Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

West Point, Ga. state bank has
closed.
Chicago Federation of Labor has put
a boycott on Chicago made beer.
General Fullerton's body was not
recovered from the wrecked train in
Maryland.
Breaks in the levee at Caruthers-
vile, Mo-, and Sans Souci, Ark, are
causing the flood to recede at Mem
phis.
The steamer Creole picked up boat
from the lost steamer St Nazaire con-
tanning six corpses.
The four years term for postmasters
will count from the first appointment
and not from the time the office was
raised TO presidential Office.
Fire at Huron, S. d.. did SO, 900
damage. Alliance building, occupied
by the government weather bureau.
was burned, with all records.
The centenary of the birthday Of
Emperor William ]. of Germany,
grandfather of the present emperor,
was fittingly celebrated in Berlin.
w. c. I. U. has appealed to Presi-
dent Mckinley and the several state
legislatures and governors to enact
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illustrations of the Fitzsimmons-Cor-
bett prize fight.
John Nordhouse of Illinois, formerly
private secretary to Secretary Morton,
has been appointed by Secretary VIII
SON to serve in the same capacity.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Felt is pull
ing hard foc appointment as United
states pension agent at Topeka
heavy snow has fallen in Western
Kansas and the prairies are covered
with great drifts and railroads block
AIDED.
School hook publishers all over the
country are sending for copies of the
school book law and Kansas will have
lots of competition in school books
hereafter.
Betty Cash, a Fort Scott negro girl
got Sl,321 and seven quarter sections
of land for herself and six children
because her father was a Cherokee
Indian. David Ross, a Fort Scott day
laborer, got 81, 100 and the same amount
of land.
Wheat prospects are very poor about
Mexico. Mo. Some farmers are plow-
ing up their crops.
JLdge McAfee at Springfield, in
structed the grand jury TO indict the
members of the county court and city
council for squandering public money.
Schoolooys tied playmate to stake
at Staettsburg, New York. and were
going to burn him, when discovered.
New York labor unions are agitatinp
tax on whiskers, in the interest Of
the BARRIERS.
Reports from the Lower Mississippi
1-ir
1evees have broken in more than half
dozen places. with the most disas-
trous results.
President Mckinley has refused to
appoint Colonel Otis of Los Angeles.
Cal, assistant secretary of war.
Kansas agricultural college has been
granted 1900 acres of agricultural
college lands by the government
Charles Scott, the American impris-
oned at Havana, has been released.
Mrs Ruiz aud daughter are to make
their home in New York, and will sew
for living
The st. Louis Democratic city con-
vention split and nominated Lee Mer-
rlwether, ex-labor commissioner of
Missouri, and Edwin Harrison for
mayor. The Republicans nominated
Henry Iiegenheim for mayor. Chaun-
cey Ives Filley was the temporary and
permanent chairman.
Senator Pettigrew has reported the
free homes bill to the Senate
John King, a prominent railroad
president. is dead at Nice, Italy.
The Missouri Senate killed the two
cent railroad fare bill.
Clerk Marquis of the Missouri House
charges that he was offered $500 to
steal the St Louis Civic Federation
school board bill.
The Missouri Senate receded from
its hostility to homeopathic doctors.
Prof. James R. Eaton of William
Jewell college died at Cairo, Egypt.
The marble tablet and brass star
that marked the spot where Garfield
was shot in the Baltimore & Potomac
depot in Washington has been removed.
The Cars prize fight was handled
as fully as national convention. over
100000 words being sent by wire in a
few days and $50, 900 the day of the
fight.
Sol Miller, the veteran Kansas ed
itor, again forced to take to his bed.
Charles S. Martin and j. n. Rich
ards of Kansas injured and Colonel
Fullerton of ST. Louis killed in a rail-
road wreck near Oakland, Nd.
Governor Leedy will not appoint q
new police board at Fort Scott, Kan.
Henry c. Payne of Wisconsin has de-
clined to accept any diplomatic ap-
pointment.
Mrs. Hetty Campbell, sister of the
late Colonel John A. Cockerill, noted
journalist, declares that her brother
and his wife had long been alienated
and that he intended to leave his es-
tate to her.
General Alfred s. Hartwell of Ha-
waii declares that he drew up ex-Queeu
Liliuokalanis abdication papers at the
request of her friends and that she
was not forced to sign them
The Kansas legislature adjourned
sine die. Six text book commissioners
were confirmed. one rejected and ID. o.
McCray's case was not acted upon.
BY an order made by Cleveland, 2e.-
lS7 acres are added to the Fort sill
military reservation.