Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-14
Miss TILE LARSEN tried to commit

Miss TILLIE LARSEN tried to commit
suicide at Omaha, Neb.. on the Sth by
tearing open the arteries of her left
wrist with a hairpin. She was uncon-
scious when found from the loss of
blood, and only prompt action on the
part of those who discovered her saved
her life Il wanted to go to Heaven,
and that is why L did it, she said. The
authorities cannot understand her case.
THE drought which has prevailed |
around Jackson, Tenn, for two months |
still continued on the Sth. The gar
dens were burned up and ruined and |
unless it rains very soon the corn crop
will be a failure. The cotton crop was
reported failing daily.
DURING a severe storm the house of
s. E, North, near Larmore. n. D., was
struck by lightning and North. his
wife and three-year-old child were
killed. The only member of the fam
lily that escaped was a 15-months-old
child.
TIE gold mining convention at Den
yer, Col, selected Salt Lake City for
holding the next meeting. A minority
report on the 9th declaring for the free
coinage of silver at sixteen to one was
laid on the table.
MAKING MARTINEZ. who murdered
his sweetheart and her parents, after
having assaulted the girl, has request
ed that brass band play at his hang
ing and that the occasion be made one
of festivities, and the citizens of
Floresville, Tex, have arranged to COM
ply with his request and genuine
Mexican fiesta will be held the day of
the hanging. The condemned man
will be allowed to participate under a
strong guard.
ACHILLES ToMLINsoN and Joe Ruther-
ford were drowned in the Okaw river
while bathing near Patoka, ILL.,
MRS. KATE BERLE. of ST. Louis. was
so severely burned while filling her
gasoline stove the other day that she
died soon afterwards.
The convention of reform rabbis at
, Montreal, Can, on the Sth passed a
. strong resolution condemning the pro
posed plan of establishing an indie
pendent Jewish state in Palestine.
A THRAsHING machine boiler blew up
, in field one mile north of New Haven,
! Neb., the other morning. Three men
were seriously injured. The boiler
was blown 2OO yarQS.
! HUGH JOEsoN, his wife and four
r children, who lived near Pineville
a KY, were burned to death in their cot
q tage, which was fired over their heads
S The remains of all six were found il
4 the debris. The fire was undoubtedly
of incendiary origin.
HERBERT CORNWALL was shot ant
: killed by his brother, DIR. Richmond
Cornwall, of Kansas City. at the bust
q ness house of their father in ST. Louis
: Herbert was enraged at his father fo
4 chiding him and assaulted him wher
\ DR.. Cornwall stepped in TO protect hi
\ father and in the fight which followed
: Herbert met his death.
FIFTY picnickers were rendered I'm
q conscious by an electrical storm nea
% Wheelersburg, O., on the 7th, but nc
- body was killed.
4 AT Cincinnati on the 5th there wer
n IL deaths from the hot weather, max
q ing 81 fatalities in three days.
" WHILE two men were excavating 70
+ water pipes at Los Angeles, Cal, tn
o earth caved in upon them, buryin
them, and when they were dug out
y minutes later they were both dead.
- JOHN REYNOLDS, for so years pull
Usher of the Odd Fellows Talisma
= and one of the best known odd fellow
- in the United States, died at IndiaI
. apolis, Ind, on the 7th of fatty dege1
x Grafton of the heart, aged 20 years.
% SIXTY tons of butter arrived at Val
~ couver, B. c., on the 5th from Ne
~ York and will be forwarded to Sidne,
Australia. This is the first shipmer
'n of American butter ever made to Au
Id tralia.
nc IT was 1O2 degrees on the streets
1t st. Louis on the 7th. Thirteen pro
lg trations occurred, five of which we
id expected to prove fatal.
he EIGHT deaths from the heat toe
We place at Cincinnati on the 7th: thr,
at Evansville, Ind: three at Pitt
ON burgh, Pa; two at Louisville, KY; Fl
ok in New York; three at Chicago, ar
20 seven other deaths likely to resu
.e- among the prostrations in that city.
The sawmill and about 1000, o
an feet of lumber belonging to H.
lr- Elder & Son at kilgore, Tex, we
he totally destroyed by fire; no insuranC
IN. Indications pointed strongly to ince
, a diarism.
Two we'll dressed men assault
IS, Miss Rose Miller at New York al
ID, robbed her of diamond necklace al
on her pocketbook When she scream
let for help one of the men attempted
RS gag her She caught his thumb in
-as mouth and bit it off below the seco
joint.
G. The other night party of men a
~ piled the torch to Mormon church
in. Fairfield county, S. c.. and burned
~ to the ground. the feeling being hi
y against the Mormons.
"a THE little town of Lowry, Min
was obliterated by a cyclone on t
9th and several people were killed a
III many others injured.
ecu CHRISTIAN MOLLY shot and kill
a'' Nancy Hill near Hamburg, Ark.
ere cause Mrs. Hill would not desist frt
ny whipping her child. The Molly wo
an has killed three men, two of VIII,
.ge were her husbands. She is under
lily rest.
ion THOMAS MORGAN and his wife w,
vas driving near Youngstown, O., near
ton cliff when the horse backed the bug
bed over the bank and they were both
res stantly killed.
ton AT Gloversville, y. Y, on the ;
ind Arthur A. Zimmerman, paced by
me triplet, made an exhibition mile
rth 2:03. He also went half mile agail
er time in :571S.
n1- FIRE broke ont at two o'oloclS