Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-28
GENERAL NEWS MOTIFS.

posed no the powers that interna tional
action be taken against anarchists.
A postoffice has been established At
Hillside, Cherokee nation, 1. T., and
John ID. Long appointed postmaster.
The revenue cutter Grant, which
went up into Alaska waters in a fruit
less search for a Spanish privateer,
has arrived at Seattle from Sitka.
An Englishman named Binns and a
guide who accompanied him, while
making the descent of the Aigulle de
Charmose, fell and both were killed
The contract for CARRYING United
States mail from Utica to Kansada,
Kansas. has been awarded to J. C..
Johnson, Of London, Kansas.
The comptroller OF the currency
has approved the selection of G.. I.
Hubbard as vice president OF the New
'r@land National bank of Kansas
City.
Mrs. J. A. Hayes, daughter of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, has started from Col
orado Springs, Col. for Narragansett
Pier to attend the funeral of her sis
ter, Miss Winnie Davis.
The president has appointed the fol-
lowing postmas ters: Kansas-Cherry-
vale, Leo C.. Veeder. Nebraska-Pon-
ca, James III. Logan. Oklahoma
Blackwell, George L. Lage.
The receipts of cattle at the Kan
sas City stock yards Tuesday were
1908. This breaks all previous rec
ords and makes Kansas City the larg-
est cattle market in the United States.
The steam schooner Excelsior ar
rived Monday afternoon at Seattle,
Wash, from Copper river, Alaska,
with 200 prospectors who failed to
find gold. They report that the gun
boat Wheeling will bring down $50
destitute men from Copper river.
The sloop yacht Emily was struck
and sunk by a squall in the narrows
off Newburgport, Mass, Sunday, and
OF five men who were on board two,
Adolphus Cole, aged ,twenty-six, and
Gustav Morrean, aged thirty, both of
Amesbury, were drowned.
The Kansas City base ball club are
the pennant winners Of the Western
League. The deciding game was
played at Exposition park, Kansas
City, Mo-, Tuesday afternoon with
the indianapolis club, and was won
by Kansas City by score of 6 to S.
Eighteen members of the United
States hospital corps, who have been
on duty at Fit. Thomas, KY, took train
Monday night for New York, under
orders to join the ten women nurses
there, who went from here last Sum
day, and proceed with them to San
Juan, Porto Rico.
The British steamer Mounta Tabor,
Captain Jameson, from Iloilo for Iiv-
erpool. has been abandoned on fire
OFF the Island of Socotra. The British
steamer Telena, from Calcutta for
Hamburg, landed the crew here. She
sustained damage in attempting to
tow the burning vessel.
The body of Albert Eckdohl, a pri-
vate in Grigsby's Rough Riders, who
was killed by trolley car in Chica go
a week ago, remains unclaimed in
kennedy's morgue. Every effort has
been made to find friends or relatives
of the dead soldier, but without sue
cess. Eckdohl enlisted at Ldgewood,
, n. D.
James Carroll, better known as
Lefty" Carroll, was shot and fatally
wounded by Dog-Catcher Frank Ken
nedy in st. Joseph, Mo-, Monday af-
ternoon, while the two were in the
saloon of Andrew Arnell at 2426 South
Sixth street. They quarreled over a
captured dog. owned by Carroll. Ken
nedy escaped.
Ex-City Detective James Kesson
and Dick Hurst. sport, were arrest
ed Saturday night at Topeka, Kansas,
charged with obtaining money by
blackmail methods from H. H. Keith,
!, a local druggist. Kesson and Hurst
are accused of stealing Kefths liquor
registry book and then demanding
and receiving $50 from him to give it
back.
Del Jordan, one of the best known
horsemen, trainers and starters in
the West, died in the hospital at
Butte, Mont, Sunday, from the eff
fects of a wound received September
6 at the Fountain roadhouse He be-
came involved in a dispute with wo-
} man, ROSY" Lavetre, who shot three
times at Jordan. Lavetre is under
arrest.
Clara Oliver, widow, was found
with her head split open and crushed
just outside her house, in the north
west part of Norton county, Kansas.
She was living with her boy, twelve
years old, and two or three younger
children. She was about to become q
mother and suspicion centers upon q
man known to have kept company
with her.
A Polish christening at Banning, q
mining settlement near Uniontown,
Pa, Monday night ended in free
for-an fight, in which knives. pistols
and clubs were freely used. One man
was killed and five others injured. The
man killed was Steven Perunko, q
delegate to the National Slovak I'M
J ion. The names of the injured are no,
known. The participants in the melee
fled, and the police are now after
} them.
Three weeks ago the wife of John
Williams, a prosperous farmer living
one mile southeast Of Galena, Kan
sas, was buried. and last night mob
OF about a dozen Whitecaps visited
Williams house and gave a woman
named Zimero Nichols. who Is living
with Williams. an unmerciful whip
ming. Williams was permitted to es-
cape. Monday the woman told the Of
f1cials her troubles and said son of
Williams led the mob.
Colonel James Forney, who is in
charge of the Spanish prisoners at