Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-27
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Texas will prohibit baseball ON Sum
day.
Three thousand hands in the Spring
Hill, Ill, mines are on a strike.
an earthquake on Kisham island In
the Persian gulf caused the loss of
$500 lives.
President Palma of the Cuban iunta.
New York, will be satisfied with moth.
ing short of Cuban independence.
Chicago board of trade has published
protest against the unfriendly action
OF France, Germany and Switzerland
toward American meat
Three masked men held ND train
on the Southern railway near Berry
station, Ala, and obtained $50 froR
the express safe. This is the second
robbery In month at this place.
John HullSa, Joe Dunham and Joe
Pruchu, three Oklahomans, secured di-
vorces before the Cherokee strip OPEN
ing so their wives could get claima
Then they lived together as before
The Swift Packing company is put
ting $500, 900 into st. Joseph packing
house and stock yard property.
Countess Anna Gould Castellane has
given birth to son.
The Christian gang of outlaws are
operating about Eufaula.
Several hundred of General Sher-
mans books were sold in ST. Louis for
$50.
Supreme court has entered a decree
fixing the Iowa Missouri boundary
line.
Earl of Kimberly has been elected
leader nf he 4 =,
House of Commons to succeed Rose
berry.
Triafcf Edward ]. Ivory, alias Bell.
of New York, the dynamite suspect, is
on in London. Conviction is certain.
The Washington government is TAX
ing strict precautions to prevent the
spread of the bubonic plague now de-
vastating Bombay.
The South Carolina law providing
for inspection of liquors brought into
the state has been declared unconsti-
tutional by the supreme court.
Secretary Olney has notified Peru
that the $500. 900 damage claim of Con-
sui V. III. McCord for an outrage COM
mitted in 1885 must be settled without
DELAY.
Methodist ministers of Chicago are
at work on a scheme for the collection
of quantities of corn in the West for
shipment to the famine sufferers in
India.
John c. Mantel, an Oklahoma ranch
man, has disappeared because of the
arrival at his home from Moorehead,
KY, of wife No. !, whom he had aban-
doned twenty years ago.
Hundreds of Oklahoma divorce de-
crees are to be cancelled soon for nom
payment of costs, and the parties who
sneaked off and married again will be
subject to prosecution for bigamy.
Sam Palatka, evidently a lunatic,
confesses that he alone caused the
Cahaba bridge wreck, which sent
twenty-five persons to their death, for
the purpose of robbery, but got moth
ing.
The Democratic legislative caucus 10
Delaware nominated Attorney Kenney
OF Dover for senat on the twenty
sixth ballot, an! the Republicans NOM
mated j. Edward Addicks of New
Castle.
Nomination of J. ii. Keaton to sue
ceed Justice Scott of the Supreme court
of Oklahoma will not be confirmed
Five Democrats bolted the senatorial
nomination of David b. Hill in the New
York Democratic legislative caucus
because of his laying SO low in the
late campaign. Senator j. p. Jones
got 35 out of 80 votes in the joint legis-
lative caucus at Carson, New
Congressman Hubbard of Missouri.
in justification of his bill for a strin-
gent law against train robbers and
train wreckers, says that in 1896 there
were twenty-three holdups in which
twenty-three trainmen or passengers
and four robbers were killed, and in
the past six years there have been 1s3
holdups in which seventy-three men
were killed and ffty-eight wounded.
Secretary Francis says that no
charges have been fled against Indian
Agent Baldwin of Oklahoma.
The Senate committee on judiciary
has reported favorably the bill intro
duced by Senator Hill, fixing the term
of postmasters at four years.
A babe was horribly mutilated by q
hog in pasture near Dallas, Texas
1t is thought that Is, 900 men will 90
to Alaska in the spring to prospect for
gold.
A Florida judge decided that the
libel against the Three Friends is de-
fectlve
Ex-Governor Altgeld says there is
no necessity for the State of Illinois
| to borrow money.
Minnesota murderer confesses,
saying he pushed his victim of NOV.
ing train at the instance of the mur-
| dered mans wife.
The New Mexico General Assembly
has effected complete compromise.
1t contains an equal number Of Repub-
licaEs and Democrats.
Oklahoma newspapers th at supported
Bryan have switched to Mckinley to
secure land Office advertising patron
age.
A negro desperate was lynched In
Louisiana.
Two train wrecks occurred near
Wautauga, Texas. Four men were
seriously hurt.
Joseph C. Willard, proprietor of the
hotel of that name in Washington, IL
dead.
But two Mongolians are left in st.
Joseph, Mo. a laundry license drove
them out