Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tenn.
New York Senate is to investigate
trusts
Ex-senator Dor sey's wife is dead in
Denver.
Delaware's ''rump' Legislature has
adjourned after issuing a violent man
ifesto.
Boiler of the French steamer Sagha-
lien exploded off the Chinese coast,
killing seventeen hands
Senator Wolcott is getting little sup
port in London for his international
monetary conference.
Germania Safety Vault and Trust
company of Louisville has gone into
the hands of receiver.
Lillian Ashley, who sued Lucky
Baldwin in San Francisco for O,OOO
for seduction, lost her suit.
bill to grant $40 per month pen
sion to Bishop w. Perkins widow has
been favorably reported by Senator
PETER.
Leadville union miners rejected the
final proposition of the managers, al
though Governor Adams and E. ".
Debs approved it.
Cuba fer New York paper. who was
imprisoned by the Spaniards, is dead
in a Havana hospital from an abcess of
the abdomen.
Senator Vest of Missouri has been
formally declared elected for fourth
term in the Senate. Pritcbard was re-
elected in North Carolina and Hans
brough in North Dakota.
Joiner, accused of the murder of five
members of the Cotton family, and
Williams, wife murderer, in one
night. Horrible tortures were inflicted
ON the first two to wiring confessions
from them.
The Cuban League of the United
States is organizing a branch league
IN every city in this country of 5000 or
more inhabitants
Father Hellstern, a deposed priest.
has filed suit for $50, 900 for alleged
slander against Arch bishop Katzer, Of
the diocese of Milwaukee.
The dynamo of the Toronto. Ont.
electric light plant was DESTROYED bv
fire and the streets of that CITY are in
darkness.
The Dodson-Hils Manufacturing
company OF St Louis has filed chat
tel mortgage to secure creditors, and
the firm is in the hands of a trustee.
President Cleveland has refused to
pardon Frank l.. Turner, convicted in
Kansas for counterfeiting, and Thomas
A. Robbins, Jr., of Missouri, sentenced
10 three months imprisonment and
81, 900 fine for conspiracy.
kilograms have been sent bv a San
francisco citizens committee to the
governors of Oregon, Nebraska Wash
lngton, Kansas and Iowa, asking for
contributions toward shipload of
grain to be sent to the starving people
in India.
In refusing an application for par
don for n man convicted of pension
fraud, President Cleveland said:
Those who, through a prostitution of
the pension laws and by forgery. seek
to defraud the government and abuse
It's benevolent intentions toward old
soldiers, need not expect to easily OBJ
tain cIemency at my hands"
Andrew Carnegie and otheI cap-
ltalists have put $4,000, 900 in 400
acres of coal territory on the Monon.
gahela, SO that they can ship out coal
In the empty ore cars at the Carnepie
blast furnaces.
j. Pierpont Morgan and the Wander
bllts who are backing the reorganiza.
tlon committee of the Union Pacific.
Will pay the government S45, ,OOO. 900
for 1T at foreclosure. Uncle Sans net
loss will thus be only $24, 1000, 900.
Bills have been introduced in the
legislatures of both Kansas and Mis-
souri, to soften the punishment for con-
tempt OF court, jury being required
to assess punishment in excess of "a
hours imprisonment or S1oo fine.
Crown Point, Ind, reports pitched
battle between gamekeepers and
poachers on the Tolleston clubs game
preserve, in which Frank Costwick and
theodore Pratt were fatally and
Charles Pratt and Alven BOSWELL Sc
riously wounded. Gamekeeper John
Blackburn was fatally shot.
Ex-Congressman William E. Mason
won the senatorial nomination in the
Illinois Republican legislative caucus
defeating the machine" and scoring
victory for the McKinleyites. Mason
Is the flrst OF the house funny men to
Cox. R. q. Horr, Proctor Knott and
others notably failed of promotion.
a pool in canned salmon is the
latest.
1t is now Senator Charles Warner
Fairbanks of Indiana.
Chicago wants to take in the whole
OF Cook county in a greater Chicago.
The state of Chihuahua, Mex. now
prohibits prize, bull and cock fights.
William E. Jones, a st. Louis theat-
rical man, committed suicide, the re-
suit of dissipation.
Membe. of the Blue Island Ia Chica-
go su burb) fire department are ac-
cused OF starting fires to make their
jobs secure
Jacob Galhnger was reelected sem
ator from New Hampshire over b. w.
Parker tDem.) of Claremont
Queen Vic in her speech at the OPEN
ing OF the British parliament indorsed
the international arbitration treaty.
Pulmonary tuberculosis cases will
be quarantined hereafter in New York
city the same as diphtheria and scar
let fever.
Senator James X. Jones has been re-
turned to the United States Senate by
an overwhelming raaiority in the
Arkansas Legislature.
. Ohio miners wages have been raised
from 45 TO 81 cents Miners in the
Oak Park mines in Iowa have struck
against . proposed redpStiop.