Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-16

society lady of Pueblo, Col, was
fatally burned by the explosion of
can of benzine with which she was
cleaning furniture. Her son was also
badly burned in trying to save her.
THOMAS NEAL, living in Chester
county, S. c., drove his wife away
from home in jealous fit and she
went to live with her grandmother.
Neal afterward went to the place and
broke in the door, split his wife's skull
with an AK, killed the grandmother
with the same weapon and shot an
other woman who was present. He
then poured oil on the bodies, burned
the house down and escaped.
! GEORGE SHARoN and Ben Billings be-
came involved in an alteration in
saloon at Alta, Cal, and had fight.
Sharon struck Billings with his fist
and broke the latter's neck, killing
him instantly.
| AT the session of the national credit
men at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 10th
James G. Cannon, of New York, was
elected president and H. f. Chilean, of
New Orleans, vice president. Resolu-
tions were adopted urging congress to
pass law empowering the president
to appoint monetary commission.
A NIGHT freight ran into a washout
at Fernald's culvert, near Exeter, n.
Ii. The locomotive and seven cars
were demolished and three men killed.
CHARLES CHADWICK, a railroad en-
gineer, and Frank Sparks a young
man about town, charged with running
young girls, were taken to the out
skirts of the city by the citizens of
Missoula, Mont, the other night and
given a coat of tar and feathers and
warned not to return to the city.
Two freight trains collided near
Bradford. Tenn, and two trainmen
were fatally hurt and several others
badly injured.
A DESPERATE battle took place at
Whiting, Ind, the other day between
eight tramps, who had taken possess
sion of Michigan Southern freight
house, and two police officers, during
which two of the tramps were wound
ed. The tramps had refused to vacate
the building when requested.
AN elevator in the building at 95
Dearborn street, Chicago, fell and the
four occupants were considerably in
jured.
A MORTGAGE for $50, 600, 900 was given
by the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railway and placed on record in
Cook county, Ill.
THE fatality from famine and plague
in China was reported to be appalling.
In one large town near Szechuan half
the population had perished from
starvation and the fever that followed
in its wake. Along the route to small
er towns, numbers of bodies laid decom-
posed in the streets while the sky was
black with vultures. Smallpox was
prevalent also in Tochege.
BECAUSE his sweetheart, Mrs Willie
Smith, would not marry him, Thomas
Hays shot and instantly killed her and
then blew out his own brains at Kan
sas City, Mo. Both were colored.
The hotel at Montrose, Col, and a
block of stores were burned early on
the 9th and Robert H. Mead, a guest
was burned to death. The other guests
escaped. The fire was believed to be
incendiary.
Two men named Henry Foster and
John Shootman quarreled at Albany
KY. and Foster stabbed Shootman. A
man named Redell went to Shootman'i
assistance and shot Foster Both mer
were fatally wounded. The men had
long been at outs.
THE supreme lodge A. o. q. w. met
at Milwaukee on the Sth with 100 dele
gates present. The session will con
tinue for a week or ten days.
MATCH dropped by workman al
the fireworks factory of NJ. Shure al
Chicago caused terrific explosion the
other evening. Many people were bad
ly hurt on the street by flying rockets
but fortunately most of the workmer
had gone home and there were no lives
lost. The building and contents were
entirely destroyed. Loss, 100000.
PETER MAHER and Tom Sharkey
fought at New York on the night O
the 9th for $500 purse, and at tn,
end of the seventh round the police in
terfered and the contest resulted in
most unsatisfactory draw, the relativ,
merits of the men being as much puz
zle as ever
THIRTY-TwO states were represented
at the meeting of the provisional com
mittee of the national silver republican
party at Chicago on the Sth. A plan o
resolutions declared that the restora
ton of silver as money was the para
mount issue. Charles A. Towne, o.
Minnesota, was elected chairman O.
the national committee.
News was brought by the steame
Empress of Japan to Vancouver r. c.
of disaster to fishermen of the Chu
san archipelago in which 500 men los
their lives by sudden squall springin,
up while they were out in their boat
off the coast of China.
Two women and one man committe,
suicide at Chicago before six a. m. ol
the 9th. Marie Mora, an italian
stabbed herself; Charles E. Shaw sho
himself through jealousy of his wife
and an unknown woman at a boardin,
house took poison.
BATES SoPER. who murdered his wifi
anG two children at Archie, Cas-
county, Mo-, six years ago, has beel
arrested at Ashland, Ore. He has mad
full confession of the crime.
THE great mill and elevator at Can
line, Ill, together with several store
and residences, were destroyed by fir
on the 9th. The total loss was abou
$500, 900; insurance, S6S, 900.
A FIRE at Cairo, Ill, ON the Sth de
stroyed $4,000 worth of property, in
cluding the new Baptist church an,
: Glynn's transfer stables, with 9
, horses.
1T was rumored in San Francisc
that Prof. Dyche, of the Kansas uni
versity, will head a polar expedit;on +