Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-03


Greasy grasshoppers are stalline
trains in western Kansas and east
ern Colorado.
Kansas State Temperance Union ha.
petitioned Pres. McKi inley to forblt
the sale of intoxicating liquor in tn,
army.
Three children of e. j. Allen aged
respectively 10, 4 and were burned
to death in their home near Alta
Vista Saturday. Two others were
rescued.
A Kansas soldier, Frank Wagner
was shot in the face and neck with
bird shot while picking peaches from
farmers orchard near Carp al
Chickamauga.
A state reunion Of the G.. A. R.
will be held in Topeka September
26-29th Major Tom Anderson, j. F.
Buck, o. III. Coulter, and w. Wood
ward are members of the executive
committee.
WAMEGo, July 26.-Yesterday morn
Ing as No. was leaving the station, a
hobo attempted to secure a free tide
under the car on the rods. Fer some
reason he made a slip and fell under
the train and had one leg broken and
one foot crushed.
HOLTON, The commencement ex
ercises of Campbell university occur
ed last week. The institution gradu-
ated CLASS of eight from the regular
department, besides good sized classes
from the special courses. The enroll
ment during the year reached 43l.
Topeka, In the battle of Gettys
burg, shortly to be given at Garfield
park, Colonel Fred Close will imperson-
ate General Les; Captain p. II. Coney,
General Hancock; Captain Peterson,
Colonel Pickett, and Major Shreve,
General Meade.
The colored troops are drilling at
Camp Leedy and lively appearance is
presented. Army buttons are very
popular with colored girls and it may
be laid down as general rule that the
boy who has all the buttons on his
uniform has no sweetheart,
A Western Kansas fisherman SAYS
that just as he had broken his last
hook a school of fish passed along
which he estimated to be twenty
miles long and two broad, and pack
ed so closely that they crowded each
other out of the water. or course the
hook was broken.
The most recent observations as
to the amount of heat the earth re-
ceives from the sun show that in
clear, pleasant weather 63! per cent
Of heat is absorbed by the atmos-
phere and only 36i per cent reaches
the soil. This figure rises in October
to Al per cent and sinks to % per
cent in January.
ToPEKA,--The State House dome
will be completed this week. A large
chand elier, costing $500, has been
ordered, and will be suspended in the
dome, The chandelier is equipped
for both gas and electricity. So
soon as the chandelier is in position,
the scaffolding which has for several
years endangered the lives of people
will be taken down.
Fort SCoTT, Kan.,-The large
safe in the Missouri Pacific freight
cashiers Office in this city was
blown open by burglars July 22nd
who obtained about $50 in cash and
checks. The charge of powder was
so heavy that the big door was
forced from it's hinges and com
pletely demolished.
PARSONS, July 26.-Charles Guiles,
bu-ly negro, was shot twice by Po-
liceman Van Horn while resisting ar
rest. He was detected steali chick
ems and had sack full of them when
shot. The negro element here is much
lncensed over the shooting and threats
are being made on the officers life.
The whites, however, are well prepared
and will take all precautions to protect
him and quell disturbances.
LA,--Joseph Abney, a young
farmer of Middle Greek township aged
30 years, WAS declared insane in the
probate court last Friday and officers
started with him for Osawatomie
When they had gone about one mile
the officers discovered that Abney was
dead. He had expired without making
a sign and his attendants did not
know just when he died.
TOPEKA, July 23rd.-Insurance
Commissioner Webb McNall today
turned over $4,000 to the state
treasurer for fees and taxes agains,
insurance companies collected by
his department. The So, 900 turned
over today makes the total revenue
from the insurance department since
January l, $3s, 900, all of which
was placed in the state treasury.
The figures of the Office also show