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

Rev. Charles Parkhurst is sick a 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 agreed to knock out
Cleveland's recent forestry reserve
order.
-Four men were killed in an explo-
sion which wrecked Caswelrs 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. I. III. Rosser, a well known Mis-.
souri, Confederate leader, is dead at
Dallaston, Ala, aged so.
President Mckinley sent a 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
car company for S.5,ooO damages.
Edwin ii. Conger of Iowa has been
appointed minister to Brazil and John
+. Brooke promoted to major general.
Senator Cullom has introduced a bill
so 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 IS and
II, of Newton, Iowa, quarrelled over
a pet bird, and the younger bow shot
his brother dead.
w. f. Mittman, a Chicago dancing
master, shot himself and then threw
himself from the Chamber of Com
merce building, thirteen stories.
Richard I. Grant, the literary re-.
cluse, died in New York.
Jake Gaudaur is still the champion.
ship oarsman of America, although he
defeated Erastus Rogers by length
and half only at Ori1lia, Ont.
Nephews of Firearms Manufacturer
Colt are suing at Hartford, Conn, for
81. 200, 900 interest in his estate. They
make serious charges against his
widow.
Mrs. Winifred Martin of California,
aged "A, left several hundred Thousand
dollars to Catholic prelates and schools
but neglected to leave her poor rela-
tives anything.
Nineteen hundred telephone COM
panies have taken steps to organize
for protection and to fight the Bell
company.
May Campbell, variety actress in
St Louis. heard her husband plan to
elope with Maud Devere, so she put
five bullets into her husband and one
into the girl. The husband will die.
The Presbyterian assembly applaud
ed the announcement that the attor-
ney general had refused to allow a
grant for a Catholic chapel at West
Point deciding it Illegal. although
himself Catholic
A flood at Ell Paso, Texas, rendered
hundreds of families homeless A big
levee gave way and people had to fy
Tor their lives in the middle of the
night The Rio Grande is higher than
it has been before since 1891. The
business part of the city may be in
undated.
An explosion partially ruined Ar
moui & CO. new six-story pepsin fac
toryin Chicago. Loss, SIS, 0O9.
A further shortage of $40. 900 was
discovered in the wrecked State Ma
tional bank of Logansport, Ind,