Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-03
General News.

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to Europe.
Porto Rico is to be kept by the
United States.
Evan McColl the Scottish poet is
dead. Aged 90.
A Rough Rider is to be run for con-
gress in Oklahoma.
John W. Pierce of Iowa has fallen
hier to $3 900, 600.
100 cases of smallpox are reported
from one county in Kentucky.
Shafter was for six weeks a pris-
oner confined in Libby prison.
A big flour mill will be erected at
Enterprise on the cooperative plan.
Cincinnati, besides making 200, 900
sets of harness, turns out 60, GOO saddles
annually.
Some suggest abolishing chickens
because they disturb the tranquil re-
lations of neighbors.
Governor Stephen of Missouri
has pardon young convict to be
educated by his aunt.
Topeka will try to avoid the night
revels carnival week by having the
mask parade in daylight.
James Fggleston OF the office OF the
Adams express New York, has been
elected president of the Pacific ex-
press.
A Klondike steamer recently ar
rived at Seattle with a million dol
lars worth of gold. One man had
$4,000. Many had nothing.
Old Dan, one of the horses used by
Topeka. police to draw patrol wagons
has acquired the habit of strong drink.
/ This is an example of the effect of bad
associates.
Russell Sage, the financial magnate,
is tall built, gaunt, keen-eyed, hay
seed-looking man, of nervous manner,
with long, oleanshaven face, fringed
with a scraggy, lron-gray Chin beard.
A syndicate has offered the United
States $14, 600, 900 for Alaska. The
peninsula cost Uncle Sam $1,000 200.
property which is increasing in value
at that rate is good thing to hold.
Van Jones of Carlton Missouri,
minor heir to $4,000 borrowed
$1,000 on his own personal note
and vent to Kansas City where
spending faculties are abundant.
Miss Jessie Schley a daughter of
cousin of the Commodore visited
Madrid to see the queen and Sagasta
in the interests of peace. She repre-
sented the Peace Society of Paris and
would have seen Pres. McKinley.
Her father called her back:
A horrible story comes from Hin ois
Of disgracefol fight between rival
coroners and undertakers oyer a body
that had been stabbed to death. One
undertaken, after the fight, sat the
corpse in the carriage beside him and
out ran the other driving
eighteen miles.
Under The law of every State In this
Union tht m who shoots another
man who may be stealing his fruit or
robbing his hen-roost can be prosecut-
ed for manslaughter The idea is that
you shall go out and argue with him,
aud If argument won't do whistle fur
an officer.-Ex
The gunboat Iroqnis is to haul the
ship Tacoma from San Francisco TO
Manila, distance of about $500
miles. The Tacoma is to carry 100
horses and 120 mules and coal sup
ply. The Ircquis will steam to Homo.
lulu, distance of 2,IO0 miles on her
own coal.
The state of Missouri has received
S24 600 from the national government
under the operation of what is known
As the Morrill, law, enacted in 1890 by
con yress for the maintenance of schools
for the benefit of agriculture and the
mechnical arts. The university gets
$22, 719 90, and the institute, 81, ,28O.10
There b; W been twenty-five presi
dents of the United States, twenty-fo
vice presidents of the Uaited States
and thirty eight speakers of the house
of representatives, but since tbs estab
lishment OF the government there have
been only eighteen generals in com
mand of the United States army.
The Republican national admins
tion has at last departed from its time
honored policy, protection of home In
dustries at least in one respect. A
10 cent revenue stamp Is required or
marriage licenses while divorce paper.
| go free. This is not properly protect.
ing home infant, industries.
The finsl report of the casualtie
in the army since It landed in Cub
three weeks ago have been forwprdet
to Washington. 1t shows an dygre
gate of 1.9H officers and men Killed
wounded and missing. The killet
numbered 24q. of whom twenfv. .on