Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-07


United Mine Workers of America in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Vir-
| ginia and Illinois has been ordered for
July by the national executive board,
whose headquarters are in Columbus,
o., and also by the district presidents.
| A SWEEPING reduction has been made
in the wages of the employees in the
shops of the Santa Fe-Pacific railroad
from Albuquerque, n. NJ, to Los
Angeles. Cal. The reductions were
accepted by the men.
! A HEAD-END collision occurred on
the Vandalia line early the other
morning at Vandalia, Ill, which re-
suited in the death of two men and
the serious injuring of two others.
One of the engineers had misread his
orders.
JACOB LEVI was crushed by the cars
at Cairo, Ill, the other night. He was
| an old man and made his bed under a
car and it was moved by switch
engine.
THOMAS J. KENNEY, master-at-arms
of the battleship Indiana, was muir
dered the other night on the ship as it
lay at its moorings at the brooklyn
navy yard, by Philip Carter, marine,
who, without word of warning,
plunged bayonet blade up to its hilt
in his back. Carter had been drink
ing and was severely reprimanded.
This led to the murder.
The fiscal court of Franklin county,
KY, has purchased the Lawrenceburg
and Frankfort turnpike for S5, 900 and
the Shelbyville and Frankfort road for
So, 800 and the tollgates have been re-
moved. The sales of the roads were
forced by the turnpike raiders, who
have fired and dynamited many of the
toll houses and threatened the keepers
GEN. WEYLER expects to fight great
pitched battle upon the plains of Cam
aguey, Cuba, when he meets Gen. Gar
cia, the result of which may be the
turning point in the war.
In a drunken quarrel at Carbondale,
Col, William McAlvey shot and dan
gerously wounded H. L. McFadden and
badly injured William Pauley. Meal
J vey then defied arrest and citizens pur-
sued him and he was finally killed.
Mrs. PAULINE WEITMEIER and her
daughter committed suicide together
at Owensboro, KY, by taking carbolic
acid. They were in comfortable cir
CulnSIdnceS
The Indian governments steamer
Mayo, sent out in search of the missing
steamer Alden, from Yokohama for
: London, has reported that the Alden
was totally lost off the island of So
1 cotra at the eastern extremity OF
Africa, on the morning of June9 9. The
, Mayo saved nine of the Aden's passen-
gers and three of the white and 33 OF
the natives of the steamers crew, but
! the rest were lost.
THE state convention of the liberty
l (prohibition) party at Lincoln, Neb,
on the 30th nominated Mrs. Sarah A.
! Wilson, of Lincoln, associate Justice OF
the supreme court.
: A PITTSBURGH, Pa, dispatch said
, that all the union iron mills in AL
legheny county, the tin plate plants
and sheet mills, would close and re.
main closed until the wage scales
: were settled.
t Two women delegates to the Chris
tian Endeavor convention were killed
q and about 23 others injured in rear
S end collision on the Chicago & North
r western road at West Chicago. Ar
unknown man was also killed.
The democrats in state convention
f at Columbus, o., on the 3Oth nominated
: Robert L. Chapman for governor. The
t delegates were for John r. Mclean fol
= senator
4 SCHRAEDER, the reputed divine
i. healer, has announced that Lincoln
Neb., would be his home for an indefi
mite period, and that he would hea
4 the ailments of $1,000 people before he
u left.
A DYNAMITE explosion blew up tn,
= business block of Leon Olchofski anC
: several dwellings at South Scranton
, Pa, on the 29th and thewrecked build
= ingS took fire. The shock was felt al
y over the city and many houses had win
dows blown out and plaster torn from
the walls. Several persons were badly
hurt. The cause of the explosion wa
unknown, but Olchotski alleges that i
> was the work of enemies he had mad,
!, in certain troubles at the Polish Cath
e Ollie church.
8 The house of George Copeland a
Cadillac, Mich. was struck by light
l. ming on the 3Oth and his wife, his sis
Y ter and her little child were killed.
t JUDGE THOMAS NJ. COOLEY, the note,
l. authority on constitutional law, ha
e become a hopeless invalid at AM
}, Arbor, Mich. and his loss of memor,
l. has been followed by deep melancholy
n ARTHUR GARDINER, of Chicago, in tn
5. races of the national bicycle meet a
r Springfield. Ill, on the 29th broke tn
worlds one mile handicap record, hi
is time being 2:05 Is, the worlds previ
l. GUS record being 2:05 S-5.
$. THE National Grain Dealers associa
e tion met in annual convention at De
Is Moines, Ia, on the 30th. At the nigh
d session II. b. Hiatt of Nashville, Kan.
% made remarks on the grain trade il
- that state.
- THE New York Journal and Adver
= tiser announced that John L. Sullivan
recently got on drunk and that Mul
j. doom, his trainer, was very much dis
=. gusted and put out over it. Sullivan
,s contended, however. that he would b
!, in good shape to meet Fitzsimmons OF
= July 5.
ROBERT j. PowLEY was electrocute
at Auburn, n. Y, on the goth for tn
= murder of his wife at Niagara Falls ol
II March s.
81 The rumored corner in july whea
~ at Chicago has stifled speculation a
~ St Louis, shorts being apprehensive o
- a squeeze, and the Chicago quotation
We're being watched with anxiety.
le DURING a sudden thunderstorm a Dol
le OF lightning entered by the window o
a the farm house of Henrv RobrS nao