Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-02-24
NEWS BOIL ED DOWN.

Dingley's committee decided to re-
store Mckinley act rates to coal and
coke.
William L. Wilson has decided to
accept the presidency of the Washing
ton and Lee university.
President Gates of the Illinois Steel
company offered to guarantee as good
armor plate for $240 ton as that for
which the government pays $40.
Alaska is clamoring for representa-
ton in Congress.
Kyle was finally reelected Senator
by the South Dakota legislature.
John I. Baker, one Of the founders
OF the Republican party, is dead.
Female legislators In the Colorado
House voted for the high hat measure.
Steel rail war renewed. Nearly
S20, 600, 900 of orders booked since the
pool was dissolved.
George w. Adams, a once famous
Chicago grain speculator, killed him
self. He died a pauper.
The street railway strike at Gal ves-
ton, Texas, was won by the employees,
who returned to work.
Preacher Goodwin of Mayfield, Ky,
had to flee from an avenging mob on
account of domestic misconduct
The Transvaal asks 81 ,667, 900 indem-
nifty of England for the Jameson raid
The Everglades have been conveyed
by the government to the state of
Florida.
More than 500 priceless documents
have been stolen from the congress
sional library recently.
Stephen C. Woodson has been nomi-
mated postmaster at st. Joseph, Mo.
Confirmation is improbable.
The President has pardoned ex-Bank
President Porterfield of Nashville,
Tenn, serving 10-year-sentence.
The death sentence of Alexander
Allen, convicted in Arkansas, has been
commuted to life imprisonment
Reeds policy to bar all except tariff
legislation at the extra session has
be en- practically decided upon.
Senator Thurston gave notice of an
amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill for the appropriation Of
81 ,O05, 156 to pay unallowed sugar
bounties under the act of 1895.
Edison says telescope photography
is very simple to even a novice.
General Carlos of the Cuban junta
His bond was forfeited.
Bob Ingersoll clerk attempted sui.
eide. Four persons closely associated
with the agnostic have Killed them
selves recently.
A bill to equip the National Guard
with 45-caiber Springfield rifles passed
the House.
VIM. p St John, the famous finan-
cier, is dead.
Two United States gunboats will be
launched next month in California
waters.
A Sedalia girl whose mind was af-
fected by illness, attempted to kill
herself.
Texas Legislature wrestling with the
fellow-servant bill.
Mrs. Booth Tucker tainted during q
Salvation Army meeting. She is quite
ill
Joseph r. Dunlap, editor of the Chi
cago Despatch, must serve two years in
prison, as the United States Supreme
Court affirmed the sentence.
Sunday baseball will be permitted in
Texas.
Illinois farmers suffering heavy
losees by corn rotting.
Six bodies recovered from the Free
man mine in New York.
Kentucky toll-gate raiders blew a
gate to splinters with dynamite.
Ex-Congressman Darlington of Penn
sylvania is accused of embezzlement
Mrs. Annie Besant, Theosophist,
will make a lecture tour of the United
States.
Preparations are under way to make
McKinley's inauguration notable as a
spectacular event.
William Phenix of Sedalia, Mo-.
tried to kill his wife because she was
to sick to earn money.
Mrs Rebecca Chrisman of Normal,
Ill, was burned to death. Her clothes
were ignlted while she was lighting n
fire.
One of the important features pend
ing at jefferson City is a bill to in
crease the permanent endowment fund
of the State University.
Sir Alfred Miller succeeds Sir Her
cules Robinson as governor of Cape
Colony.
A Greek man n-of-war fired on Turk.
ish transport which was conveying
soldiers to Canea.
Christians bombarded Canea and
drove the governor of Crete on board a
Russian man of-war.
Wisconsin's general fund shows $780,
00O deficit.
Kentucky distillers are forming a
whisky trust
Senatorial election in Utah is to be
Investigated
Relief work in India now employs
2.75o, 900 people.
Richard L. Sharpe, St Louis lum-
herman, killed himself.
Prospect for a sugar tariff has
brought a boom in raw materials
Richard Kerens has rented big
house near Dupont circle, Washington.
Carroll d. Wright has been reap
pointed labor commissioner by Mr..
Cleveland.
The dead Editor McCullaghs person
al property in st. Louis was appraised
at Ss76, 127.46
Malveno, Ark, has just suffered
500, 900 fire loss, the second big fire in
few months