Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-05-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

German legislators advocate retaliar
ton in case of the passage of the Ding
ley tariff bill
The Typographical union is taking
steps to secure 9-hour work day ali
around.
uer, Neb., gets life sentence for
poisoning his wife.
Cincinnati has two mayors, Caldwell
refusing to turn over the Office to Gus
Tafel before July z, and the latter
claiming possession at once.
Jerry Simpson attacked Speaker
Reed again for not appointing the
House committees. The speaker ap-
pealed to the House and was sustained
by a decisive vote, the Baileyites vot-
ing with the Republicans.
Engineer Henry H. Roberts was in.
stantly killed and Fireman Charles
Pardoner, both of Slater, Mo-, so bad
ly injured that he died shortly after.
ward. by the explosion of the boiler
IF Chicago & Alton locomotive at
Kansas City.
Silver leaders in Washington believe
that Bryan expects to be the nominee
in 1900.
President Mckinley will hold up the
consular appointments until the tariff
bill has been passed.
The President has nominated Cen
eral Benjamin NJ. Prentiss to be post
master at Bethany, NO.
The Joseph Calm Clothing company
Of Kansas City is insolvent.
Belgium has officially established the
l to "a o'clock principle.
| Alvin Byley. near Blues Point, Ark.
killed mis- mother with a board.
! Zack Davis was killed near Smith.
| field, Ind. Ter, while resisting arrest
for robbery.
Tobe Lanahan was convicted at JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, of the murder of
Willie Gaines.
Miss Mary L. Leggett of Topeka has
been admitted to study divinity at
Harvard college.
The Juniata river la PENNSYLVANIA is
out of its banks and doing great dam
age to growing crops
jim and Lewis Riley quarreled near
Nowata, |. T., and Lewis killed his old
| father for interfering.
At Gallup, n. NJ, the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad was sold at auction for
S12, 900, 600. Receiver Walker of the
Santa Fe bid it in for his company.
Two persons were burned to death
in Detroit fire.
During April the public debt de-
creased $:-,71s.O6s.
United States Senator Earle of South
Carolina is seriously i'll from kidney
troubl
John Gibson, colored, was hanged at
Greenville, Miss, after having been
sentenced to death seven times.
Secretary of the Navy Long, POST
master General Gary and Public Prin-
ter Palmer recommended radical
changes in the civil service law.
Ex-Congressman Tom l.. johnson of
Cleveland is a Democratic candidate
for the United States Senate from Ohio
John X. Mclean of Cincinnati also
wants it.
-Four wagon loads of dynamite ex-
ploded in the center of San Salvador.
causing many deaths and wrecking
two blocks of buildings
The Grand Duchess of Hesse, grand
daughter of Queen Victoria, has left
her husband, to whom she was mar
ried in royal state three years ago.
The faculty of Central college,
Fayette, Mo-, object to ex-senator
Ingalls, delivering the commencement
address because of the part he took in
ohe Carson prize fight. He accepted
the invitation before the prize fight.
The Austrian ambassador to Ger
many says that Austria, Germany,
Russia and France will not allow En-
gland to annex the Transvaal or de-
stroy its independence.
Miss Hattie E. Baxter of Sedalia ad-
vertised for a husband in a matri-
monial paper eight months ago. Sun
day she was married to David T. Bird
of Spokane, Wash, a rich mine owner.
He answered the ad.
Extraordinary pressure is being
brought to bear on the President to
pardon Sugar Trust Broker Chapman
of New York, who is under sentence
for refusing to testify before Senate
investigating committee.
President Mckinley started by tele.
graph from Washington the machinery
of the Tennessee Centennial exposi-
tion. Exercises at Nashville included
parade and speeches by Major j. w.
Thomas and Governor Taylor.
John w. Wall, late cashier of the
defunct Farmers National bank OF
Portsmouth, Ohio, went to prison al
Columbus voluntarily to serve out a
five years sentence for concealinp
overdrafts of the presidedt
Fayette Phone, 81, Will Gates, 35,
and four Thomas brothers, Louis, 90,
Ben, l6, Jim, IA, and Aaron, 13, were
hung by mob at Sunnyside, Welter
county, Texas, for killing Henry and
Marie Daniels and a little 7-year-old
girl, after assaulting the girls and
burning their home All parties are
negroes. Will Williams, one of the
gang, is believed to have been shot to
death.
Rev. Isaac S. Hopkins of Atlanta,
Ga is slated for minister to Greece.
Mckinley has refused to pardon Jo
seph R. Dunlop, the Chicago pub
Usher.
Oshkosh Wis, is to have a factory te
make binding twine from marsh grass
/ An engine and fourteen cars of a
freight train went through a bridge
near Warrcnton, o.. and plunged into
creek. Engineer James Garsletter
was scalded to death.
Mrs Harriet E. Beach. widow of Ed.
ward Beach of the Scientific American
has been crazed by spiri tualism and is
squandering her fortune on a medium
she has married, one Henry R Rogers.
Mr. Oiney a Frisco Director.