Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-22
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of Denver, Col has discovered sure
cure for cattle fever by dipping.
Should this prove true, the cattle mar
ket will experience a revolution, as
stock will be shipped north during the
states and territories that handle cat
tie has been called at Fort Worth, Tex,
on September 81 to examine the cure
AT crossing over the track of the
Versailles & Midway railroad near
Versailles, KY, train struck a car
riage containing Ambrose Fl. Wilson
and j. w. Bridges, killing the former.
The latter jumped in time to save him
self.
THREE daughters of Preston Howard
were burned to death at Port Alma,
Can, on the shore of Lake Erie.
GEN. LUQUE reported to Gen. Weyler
that his column of 5000 soldiers had
utterly destroyed 1900 farms in the
province of Santiago de Cuba. The
country people on the farms were
obliged to march with the soldiers and
afterwarded were herded around Man
zanillO as concentrates. Officially
only 100 were reported as arriving at
Manzanillo. The others, numbering
over 1000, are not mentioned in Gen.
Luque's dispatch. News from Cuban
sources said that they were shot by the
column.
PRIVATE advices received at San
Francisco convey the information that,
after two days of hard fighting, tho
garrison of Barrios' soldiers at Quezal-
tenango succumbed to superior num-
bers, and the revolutionists are mas
ters of the situation in Guatemala.
This is understood as the equivalent
to the end of the career of Barries as
dictator of the Central American re-
public.
FRANCES BROWN, aged five years, died
recently at Evansville, Ind. Her sis
ter died few days before and little
Frances grieved necessarily for her
and at last took to her bed. The phy-
sicians pronounced it case of broken
heart, as the child was perfectly we'll
in all other respects.
THE Jackson Hill coal mine in Sulli-
van county, Ind, was destroyed by fire
early the other morning, causing a loss
of $50, 900 and preventing 800 men from
working. There was suspicion of in
cendiarism about The matter.
ABOUT one o'clock a. m. of the 18th a
large body of men on horseback en-
tered Versailles, Ind, and called out
Jailer Kennan and demanded the keys
of the Jail. He refused to give them
up and was overpowered and the mob
pushed the way into the cell rooms and
fired on Lyle Levi, Bert Andrews, Cliff
| ford Gordon, William Jenkins and
Henry Shuler, under arrest for many
recent robberies, and then dragged
them to a tree square from the Jail
door and hanged them.
THE work of collecting evidence for
the inquest on the bodies of the strik.
ers shot by deputy sheriffs at Halle
ton, Pa, is being prosecuted by the
strikers representatives and the sec
retary of the Hungarian consulate at
Philadelphia. The warrants sworn out
for the arrest of the deputies will not
be served while the militia is on the
ground.
THROUGH a misunderstanding of sig
nails the steamer Catskill was run into
by the excursion boat st. Johns and
sunk in the North river near New
York. The st. Johns had 900 excur.
sionists on board and there was a
regular panic amongst them and some
jumped overheard. One boy was
drowned and two women were reported
missing.
A LARGE number of coal mines in the
Pittsburgh, Pa, district started up or
the 14th.
THE Peoples Gaslight & Coke Co.. OF
Chicago, has given a mortgage on it:
plant of $40, 600. 900 to the Farmers
Loan & Trust Co., of New York.
Two electric cars at Chicago collided
early on the morning of the 14th wher
they were full of passengers and many
persons were seriously injured. The
motorman and another man will die Of
their injuries. One car had left the
double track and got on to the single
track and it was not noticed on account
of a mist.
GUsTAvE PABsT, son of the Mil
waukee brewer, was married on the
i4th to Miss Hilda Lemp, daughter O.
the st. Louis brewer. The ceremony
took place at Ventor, Isle of Wright
The bridegroom was previously mar
ried to Margaret Mather, the actress
from whom he was recently divorced.
WHISKY, pistols and razors came int
SO much prominence at a big negro
church meeting near Seneca, S. c..
that Sheriff Moss and dozen deputies
arrested six of the principals. One
man is said to have been shot through
the brain, two were mortally cut anC
several others were seriously wounded
Each of the six prisoners had from on
to six revolvers.
OSCAR GARDNER, the Kansas Cit,
featherweight, had 20-round go Will
Tommy Dixon, of Rochester, n. Y, be
fore the Rochester Athletic club, and
although Gardner did not knock ou
Dixon, Gardner was given the decision
which met with general approval.
Four cases of yellow fever were re
ported at Mobile, Ala. on the l4th
Business at jackson, Miss, was at
standstill on account of suspicion
cases of fever being reported at Ed
wards, 25 miles distant, and jackson
was surrounded by an armed guard
Many new cases of the plague wer
also reported at New Orleans and ad
jacent cities.
SAMUEL. NJ. JONES, a veteran of tn
soldiers home at Quincy, Ill, who wa
at Canton, ILL.,, on furlough, was rul
down by a train on the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad and his re
mains scattered along the track 70
200 yards.
JOHN HUDMAN, prominent farme
living near Stephens, Ark, and Ii
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