Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-10
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Professor Won Zenker, who in 1850
first discovered the triohina disease,
died recently in Mecklenburg at the
age of 70 years.
German foxes are being imported
into England in crates containing a
dozen animals by some of the hunt
ing associations.
Hans Makart's monument in the
Vienna city park has just been I'M
veiled. The painters son made q
speech ON the occasion.
RuSsa's cross on the ST. Gotba I'd,
erected to the memory CT Russians
who persisted in Suwaroff's passage
of the Alps in 1899, is now completed.
1t stands on the right bank of the
Reuss, opposite the Devils Bridge.
Ii Viscount Wolseley is sent to Cam
ada as governor general. it is believed
that Queen Nictoria's son, the Duke
Of Conn ought, will be made comman-
der-in-chief of the British army, q
place he is likely to retain peruna-
nently.
The origina tors of trade in Tampa
were two Cubans. Ybor and Munra ris,
who were forced to leave Havana
many years ago. Their first business
was the manufacture of cigars, after
which they established a brewery
and ice plant.
John Harvard. who founded the IA
nous American Harvard University,
was the son of a London butcher. His
endowment consisted of a library of
300 volumes and one-half of his es-
tate. The value of the latter was
something over s12500.
Edelweiss is to be protected by law
in the Austrian Alps. The emperor
has signed laws passed by the Diets
of Syria and CarnioIa forhidding the
removal of the plant with its roots,
the sale of # 10 tourists and expor-
taftion in large quantities.
Quick work enabled the London
Palace Theate- 10 exhibit the race
for the Derby by biograPh on the
evening of the day the race was run.
The films reached London at 6 o'clock.
were developed at once by electric
light and shown on the stage before
1880.
With the exception of Sir John Will
loughby and Colonel Frank Rhodes,
all the British officers dropped from
the army on account of their particle
pahlon in the Jameson raid have been
restored to their rank. There is much
grumbling in London because the two
men excepted have not yet received
their commit ssions back.
Germany's COURT of appeal has just
drawn fine distinc .tion in a case of
false Imprisonment. A doctors board
ing house keeper took away his only
pair of boots to prevent his leaving
the house. and the doctor recovered
DANA ges in the lower court on the
ground that he wta's thereby impris-
oned. as his social position forbade
his appearing in the street barefoot.
The court of appeal has ordered
new trial on the ground that the doc
tors freedom of action was merely
limited and impeded by his landlady's
act, but that it was not impossible
for him to move out if he had wished
to.
All the judges of England, after
considering the question for more
than year, were unable to agree on
definition of what place" is. and
now the London county council is
obliged to ask legal advice as to the
meaning of street. The council re-
Gently summoned a man before a po-
lice magistrat tie for laying out street
on his property without obtaining the
councils permission. His defence was
that it was not a street, but a court
ward for the use of his tenants, and
the ma gfstra re said that he could not
decide the point till the councils law
yers obtained an accurate definition
of street from a superior court.
A negro, born a slave in Ala ba ma,
and his masters cha ttel until early
ma nIhood, is the wealthiest man in
Qua temala, and one of the m1Ilti-mil-
lionaires of the day. His name is
knight, although travellers in Guate-
mala would scarcely know it by the
familiar Spanish cognomen--Don
Juan Knight. The late President
Barrios of Guatemala estimated his
friend Knights riches at over $780,
600. HIS annual income from his vast
hra OTIS of coffe fincas, his gold mines,
mis- enormous banana planta tons and
his farms of vanilla beans, his bank
! ing and steamboat stocks, besides the
debts interest on money that Guate-
malta borrowed from him, is over
$500, 900. He lives in eautiful house
| in the suburbs of Guatemala city,
and is ceaselessly busy looking after
his immense interests.