Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-30
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| of Milwaukee, to be held July 16 and
! IL at Denver. There will be three
races for bet of $1,000, the winner of
two to take all.
CLARK LEWIS was hanged at Fayette-
vile, w. Va, on the 25th for the muir
der of Charles Gibson whose death ap-
peared to be desired by Mrs. Gibson to
enable her to continue her carousals
with Lewis.
The widely-known actor, ''Old Hoss''
Hoey, has been taken to Bellevue hos
pital at New York, his mental vagaries
having assumed a violent form. 1t was
feared by his physicians that he will
never recover.
lea importers and men interested
in the tea trade in New York have de-
cided to put forth organized efforts to
secure tariff on tea The New York
men favor a duty of ten cents pound
on all tea imported.
BURGLARS at Chicago notified the po-
lice the other night that they were
blowing up the safe at 40 Dearborn
street and to come quick and get them,
but the police considered it joke and
did not go, although it was only two
blocks from the station. Afterwards
the proprietor of the place informed
the police that the premises had been
robbed and an attempt made to blow
up the safe
IERREL HUDSON, negro who was to
have been hanged two weeks ago for
murder, but was reprieved by Gov. At
kinson. was executed at Decatur, Ga, i,
on the 25th. Hudson killed Seaborn
Malcolm, another negro, in a quarrel
about dog.
NEAR Bordley, KY, some young chill
dren were playing at "hide and seek"
when Laura and Jennie Melton jumped
into an old trunk, which shut with a.
spring lock, in the cellar of their
house. They could not be found and
when their parents came home search
was instituted and both children were
found smothered to death.
THE princess of Wales jubilee din
ners to the poor of London on the oath
were very successful, about sc, 900 dem
liens of the slums being entertained at
various centers. AT the peoples palace
about 1000 crippled children were
served with good things to eat At
the Central hall, Holborn, about II, 900
poor people partook of the banquet
served.
In the parade of the United Con-
federate Veterans at Nashville, Tenn,
on the oath 10000 veterans took part.
Gen. w. G. Jackson was the chief
marshal.
AN Italian laborers' shantv near
Brilliant station, Pa, on the Allegheny
Valley railroad, was blown up by
dynamite early on the 23d and one
Italian was instantly killed, another
fatally injured and several others re-
ceived more or less serious injuries.
Thirteen Italians have been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned in the
matter.
FIVE deaths occurred at New Orleans
ON the 23d from the intense heat.
POSSE, who had been after George
Bradley, a negro murderer of Monroe
county, Ala, surrounded him after a
four days chase in the woods, when he
deliberately fired a bullet into his
breast and died soon after.
HARRY MCGEE, while filing an en-
gagement at the Lagoon in Cincinnati,
dlved from tower 60 feet high into
the lake. His body struck the water
flat and his neck was broken.
Gov. MOUNT has called meeting in
Indianapolis, Ind, June 80. of repre-
sentatives of the Grand Army of the
Republic, Loyal legion and Women's
Relief corps, to perfect plans for erect,
ing monument and caring for the
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
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ty, Ind.
THE Louisville & Nashville railroad
was held up on the night of the 22d
near st. Bethlehem. Tenn. One man,
armed with two pistols, sacked the ex-
press car and obtained, according to
reports, from 81, 900 to 81, ,OOO The pas
sengers were not disturbed and knew
nothing of the robbery until after
wards.
JUDGE BOTKIN. department COM
mander of the Grand Army of the Re-
public of Kansas, has sent invitations
to the department commanders of Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska and
Colorado, asking them to attend the
annual reunion of the Grand ARMY of
Kansas at Leavenworth, October IL
to 16.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Social Democracy of America at Chi
cago on the 21st the following officers
were elected: E. v. Debs, chairman:
Sylvester Koliher, secretary; James
Hogan, vice president; William E.
Burns, general organizer. The consti-
tuition was also formally ratified and
adopted.
THREE crews of freshmen had a boat
race on the Hudson, near Poughkeep-
sic, n. Y, on the 23d. The Yale fresh
men rowed the course. two miles, in
9:19H, the Harvard freshmen finished
a trifle over two lengths behind them,
and the Cornell freshmen finished a
length behind Harvard in 9:291z. The
best previous record for the two miles
was 9:41.
WILLIAM n. HUNT, prominent farm
er near Guthrie. Ok, attacked his
daughter and attempted to kill her.
She escaped and summoned officers.
who jailed him and he was reported as
being a raving maniac.
ACCORDING to advices received at San
Francisco per the steamship Glenshiel,
the war in the Philippines is practical
ly at an end, as only three outlying
districts remained to be conquered by
the Spanish troops.
LEWIS HENDERSON arrived at SheIbv-
vile, Ind, the other day from Cincin-
natl to visit Miss Minnie Sampson, his
f1ancee. and she was at the depot to
meet him. Henderson jumped from
the train before it stopped and he was
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