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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
A VIII lie Negro Regiment

Atlanta, Ga, May S.-The Atlanta
negroes will be given a chance to fight
Spain. Recruiting officers of the
United States army will be sent to this
city at once to take the enlistments of
the colored members of the state mill
tia who have manifested such vigor-
Gus and overwhelming desire to get to
the from. Georgia has about 1,5OO
negro troops and they have all been
clamoring for an opportunity to go to
war. When Governor Atkinson issu-
ed his call to the white troops alone
there was great disappointment among
the negroes and they vowed to go to
war by appealing to President Nc
Kin1ey.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
Democrat State Convention,

There will be a delegate convention
OF the Democrats of Kansas, held in
the city of Atchison, on June Is, 1898,
at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. M, for the
purpose of nominating the state tick
ct, as follows:
Governor, lieutenant governor, sec
rotary of state, treasurer, auditor, at
torney general, superintendent of pub
lie instruction, congressman-at-larg
and one associate justice of the SUI
preme court.
Also the selection of a new state
central committee.
! 1t is also recommended by the state
central committee that at the county
conventions held for the purpose of
selecting delegates to this convention,
that the county central committees in
the several counties be chosen and
that they organize their committees
as soon as possible and report to the
secretary of this committee at or be-
fore the time called for this couven-
ton, the members of their comfy CEN
trail committees so selected, and also
the chairman and secretary of such
committees.
The delegates to this convention
shall be selected in such manner and
at such time and under such rules
and regulations as may be provided
by the Democratic countycentra1 COM
rnittee of their respective counties.
The basis of apportionment of dele
gates will be one de1egate-at-1arge for
every county in the state, and one del
egate for every three hundred votes
or major fraction thereof cast for
John Sheridan for elector it 1888.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
PRICES DING up.

A New York dispatch of the second
instant informs the country that prices
have suddenly started upward far
above the former level. at costs more
to live in New York than it did a week
ago." Says the Associated Press Agen-
cy.-"War has sent the prices of near
ly every staple article of food bound
ing upward and a sympathetic advance
has resulted in many lines of merchan-
disc.
Everything that is a necessity to
the poor man is dearer than it was
Yesterday and will be dearer still to-
morrow. His potatoes, flour, sugar
coffee, tea and meat are all increasing
in prices daily, some rapidly and
some slowly, but just as surely.
"The greatest increase is m bread
stuffs and provisions. Flour has
jumped $1.SO barrel in the last two
weeks, about so cents of this rise hav-
ing come in the last two days. While
the stock on hand in this city is small,
according to a local dealer, the Jump
in price is due to the war and to the
peculatio and rise in wheat, which
makes it as difficult for the mills to get
sufficient supply.
There has been corresponding in
crease in all farinaceous goods. White
beans have advanced 40 cents a BUSH
ell; California lima beans 80 cents; rye
flour costs IS cents more a barrel than
last week, and all corn and oat prod
ucts are between and 10 per cent
higher. The price of potatoes has
gone up so cents a barrel on the old
and Sl.S0 barrel on the new. Sugar
has risen one-fourth of a cent per
pound, which means rs cents a barrel.
"The extra cost of teas and coffees,
produced arbitrarily by the holders OF
large stocks, is ~ cents pound on
coffee land between 3 and cents a
pound on tea.
"Hog products are rising also. Pork
has gone up between rs cents and 81. SC
a barrel; lard one.fourth to one-half
cent pound, bacon and hams one-halt
to one cent pound. AS a result Ct
these advances the retail grocers have
put up the prices from two to six cents
on retail quantities.
"In the dry goods line there was a
general small advance in certain ia.
brics, due to expected government
contracts."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

A correspondent of the st. James
Gazette, thinks this country don't
amount to much as a military power,
This is the way he puts it:
1.-The wild hurry and nervous tremor
with which the United States is pre-
pairing to encounter seven-rate pow
er like Spain shows the ludicrous and
contemplate position in which the
braggarts would have been placed had
Lord Salisbury given President Cleve-
land the answer he richly deserved
and so brought them face to face with
the first naval power of the world.''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

