Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-30

/ - q iOSulb VI the IrlPnCIul In 1ur1eS In
dicted by the great bird.
THE negro Moses. who killed Farm
er John Strong near Crystal Springs.
Miss. few days ago, and was arrest
ed and placed in Jail for the crime. was
hanged by mob at $50 a. m. on the
18th.
THREE children of the family of
Lewis Bloom, of Charleston. Ill. have
dled within few days of black diph-
theria and two others were stricken
and not expected to live.
A RECENT Chicago dispatch stated
that 249 applications for charters for
branches of Debs' social democracy had
been received, the greatest number
coming from Ohio, next Indiana and
then Wisconsin.
1T was reported at Paducah. Ky..
that Miller, who had assaulted a five
year-old girl at Eddyville and was
taken to Princeton for safe keeping.
was secretly lynched at the latter place.
AT Corbin, Ky, Daniel L. Curry, a
prominent business man, shot and
killed John Corley, well-known
Louisville boot and shoe salesman. 1t
was alleged that Curry was insulted by
Corley few days before while on a
train.
Two dead bodies have been taken
out of the ruins of the Mulholland
building at Watertown, S. d.. which
collapsed the other night, and four
other persons were rescued, one of
whom will die from his injuries.
AN eagle swooped down from the
clouds in Pottawatomie county. Ia.
and attempted to carry off Mrs. Nor
tensen, who weighs 100 pounds and
was hoeing in her garden. The woman
fought the eagle as best she could and
nnalIy sank down unconscious. when
the bird sailed majestically away.
MRS. Mortensen's shoulders and face
were badly lacerated and tufts of her
nalr were torn out by the roots. Her
condltlon was said to be critical.
The 10th annual convention of the
Music Teachers National association
began at New York on the Gath with
the jubilee overture of Weber by the
metropolitan Permanent orchestra.
ZEN JOHN b. GORDON, despite his
own resolve not to run again, was unan-
lmously reelected commander-in-chief
of the United Confederate Veterans AFT
Nashville, Tenn, on the 23d. Atlanta
ia, was chosen as the place for the
next reunion.
IHE Morning Star, barkentine
owned by the American Board of Mis-
slons, was announced as being ready
at San Francisco on the Esd to make a
tour among the cannibal islands in the
south sea- The vessel will be manned
by men who will preach the gospel to
the natives Two young ladies will
also go out as missionaries
WHILE negro summer school was
oelng conducted at Lonoke, Ark. a mob
OF drunken white men broke down the
doors and took Prof. D. T. Watson, a
colored teacher, into the woods and
beat him in merciless manner. The
mob told the negroes that they wanted
them to chop cotton and that normal
schools were too much for them.
ALBERT T.. ELsTON, paymaster of the
f. E. Aver Post & Tie Co., was attacked
by four robbers at Chicago the other
night, beaten with revolvers. robbed
OF S45S and left unconscious beside his
buggy. --'
IHE boiler in sawmill at Rockville.
Ind, exploded the other day and Solon
Ferguson, the proprietor, was Instant
ly killed, Edward Straughn fatally in
jured and Walter Ferguson seriously
hurt.
THE Suburban, the great race of the
year at New York, was carried off by
Michael +. Dwyer, his horse. Ben
Brush. winning in the fast time of
2:O7 1-5
CHRISTIAN X. Ross died of heart dis
ease at his home, Germantown. Pa. He
was the father of Charley Ross. The
famous stolen boy, and up to his last
illness he never gave up the search for
his missing son. whose abduction star
tied Philadelphia on July 1, 1874. and
became an unsolved mystery the world
over.
The people of Meridian, Miss. were
recently so aroused at some Mormon
elders making a house to- house can
vass Tor the purpose of gaining con-
verts that, when the elders attempted
10 mold service, they were told thew
must leave town. They left on the
first train.
HE United Confederate Veterans
met In annual reunion at Nashville
Tenn, on the 22d, the assemblape he.
ing called to order by Gen. John r.
Gordon. Gen. Reagan delivered the
principal address of the day. at might
a brilliant reception was given by the
tennessee Daughters of the Confeder-
acy to the veterans
THREE colored men were drowned
near Clarendon, Ark. They were in a
small boat and it ran against a BRIDGE
and upset.
A LITTLE daughter of Mr.. Edward
Dunnng, of st. Louis, got hold of 1s
poisonous pills and ate them for CANDY
ohe died soon afterwards.
THE jury at Omaha, Neb.. before
which was tried the case of the state of
Nebraska against ex-State Treasures
). ,. Bartley, returned a verdict finding
the defendant guilty of embezzGnp the
sum of SIS 1000. He was remanded To
Jail to await sentence,
TEHUANTEPEC. Mex. which CON-
tanned about $1,000 inhabitants. was
completely destroyed by an earth
quake recently, so far as buildings are
concerned, not zone remaining stand
ing. The people are living in tents
and In the open air on the outskirts'of
the place. The earthquake shocks
still continue to be felt at frequent
intervals and the people are terrified.
A STORY was current recently that
the sugar trust would like to buy Cuba
from the Spaniards on the same plan
as the Hudson Bay company which
England had. Col John ]. McCook
was the man credited with the idea.
The great tailors' strike at Nav