered
32 miles and 1,O2O yards.
THE surface of the Mississinewa
river at Somerset. Ind. was reported
to be covered with dead fish. the stencil
from which was almost unendura BILE.
The mortality among the fish was sup
posed to be due to paper mill refuse
dumped into the stream above.
j. X. GORIN was found dead in bed al
Decatur, H., on the I'd. He was almost
so years old. He was grand master OF
the grand lodge of Illinois in 1867 and
1868 and was the oldest living past
grand master in the Masonic order.
SMITH KELLUM, a prominent stock
man of Greer county. Ok, was shot
and killed by sheepman who claimed
mis- range. The latter was shot by
Kellum but will recover.
HERMAN MACK, who is charged a
New York with the murder of William
Guldensuppe. has made a statement il
which he says that his wife has beer
, making a living for years through il
legal operations involving the murder
of children. He said that she was
so-called midwife, but that she neve1
had diploma.
SETH Low has been nominated TO
mayor of Greater New York by tn,
Citizens union.
A GUTHRIE, Ok. dispatch on the Is
said that the Otoe and Missouri tribe
of Indians had had the Sac and Fo!
tribe for their guests for a week pas
and had just closed a grand green corr
. dance, which had been in progress ST:
days and nights During the progress
of the dance number of braves wen
through the tribal divorce ceremon,
4 and divorced themselves of their sur
I plus wives in order to comply with tn
: territorial law, which prohibits theI
from having more than one wife.
. ROBERT WILSON and u. r. Hall, stock
! men living in the western part of Gus
;. ter county, Ok, quarreled over tn
boundaries of their ranges. The Ii
, was passed and both drew weapon
and fired. Wilson was instantly kille
and Hall was placed under arrest.
A REPORT came from the Indian tel
4 ritory, near Spavinaw creek, that thre
, men entered the house of woma
= there, robbed and then murdered hel
but before they could get away
neigh Dor appeared and killed all thre
. of the robbers.
THE democratic state convention a
. Reading, Pa. passed a resolution,
29O to 134, indorsing James NJ. Guffe
Z for national committeeman and depo
ing William T. Harrity from the pos
;. ton over his protest
;. THE bad feeling between whites an
p blacks at Leonard, Mineral Well
r High Lake, Cleburne and other place
o. in Texas is growing in bitterness an
Z is engaging the attention of the stat
d Off cisls and all the peace officers