Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-12-28
General News.
Gould is bidding on the Alton "a

$40, 0CO, 900 is asked for to raise the
Mississippi levee.
Steel has advanced 1917 in price at
Pittsburg, Kansas.
A huge iron corporation in Austria
has cleared s35, 200, 900.
California exports 25, 900 gallons of
wine annually to France.
Russia has sold half million alb
so]ste rifles to China at long prices.
A new railroad near Portland, Ore
gon, promises employment for 2, 800
men.
Five mails month have been pro-
vided between New York and Porto
Rico.
The St. Louis National bank and
The Bank of Commerce have COM
bined.
Rear Admiral Dewey says he can
hold the Philippines against the
whole earth.
Canadians out bid Americans and
bought Havana street railway fran
chise TO- 81 900,
The Maine may yet be rescued.
Divers are again examining the wreck.
The Spanish Colon may also be raised
and rebuilt.
The American Federation of Labor
has taken a decided stand against
increasing the U. S. regular army to
100000 men.
Queen Lii says she lost Sc, 100000
worth of land in the annexation of
Hawaii and she would like to have
Uncle Sam put up.
Michael o 'Donnell served 10 years
insSing Sing for crime his brother
had committed. After the brothers
death and confession the former was
released.
A revolution in Spain is predicted
by European dispatches. The Car
lists will be the prime movers, but
many other dissatisfied elements will
participate.
The Navy departments order to
the Raleigh to return to the United
States indicates that no danger of
trouble between Dewey and the Ger
mans is anticipated.
A Denver cowboy tells how Miss
Helen Gould visited the wounded
rough riders in the New York hos pital.
She gave each a present and kissed
them good bye on parting.
Jamaica has given up all hope of
political attachment to the United
States. That island is the key to the
Nicaragua canal and Great Britain
will never relinquish her hold.
An insane student attacked the
British embassy at Washington re-
Gently and destroyed the fine plate
glass front valued at 500. Mrs.
Pauncefote was struck on the ankle
and slightly injured.
The dispatches indicate that the
Philippine insurgents will refuse to
recognize the sovereignty Of the
United States over the islands. It
is also stated that it will require TO-
600 soldiers to put down the rebellion.
Oklahoma has a county seat fight.
The Kay Center town company has
just been organized for the purpose
Of fighting Blackwell. E. E. Fender,
j. K. HASTE and John Bradley, all
of Wellington, are three of the direc-
tors.
Dave Leahy figures that nobody
but proofreaders, telegraph opperat-
ors and editors read the Presidents
message carefully. Perhaps Dawes
impression that the reading clerk IN
Congress don't read it that way is
correct.
Representative Rixey of Va, has
introduced bill for the admission of
Confederate soldiers to soldiers
homes. Mckinley suggested that
the Confederate dead be cared for,
but Rixey's suggestion is decidedly
in advance, as it cares for the living.
The Chicago street railway COM
bins is trying to get an extension of
it's franchises for period of fifty
years. The ordinance provides TO-
the payment TO the city of small
percentage of the earnings. With
out such a provision it would have
no chance of passage. The council
will likely pass it but Mayor Harri-
son will veto it. The big fight will
then be made in the effort to pass it
over his veto.
Two self confessed ghouls, Mclean,
a colored man and Perry, a white
Aan are in the custody of the Kansas
City police. They took the body of