Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23

years a professor in the Wesleyan uni l
versity and an author and theologian
Of note in the Methodist church, died
at Delaware, O., on the 18th in his S1st
year.
AT Emit, /. T., Rev. ]. T. Evans, of
the Baptist church, was killed by fist
blow delivered by Elisha Bradburn
They quarreled in a field over a crop
contract. i
VIOLENT windstorms passed over a
wide district in Nebraska on the 18th.
At Monroe hardly chimney was left
in the place and many roofs were taken
off
| TORNADO passed over Logan coun-
ty, ILL.,, and completely destroyed the
immense barn on the farm of the state
institution for the feeble-minded, 26
persons being buried in the debris.
Four boy pupils from Chicago were
taken out dead and five others were
severely injured.
THERE were 226 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 18th, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 265 for the corresponding
week last year.
THE Kentucky ex-confederates will
present the name of Gen. Simon Boli-
var Buckner for commander-in-chiefo of
the Confederate Veterans association
when it holds its annual meeting at
/ Nashville.
Four more bodies of supposed sui
cides were found in the Thames at
London on the 18th, making 81 found
in the river during the last three
weeks,
A TORNADO swept over the country,
near Paris on the 18th. Twenty per-
sons were said to be killed and 90 in
jured. Property was also damaged to
an immense amount.
FATHER KNEIPP, well-known as the
originator of the cure for bodily ills
which bears his name, died at Woerri-
shoffen, Bavaria, on the nth. He had
been i'll for long time
MORE tea was reported afoat on the
Pacific ocean on the nth than ever be-
fore at one time, the importers of New
York and other eastern cities having
made large purchases in China and
japan for immediate delivery and
were having it hurried across the Pa
ciic in order to enter it before the
fDingley bill goes into effect.
AS soon as it was known that the su-
preme court had denied the petition
for rehearing of the Drake estate
case, active work to collect the inherit
ance tax from all estates in Cook
county, Ill, was begun by County
Treasurer Kochersperger.
THE American Railway union was
on the 18th adjudged at Chicago by E.
V. Debs and his followers to be a
corpse, and the social democracy of
America was launched to take it's
place.
THE Adirondack express the other
afternoon struck a carriage containing
Samuel Stimson and Miss Shermer-
horn at street crossing in Herkimer,
N Y, and Stimson was instantly killed
and Miss Schermerhorn was fatally in.
jured.
MICHAEL DoNNELLoN, SIS years of age.
a f1agman for the Terminal Railroad
association at st. Louis, was struck by
an engine, receiving injuries which re-
suited in his death a few hours later
STEVE ODoNNELL, the Australian
heavyweight, knocked out Alex Greg
gains, of San Francisco, in the eighth
round at San Francisco on the nth.
AAAS LEU Vi b1c OdLCl6 OF
Bunker Hill was observed at Boston on
the 18th on scale surprising by many
degrees that of former years.
AT Ruslzin, Neb., n. E. Bride, section
hand, shot and killed himself because
Lena Helms, farmers daughter, had
lately broken her engagement to him.
FRANK BUTLER, who was arrested
some time ago at San Francisco on the
steamer Swanhilda for the alleged
murder of Capt. Lee Waller in the
Australian bush and was afterwards
extradited, was found guilty of the
crime at Sydney, N. S. w., on the
10th.
THE two commissions at Tahleouah.
/. T.. representing the United States
and the Cherokee nation, have ad-
Journed without coming to an agree
ment. The Dawes commission told
the Cherokees that no further attempt
would be made and that congress
would now act
IT was reported that Queen Victoria
was almost blind from the effects of
cataract of the eyes.
The suit brought against several
railroads for alleged overcharges bv
the Northwestern Iowa Grain Ship
pers' association in the United States
court at Dubuque, Ia, ended rather
abruptly, Judge Shiras holding that
the fact that the schedule of rates had
been published under provisions of the
interstate commerce law was conclu-
sive as to their reasonableness. The
only remedy for the shippers was to
petition the interstate commerce COM
mission for a modification of rates.
The other day 500 quarrymen struck
} at Joliet, ILL.,, for a raise of 25 cents
per day. The quarrymen throughout
the city had been getting 81. 25 per day.
The usual increase to 81. so, generally
made May 1, was not Forthcoming this
spring
The assets of the bankrupt CONNER
cial savings bank at Sioux City, Ia,
were sold at receivers sale to trustee
representing the stockholders The
latter will pay all claims in full and
expect to have handsome balance left
for division among themselves.
AT the session of the independent
Order of Free Sons of Israel at Chicago
on the 14th Baltimore was selected as
the place for the session of 1902. II
was also decided to have an emblem of
the order.
THE national w. c. T. q. officers have
issued a report at Chicago regarding
the work of the various state lepisla-
lures this year in the line of w C. Il.