Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-05
NUMBER SO.
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Chilli and Brazil have formed a peace
alliance.
The Iowa elevator burned at Peoria,
ILL.,; loss 5000, 900.
The 26th was Confederate Memorial
day in mississippi and Alabama
Peter Maher knocked out Steve
O'Donnell in the sixth round in Phila-
delphia.
Isaac n. Hounsel, Trenton, n. J..
merchant, died while praying over his
sons grave.
Democrats refuse to allow the tariff
bill to be reported direct from the SEN
ate subcommittee.
The Maher-Sharkey battle is to come
off in New York between May % and
June 10 for $4,000.
General Weyler's war policy is caus-
ing the greatest distress and misery
and starvation in Cuba
A baseball revolt is brewing. The
Chicago players are heading a move
ment against the magnates-
| John A. Dittman killed his mistress,
Nellie Berg, in Detroit, and then
crossed to Windsor and killed himself.
The case against Lieutenant Eloff.
President Kruger's grandson, for
slandering Queen Victoria, was dis
missed.
Arnold Hallen, q Chicago book
keeper, shot himself and then Jumped
out of window, being determined to
end his life.
Rev. DR.. Pullman of the Second
Universalist church of Baltimore has
retired after twenty years pastorate.
| Ia & % @1ea
Banker Charles w. Spalding of Chi
cago was offered bond if he would re-
noun"e Sarah Louise Erwin and return
to his wife, but he preferred illicit love
to liberty.
When Grants tomb was dedicated
over ], 900 900 people turned out, SIS, 900
soldiers were in line. President Nc
Kinley, members of Congress and the
diplomatic corps took part in the cere-
monies and all states and all govern
ments were represent ted at the unveil-
ing.
Presidential nominations: c. NJ.
Barnes, governor of Oklahoma; w. R
Day of Ohio, first assistant secretary
of state; Bellamy Storer of Ohio, min
ister to Belgium; Asa G. Sharp of Ma
ryland, to be agent ut the Ponca,
Pawnee and Otoe agency.
Paul Holy Track and Philip Ireland,
Indian boys, have confessed the MUIR
der of the Spicer family in Emmons
county, North Dakota, and implicate
Black Hawk and Cadotte. The fends
got but So.
D. nocratic leaders at Washington
express the opinion that nothing that
Cleveland says makes much difference
politically.
The floods have aligned levee and
anti-levee parties in Congress. The
question probably will receive atten-
tion next winter.
Governor Jones convened the Arlxan-
sas Leg:s ature in extraordinary ses-
sion. His message urges the prompt
creation of a railroad commission.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand Philippine ISL
ands insurgents are strongly in
trenched in the mountains, holding
Spain's troops back.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, vice presi-
dent of the Sugar trust, is dead.
Policeman j. Pierce Of Washington
is under arrest for burglarizing two
houses on his beat
River at Alexandria, Mo, is 10 miles
, wide and rising. Six hundred families
) have been driven out.
: A cloudburst at Eufaula, l. T.,
caused fearful damage. The North
Canadian river rose 20 feet in less than
hour.
a st. Joseph, Mo-, telegra phi opera
tor is said TO be responsible for the
airship excitement. He released lot
I of gas bags with red lights attached
r to them.
E The retroactive clause of the Ding,
tar xr-tfl 6a fri In, -
Senlte.
The trucks of freight engine col
lapsed in Iowa, ditching TWENTY-FIVE
!, cars and fatally injuring the engineer.
Detectives had a desperate fight
. with negro robbers in a freight Gu,
= near Detroit. Charles Mahoney, one
of the detectives, will die
An explosion in the London under
ground railway at Aldersgate station
demolished the station and manned
d ten persons
,t publican senators decided to &C
e cept the plan of the opposition fol
IL committee reorganization.
): The Choctaws and Chickasaws hav,
y decided to accept the DAVIS commission
plan of allotment, etc.
The British bark Tamaria wit
twenty-one persons on board is givei
y up foi lost.
- Three prisoners escaped from tn
70 Harrisonville, Mo-, Jail by a cleve
q ruse.
- Rev. Farrar, Pennsylvani
preacher, was expelled from tn
church He confessed adultery.
Ed Newcomb, the much-hunted out
'e law OF Oklahoma and Indian Terri
D tory, is under arrest at Vinita.
+ Mrs Hovey of Michigan butchers
9. her so-year-old mother-in-law with a.
D, ak and then cremated the body.
Mabel Haines. the actress, wa
awarded $4,000 against a Cnicag
hotel fer damages sustained in a fold
y ing bed.
10 Major Thomas E. Breckenridge, las
i survivor of Fremonts transcontinenta
Il expedition, is dead at Hannibal, No.
20 Government engineers warn riparia
dwellers in the lower Mississippi va
ley that the worst of the food is
~ come.
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