Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-12-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


The reception which was 20 haye
been rendered Admiral Schley at the
Windsor hotel, New York, has been
postponed ou account of his illness
AT Seneca, Kan, Monday night,
Jimmy Culver, aged s, son OF well.
known citizen, while Playing with q
revolver, fatally shos his younger Sis
ter.
Representative Curtis. of Kansas, 10
still prevented from attending the
sessions of The house by illness, but
expects TO be cut Within the next two
days.
The United States supreme court
has announced AN adjournment for
The Christmas holidays. extending
from Monday next until Tuesday
january 3.
The Mississippi valley is being
hooded with counterfeit dollars. They
bear the dage of 1890. The ring and
weight are perfect and they are diff.
ficult of detection
Chicago is myst tilted by a Jack the
Window Washer" AT nj CHIT he cleans
the windows of the month side with.
out charge CIR hire, but so far has
eluded capture.
George Dress died at the Columbus.
u, penitentiary Sunday night. He
was serving "a term for burglary, had
been pardoned, but was too weak to
leave the prison.
Governor Barnes of Oklahoma Mon.
a mr. into r
mis-, member of the board of re.
GENTS OF the territorial university
vice George S. Green. resigned.
While out sleigh riding near North
Star, Pa, Mr.. and Mrs Carl Mcbride
were run down by am express train
near Raccoon station, on the Pa nh an.
Lie road, and instantly killed.
Secretary of State Lesueur has an
pointed James w. Allen, of ST. Louis.
corporation clerk in 1.-THE office to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Major A. S. Vogdes. Mr.. Allen begau
work Monday.
The steamer Wyoming is sunk in
eighteen feet of water off Peshtigo,
Mich. She was cut Through by the
Ice. She had a cargo of $500 barrels
OF lime and much general merchlau.
disc for Green Bay City.
Alon0o Bidwell, of Fort Scott, Kan.
has am Invitation to be member of
the staff of Gra nd Marshal General
west, at 1.-THE peace jubilee parade at
Atlanta on Thursday. He is unable
10 take part in the demonstration.
Five murder cases are set for triad
this week in the United States court
now converting in South McAlester.
|. T. One hundred and forty-six Grim.
inal cases will be considered at this
term, eighty of which are LIQUOR
caSes.
Adolph Webber, the smallpox pa.
tieI,t at Stroud o. T., died Mondav
morning. He had come there from
Kansas to visit a brother. There are
NO other cases, and as every precau.
tom has been taken to quarantine all
infected persons and places, no
further danger is unprecedented.
President Zetaya of Nicaragua has
issued decree imposing an export
tax of SIT in gold on each kilo.
gramme of gold and II cents in gold
on each kilogramme of rubber. These
taxes, with the export tax on mahoe.
any aurd Spanish cedar, are to consti.
tute "a reserve for the redemption Of
the paper money issued by the gov.
ernment.
Virginia Thurman Cole was di.
vorced Monday from 7. Kelly Cole, at
Columbus, O. The former is "a grand.
daughter of the late Sena tor Thur
man and the latter is an operatic
singer, having been IA member of the
BostonbarTS at the time of the mar.
rage, seven years ago. Neglect Of
duty and failure to provide were the
grounds for the divorce.
The work of remodeling the Vic.
toria bridge at Montreal from a tubu.
lar into an open railroad bridge of
twice THE old width is finished. and
the Prince of Wales, who opened it
In 1850, has been asked to officially
open the remodeled bridge next sum.
mer. The golden rivet which the
prince used in the ceremony of thir.
ty-eight years ago, has been sacredly
guarded.
The grand jury sitting at Spring.
field, Mo-, has returned five indic(
ments against James a. Frink, pro-
bate judge, who is reelected to the
office, for collecting and failing to
report fees. The amounts range in
the several counts from 81 to 81.
Judge Frink gave bond this morning
in 1.-THE sum of $500 for each count. He
says ut lis "a Persec ution on the part
of his enemies.
Natural gas exploded at Connors-
vile, Ind, Monday might, in Henry
Lukens' shoe store, killing two men
instantly and injuring several others.
The store and the one adjoining were
badly wrecked. Lukens mira culously
escaped, but j. D. MacNaughton, who
was sent for Ito stop the gas leak, was
blown fifty yards and killed. Patrick
Ready was also killed. DIR. McNutt's
leg was broken and he was otherwise
injured.
Samuel Howe, vice president of the
Stage Carpenters National ALLAN CO.
Harley Merry and Garland Gaden, all
members of the 'tCuba's Vow" com
pany, playing at Burts theater, To-
ledo, O., were injured Monday night
during a performance, by the prema
ture explosion of powder. Howe had
an eye blown out, and lost an ear,
and it is feared his injuries may
prove fatal. Merry and Gaden are
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