Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-04-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The United States supreme ccnrt re-
fuses to release Broker Chapman, who
refused to testify in the Senatorial
sugar investigation.
Fred Walhaupter, Ed Nav and Will
| lam Turner were killed in a snowslide +,
at the Consolidated Mining company's
mines near Brigham City, Utah.
Five hundred employees of the Amer
lean Tube and Iron company at
Youngstown, Ohio, are on a strike
| against reduction of ten per cent in
wages.
Joseph E. Kelly, who murdered
Cashier Stickney at Somersworth. N.
a., was captured, dressed in woman's
clothes, in house of i'll repute in
Montreal.
Albert E. Cont, an immigration in
spector at Philadelphia was fired for
eloping with the wife of f. Grimm, q
treasury department clerk at Wash.
ington.
Frank Brown. Davis, L T., negro,
murdered Charles Mccormick for
few dollars and was captured buried
in sand pile, only his woolly head
| sticking out.
! Ex-State Treasurer Joseph BARLEY
waived preliminary hearing at Lincoln,
| Neb., and was bound over to court in
| the sum of $50, 900 to answer for en-
bezzling S5O0,OO0.
Maria Ewing Martin got Judgment
for SIS, 900 damages against the Third
Avenue Street Railway company in
New York for the death of her father,
General Tom Ewing.
DIR. Angel goes to Turkey, not as
regular minister, but on a special mis-
sion, to force that government to pay
indemnity for the outrages perpetrated
on American missionaries.
Japanese delegates to the postal
congress at Washington say Japan is
not after Hawaii and would make no
objection to annexation of Hawaii to
the United States.
Extinguishment of the tribal sover-
eighty system is in sight After Jam
uary l next, the United States Terri
torial courts have exclusive jurisdiction
in the Indian Territory. Two judges
will be appointed.
Bryan is to make fifteen speeches in
the First Missouri Congressional dis
| trict. Ex-Governor Stone and Champ
Clark aree also down for speeches.
James T. Lloyd of Shelby county will
have the Democratic nomination for
Congress The election is on June 1.
Kirksville. Mo-, is excited by an in
fant murder mystery.
Congressman Meyer of Louisiana
says that If the cane fields of Louisiana
are submerged there will be no profit
able crop for three years.
1t Is charged that 500, Ooo, 900 set
aside for Indian famine sufferers has
been misappropriated by English off,
| aio1c rho lie ~ fha ol,, -,
the case of Warren Hastings
Chicago now proposes to spend S.
900, 600 in identifying the lake front.
Rev. Wilbur G. Williams, McKin-
ley's old pastor at Columbus, is dead at
St Louis.
Gladstone is very severe on the
rulers of Germany and Russia for their
action in the Cretan imbroglio.
Women are to be admitted to Drake
university at Des Moines hereafter,
and students who insult them will be
expelled.
President Mckinley has laid down
the law to Dick Kerens to the effect
that there must be harmony or no fed
sral plums will fall to Missouri.
The federation's convention at Ade-
laide, South Australia, by vote Of %
to 12, rejected an amendment to allow
women to vote for members of the
house of representatives.
B. p Waggener of Atchison, Kan,
general attorney for the Missouri Pa
cific, proposes to prosecute Representa-
tive Keefer of Leavenworth for Grim
inal libel, for charging him with
boodling.
Joseph X. Yeater, a pioneer mer.
chant of Sedalia, is dead.
New York Tribune declares that
there is prospect of gold exports in the
near future.
There is a growing feeling among
the Democrats of the House against
the Bailey policy of acquiescence in
adjournment after adjournment pend
ing the House debate on the tariff
bill.
The free silver Republicans are not
pleased with the Presidents monetary
commission selections.
Germany hereafter will permit only
a brief stay there of any Germans
naturalized in America who may visit
that country.
The engagement of Miss Jane Camp.
bell of New York to Prince Carlo de
Faustino of Italy declared off for some
unknown reason.
Lucky Baldwin placed mortgages
for 81 600 600 on his California prop
erty in favor of the Hibernia bank OF
San Francisco.
Officers of the Citizens street rail.
way of indianapolis have been in
dicted for the violation of the g. cent
fare law.
Charles w. Spalding, ex-treasurer OF
the University of Illinois, has been ar
rested or the charge of embezzlement
of university funds.
William Dawson, sr., president, and
Robert L. Miller, assistant cashie r,
are under arrest charged with wreck
ing the Bank of Minnesota of St Paul.
The London Chronicle saws the ar
rangements for the queens diamond
jubilee ''savors of q carnival of Ameri-
can millionaires and a triumph OF
fiunkeyhm, rather than a proper tri
butte"
The drift toward war with ths
Transyaal is heartily welcomed by
most classes of Englishmen.