Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-01

AT the national encampment of the
G. A. r. at Buffalo, n. Y, on the Goth
j. p. 5. Goblin, of Lebanon, Pa, was
elected commander-in-chief and Gin
cinnati was chosen as the place for the
next meeting.
THE strike of the progressive tailors
at New York has been declared off. the
increase of 25 per cent. in wages de-
manded having been conceded by the
employers.
The experiments conducted at Fort
| Worth, Tex, under the direction of
DIR. Victor A. Norgaard, chief of the di
vision OF animal pathology in the ma
| tional bureau of animal industry. with
view of ridding Texas cattle of the
fever-producing ticks, have eliminated
in success. DIR. Norgaard will in a
few days make official announcement
of the experiments.
| HARRY FLETCHER and his grandson,
while driving across the railroad track
| at tSeatonville, ILL.,, were struck by pas.
senger train and both instantly killed.
FIREBUGs burned a large barn and
all its contents belonging to Van Ad.
ans, well-to-do farmer living near
AAhSCOIh, 1hu' 1AcH dlSO
! to burn the Adams house
HIGHT & MCCoY's elevator at Dalton
City, Ill, collapsed from overlooking
and about 80, 900 bushels of grain were
scattered. The loss was very large.
GOLD quartz has been discovered
near Canton, Ill, and the find was said
to be rich in ore.
AT sale of Poland China hogs at
Springfield, Ill. on the 27th boar
named klever's Model sold for SIS, 100
JOHN E. JACOBSON, aged 81, was
found murdered on his beat at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the night of the 26th
He had arrested couple of burglars
in carpenter shop and was taking
them to the station, when one of them
shot him. The two burglars escaped.
The young negro named Bonner,
who was arrested for criminal assault
upon an aged white woman near Will
helm, Tex, was taken from Jail by a
mob of 200 men early the other morn
ing and lynched in the woods. The
negro confessed the crime.
Mrs. JENNIE LAIRD. of Providence,
Z. l., was elected captain commanding g
at the meeting of the Ladies' Associa-
ton of Naval Veterans at Buffalo, n.
Y, on the 25th.
The body of Thompson Rhodes was
found within the doors of Mason Bros.
planning mill at Marietta, Ind, where
he had been killed by load of slugs
from spring gun, fixed by the pro-
prietor to prevent burglars.
A COMMITTEE of the Society of Friends
of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana was re-
gently looking at the valley below Ell
Paso, Tex, with view of securing a
location for large colony of Quakers.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND was mustered
into the q. A. R. at Buffalo, N. V, on
| the 25th and became a comrade.
THE president of Uruguay was shot
and killed just as he was leaving a
cathedral at Montevideo by a youth
named Arredondo. The city was cele-
brating the anniversary of the inde-
pendence of Uruguay by a fete when
the assassina tion took place
The coal operators in the Pitts
burgh, Pa. district decided on the 25th
to wait for week or ten days before
resuming, some of the operators frank
ly admitting that the situation was
critical in all branches of labor and
they had no desire to make a move
that might cast odium on them. The
operators adjourned sine die after
naming committee vested with dis
cretionary power to act.
The tobogganing of wheat has
started rumors at Chicago of possible
corner in the September option and it
was the opinion that all the September
wheat in sight was being bought with
a view to selling it in ST.. :5 market.
The wheat crop of Nebraska has
been threshed. The quality is splen-
did and the yield is unprecedented, be-
ing 45.OO0,000 bushels. 1t averaged 90
bushels to the acre. and there were in
round numbers 2, $50, 600 acres produced
in the state.
The first convention of the Negro In
terstate Free Silver league was called
to order at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 25th.
Among those present were Prof. c. w.
Lear. principal of the Clarksville, Mo.
colored school, and Harry r. Graham,
of Kansas City, Mo-, president of the
Negro Free Silver league of Missouri
and editor of the Kansas City Rising
Sun.
AT the G. A. r. national encamp
ment at Buffalo, n. Y, on the oath the
features of the day were the arrival OF
President Mckinley, accompanied by
Secretary Alger and Gov. Black, the
banquet to the president in the even
ing and the parade of the naval veter
ans and ex-prisoners of war The Ma
tional Association of Army Nurses ano
the Ladies of the G. A. R. also held
meetings.
SILVER broke all records again on the
oath, falling to 23X pence in London
and to 5i1z cents in New York
At New York's price for bars, the value
of silver in the standard dollar is SO. .6f
cents.
THERE was no agreement between
the operators and the leaders of the
striking miners at the conference a.
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the oath, both side.
remaining firm. The operators after
wards announced that they would
open their mines anyhow, even if they
had to import men to work.
WHILE working in a coal mine nea1
Carlyle, ILL.,, Fred Hearer, an engineer
was accidentally knocked off of an as
cending cage and fell Cos feet, meetins
horrible death.
THE official call for the sixth Ma
tional Irrigation congress has beer
issued to be held in Lincoln, Neb.
September $3.50.
AT the convention of the Forester.
of America at Denver, Col, on the 25tl