The export of wheat from the Unit
ed States has been very large recent
ly. The exports from September l,
1898, to the close of last week, were
about 100000 bushels of wheat
greater than for the corresponding
time in the previous season. These
exports cover the following: Wheat
S4,2S7,19S bushels, corn 134, 49, 73
bushels, flour 10000, 442 barrels, while
the figures for the previous year were:
Wheat, 1924, 772 bushels, corn 125, 1897
400 bushels, flour 8,4s3,O96 barrels.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

The St. James Gazette London, }
commenting on the war situation says:
Neither Spain or America is in the
least prepared for war. Ii will be
autumn before the mobs of men with
muskets are fit to trust in the field.
They are no more at war, in the mod
ern European sense, than would be
the squabblings and filibusterings of
acouple of South American republics"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

About the funniest thing in this
years politics is the mistake of E. H.
Funston, one of the Republican candi-
dates for governor. A good many years
ago, when he had a similar ambition, he
collected the names and post office
addresses of influential republicans
all over the state. Half of these men
are now Populists, but Funston does
not know it, and he is writing letters
to them asking for their support of
his candidacy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

Taxation in some of our large cities
is intolerable, and what is worse,
there is no prospect OF immediate inn
provement. New York City is now
upwards OF $5O,OOO,OOO in. debt above
the lawful limit of ten per cent of her
assessed valuation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

Europe is now studying lesson it
never learned before. The Great Re
public on this side the Atlantic is ex-
hibiting an intelligent, robust self.
possession in war never before wit
messed in a democratic system of gov.
eminent since the world began.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

1t costs thousand dollars to fire
each of the big guns of the most pow
erful ships and forts one time. 1t re-
quires thousand pounds of powder to
throw two thousand pound project
lie eight miles.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

How vast have been the changes in
modes of warfare in modern times! A
battle-ship of the first class now, as a
destroying agent, is equal to an earth
quake.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
The Slocum System

is bottled Life" 1t builds up the
tired and WORKOUT bodies of those who
suffer. II goes at once to the seat of
the disease and drives out the germs
that are living on your vital strength,
1t takes ho'd of your blood, and where
1t was once sluggish and slow it causes
1t to leap and dance through your
veins with the vigor of health.
1t makes
rich, rosy blood, and rich blood means
health and strength.
The Slocum System
is a capitalization of the mighty
minds of the medical world. 1t is a
practical condensation of the inyesti-
cations of Koch, Pasteur, Virchow and
Metchnikoff, all put in practical form
by one of the foremost medical scien-
lists of the country. 1t is putting at
the service of suffers the result of
years of study and research of emf
nent men, which result they could not
haye bought with kingdoms.
The entire system
is fully explained in a new pamphlet
brimful of testimonials, which will be
sent with three free bottles of this re-
markable system of treatment to any
and all readers of this paper who will
send their name and address to DIR. T.
a. Slocum, The Slocum Building, New
York City, and who will agree to use
! them fer the relief of those who suffer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

Geo. T. Pitts, member of the City
Council of Wellington, has been in
vestigating the Water Works Syetem
of Newton. 1t is supposed that the
Construction of the Newton System
secured the removal of the Santa Fe
division to that point; and Wellington
is now after the Rock Island division.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
Recruits Must be Examined.

Every volunteer, before he is mus
tered into the service, must be exam
ined by the surgeon, touching his ply
steal soundness.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

The Populists of the Seventh Con
.gressional District will hold their con-
vention at Hutchinson the 18th day of
this month.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

The Hawaiian government is very
anxious about its future if the United
States Senate does not ratify the pend
ing annexation treaty.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
he Last of the Anti-sIaverv Society.

