Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-19
NUMBER 2.
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

denmark ministry has resigned.
The Honduras revolution has ended.
Mile. Yvette Guilbert has become
Mrs DIR. Max Schiller.
Omaha's new mayor has been seated
by the courts
Tea prices are moving up ON account
of the tariff.
Ex-Governor Porter of Indiana lett
an estate worth $500, ZOO.
C. M. Barnes was promptly confirmed
as governor of Oklahoma
Vice President Hobart will not vio-
late precedent to limit debate on the
tariff bill
The Rothschilds family gave I,OOO.-
600 francs to the charity bazaar fund
in Paris
Emperor William of Germany gave
So, 600 to the Paris charity bazaar man
ayers.
The j. r. Dayton Table company
building at Quincy, ILL.,, burned; loss
$4,000.
As the result of recent elections the
Liberals are now in full control in
Canada.
Illinois inheritance tax law has been
declared constitutional by the state
supreme court
Williams, Brown e Co, Wholesale
shipping merchants of San Francisco,
have failed for half million.
Cattle from east of the Mississippi
river are being shipped into the pas,
lures in the Indian territory.
After October the use of No.
spring wheat as contract grade on
the Chicago market will be discon-
tinued.
William Charvet, a farmer living
northeast of GuthIie, Okla, was killed
by lightning while measuring wheat.
James U. Fonda got Judgment
against the Twin City Rapid Transit
company at st, Paul for SIT, $40 for loss
of his legs.
Theosophists have bought a tract of
land mile square at San Diego, Cal,
and will erect hotels, sanitariums,
temples, etc.
The Runford Falls (Me.) Paper Co
is putting in the largest paper machine
in the world, one that will produce
paper $50 inches wide.
Peter Miner, one-legged veteran
from Manhattan, Kan, aged so, stole
horse and buggy and eloped with
15-year-old girl near Perry, Okla, and
was given eighteen months in the
''pen" for his fun.
A convention of Modern Woodmen
of America at Clinton, Iowa, charged
the head officers of the concern with
extravaganza and other misdeeds.
Fulton, Ill, won its contest in court
for the headquarters of the order
Lee Norris, assistant district attor-
ney at Phoenix, Arizona, died from
wounds inflicted by escaping prisoners
and they will be lynched If caught.
Fred j. Cunningham, an Atlanta,
Ga, society favorite, is accused of
highway robbery and assault with in
tent to kill Merchant Charles A. STAN
ford.
Chess Expert Pillsbury has been
asked to coach the Congressional team
that will play members of the British
Commons.
The government has decided to send
gunboat to Alaska to protect Amer
lean interests during the gold-hunting
excitement.
A. W. Tourgee of New York has
been appointed consul to Bordeaux,
France.
Ex-Congressman Henry p Cheat
ham (colored), of North Carolina. has
been nominated for recorder of deeds
in the District of Columbia, vice c. II.
]. Taylor, resigned (by request)
The United States supreme court.
by Justice Brewer, decided against
the government in its suit to invali-
date the Berliner patent. This gives
the Bell telephone monopoly II years
yet to run.
Governor Pingree of Michigan, ve-
toed the anti-cigarette bill.
President Mckinley will be in New
York Memorial day.
Joe Choyinsli bested Denver Ed
Smith at New York in four rounds.
Representative Fowler, of New Jer-
sey, wants permanent tariff commits
sion.
C. Fl. Damsel, bookkeeper for the
National bank of Columbus, Ohio,
stole 5000
The government crop report for Nav
makes the condition of wiuter wheat
sO.o
Rowley Shepardson, a Princeton
student, was accidentally fatally shot
while rowing on the Raritan canal
near Princeton.
Adelaide Miller, a wealthy Chicago
widow, is to found real ''Adamless
Eden" home for Chicago women near
Crown Point. Ind.
Frank Barr his two sons and broth
er Chris, prosperous German farmers,
were asphyxiated by gas in well on
their farm near Redfeld, s. ID.
Marie Flood, Cincinnati Sister of
Charity, went crazy and drowned her
self
w. B. Carr, a Californian of note
was accidentally asphyxiated in San
Francisco.
New York bankers are petitioninQ
President Mckinley to act in behalf Of
Cuba
A senate inquiry into the cause OF
the recent Mississippi flood has been
ordered.
Webster Davis was promptly con-
hrmed as second assistant secretary Of
the interior.
Homer and Walter Fowler, West Su-
perior, Wis, bankers, are under arrest
for crooked banking
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