Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
NUMBER 80.
General News.

Politicians and pie-hunters have
commenced systematic fight against
the civil service.
The five leading breweries of Toledo
have been sold to New York syndi-
cate for ss,OOO,OO
The fare from San Francisco to
Dawson has been fixed by transporta-
ton companies at $500.
Judge Sanborn has granted a post
ponement of the sale of the Kansas
Pacific for sixty days.
w. ]. Bryan is being lionized in
Mexico as no other American has ever
been, or has ever expected to be.
Mark Hanna denies that his health
will not permit him to attend to his
duties if reelected to the senate.
The Southern Mercury CDal1ar) de-
clares that spectators and aliens own
nine-tenths of the tillable soil of Tex
as.
Senator Mills, of Texas, was not
present at the opening of congress ON
account of the serious illness of his
wife.
Republicans in congress announce
that the Dingley law will not be ma
terially altered during the present ses-
sion.
By vote of five to four committee
of the Virginia state senate has or
dered favorable report on an anti
football bill.
Thieves are reported to have held
high carnival in Canton during the
progress of the funeral of Mrs. Nc
Kinley.
Actor-"Now the plot thickens."
Voice from the audience:-"That'
good; it has been pretty thin so far.'-
Tit Bits.
The strike of the bakers has become
general in Madrid, and it is reported
difficult to procure bread. Soldiers
are being used for bakers.
1t evidently costs money to rnn for
office in New York city. Mayor elect
Van Wyck admits that he contributed
S7,27 80 for legitimate expenses.
| The date for the execution of Theo-
dore Durrant has again been arranged.
This time it is January z. His attor-
neys will make another battle for his
life.
Albert o. Wilcox, of Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, prominent Abolition
ist and pioneer in the equal suffrage
movement, is dead, aged eighty-seven
years.
The special train of President Nc.
kin1ey, which left Canton for Wash
ington Wednesday morning, ran over
and instantly killed Louis Moinet, a
Canton barber, when about twenty
minutes run out of that city.
The senate and house have been do
ing practically nothing the entire
week, except to skirmish for points
and wrangle over questions of po1iti-
cal policy. The people are waiting
patiently for business congress.
James X. Sovereign, who has been
general master workman of the
Knights of Labor for the last four
years or more, was released of his
office by the General Assembly in ses-
sion in Louisville, KY, on November
II.
General Blanche has invited all
Cubans, feeling themselves exiled
from the island for political or other
reasons, to return home. He has also
returned to prison the Cuban prisoners
who have refused to swear allegiance
to Spain.
Byron H. Gilbert, the seven year
, old SON of Judge W. d. Gilbert, of
Atchison, was conditionally admitted
e to the Supreme Court of the state, last
f Wednesday. Byron passed satisfac-
= tory examination, and certificate
!, was issued to him, conditioned On his
: becoming of age.
The Santa Fe Railroad company
has been swindled out of a large sum
of money by forgers, who have printed
> limitations of the mileage books.
Large numbers of these books have
been disposed of in Chicago and Kan
sas City and the brokers have sold
them to the passengers.
I The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
i. pany has arranged to ship two cars OF
$ dogs to Seattle, WASH, where they
e will be put in service for transports
e ton purposes to Alaska. The com
/ Ipany has also arranged for stipmen,
I of reindeers destined for Alaska trans
s portation purposes. They were pro
f cured by the United States govern
: ment in Lapland.
Miss Anna Louise Amman and Mr.
Charles Huber, Professor of Latin il