Mr.. Robert Purvis, one of the orig
inal 90 members of the American
Anti-S1avery Society, founded in 1888,
died at his home in Philadelphia on
April IS. He was born in 1910 and
was a student at Amherst College.
Almost as soon as he left college he
began he work as an Abolitionist. He
was known as the president of the
Underground Railroad" and was
warm friend of Whit Ter, Garrison,
and Lundy. He was Jreque nt1y mob.
bed for his activity in anti-s1avery
agitation. He was also an ear1y adj
vacate of Woman's Suffrage and an
active Prohibitionist. His mother
was the daughter of a Moorish woman.
who was brought as slave to Char
lestown by slave-ship.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

War, besides being cruel and des-
tructive, costs vast amount of cash
money. We are now spending about
a million dollars a month.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

The Topeka State Journal, few
days ago said: There came near be-
inn riot in the coach building shops
at the Santa Fe this morning. Some
one placed United States flag on
one OF the rafters of the building.
Foreman n. Mansen saw it, and ord
cred it taken down. Foreman James
Morgan objected, as did the men work.
in the shops. Mansen said he would
carry the matter to Master Car Build
er John Hodge, and the men informed
him it would do no good, as they would
not take the flag down even if NJ. C.
B. Hodge ordered it down..
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
The "S1ocum System" the Most Marvellous
Discovery Of the Age.
Three Free Bottles Of This Wonderful Treat
nent to all Readers of This Paper
For the Asking.
Coughs Consumption Catarrh. La Grippe Other Lung
Troubles at Last Annhilated
Are you a Consumptive?
1t is safe

Are you ConSunlptive?
1t is safe
to assume that you are, for nine-tenths
of the human family suffer from one
form or another of this King of
Diseases, this despoiler of homes, this
common enemy of health, which
strikes rich and poor alike and is no
respecter of persons.
Heretofore
wealth has been necessary part of
the c1ire-wea1th, to take you to the
green fields and the sunshine of
chimes that know naught but summer
and none but the blue skies of June;
wealth to enable you to partake of the
elaborate systems of high priced treat
ments; wealth to buy this fleeing
hope that leads you on and on to the
| inevitabl end-death.
But now
all this-has been changed. The poor,
aye, the poorest of the poor, may be
saved from the clutch of Consumption,
La Grippe, Catarrh, Coughs and the
kindred evils that belong to the con-
sumptive family.
Any afflicted
who desire to avail themselves of the
benefits of this marvellous discovery
(the Slocum SystemI which is offered
in philanthropic spirit TO all who
suffer-. have butte task and you shall
eceive."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

The Mennonites of Harvey County
are in panic. Most of them fastened
to take out "Non-resistant'' papers,
but Assistant Attorney General Smell
ing has ruled that they are of no force
and effect.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11

Wichita has been treated to cloud
burst accompanied by wind that nm
rooted several dwellings, including
one of the Dormitories of Gargeld I'M
iversity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23

Speaker Reed at the close Of the Cuban de-
bate last Thursday. Mr. Bailey made a
long explanation and review OF the entire
controversy, and in conclusion, reiterated
several times the statement that the agree
ment he had with Mr.. Hit had been vfo-
lated Mr.. Bailey said an examination OF
ment that there should be a nay-and-yea
vote or the motion to recommft. so expicit
and distinct that he felt 1t his duty TO call
it to the attention of the country. He then
read at length the colloquy which took place
between Mr. Williams (Dem., MIss.), Mr.
Hit and others as to the closing OF the
Cuban debate When he finished by quot
ing Mr.. Hits last remarks-.An 1t IS UNI
dersiood Mr. Chairman, that at O'Clock
tomorrow there shall be but one yea-and-
nay vote that on "a motion to recommlt =
the Democrat -sbrOke forth in applause
THAT was Fecisely my statement, con-
tinued Mr.. Bailey. II do not desire to inn
pute motives other than honorable ones to
any one, for | am slow TO charge false
hoods or unfair dealing, but l do affirm
that there has been either a miSunderStand-
ing or a misstatement.
A lengthy colloquy ensued on the parla.-
mentary points involved in the disputed
question and at its conclusion the House
Went into committee OF the whole on the
Indian appropriation bill with the unuer-
standing that general debate should close at
. O'Clock. During the general debate Mr.
Cummings (Dem., N " made an eloquent
pro-Cuban speech Mr.. Eddy (Rep, Mlnn.)
spoke on the free-homeS question. Mr..
Lewis (Dem. Ga.) submitted some remarks
in reply to Mr.. Dingley's statements on
Thursday regarding the cause OF the de-
land, and Mr.. Gaines (Dem, Tenn.) on the
armor-pate question. The other speakers
were Messrs. Little Dem., Ark. Kleberg
(Dem Tex.) Damson Dem, Ga.). Ste
phens Dem. Tex). King (Dem.. Utah),
Und, rwcod Dem., Ala.) and Ridgeley tPop.,
Kan.) The speaker appointed Mr. Hurley
CRep., n. y on the naval affairs commit
at , O'Clock adjourned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
cATARRH OF THE STOMACH.
4 Pleasant, simple, but Safe, EGectual
Cure for 1t.

