Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

1t Is said that he was ordered 10
leave because he had discharged some
men who were not doing their work
IN a satisfactory manner.
The United States transport Mani
tslba, with the Third Wisconsin volun-
teer regiment. sailed Sunday from
Ponce, Porto Rico, for New York.
John Anderson, colored, charged
with the murder of Charles Holmes,
. we'll known white farmer, was
lynched at Lafayette, Ala, Sunday by
= mob of people of Fredonia and West
Point, GA.
Michael Timlin and Philip Vergal-
Ito, top filters at the furnace of the
Youngstown Steel company, were suf-
located by gas at o'clock Sunday
eaening at Youngstown, O. Both
leave families
The Bank of Spain's report for the
week ended Saturday shows the fol-
lowing changes: Gold in hand, in
crease 1,546,000 pesetas; silver in
hand, increase 1888, 900; notes in cir
culation, increase 2,886,O00 pesetas.
me amount of coal now on it's way
to Cincinnati On the present rise 10
the Ohio aggregates about 1000, 900
bushels, requiring $50 barges end
twenty-five coal boats to carry it.
The Norwegian steamer Conn Ar
cher, Captain Larsen, from New York
September q for Stockholm, is
ashore in critical position at Aarre
Gaederen, Norway.
The National Funeral Benefit Asso-
citation of Kansas City, Kansas, is the
name OF a mutual concern just grant
ed a charter by the secretary of state.
The association is formed for the pur-
pose of defraying the expenses of de-
ceased members. The capital il
placed ait 500. The directors are: J.
b. Hibben, E. Pearman, c. II. Pear
man and G. L. Berry, of Kansas City,
Kansas, and w. j. Hohls, of Kansas
City, Mo.
Robert White, living four miles
south of Breckenridge, Mo-. died Sat-
urday, aged 81 years. He was the
oldest citizen in his county, in years
end in point of residence. He went
there with the Mormons, whose faith
he embraced, when tney sgctled at
Far West, and remained there when
they were driven out. He became
wealthy and large landowner. He
was born in Knox county, Ohio, and
moved to Missouri in 1884.
jeff McGuiggan, who was arrested
and taken to the county jail at indie
pendence, KAN, charged with sault-
ing and robbing Postmaster Powell
was taken back to Coffeyville for his
preliminary trial Saturday and was
bound over to the district court by
Justice Matthews, under $4,000 bond
He was to be returned to Indepen-
dence Sunday night, but in some way
escaped from the Coffeyville jail and
Is now at large. He is a bad man.
The fatal accident which occurred
On the legal trial trip of the torpedo
boat Davis was caused by the loss OF
! water in the forward boiler. Chief
Engineer Kutz, United States inspec-
tor of machinery at the Wolf 8
Zwicker Iron Works, made a thor.
ough examination of the boilers. He
found that the tubes in the forward
end of the boiler became dry and
overheated, and mine of them blew out
OF the steam drum. The after boiler
appears to be uninjured.
M. Pariare, a drummer, whose
home is at Albany, N. Y, was shot
and instantly killed by George De
Moss at Houston, Texas. Pariare Is
alleged to have offered q gross insult
TO Mrs. De Moss, and she told he1
husband at once ON her return home
Mr.. De Moss then hunted up Pariare
finding him in a store. He walked UT
to him, asked his name, and on am
swer blew the top of Pariare's head
off. The remains will be shipped te
Albany, N. Y.
Serious trouble is brewing among
the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache In
dams. For thirty years, since THY
Medicine Lodge treaty, the govern.
meQt has fed these Indians, but THAI
treaty expired July 1. They have
commenced killing cattle belonging
to Texas cattlemen and crisis i.
near. These Indians have no crops
few cattle and have had no money
for months. Men who know predic
great starvation among them thi.
winter and serious trouble. There
are q, 500 Comanches, 1900 Kiowas ani
600 Apaches.
A small skiff in which were Louii
Baban, son of wealthy brick manu-
facturer of Evanston; William
Schaeffer and another young maj
whose identify has not yet been estab
ished, capsized IN Lake Michigan
about five miles off Wi1mette Sunday
and all were drowned. The me1
started out in the morning duel
hunting. A high sea was running
and, after drifting about five miles
the boat was overturned. The unfor
tunate hunters chung to the over
turned craft for over an hour, but
weighted down with their heavy can
vas coats, and their pockets filled
with ammunition, they finally sank
Schaeffer's body was recovered.
Corks can be easily withdrawn fror
bottles by means of a new attach
ment, consisting of an endless STIR,
OF canvas or other heavy fabric
which is forced into the neck of tn
bottle with the cork, a loop being LET
, at the top of the bottle for the inser
,, ton of the finger.
, Queen Wilhelmina of the Neither
| lands, who has been appointed b.
: Kaiser Wilhelm chief of the Hanove
!, regiment, No. Is, is the fourteent,
: woman commander of a German reg
: Iment, but shares with Queen Victoris
? only the honor of having her regi
on11 nI - Il.