Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
General News.

Eddison will mine gold in New Mex.
ico by the use of electricity.
The entire North Atlantic SQUADRON
has reported at Key West for drill
practice.
John D. Rockefeller has made
another gift of $2O0, 900 to Chicago
University.
Sensational journalism reported the
resignation of Marshal General Blanco
on the 10th.
The "millionaire'' tramp dies a
pauper in ST. Louis, and is buried in
the potter's field.
Every vessel in the North Pacific
British Squadron is under orders to
depart Immediately for China.
The New Autonomist Mayor of Ha-
wanna was inaugurated a few days
ago without special demonstration.
The women of Greece have issued an
appeal to the world, praying for the
return of their soldier husbands to
their devastated homes.
The Havana War, .stubborn1y
fought out by the newspapers, and
maintained with the dynamite of press
correspondents, has apparently sub
sided:
The Cramps have launched the Jap
anese Battle ship Kasagi, said to be
the most important foreign ship ever
built in this country, and the first
launched for 20 years.
The Ohio river rose rapidly during
the latter part of last week, and in a
great many places overfowed its
banks. The rise Is caused by recent
rains in its upper tributaries.
The Brussels correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle says that the
nephew of King Leopold, of Belgium
throne, will make long tour of the
United States and Canada.
Ballard & Ballard, of Louisville,
KY, -four millers, have divided among
their employees $50, 900, being the en-
ployes share of the profits of the mill
ing company during the year 1897.
A bill has been introduced into Con-
gress providing for subsidy of $685.
600 per year for 20 years for cable to
Hawaii. After that time the service
will cost the government nothing.
The necessity of absolutely safe
places of deposit for the savings of
persons of small means is, the feature
that ought to impress all bankers with
the benefit to the people of the postal
bank system.
"A severe earthquake shock was re-
ported from San Damingo on the 10Th.
The grand edifice of Santa Cerro, one
of the oldest in the western hemis-
phere, and dating from the time of
Columbus, was entirely destroyed.
The latest news from Bombay, India,
is to the effect that the plague returns
for forty-eight hours, ending January
6, record 142 new cases and los deaths.
There is general exodus of the pop
u1ation and suspension of business
is threatened.
The astronomers have figured out a
sort of continuous performance this
year, in the way of eciipses. We will
have eclipses of the sun on Jan. y,
July 1S, and Dec. 13. The moon will
be more or less eclipsed on Jan. 2,
July 3, and Dec. %.
John L. Sullivan is said to have
acted the part of a hero Friday night
One of the wings on the stage of the
theater in which he was playing
caugh fire from an exposed gas let
John L., smothered the flames with a
coat and averted a panic.
An Arkansas editor, reading that a
young lady kneads bread with hei
gloves on, says: 1--WE need bread with
our boots on; we need bread with our
pants on, and if our subscribers in ar.
rears don't pay up soon we shall need
bread without anything on"
John e. Redmond, member of the
British House of Commons from Wat.
erford City, Ireland, and the successor
of Thomas Parnell, arrived in New
York last week. He will try to arouse
interest in the centenary celebration
of the Irish revolution of 1893.
The will of the late DR.. Evans, OF
Paris, leaves a bequest of about S..
J OOO, 900 to the Thomas w. Evans
Museum and Institute of Philadel.
phia.' AS no such institution exists
the estate is likely to be divided among
the lawyers who may have charge OF
the case.
For the first time in the history OF
Cornell university = woman has won
an honorary place in the debating
contests. Miss Laughlin, who has
earned this honor, Is student in the
college of law. She IL strong de.
batter and may win place ON the in.
tercollegiate stage.
FL Diario De La Marina, the Havana
reformist paper, editorialiv states fh.,