Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Eler, N. l., is SllBnuiy improved. AT
q consultation Saturday by DR.. John
A. Wilcox and DR.. Bache emmett, Of
New York, her illness was pronounced
to be gastritis.
According to Mexican reports,
twenty-six yellow fever suspects are
held by the quarantine guards at Ea-
gle Pass, Tex. They came from points
bn the infected district of Mexico and
will be held a sufficient time to estab-
ish their freedom from contagion.
A dispatch from Picking, dated Au-
gust 81, says the French, italian and
Dutch ministers have formally de-
manded share for their respective
nationalities in the professional
chairs at the new university, of which
an American, Professor Martin, is
president.
The contemplated state rally Of the
A. 0. U. w. at Sedalia, Mo-, on Sep
TENDER %, has been declared off, as
with the confederate reunion and the
Woodmen of the World log rolling it
is believed the city will be taxed to
its utmost to care for the thousands
who will be there.
A dispatch from Camp Hegiar, op-
posite the island of Gebel Rayan, says
the Anglo-Egyptian expedition has
suffered rather serious loss by the
sinking of the gunboat Zafr. The
boat sprung a leak when near Shen-
dy, and within few minutes went
down. All on board were saved.
The torpedo boat Davis, which il
being constructed at the Wolff & Sc
wicker Iron Works, Portland, Ore,
was given a preliminary trial ON the
Willamette river. No effort was made
to force the craft up to the required
speed, 22k knots, but it is announced
that the trial was satisfactory in
every respect.
Nelson Boliver Converse and Min
ME Trotter, of New Albany, Ind, were
married Sunday at Jeffersonville,
Ind. The man is 10 years old and the
bride Is. A family Bible was brought
along to prove the girls age. She is
an orphan and pretty. The couple
met accidentally a week ago. The
groom was fascinated by her pretty
face, and, it is said, gave her a farm
to marry him. -
In accordance with his newly dis
covered authority in the matter, COL
onel Funston has appointed as adju-
tant of the Twentieth Kansas First
Lieutenant Charles B. Walker of COM
pany B to take effect Immediately.
Adjutant Walker has been serving in
his new capacity since the resigna-
tion of Lieutenant D. E. Ford, some
two weeks, and his permanent es.ab-
lishment there will give general s5.t-
isfac,icn.
Over thirty people were poisoned at
a barbecue given at Morse Hill, Mo-,
Sunday, and but for the prompt at
tention of physicians it is proba BILE
several deaths would have occurred.
Over score are in very serious
condition, but on fair way to recov-
cry. A half hour after the assembled
crowd had partaken of the barbecue,
over thirty people were taken with
cramps. 1t is supposed someone
placed paris green in the meat prior
to the cooking.
Robert Weaver, a soldier, aged go,
and his 19-year-old son Fred were ar
rested Saturday night at Milan, Mo-,
and arraigned before Justice Parr, on
the charge of assault with intent to
murder, and in default of 5000 bond,
each was sent to jail. Weaver and his
son had gotten into a drunken fight,
and when Simpson White, a neighbor
boy, appeared on the scene and at
tempted to separate them, they at
tackled him with knives and inflicted
a wound near the heart which, it is
said, will prove fatal. They then left
their victim by the roadside for dead.
Rev. DR.. d. c. Potter, the Baptist
minister who obtained considerable
fame in February, 1897, through his
refusal to vacate a Baptist Mission
Society building in New York city
when ordered to do so, has reported
to the police in the borough of Queens
that an attempt was made ON his life
in Long Island City Saturday, four
shots being fired at him while he was
asleep. Two of the bullets were found
buried in a Bible which he had placed
on his bed. DIR. Potter suspects some
Of the members of his former New
York congregation, but declines to
give names.
At least ne-haf OF the coffee of
the world is grown in, the island pos
session which Spain has just lost.
The Yukon Midnight Sun is a
weekly newspaper published at Daw-
son City. It's subscription price is
SIS per year.
The Chicago Record thinks that
agents of Great Britain, Russia and
japan are in that city contracting
for war provisions, such as canned
and salt meats.
The State Executive committee o.
the Democrat, Populist and Silver
Republican parties of Colorado have
almost unanimously declared fol-
fusion this year.
The California Democrat, State
convention adopted resolution by &
rising vote instructing the chairman
to transmit telegram to president
Mckinley, congratulating him upon
the successful conclusion of the war.
Chicago University may teach the
Spanish language in view of the bene.
fit II wo,lld ha tn vOun0 man ubc