Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-15

loon at one o'clock in the morning,
picked up sack containing $500 in
silver and though pursued by a crowd
he managed to escape.
WITH reputation gone, and made
desperate with shame. Miss Lula
Cutchin, aged %. of Suffolk, Va. took
refuge in death. She belonged to a
family of the highest respectability,
and was a member of the M. E. church,
in whose choir she was the leading so
prano She made a confession to her
father discriminating prominent citi-
zen of the town.
AT least 25 persons were killed and
most of the bodies burned in a collision
shortly after midnight of the 9th ~
miles west of Newcastle, Col. due to
the mistake of the conductor of an ex-
ira stock train on the Colorado Mid
land railroad in reading the wrong
column of figures. The westbound
passenger and express train of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad was tel
escoped and all of the passenger cars
except the rear Pullmans were burned.
number of passengers who were not
killed outright, but were pinned in
the wreckage and could not be extri-
Gated, perished in the flames There
were about 200 passengers, fully one
| fourth of whom were either killed or
injured.
A TERRIBLE crisis was reached in the
strike situation at Hazleton, Pa, on the
10th when band of deputy sheriffs
fired into crowd of miners who were
marching to Latimer. The miners fell
like so many sheep and the excitement
was SO intense that no accurate figures
of dead and wounded could be OBJ
tanned. Reports run from 90 to 25
killed and so wounded. The men killed
were all Hungarians.
FAILURES for the week ended the
10th were 215 in the United. States,
against.S15 last year; and 35 in Canada,
against AZ last year.
! THIRTEEN fatalities have occurred in
the Joplin (Mo.) mining district the
past summer.
The Chicago Times Herald said ma
tional meeting of Methodist laymen
would soon be called to lay plans to
secure equal representation with the
clergy in the great quadrennial legis-
lature of the church.
NEAR Churchville, O., burglars en-
tered the home of George Smith and
overpowering him secured 81 1850. In
the scuffie Mrs. Smith was shot.
DOUBT has been thrown upon the ac-
curacy of the survey of the boundary
between Georgia and Tennessee. and
if the theory of eminent legal author
tiles is confirmed. it will be found that
Chattanooga is on Georgia soil.
DROUGHT and extreme heat have
practically ruined late corn in Mis-
souri, and Kansas. Pastures have been
burned by the sun, and in some places
trees have been killed during the
drought.
CoNsUL-GENERALL LEE arrived in New
York from Havana on the Sth. He alb
solutely refused to discuss the situa-
ton in Cuba, or the rumor that he
would not return to Havana.
AFTER much opposition the Creek
council at Okmulgee passed bill pro-
viding for a treaty with the Dawes
commission and allotment of their
lands. This leaves only the Cherokees
and Seminoles, of all the five tribes,
who have not entered into an agree
ment with the Dawes commission.
A HONOLULU dispatch on the sth said
anti-annexationists in Hawaii would
make strong fight to influence Sena-
tors Quay and Morgan, now on a visit
to that country.
DURING big fire at 1913 North Water
street, Philadelphia. 90 firemen were
prostrated by the dense smoke. All
recovered.
ONLY one death had resulted from
yellow fever at New Orleans up to the
Sth. Physicians declared the disease
to be under control in that city and
there was no exodus on account of the
plague. Rigid measures are being
adopted at all southern coast cities to
stamp out the disease. Ocean Springs,
Miss, the most infected place, is abso
lutely cut off from the world except
by wire and mail.
REPORTS to the st. Louis Republic
on the 7th from the principal corn-pro
ducing states indicated a decrease in
this years corn yield of about ten pei
cent, caused by the drought of the late
summer.
AT Denver, Col, on the Sth the Colo.
rado Midland railroad was sold under
foreclosure to Chairman Olcott, of the
reorganization committee. for S295, 900
NEAR Los Angeles, Cal, on the nigh
of the sth bandits piled ties on the
Southern Pacific track for the purpose
of footing the express train. Wher
the train slowed up two deputy sher
, ifs began firing and the bandits hur
riedly abandoned their plans.
The report sent out from Elwood
Ind, several days ago that negro resi-
dents of the town had been notified Il
leave within a week has been declared
absolutely false by Mayor Finch, o.
Elwood.
AT Owassa. Mich, Mile Comstock
music teacher, wrapped herself in &
blanket saturated with kerosene anG
lighted it. She died as the result o.
her burns.
THERE is big demand for cottor
seed in Texas. The price is now 81
and $40 a ton and may go higher. Tex
as mills have all the European order.
they can fill.
HARRY +. LEADLEY, of Rochester
n. Y, who died at Bancroft, Mich.
on the eth, made an ante mortem state
ment in which he confessed to having
murdered Miss Emerson in Roches
ter and embezzling from Rochester
firm.
WESTERN passenger rates are rapidly
becoming demoralized. While freigh
| business is the heaviest on record. The
passenger business on nearly all west
ern roads has shown little or no i'm
| provement.