Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-07
JUDGE CLAYTON has handed down an

titled to be enrolled.
JAMES NJ. BURGIN and his wife were
found murdered in their home near
Bentonville, Ark. Robbery was pre-
sumed to have been the motive. There
was no clew to the murderers.
A WILD man which haunted the pine
forests in Dawes and Sioux counties, |
Neb., was captured the other day
while asleep. He apparently knew
nothing when examined by the board
of insanity.
WHILE a revival was recently in pro-
gress at the church at Grassy Plains,
N. Y, Julius Whitehead, aged 70, and
other youthful unbelievers, attended
to make sport. julius began to sneeze
artificially, and after pulpit rebuke
sneezed the harder. but when he tried
to stop he could not, and physicians
said that he was liable to sneeze him
self to death.
A VOLCANIC eruption occurred six
miles from cambridge, O.. on the I'd.
First came rumblings like distant thun-
der and the earth began to tremble
and crack in innumerable places and
number of small trees were swallow ed
up in the assures and large volumes of
smoke issued from them. The resi-
dents of the neighborhood were badly
frightened.
JOHN Cox was sentenced by Judge
Lunt at Colorado Springs, Col, to hang
for killing James Daley. Cox will
probably be the last man to receive a
death sentence in Colorado, as capital
punishment has been abolished in that
state since the commission of his crime.
A NUMBER of boys were swimming in
the river at the foot of Ferry street,
st. Louis, on the Cd One boy sank
and man plunged after him. He got
hold of the boy, but before they could
reach the shore both were drowned.
EMMA OCHsNER, a ten-year-old girl,
threw her hand across an electric light
guy wire while watching a funeral
procession pass at Joliet, ILL.,, and was
instantly killed. Her father was hor-
ribly burned in an effort to rescue her.
LAKE BRATIsCH. near Galatz, Rou-
mania, became swollen by rains and
burst its embankment and go soldiers
and many women and children were
carried away by the torrent and
drowned.
Col. w. ]. CALHOUN, of Danville, Ill.
after consulting with his family and
business associates, has decided to de-
cline the position of comptroller of the
treasury on account of his law prac.
tice.
FIVE Indians were reported dead al
Malone's Point, on Mile Lacs lake,
Minnesota on the 1st, and several 9th
ers were expected to die, as the result
of drinking pain killer hair oil an6
other preparations containing alcohol
The Indian payment had been going
on there and the redskins gorged them
selves with this stuff, which was
bought from Malone's trading post.
JONAS WILDER, an emigrant, and his
wife and two little girls were burned
to death in a cabin near Rochester
KY. They had stopped in the cabir
for few days rest. They were sup
posed to be from Benton, Mo.
THEODORE ROSE, who is under sen
tence at Glasgow, Mo-, for ten year.
for killing Charles Wells in an election
riot, but who broke out of Jail June IA
was captured at Pueblo, Col, on the
Goth.
Four troops of the garrison at For
Robinson, Neb., were ordered to be il
readiness on the 3Oth to move to tn,
Fort Hall reservation, Ida, in case tn,
Indians there were troublesome, a dis
patch to Washington stating that they
were burning fences and killing cattle
JACOB MILLER was electrocuted a
Nine Mile creek, near Cleveland, O..
on the 30th, and several others wer,
badly burned and shocked. The mel
were building stone abutment ant
the metal lie guy ropes on the derricl
hung over a trolley wire and the,
tried to tighten one, when it touched
the trolley wire and sent ourren
through them.
On the Great Northern railway nea
Fisher, Mimi, Thomas Hunter, a sec
tion foreman, and his gang were sud
denly startled by seeing fully half
mile of track lifted from the roadbec
and thrown into ditch It was sup
posed that the rails were expanded b,
the heat and finally lifted and thrown
as described. Hunter succeeded il
J signaling passenger train before i
reached there and it stopped within
300 feet of the gap in the track.
IT was reported that Schweinfurth
. the so-called messiah of Rockford
t Ill. has contracted for the purchase O
, 1000 acres of unimproved land in Ben
) ton county, Ark, with the view of re
moving his proteges from Illinois an,
establishing one of his heavens there
GHoULs have recently robbed tn
3 grave of Jesse Paul, noted Chicka
saw Indian chief, who died in 1861
, Quantities of clothing, fire arms an,
! feathers and a vast sum of money wer
buried with the chief near Perry, Ok
and all have been stolen.
l VICTOR S. BERGER, editor of a social
ist organ, at Milwaukee. gave out
statement the other night on his re
1 turn from a conference with E. Y
Debs. He says the scheme to plant
socialist colony in the west has bee
abandoned, and to take its place ther
will be a small migration of uneu
ployed men to the state of Washing
ton. They will look for homes ther
the same as other settlers, and the Ell
! pense of transporting them will b
> paid through per capita tax of /
, cents a month on members of the sc
cial democracy, Debs' new party.
: QUEEN VICTORIA returned to Londo
+ on the 2sth and, it was said, with tn
!. celebration that will close at Alder
shot on the I'd the state appearances c
: her majesty will be finished. After
wards she will confine herself to sue
: state work as can be done at Windsor
Balmoral or Osborne, and all officia