Catarrh Of the stomach has long been
considered the next thing to incurable.
The usual symptoms are full or bloating
sensation after eating, accompanied some
times with sour or watery risings, a forma-
ton Of gases, causing pressure on the heart
and lungs and difficult breathing, headache
tickle appetite, nervousness and a general
played-out, languid feeling.
There is often foul taste in the mouth
coated tongue, and, If the interior of the
stomach could be seen, it would show a
Shiny, inflamed condition.
The cure for this common and obstinate
trouble Is found in a treatment which
causes the food to be readily, thoroughly
digested before it has time to ferment and
irritate the delicate mucous surfaces of the
stomach.
To secure a prompt and healthy digestion
is the one necessary thing TO do. apd when
normal digestion is secured the catarrhal
condition will have disappeared.
According to DR.. Harlanson, the safest
and best treatment is to use, after each
meal a tablet composed of Diastase, Asep-
tic Pepsin, little Nux, Golden Seal and
fruit acids. :,
drug stores, under the name OF stuart
Dyspepsia Tablets, and, not being patent
medicine, can be used with perfect sa1ety
and assurance that healthy appetite and
thorough digestion will follow their regu-
lar use after meals.
Mr.. j. N Booher, of 2710 Dearborn street;
Chicago, Ill, writes: "Catarrh is iocal
condition resulting from neglected cold IN
the head, whereby the lining membrane OF
the nose becomes infiamed, and the pol
sonous discharge therefrom, passing back
ward into the throat, reaches the stomach,
thus producing catarrh of the. stomach.
Medical authorities prescribed for me for
three years for catarrh of the stomach with
out cure, but to-day 1 am the happiest OF
men, after using only one box of Stuart. $
Dyspepsia Tablets. / cannot find appropr1-
ate words to express my good feeling.
II have found flesh, appetite and sound
rest from their use
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are the safest
preparation, as we'll as the safest and most
convenient remedy, for any form of indi-
gestion, catarrh of the stomach, biliousness
sour stomach, heartburn and bloating after
meals.
Send for the little book, mailed free, or
stomach troubles, by addressing Stuart Co..
Marshall, Mich. The tablets can be found
at all drug stores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
A NAUGHTY REPORTER.
He Gave Them Column, but Not the
Kind They Wanted.
New York Evening Sun.


