Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-16

7. B. Potter, founder of the Cob
den Club, the once famous free trade
organization, is dead in London.
Eugene N. Caffrey, OF Hutchinson,
Kan, has been admitted to practice
before the interior department. at
Washington.
The contract for carrying the
United States mail from Evanston to
Jarbal, Kan, has been awarded toe.
c. Cali, OF Algona, Ia.
/ A cable message from General Otis
at Manila reports fifteen deaths
among American troops there since
October %, two from smallpox and
several from typhoid fever.
The Ethel s. Mining Company, of
/ Cherokee county. Kansas, with cap
ital of $4,000, was chartered by the
+ secretary of state Monday. The COM
pany proposes TO mine lead and zinc.
| The newspapers of ST. Petersburg.
Russia, announce the coming visit to
st. Petersburg of Thomas a. Edison,
the American inventor. The scientific
societies are preparing to give him a
brilliant reception.
The Turkish troops at Retimo, ISL
and of Crete, having refused to leave
that place, the Russian admiral in
these waters, following the example
of Admiral Noel, the British COM
mander here, forcibly conveyed them
on board a transport.
Judge Seaman, in the United States
court, Monday, at Milwaukee, held in
effect that anyone who wishes may
engage in the manufa cture of wood
en- rims used for bicycle wheels, AZ
they are not now a patentable arti-
ole.
General John C. Gilmore, adiutan4
general at the headquarters of thu
army, is seriously i'll with malariai
fever at his residence in Washington,
D. C., as a result of exposure in
Cuba and Porto Rico, with Major
General Miles.
An American citizen. Mr.. Gottfried,
who is merchant at Huanchaco,
has presented to the government,
Through the United States minister,
Irving Dudley, a claim for compensa-
ton for outrages inflicted upon him
self and members of his family by q
band OF Peruvian mauraders.
Rhalifa Abdullah, the defeated
dervish leader, is hard pressed on the
frontier OF Kordofan, southwest OF
Nhartoum, by natives friendly to the
Anglo-Egyptian expedition and it is
believed that his capture is imminent.
Ali Shereef, his son-in-law, is already
prisoner and is being brought to
Khartoum.
( The comptroller of the currency
has approved reserve agents as fol.
lows: The National Bank of Com.
merce, of Kansas City, Mo-, for the
! Third National bank, of Springfield,
Mo-; the National Bank of St. Joseph,
Mo-, for the Atchison National, and
/ the Western National bank. of New
/ York. for the National Bank of Hol.
ton, Kan.
The lead and zinc miners Of South.
eastern Kansas are just now enjoying
a run of prosperity such as they have
never had before. L. C. Weldy, editor
of the ualena Republican, writes that
wages among the miners have in.
creased on an average of more than
l. per cent recently and that more
Than double the number of men have
been given employment.
\. w. Kinkennon. known as ''Black
joe" the scout, left for Enid, o. T..
Monday. taking with him his 10-year.
old daughter, whom he had never
seen before. Kinkennon deserted her
mother in Arkansas two months be.
fore the child was born. Recently he
heard she was in Wichita, ami, by aid
of the police he found her. She " I'D
in destitute circumstances. and he il
wealthy.
Mr.. Paul Meyer, a New York pub
Usher. was selected by a combination
OF wealthy men to go to Paris and
secure the services of Emile lola as
lecturer. He has just returned
from there, and is quite certain that
lola will visit this country and lee
ture. and that within comparatively
short time. He declined to say for
publication just where he met the
famous French novelist, but admits
that he had a business interview with
him.
Sunday night about o'clock two
masked robbers entered the post.
office at Arago, Ore, which is located
in the residence Of w. H. Schroeder,
postmaster. Schroeder was in the
upper part of the house when the
men entered, but man named Peter
Crow was in the office The robbers
took Crow to The river bank and sc.
curely tied his feet and hands. They
then returned to the house and
forced Schroeder, at the point of q
revolver, to open the safe. The rob.
bers secured $1,000 belonging to the
Arago Creamery and 5000 Of postal
funds. Sheriff Gage and a posse are
in pursuit of the robbers.
Mrs. Leslie Carter Bankrupt.
New York, November S.-Mrs. Leslie
Carter. the actress, under the name od