Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-14

There has been a marked decrease
IN the number of fever cases in San.
tiago.
There were 43 deaths and fifty
Prostrations from heat reported in
New York city up to midnight Sun
day.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Gloucester, Commodore Wainwright,
which sailed from Guantanamo last
Monday, arrived at New York Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Findlay, wife of George Find
lay, one of the best known Repub-
icans of Kansas, died a the family
residence in Topeka, Sunday, after a
lingering illness of cancer.
The Bank of SPANS report for the
week ending Saturday shows the fol-
lowing changes: Gold in hand, in
crease, 100000 pesetas; silver in
hand, increase, 1858, 900 pesetas;
notes in circulation, increase, $685.
300 pesetas.
The war department has decided to
permit Geronimo. the noted Indian
warrior. to be taken to the Omaha
N<NPNSitich, CulG1 anu .
number of his band will participate
In the Indian congress. Geronimo, it
will be remembered, is a government
prisoner.
Major Russell Thorpe, one of the
prominent figures of the Western
country, was killed near Lusk, Wyo.,
Saturday, as a result Of a runaway
accident. He was interested in Black
Hills mining enterprises and owned
some of the largest cattle ranches in
Wyoming.
In view Of the fact that in 1925 and
1886 there were 579 deaths in Eng
land from carbolic acid and two or
three other poisons, of which fatali-
ties 1853 were suicides and Ill due to
accident, n bill has been introduced
In the house of lords for the better
regulation of the sale of poisona
Major David N. Appel, surgeon Of
the United States army, has estab-
Hshed a bureau of information at his
Office in New York city, where he has
prepared a list of the sick and
wounded soldiers that are confined Ia
the hospitals in New York, Brooklyn,
on Long Island, and at the several
forts.
Elevators have now been rendered
safe in case of a fall by means of air
cushions. It's rather hard to believe,
but they say that in a test made in
New York recently, in which an ele.
vator was allowed to drop twenty
stories, the fall of 300 feet did not
break eggs lying on a marble slab in
the middle of the car nor spill water
from Q glass.
Governor Holcomb has telegraphed
to Washington asking if it was posi-
bic to secure an honorable discharge
for the members of the Third Nebras-
ka, Bryan's regiment, on their appli-
cation. Private advices from Jack
sonville, telling of four deaths within
week and an alleged increase in the
sick list of the regiment, has prompt
ed the governors action.
j. C. Barkley, of Chilticothe, Mo-,
died Sunday afternoon suddenly of
heart failure. Mr. Barley was about
GA years old and a lifelong journal
list, although not recently actively en-
gagged in the work. He was the can
didate for probate judge on the Dem
ocratic ticket and was making his
campaign. Mr.. Barkley leaves wife
and two children, one of whom, r. w.
Barkley, is a prominent lawyer in
New York city.
Chief Lees of San Francisco has
given out the statement that ne has
discovered that on June 1, about two
months before the box of poisoned
candy was mailed to Mrs. Dunning,
at Dover, Del, n woman purchased
large quantity of arsenic at the Owl
drug store in this city, giving the
name of Mrs. c. Botkin, with address
of California and Hyde. The clerk
who waited on her stated he would
be able to identify his customer.
The remains of the late H. w. Ew-
ing were inferred in the state lot in
the city cemetery at Jefferson City,
Mo-, at noon Sunday, in the presence
of several thousand relatives, friends
and neighbors. The services at the
cemetery were conducted by the A.
o. u. w. lodge of that city, of which
Mr.. Ewing was a member. The flu
neral services were conducted at the
residence of Mrs. E. B. Ewing, mother
of the deceased, and DR.. W. C. Tay-
Tor, Of the Baptist Crurch, assisted by
DIR. w. M. Prottsman. The process
sion to the cemetery was one of the
largest ever formed there. The floral
offerings were many and magnificent.
Governor Bradley and his corps of
surgeons and nurses returned Sunday
70 Frankfort with Kentucky hospital
train from Chickamauga. The gov
ernor after a personal inspection of
Camp Thomas, does not credit many
stories of neglect of soldiers at Camp
Thomas by their officers and says the
situation there Is much more favor
able than ne expected to find. Fifty
three sick soldiers from the Second
Kentucky regiment were brought
back on the hospital train. Surgeons
in charge of the train were very COM
plimentary in talks concerning Stern
berg and Letter hospitals and say they
think the prevalence of typhoid fever
In camp is due to lack of sewerage
and failure to remove garbage from