Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-02
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

Spain is arranging a new war loan
Japan wouldn't have Hawaii as n
gift.
Chicago's population according to
the new directory is about /, 500. 600.
Butte. Mont, has organized a Wig
lance committee to drive out the -'ho-
boeS.r
Cotton industries in the East will
not operate during June, July and
August.
| Frank McCoppin, postmaster of San
Francisco. died from a surgical opera
ton.
Consul General Lee cables that re-
lief supplies now on hand are ample
for some time.
One thousand striking tailors in New
York gained their point and returned
| to work.
Gen. Gomez, the Cuban commanders
in-chief. is coming up to see President
Mckinley.
Only half of the $500, coo appropri-
ated by Congress for Mississippi flood
sufferers has been used.
The government will pay $40. 900 for
the steamship City of Everett to carry
grain to famine stricken India.
mends the resembling of the order to
consolidate pension agencies.
Jesse Grant rendered a bill of 1859
to the city of New York for expenses
incident to his attendance at the
Grant dedication as the citys guest.
DIR. G. II. Griffith, a promoter of
high sounding companies, has swim
died whole lot of New York in
veStorS.
Bank President John +. johnson of
the wrecked State National bank at
Logansport, Ind, stole S34O, 900 and
lost it in speculation.
The reichstag has adopted a credit
of 10000, 900 marks for the purpose of
| rearming the German artillery with
improved field pieces.
Buffalo Calf, chief of the Quapaws,
and one of the best known Indians in
the northern part of the territory, is
dead of pneumonia.
Rev. A. 6. Harrison and family dis
appeared from Washington, ID. c., and
the parson is $1,000 short with the
Peoples tabernacle.
A third suicide has resulted from the
failure of the National Bank of Illinois
in Chicago, Alexander Il. Beckett,
clerk, being the latest.
Ex-Congressman p. j. Sorg and Con-
gresham Lenz are out as candidates
for governor of Ohio and John r. Nc
Lean for the Senate to succeed Mark
Hanna.
The United States supreme court has
sustained the will of Mrs. Catherine
Garcelon, which means SlOO, 600 to
Bowdoin college in Maine and $780,
600 hospital in Oakland, Cal.
Jacob Conrad. Joseph Bolum and
Carl Elsteben of Chicago entered q
whisky drinking contest with the re-
suit that Conrad is dead, Bolum is
dying and Eisteben in a critical condi-
tion.
Charles Burdett Hart of West Vir-
ginia has been appointed minister to
Colombia, John g. Thompson of Him
ois, and James Edmund Boyd of North
Carolina assistants attorney general.
Booth Tucker, commander of the
Salvation army, was convicted of main
tanning a disorderly house at the big
barracks on West Ninth street. New
York. Neighbors could not stand the
noise.
While thawing dynamite TO blow up
stumps at Hermanntown, Minn Frank
Lucek, a farmer, caused an explosion
which killed himself and two sons,
fatally injured another son, hurt his
wife and burned the house
Rev. Charles Parkhurst is sick bed
from overwork.
Specie payments have been sus.
pended in Guatemala.
Mississippi's governor vetoed the
new state house bill.
The government is after the iron
pipe trust in the South.
Rev. W. NJ. Hicks, formerly of St.
Joseph, is insane in New York.
Congress has freed to knock out
Cleveland's recent forestry reserve
order
Four men were killed in an explo-
sion which wrecked CasweIl's mills at
Lowelltown, Me.
, Tecumseh, Okla, negroes have all
been warned to leave the country and
are in abject terror.
Only two of the seven Cherokee In
) dian commissioners favor treating with
the Dawes commission.
: Col. 7. III. Rosser, a well known Mis-.
souri, Confederate leader, is dead at
Dallaston, Ala, aged so.
President Mckinley sent congrat-
ulatory message to Queen Victoria on
, her 18th birthday, May "a.
{ The United States Supreme court
says the Interstate Commerce COM
, mission has no power to fix rates
Mrs. St John, New York artist,
won her suit against Chicago street
J car company for s25. 900 damages.
Edwin II. Conger of Iowa has been
appointed minister to Brazil and John
K Brooke promoted to major general.
Seuator Cullom has introduced q bill
, to legalize pooling and make a general
revision of the Interstate commerce.
law.
Expert Kruger while doing the
William Tell act at Berlin by shooting
backwards by aid of mirror killed
his sister.
Albert and Perry Neale, aged i3 and
II, of Newton, Iowa. quarrelled over
pet bird, and the younger boy shot
his brother dead.
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