Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-29

will foot up between $50, 900 and S75,-
900.
DISPATCH from Bonn BAY on the Gath
stated that the bubonic plague was
again active and wide area was af-
fected, owing to the withdrawal of
the medical officers tor service with the
troops in the rebellion on the frontier
NOAH JOHNSON. aged %, waylaid Miss
Tacy Mang, aged Is, while she was on
her way to school at Gas City, Ind,
and blew her brains out They were
lovers and had quarreled the previous
evening.
The Madrid Correspondence de Es-
pana asserts that proceedings are on
between the United States and Spain
for friendly settlement of affairs in
Cuba
The John Gund Brewing Co.'s plant
at Lacrosse, Wis, was DESTROYED by
fire on the Esd. Over Il, 900 barrels of
beer, 5000 bushels of barley and sew
eral car loads of malt were consumed.
The loss exceeded $500, 900
THE strike on all the school build
ings of Chicago has ended, the board
adopting the report of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labor
clause in all building contracts
The annual entry of King Ak-Sar-
Ben into Omaha was made in the pres
ence of $4,000 people on the night of
the 23d. The parade was the most
pretentious yet given by the knights
of Ak-Sar-Ben. 1t contained 30 floats,
depicting scenes in the history of the
Kingdom of Quivera.
A DANCE by young people at Dobbins,
near Birmingham, Ala, closed with
the death of Miss Mary Jackson, whose
throat was cut by Miss Louise Woods,
one of the most popular girls in the
neighborhood. jealousy was the cause.
AT Saline q. IT, courthouse David
Ridge, sheriff of the district, and Jesse
Sunday, sheriff-elect, both Indians,
and Thouas b. White were killed in a
drunken row by Samson Bait The
murderer was arrested.
JUNGLE" JIMMY LANE, one of the old
EST residents of Chicago, died on the
I'D of old age, being 1O2 years old.
THE plague at Bombay was reported
On the 22d as increasing.
THE works of the Youngstown (O0
Bridge Co. were destroyed by fire the
other morning. Loss, 500, 900. About
200 men were thrown out of employ
ment.
THE Clyde line steamer Oneida,
which sank in her slip at New York,
was raised on the 22d and her cargo
removed.
A TORPEDO boat capsized and sank off
the Hamburg coast and eight of her
crew were drowned, including her
commander, Duke Frederick William
| of Mecklenburg-Schw
Two men held up the cashier of the
Merchants bank of Wooster. Ind,
while he was working at night over
escaped.
BY the bursting of flywheel at the
Providence (R. IL Rubber Shoe Co. two
men were killed and several Others
were injured.
A TORNADO swept over Sava. Oria and
Latiano, Italy, the other day. Forty
persons were killed, 72 people were
wounded, 20 houses were DESTROYED and
telegraphic communication with the
scene was cut off.
NEWS was brought to San Francisco
by the steamer City of Peking that the
Hawaiian senate had unanimously
ratified the treaty for the annexation
of the Hawaiian islands to the United
| States.
WILLIAM TRIFT. aged 80. employed
on the government tug boat Alpha
from Cairo, Ill, was taken to the Ma
rine hospital at st. Louis on the 21st
as yellow fever patient from Cairo.
WHILE Charles and Philip Mas were
loading wagons with sand near Rock
port, Ind. the bank caved in and
Charles was taken out dead and Philip
was thought to be fatally injured.
The famous PAGERS, John R. Gentry
and Robert j., hitched together, on
the 22d lowered the worlds dou BILE team
record for a mile to 200 at Philadel-
phia. The quarters were: :3S, 1:O4X
1897, 2:o9 The previous record was
/ 2:094, held by Mrs w. E. ID. Stokes
Miss Rita and Josie B.
THE Glover Leaf railway has given
an order at Sloan Springs, Ark, for
a shipment of 80, 900 barrels of apples
to New York commission house
COMMANDER BooTH-TUCKER has Sc
terey county. Cal, and a Salvation
| COlOnN Will SOOu Oe eSLa 0lISle0
near Soledad.
THE sawmill of j. W. Day & Co. at
| Minneapolis. Mimi, was burned on the
22d. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $40. 600.
The fire department managed to save
$50, 600, 600 feet of lumber.
DISPATCH from Madrid to the Paris
Temps stated that Gen. Woodford had
delivered an ultimatum to the Spanish
government that if Spain did not end
the war in Cuba during the month OF
October the United States would inter
fere.
THE negotiations with the Shoshones
and Bannocks for the purchase of a
part of the Fort Hall reservation in
Idaho is off, the government refusing
to pay S4 per acre for it
IT was rumored at London that
Prince Alexander, of Teck, may be.
come the husband of Miss May Goelet,
daughter of the late Ogden Goelet, OF
New York.
In head-end collision on the Georria
& Alabama railroad near Americus,
Ca, an engineer and fireman were
killed and a conductor dangerously
wounded. The two engines were to
tally wrecked, together with 12 box
cars
THE Austrian steamer Ika collided
with the British steamer Tiria in the
port of Fiume, Austria, and the former
vessel was sunk and most of the pas.
sengers were drowned in full view of
thousands who crowded the pier in the