Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-26
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Our navy lost only II killed and

ly one was killed by the guns of
e Spanish ships.
While crossing the Wheeling and
Lake Erie track at Irondale, o., Sum
day, Frank Sass and William SchoI,
of Toledo, were killed.
The Odessa correspondent of the |
Standard says that Russia has hastily |
concentrated 10000 men at Port Ar
thur TO be in readiness for any emer- |
gency at Picking.
The president of the Swiss confed-
GRAFTON, NJ. Ruffy, has received threat |
ening letters from anarchists. |
Measures are being taken by the po-
lice to prevent an attempt ON his life.
The city council of Cleveland passed
ordinances Monday night affecting
two street railway lines which pro-
vide for reduction of cash fare to
cents and for the sale of seven tick
cts for quarter.
Advices from Trinidad, province OF
Santa Clara, Cuba, say that great
damage has been caused by the re-
cent storm. Many houses were swept
away, eight people were killed and
many cattle drowned.
Terrific weather continues to pre-
vail ON the south and east coasts of
Great Britain. The man service be-
tween Dover and Calais has been in
terrupted and there have been many
life boat and rocket apparatus res
cues.
A dispatch to the Herald from Cal
manera, Cuba, says: Naval Construc-
tor Hobson has sailed for Philadel-
phia via Jamaica. The camp at the
Colon wreck is partly built and the
work will GO on during Hobson's alb
| sence.
Chauncey NJ. McNall, AN old soldier,
aged IS years, father of Insurance
Superintendent Webb McNall, post
master at Lebanon, Kas., died there
Sunday evening at o'clock. The re-
mains were taken to Gaylord for in
termenlt.
Exercises in memory of Bismarck
were held Tuesday night at the Met
ropolitan opera house by the united
German societies. Representative
members of all the German societies
in New York and vicinity attended
the meeting i'm body.
The dowager duchess of Sutherland
has offered reward of $4,000 for the
recovery of the jewels said to be val
ued at $150,000, which she lost on
board a train bound cor Calais while
ON her way from Paris to London.
The jewelry includes a necklace val
ued at $4,000.
William Wilmoth, a young farmer
living near Edna, Kan, was seriously
if not fatally, injured by an explosion
of twelve pounds of dynamite. He
had the dynamite in his residence,
and was examining it when the eX-
badly wrecked.
The wood used by the military es-
Establishment for government purposes
since the capitulation of Santiago has
been sent from the United States at a
probable cost of over $12 a cord,
counting the expense of transporta-
tion and of labor in loading and I'M
loading cars, shipping and unship-
ping.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the National Municipal
League, held in Philadelphia, the fol-
lowing organizations were admitted
to affiliated membership: Good Gov
eminent club, of the University OF
Michigan; the Civic Federation, of
Leavenworth, Kas.; the Christian
Citizenship League, of st. Paul, MINI.
Graham A. Young of Louisville, KY,
who died at the post hospital at Will
let's Point Monday, was heir to al
most a million dollars. He enlisted in
the United States engineers and went
with the expedition to Porto Rico.
He returned three weeks ago and was
taken i'll with typhoid fever. His ia
Their was a millionaire earthenware
manufacturer.
The steamer Dirigo, just arrived al
Victoria, B. g., from Skagway, Alas
ka, reports the steamer BriXhan j:
On a reef off Blashe island, thirty
miles south of Fort Wrangle. Part o.
her passengers were taken on boari
the steamer Al-Ki. The remainder
are encamped on the island. It il
feared the BriXhan will be tota
wreck.
Rev. Mr.. John McQuistian, super
animated Methodist preacher, wa
i. found dead at the side of the SAINT;
Fe tracks near Pauline, Kan, Tues
day. He had been west on visit fo
the past ten days and the suppositio1
is that he got off of an early morn
ing train at Pauline and was hit b,
freight while walking up the tract
to his home. He was 65 years old AM
was deaf.
Judge J. V. Sanders, prominen
attorney of Cottonwood Falls. Kan
and an old settler. aged 81 years. an
candidate for county attorney O.
the Populist ticket of the county. me
!, with an accident at the Eureka hote
. Tuesday which may prove fatal. II
started to his room and fell dow
stairs and broke the femur bone i
his right hip, besides sustaining a sc
! we're scalp wound.
} The health officers of ST. Joseph
e Mo-, are taking vigorous measures t
r check the diphtheria epidemic, whic
= is increasing daily. City Physcia
S Graham has ordered the burning u
E sulphur in all sewers. The health oil
D fcials attempted to close the publ
: schools, but the board of educatio
e Monday night rendered its final dc
q cision not to close. 1t is question c
: law between the bodies, and will
e decided by the courts.
Three children of Michael Andel