Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-04-21
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

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Chinese are going to Cuba to work
on the sugar plantations.
The Uncompahgre reservation in
Utah is open to settlement.
Greeks are still advancing and cap
turing Macedonian villages.
Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of
Yale college, contemplates resigning.
Philip Beresford, Catholic priest.
was accidentally asphyx!ated at Read
ing, Pa.
school book scandal in connection
with the Oklahoma legislature is RI
pening
Western railroads have made a new
agreement leaving out the question of
rates
TWENTY-FIVE thousand flood victims
are destitute in Bolivar county, Miss
issippi
Wells Finch, New York -four
broker, shot himself dead whilc clean
Ing his revolver.
A. d. Barlow Of ST. Louis will sue
ceed 7. I. Crittenden as consul gem
eral to Mexico.
The antitrust bills in the New York
senate have been amended until thew
are valueless.
The divorced wife of Theodore Til
ton, who figured in the Beecher scan
dal, is dead in New York.
E. B. Green, ex-treasurer of Grant
county. Ok, is under arrest for an al
legged 1900 shortage.
William s. Thompson. a CHICAGO
man who engineered $4,000 bicycle
swindle, is in Jail in New York.
Michigan and Indiana girls are form
| ing clubs which prohibit members
under 25 committing matrimony.
Charles w. Spalding has surrendered
| about S4OO, 1000 of securities taken from
the Globe Savings bank, Chicago.
Appleton. Wis, people think an air.
ship is making regular trips from La
fayette, Tenn. to Yankton, S. d.
The prefect of police of Paris pre-.
vented the Princess de Chimay from
appearing on the stage to advertise
her shame.
Alan Arthur, son of ex-President
Arthur, is slated for minister to Hol.
land, and Cy Leland for pension agent
| at Topeka.
Senator Hansbrough of North Dako.
ia has scheme to create a food com.
mission to popularize American bread
foods in the Orient.
Maria Louise, wife of William II
Vanderbilt, left an estate worth $685.
ATS. She gave $3.50. 900 to st. Barthol-
| omew's church in New York.
The 5000 mile Interchangeable mile
age book, for which commercial tray
ers clamored so long and loudly, has
proved to be a failure.
The Texas Senate has passed a bill
taxing insurance companies, sleeping
cars, and all outside corporations do
ing business in the state.
Dennis j. Sweenie, chief of the Chi
cago fire department., is the only cab
met officer to hold on under the new
mayor, Carter Fl. Harrison.
Jack Stelzner and Alexander Greg
gains fought twenty rounds to a draw
at San Francisco. Agnew knocked
out Thompson in the twelfth round
the same evening.
! Senator Vest is championing sectar-
ian schools for Indians He SAYS nom
sectarian Indian schools are failure,
and he would rather see the Indians
Catholics than savages
| The President has sent message to
Congress urging it to make suitable
provision for adequate representation
of the United States at the Paris ex-
position.
A bill was introduced by Senator
Cockrell for the relief of Mrs. A. M.
Smith, wife of Major General A. J.
Smith. 1t proposes to pension her at
a rate of S10O month.
1t is reported that Z. v. Powderly,
former grand master workman of the
Knights of Labor, will be appointed
commissioner of immigration to sue
ceed Herman Stumm of Maryland.
! Milwaukee brewers troubles have
been adjusted.
jefferson Levi has refused to sell
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jeffer-
son.
New York Methodist Episcopal con-
ference, East. in session at Brooklyn,
declined to admit women.
Legislative committees, representing
Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Illinois, will meet to devise uniform
game laws.
Japan's navy, according to the St
James Gazette, will be a tough propo-
sition for the United States to combat
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countries.
After four years search, Millionaire
Mohler of Minneapolis located his di-
vorced wife, who had fed with their
young son in defiance of the law. The
boy will be taken by the father.
The Hawaiian government has taken
q firm stand against Asiatic labor.
Railroad contractors hereafter must
employ at least so per cent of Ha-
vaiians. Americans or Europeans
7. b. Cabbanis, of the Dawes Indian
commission, has resigned.
The London Times says there is no
hope for general bimetallism.
Illinois Steel Works have resumed
and the 100 strikers are ont of job
/ Citizen ms of Wilson, Ills, scared of
three bank robbers, wounding one of
them badly.
Thirty thousand negroes about
Greenville. Miss, are destitute be-
cause of the flood
! Great Britain declines to take the
initiative in promoting international
bimetallic action.
The American ship Samaria is given
up as lost.
George p. Lafier, Perry, Okla, was
killed by horse kicking a redhot