Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Ex-President Cleveland and family
left Buzzard's Bay, Mass, for Prince
ton, Monday.
"A postoffice has been established at
Water, Oregon county, Mo-, with John
s. Brewer as postmaster.
The failure in London is announced
of Ernest Orger Lambert, financier.
His liabilities are estima ted at S., 000,-
600.
A rabid bulldog ran through the
streets of Atchison, Kan, Monday.
Several dogs are known to have been
bitten, and the rabid dog is still at
large.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the National Bank of Com
merce of Kansas City as a reserve
agent for the National Bank of Dali
las, Texas.
Kim Hong Niuk, a former palace IA
vorite at Seoul and the alleged author
of the recent attempt to poison the
emperor of Corea, has been placed
under arrest.
Mr.. B. w. Peton, of Boston, who has
had twenty-eight years experience in
the custom service, has been selected
to take charge of customs matters at
ManZanillo, Cuba.
Lemuel C. Burris and Napoleon
Bainsworth, of Indian Territory, both
Indians, have been appointed coal and
asphalt trustees for the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations.
| The latest news of Dreyfus is that
the government has arranged for his
return to France in a merchant YES
sci. He will be lodged in Mont Vale
rian fort, outside of Paris.
Mr.. James S. Wood, paying teller
of the National Bank of Commerce,
Kansas City, Mo-, has resigned his po-
fer made Iby the New York Life In
surance company.
The government survey party under
George Eldridge and Robert MuldroW
arrived at Seattle, Wash, Sunday
from Alaska, on the steamer Al-Ki.
The party has been surveying aid sum-
mer at Cooks inlet.
A deal is ON foot lby which all coal
lands in the Indian Territory will be
leased and held indefinitely until the
company is ready to work the coal or
sell its leases. John d. Rockefeller
is to furnish the money.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Chronicle says: "The troops who have
returned from Khartoum are dying
like flies from enteric disorders, sup
posed to be due to canned beef and
indulgence in cheap spirits"
The condition of Governor Smith,
of the Soldiers home at Santa Monica
Cal, who was recently shot by an in
mate of the home, was so much i'm
proved Monday that he was able to
sit up. He will undoubtedly recover
The representative of Pittsburg
company is negotiating for twenty
acres of land on the banks of the
Manchester ship canal, England
where it is proposed to erect a manu-
factory of non-corrosive metal which
will employ 5000 men.
The name and site of the postoffict
at Tryon, Beaver county, o. T., ha!
: been changed to Barcross, Seward
/ county, Kan, which is one and one
/ half miles north of the present loca
ton, and John L. Bolls has been com
/ missioned as postmaster.
: The Nord Deutche Algemeine lei
: tung declares that the memoirs O
Prince Bismarck will be found to con
tain no sensational disclosures, but t.
consist chiefly of grave thoughts anC
recollections, which he has left as
: legacy to the German people.
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman
J. Gage and wife, who have beer
spending several days with Mrs
Cages brother, at Boulder, Col, hav,
started on their return trip. They
, will meet President Mckinley at Oma
ha and accompany his party to Wash
! ington.
; The Madrid correspondent of tn
London Times says: Although moth
ing concrete is known, 1T is the pre-
, vailing opinion here that the Pari
, negotiations are not proceeding wit
: the smoothness that is desirable. Tn
government, it is understood, share
| this opinion.
, Miss Ethel Henry, the 16-year-ol
daughter of NJ. B. Henry, of Topeka
Kan, committed suicide Saturda
evening by taking a dose of strych
5 nine. She was a student at the TIC
] peka high school. No cause is as
( signed by her parents, but 1T is be
lleteu ny ludt d uOV
affair had something to do with it.
J The naval court-martial recently i
session in Denver, in the case of Chap
= ). lain Joseph H. Mcintyre has com
pleted its verdict, and Captain c. T
8 Lauchheimer, judge advocate of tn
= !, court, is on his way to Washingto
y bearing the document to the head c
: the navy department. No portion c
its contents is to be made public ur
til given out from the proper author
= ties at Washington.
q 1t is said here that the evacuatio
a of Porto Rico will Ibe completed neg
&c week, and that the evacuation of Cub
v will be accomplished by the end {
Il November. The government is en-
% ploying twenty-one vessels in the r
>, patriation of the troops. The soldiel
, have received their pay for June an
a on landing in Spain they will recei,
a two months pay, be given civilia
+ clothing and be mustered out of Il
service.
Major General Henry W. Lawto
k military governor of the departing.
a. of Santiago, will sail for the Unit
n States in the course of few DAY
" having been granted three month
,e leave of absence because of ill healt
= His duties as military governor w
II be discharged by General Leona
IS Wood, governor of the city of Sa
. &iano most Of wh0Sa off oioJ dut;