Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-01

braska, has publicly announced that
he intends to retire from politics and
would not stand for reelection to the
United States senate.
THE G. A. r. encampment at Buffalo.
n. Y, settled down to business on the
27th by finishing up the election of
officers and hearing reports of com nit
tees. A service pension was recon-
mended to all veterans who had
reached the age of 81 years. The COM
mittee on textbooks urged an improve
ment in those that relate to the war of
the rebellion and denounced the his
tories used in southern schools. The
encampment of 1897 then adjourned.
WHITE river above and below Mount
Adams, Ark, for miles was lined with
pearl hunters on the 27th and wagon
loads of campers were reported as ar
irving there hourly.
THE first national convention of the
American party, a new political organ
ization, met at st. Louis on the 26th in
answer to a call issued by Col. E. H.
Sellers, of Detroit, Mich. The plat
form favors the demonetization of gold
and silver and the substitution Of
treasury notes, the issue of low rate
interest-beariug savings certificates
for popular investme mt, the control OF
all pu bile conveniences by the govern.
ment, an income tax law, the election
of president and senators by direct
vote of the people, the initiative and
referendum and the abolishment of
trusts and monopolies.
JOSEPH EIFE nanrO uO11th r.
ed of attempted assault on Mrs. Marks.
widow, and who subsequently con.
fessed to two other like crimes, was
hanged in the yard of the Jail at Rich
mond, Va, on the 26th.
THE house of Rev. Elliott w. Brown.
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church at Dubuque, Ia. was burglar
lied the other day. AS Mr.. Brown and
family were away the burglar had
plenty of leisure. He took a wash in
the bath room and then donned Mr..
Browns best suit, leaving his rags be-
hind. He also had a good nights sleep
in the pastors bed.
A STRANGE disease among the chill
dren of Hackensack, n. j., has thrown
the people of that town into a state of
have an absolute paralysis of the
throat. The physicians do not know
how to handle the trouble.
THERE were 300 delegates present at
the American Bar associations conven-
tion at Cleveland, o., on the 25th.
President j. NJ. Woolworth, of Omaha,
Neb., delivered an address, reviewing
briefly interesting laws passed during
the last year in different states.
The boarding house of the Union
Consolidated mine at Weiland, Cal,
was burned to the ground the other
night and Mrs. Craighead, wife of the
proprietor, and two of her grandchil.
dren. aged eight and ten years, per-
ished in the flames.
AN Omaha, Neb., dispatch on the 25th
stated that all roads were practically
blocked with grain trains moving the
cereal east and railroad men said the
lines could not move the crop even at
that rate for three months.
CHINAMEN were dragged from their
laundries. unceremoniously removed
from the kitchens of private houses
and ferreted out from different places
in st. Louis the other day and taken
to the custom house. 1t was the first
raid of the Chinese ever made in St
Louis under the Geary exclusion act.
Fourteen not possessed of the requisite
credentials were sent to Jail pending a
preliminary examination before their
deportation to China.
THE power house of the Federal Coal
Co., at Federal, Pa, was destroyed by
fire shortly after midnight of the oath.
1t was thought to have been incen-
diary, as the operator had made him
self unpopular since the miners strike
by threatening to import colored men
and start his mines.
AL HAWKINS, the widely-known
sporting man. was killed on the 25th
at Chicago by the collapse of folding
bed. He had seated himself on the
edge of the bed, when it unexpectedly
closed and his neck was broken.
ELTNoRA RoHDA, aged II, of Milwau-
kee, was choked to death by a peanut
she'll which lodged in her windpipe
THE American Window Glass asso-
citation is the outcome of the meeting
held by glass manufacturers at Chica-
go on the gath. There are 1000 pots in
the country and the new association
will control /, 500 of them. The price
of glass will be raised.
THE business portion of the town OF
Ina, ILL.,, was wholly destroyed by fire
on the night of the 23d.
WHAT looks like systematic plot to
defraud the soldiers home of funds has
been unearthed and exposed at Wash.
ington. Balances of pension money
due to deceased inmates are payable
to his legal heirs if claimed within
three years. Otherwise the money
escheats to the home. 1t was noticed
that firm of attorneys in Washington
were building up quite business in
pressing such claims, and it was dis
covered that information of the names
of deceased soldiers and amounts due
them were being surreptitiously afford
ed by some of the clerical force at the
| home.
A WOMAN, believed to be Mrs. Flora
Anderson, threw herself into the lake
from the promenade deck of the
steamer City of Cleveland while going
from Cleveland, o., to Detroit, Mich.
1t was said she had quarreled with a
man on the Cleveland dock.
| G. Ii. STEEL, ex-sheriff, and Sam
Young. deputy sheriff, of Leslie coun-
ty, were both killed in a combat at
Hyden. Ky. Both men fought to des-
peration with pistols and both fell
dead in the fifth round. They quar-
relied over politics.
THREE girls attemntad To commit