The president of well-intentioned. II
novel, philanthropic organization, who is
also an ardent music lover, was telling some
friends about the first meeting of her soci-
ETY. the other day. Being our first meet
ing she said, .it was, of course, very i'm
portant, and when q young man presented
tated about OF letting him 1i in You see It's
such an important meeting l said, and
you'll probably just write a little bit of
paragraph about it and stick it way down
in some little out-of-the-way corner of the
paper where nobodyll see it. No, guess
we can't let you in. We would want you
to write lot about US or not at all The
other women agreed with me, and we were
just about to turn the young fellow adrift
when he asked: If l write a column about
you will you let me attend the meeting!
We were delighted. "A whole column! We
hadn't dreamed of so much free advertising
as that. OF course we let him attend the
did and said ever so many things tnat we
hadn't thought of before, but which were
quite worth while with a whole column to
look forward to in the way of 1mmOrtallza-
ton. We planned to send the papers con-
tanning the account all over the country,
so that other women could read about the
splendid things we were doing and follow
our example An order for thousand
newspapers was accordingly left at the Of
flee. and the next morning wagon dellv-
cred them at my house. Several of the 9TH
err officers of the organization were with me-
and brimful of anticipation, we looked for
the column. There it was, sure enough,
and in conspicuous place-but such a col
umn! Instead of telling about the speeches
we made and the motions we carried, and
all the other great and glorious things that
had been done, it described our clothes,
called attention to our handbags and made
what we had said sound funny-funny. this
meeting that was to inspire the rest of the
world to follow our example. Oh, 1T was
dreadful not only the account itself, but
the disappointment it was to us. There
was no use in sending away the papers.
We had to give the entire thousand to the
ice man. TO think that that reporter
should treat US so! And the worst of it
was concluded the music-loving presi-
dent che looked just like Seidl.''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
Prominent Jurist and Republican ~
New Jersey, and mt Present Cow
ernOr of the state.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
SPEECH BY SENATOR STEWART nv
THE TELLER REsoLUTIoN.
Two Substitutes OHered-@Younr Mr.
Bailey of Texas" Again RebufYed
in the Lower House.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-rhe President
to-day sent these nominations to the SEN
ate:
John w. Griggs, of New Jersey. to be at
tOrney general
selah Morrill,. of Massachusetts, to he
consul at Jerusalem, Syria
To be Collectors of Customs-C, Wesley
Ihomas, at Philadelphia Pa Domingo Nj
Pappys at St Augustine. Fla.
81. Cla1r A. Mulholland pension agent at
Philadelphia: Henry S. Chubb. receiver ~
public moneys at Gainesville Fla: Walter
s. Robinson, register of the land office at
GalnesVlile Fla. John f. Horr marshal of
the United States fer the Southern distric4
Of Florida; John Eagan. attorney for the
Florida. -
John William Griggs was born in New
ton Sussex, county, New Jersey, July 10,
1S49. He was graduated from LAFAYETTE Col
lege in 1863 and became a law student in
the office of Hon. Robert Hamilton. at
Newton, in 1871, and removed to Paterson,
where he entered the office of the late
Socrates futile He was admitted to the
bar that year, and together with Mr. futile
formed the firm of futile &, Griggs A few
years later he opened an office on his own
account. He was elected to the Assembly
in 1875 and was reelected two years later
In the latter year the House was equally
divided and he became leader on the Repub-
Hcan side; this brought him toward He
was renominated for another term, but was
defeated. He was elected counsel for the
Board of Freeholders of Passaic county and
CITY Council of Paterson, which offices he
held until 1882, when he was elected to the
State Senate. He was reelected state SEN
ator and became president Of the Senate in
1886. He was delegate at large to the Re
publican national convention in 1885, In
1880 Governor Werts. of New Jersey, offered
Mr.. Griggs a place on the Supreme Court
Dencn OF that State, which Mr.. GriggS de-
clined to accept Next year he was elected
Governor Of New Jersey His wife was
Miss Elizabeth Trice, of Cleveland, o. He
has two sons and four daughters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
The curly-Haired Juror.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
IT is not generally known that there is a
we'll defined prejudice against curly-haired
men when Il comes to choosing a jury to
try criminal cases. The prejudice, when it
is manifested. comes from the defense
When asked to explain the objection to
clrly-haired men. a prominent practitioner
yesterday said: When / was just starting
my legal mentor inculcated that idea In
me. He said curly-haired men had almost
invariably been the pampered darlings of
their parents and in their youth had been
so used to having their own way that they
had come to believe that everybody on
earth was wrong except themselves IN
this way the seeds OF opposition were sown
and when they grow older they make ii a
point to disagree with everybody and every
thing IF everybody else on the jury votes
for acquittal they vote for conviction. as a
matter OF course. They live on combat and
when Lam defending IL / can see
him in time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
Woman surrenders Her Pension.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The widow Of
Captain ID. w. Bradshaw, of Company y,
Seventh Illinois Cavalry, will cease to draw
a pension after this month. 1t is her own
request that the pension be discontinued,
and in a letter to the commissioner of pen
sions. she returns the certificate, adding that
she no longer desires to draw a pension of
So per month from the government, since
she has recently fallen heir to an estate
valued at $500 800.