Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
NUMBER 35.
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Senator Wolcott of Colorado is going
to Europe to confer with bimetallists
on the subject of a monetary confer
ence.
The silver senator's have unanimously
decided to oppose all combinations Of
appointments to Office made in place
of silver men who were removed be-
cause of their support of Bryan.
A Cleveland justice court has decided
that Chairman Hanna's SON must pay
his election bets.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
bank of Alma, Mo-, with dynamite and
stole $500.
Two Cinnamon were murdered and
robbed by unknown parties at Butte,
Mont
William g. Park of Duluth COM
mitted suicide rather than stand pro-
secution for stealing $1,000 from the
sugar trust.
Thomas Kay of Mound City, Kan,
got ten years for killing his wife and
then burning the body. He is 70
years old.
County Teasurer Jenrigan, of Austin,
Texas, shot himself. He was $1,000
short.
Two negroes are under arrest for
causing the Cahaba River, Ala, rail-
road wreck.
Eugene V. Debs has left the Popu-
list party and is now a straight So
cialist.
The directors of the Dime Savings
bank of Chicago saved the institution
by paying in an assessment of fifty per
cent.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
of Beatrice. Neb., has closed. All de-
positors will be paid at once in full
The Second National bank of Grand
Forks, S. d.. has failed on account of
heavy Withdrawals.
The Cramp Ship Building company
of Philadelphia and the Union Iron
works of San Francisco have been
| awarded contracts for two warships
| for Japan. They are to cost SO, ,O0o, 900.
A close estimate of the production of
precious metals in Colorado in 1896 is:
Gold SIG, 500, 600; silver, loss, 900.
The miners strike at Leadville has
curtailed the output materially.
The deaths from Bubonic plague now
average 10 daily in Bombay.
In a quarrel about a woman at Vim
cennes, Ind, Ray Metcalf shot and
killed Paul Joyce, pugilist.
Sankey Cunningham was hanged at
Albany, Ga, for a criminal assault
upon Miss Katie Camp. Cunningham
confessed his guilt in a gallows speech.
| John Lenien, a hotel and saloon
keeper at West Hammond, Ind, was
found murdered in his place.
| Commercial bank, Selma, Ala,
closed.
Famine exists in Santa Fe province,
Argentina.
James c. McMullen, vice president
and treasurer of the Chicago & Alton
railroad, is dead.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
bank at Sully, Iowa, and got about
s2O, ,OOO
Progressive Democratic club, New
York, is out for Bryan for president in
| 1900.
A beet sugar factory, capacity 305
built at Omaha.
Boomers are preparing for the open
ing of the Wichita. Kiowa and Co
manche lands for settlement.
Governor Bradley has offered $3.50
reward for each conviction of the
Owensboro lynchers of Holt.
Henry F. Strauss, clerk of Langlade
| county, Wisconsin, defaulted for
,777, and committed suicide
Indiana Populist leaders have decided
to continue the orgarization in full
force and to form clubs in all parts of
| the state.
| A gang of Italians fatally shot Po-
liceman William Bergin at Johnson
burg, Pa and wounded several other
policemen.
| E. A. VanValkenburg, one of John
lWanamaker's managers, was arrested
at Harrisburg, Pa, on a charge of at
tempting to bribe Representative w.
&c. Weiss.
A big horn thirty feet long with a
bell six feet in diameter was carried to
Canton, Ohio, to Mr.. Mckinley from
Decatur, ILL.,, by six men, who sold
pictures of the horn to pay expenses.
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