Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-09
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A race war is en- in Pope county, Ar
kansaw. Will Gaylord, a negro. was
stripped naked and whipped to death
by mob of white men.
Women of the United Brethren
church are asking the conference at
Dublin, Ind, to strike 'obey" out Of
the marriage ceremony.
President Mckinley conferred the
degrees on about fifty graduates of
the senior and post graduate classes
of the National University Law school
at the annual commencement exer-
cises in Washington.
Governor Budd of California has de-
cided not to interfere in the death
sentence of Walter d. Worden, found
guilty of wrecking train during the
A. r. u. strike three years ago, when
Engineer Clark and three United
States soldiers were killed.
A powder war is likely.
Elizabeth, n. j., had a bicycle fu-
neral.
A late directory makes jefferson
City's population 1929.
Isaac j. Hill, Pennington, Ohio,
farmer, was killed by burglars
Secretary Gage says that the admin
istration will tackle the currency
question when the tariff is ont of the
way.
Professor Franciulli, leader of the
Marine band, was arrested because he
would not play airs desired by Lieu
tenant Draper.
a report that Captain Wallace of
Canton, Ohio, will be appointed Gov
ernor of New Mexico, has caused some
excitement in Washington.
Mrs Phoebe Phillips of Atlantic
City, n. j., 40 years old, was shot by
a boy lover because she would not
marry him.
Kentucky toll gate raiders defy
state militia and continue the depreda-
tions.
A Tennessee marshal who was shot
by negro bandit who was resisting
arrest drew his gun and killed the
black.
Statue of John Harvard at Cam.
bridge, Mass, was daubed with GRIM
son paint by Harvard students, who
defeated Princeton at baseball.
A crevasse below Baton Rouge cut
off communication between that city
and New Orleans and sent disastrous
flood through fertile fields.
A mysterious fall of the floor of the
great Yerkes observatory came near
injuring the famous lens of the tele-
scope.
Brazil has decided to reduce all gov
ernmental salaries, beginning with
that of the president.
General Nelson A. Miles has arrived
at Greek headquarters in Thessaly and
lunched with Crown Prince Constan.
tine.
The Government has finally deter.
mined that minors cannot act aS
deputy postmasters or chief clerks or
in any capacity where they will have
anything to do with making contracts.
The wire rod output has been cor.
nered.
The royal family of Greece is In
danger of popular fury.
The mud island in Moro bay, Gala,
is sinking out of sight
Johnson, the Logansport, Ind.. bank
wrecker, gets ten years.
The William FL. Bunge vinegar fac
tory, Chicago. burned. Loss, SITS, 600.
The volume of spring merchandise
distributed has been less than was ex-
pected.
Sergeant Tom Carroll killed himself
with carbolic acid at junction City,
Kan.
Rowland Griggs, absent since 1861
returned to Boone county, Missouri,
and found his wife remarked. He did
not claim her.
National Committeeman Long of
Florida has been selected for minister
to Portugal.
The Irish Parliamentary party will
have naught to do with the Victoria
jubilee.
Col. Chas. Gordon, an American, was
killed in skirmish with Spaniards
near Cienfuegos, Cuba.
Joe Denby, Jr.. living near Shoaley
Bend, Ark, called John Hays to his
door and shot him dead
John Z. Redmond and three other
Parneilites have been elected from the
House of Commons.
FitZsimmons is not ready to fight.
He declines to meet Joe Goddard and
says he did not promise Corbett a go.
Laura A Brook of st. Paul is to con-
test the will of William Lampson of
Leroy, n. Y, who left $3.50, 600 to
Yale.
Three desperate prisoners broke jail
at Jefferson City, including the long
and short footpad from Kansas City.
Ex-Superintendent of Insurance
Durfee has sacrificed his property and
made good his shortage to the state.
Whitelaw Reid, General Miles, Ad-
miral Miller and Ogden Mills compose
the embassy to England for the
queens jubilee.
Two thousand people are without
shelter at Ell Paso because of the food,
and another rise in the Rio Grande Is
expected
Harper S. Cunningham, formerly OF
balina, Kan, was appointed attorney
general by Governor Barnes of Okla
homa.
The chief clerk of the registry de-
partment of the Portland, Ore, post
Office. the city jailer, a detective and
two other parties are under arrest on
the charge of conspiracy to rob the
postoffice.
At meeting OF the National Bi
metallic league in Paris, Premier Me
line said France would aid the United
States to secure b;metallism. At pres
ent England was the stumbling block.
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