Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-23

A0O CVnIrdct uOr carrying the
United States mail from Eden to
Varck, Kan, has been awarded to F.
2. Smith. of London, KY.
The Tioga National bank, of Otta
wa, N. Y, of which Senator T. c..
Platt Is president, will reopen its
doors for business on Thursday morn
ing.
Larker S. Campbell, of Kansas, and
Matthew A. Farley, Of Missouri, have
been appointed taggers in the bureau
OF animal industry of the United
States agricultural department.
The comptroller of the currency
has approved the National Bank OF
Commerce, of Kansas City, as a re-
serve agent for the National Bank of
Seneca, Kan.
The London Daily Chronicle says:
I'VE are reliably informed from the
Congo Free State that the Belgians
have captured Bohr, a Dervish post
ninety miles north of Rejaf, on the
White Nile"
Miss Alice Corneau is dead at St.
Johns hospital, Springfield, H., of
cancer. Her father was treasurer of
the Wabash railroad and she was the
sister of Countess Joleaud de st. Maui
rice, Paris, France.
The war department has received
the following report from Santiago
de Cuba: Sanitary report, Nove1n-
Der 12.-Total sick, LOO; fever, adj
kinds, 571; dea tbs, Edward Moss, pri-
vate, Company II, Twenty-third Kan
1as, November II, typhoid fever"
A. J. Raney, a well-kuown farmer
Ewing q few miles south of Coffey-
vile, Kan, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with a revolver. Dependency over
bad health is supposed to have been
the cause. He leaves a wife and four
children.
Lieutenant G. Dresel, of the United
States navv committed suicide in the
Carrolton mouse Monday by shooting
himself in the head. From papers
he killed himself because he had been
ordered to Manila to join the United
States steamer Zafro.
William Hickey Gross, archbishop
Of Oregon, Roman. Catholic church,
died at st. Joseph's hospital in Balti.
moro, Nd, Monday, OF heart disease.
Archbishop Gross went to Baltimore
to attend celebration at ST. Charles
college, Elliott City, Nd, and was
taken sick ON November 6.
Senator Gallery of Louisiana will
seek to secure national aid through
congress to educate the South on the
question OF guarantees. Yellow fe-
YER experiences and the probability
of establishing closer relations with
yellow fever country south suggests
this sort OF plan.
Fred Hes1er, Jr., and Joe Molzen, of
Newton, Kan, left Monday for Water.
town, N. D., where they have been
suhpoenaed as witnesses in a muir
der trial. ". w. Green Is charged
with the murder OF ]. A. Gallagher.
The four worked on the same farm
In this county last summer.
The United States transport steam.
or st. Paul, laden with army supplies
and Christmas goods for the soldiers
In the Philippines, Will leave Sam
Francisco on Thursday. There are
1000 packages for the soldier boys,
% Christmas Will not be devoid of its
Santa CLAUS features to the boys ON
the other side Of the world.
In an interview Monday Congress
man d. B. Henderson of Iowa, said:
II see my name is being mentioned
In connection with the speakership
OF the next house. This is wholly
without my authority. i am not &
candidate for that office. If Mr.. Reed
desires a reelection, and I presume
he does, am for his reelection"
The Risdon iron works, Of San
Francisco, nave placed with the
American Tube and Iron Company, of
Middletown, Pa, a large contract for
pipe, for the draining of the Com.
stock mime at Virginia City, New
These mines will be drained to a
depth OF $500 feet below the collar
OF the shaft. Pumping will begin
January 1.
The state of Texas raised the yel
dow fever quarantine Monday and the
quarantine inspectors and guards
were withdrawn. All existing quar-.
antineS in the South against the fe-
YER, 30 far as it extends to disinfec-
ton and detention, will be raised,
though the usual regular inspection
at ports will be continued all the
year around.
By cave-in at the Tenth street
gravel pit, Lafayette, Ind, shortly
before noon Monday, Refers Wilson
and George Walters were killed, and
Peter Staley was seriously injured
Two other men had narrow escapes
A brother of Wilson was killed in this
same way few years ago, within
400 feet of the place where the acct
dent occurred.
Mrs. S. A. Black was found lying
on the floor Of her room dead Mon
day evening in Maryville, Mo-, by a
Heighbor who went to see her. Hep
Nppearance indicated that she had
been dead some time. Mrs. Black was
. widow and lived alone. Coroner
Shearer decided that apoplexy was
the cause of death and that the many
rumors concerning foul play were
groundless.
Tha Drexident Monday appointed
AeuteEant Joseph C. Byron. Eighth
cavalry, as a captain and assistant
quartermaster. Lieutenant Byron is
. West Point graduate, class of 1882
he bore distinguished part in the
Pine Ridge campaign in 1891. In the
taoe war with Spain, lieutenant By
ron accompanied as aide-de-camp
General Schwan'e brioade of recu1,r.