Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-09
General News.

Senator Turley, of Memphis, Tenn.
is reelected to the United States sen.
ate.
A silver deposit recently discovered
in Mexico runs 10000 ounces to the
ton.
Aaron Woodruff, aged 80 years, the
father of E. r. Woodruff of Topeka,
is dead.
A son of the ST. Louis Beer-famous
Busch is on his way to the gold fields
of Alaska.
Philadelphia sent 10000 pounds of
provisions to suffering Cubans within
the past three weeks.
New York reports that the removal
of the recent snow from her streets
cost the city $54,175.
Abuse of the girls in the Colorado
Industrial School causes Governor
Adams to order an investigation.
The Senate committee on inter
state commerce has reported the anti
scalpiug bill, with recommendation
that it pass.
The trial of sheriff Martin and his
deputies, for the killing of the Hazel
ton miners is engaging the attention
of the Luzerne county court.
Mexican authorities have notified
the railroads that they cannot engage
in the business of transmitting mes
sages for the general public.
Thousands of sheep perish from
cold and starvation in Wyoming.
Snow and extreme cold, with lack of
shelter and feed, given as the cause.
Railroads centering in Cincinnati
have discovered that they have been
extensively swindled by the issuance
of thousands of dollars worth of bogus
passes.
1t is currently reported that Presi-
dent Mckinley adheres strictly to his
determination to bid the full amount
of the government debt for the Kansas
Pacific.
The Teutonic, just in port at New
York, reports terrific seas running
outside Sandy Hook, and that a part
of her voyage was through an ocean
cyclone.
A bill pending in the lower house of
the Ohio legislature provides that all
persons applying for a marriage Ii
cense in that stats shall be required to
submit to a medical examination,
The Democrats of the State will
hold banquet in Topeka February
"a. J. Mack Love, Chairman of the
state central committee, says ac-
commodations for 800 will be provided.
a score of persons were drowned,
and 100000 worth of property was de-
stroyed during the storm which swept
over New England last week. Boston
was entirely shut off, and could only
be reached by the telegraph.
Isaac Rhine, postmaster of We1lston,
Ok, was called TO the door of his resi-
dence the other night and shot down
OF neighbor named Taylor. No
cause is given for the crime. Rhine
was recently from Falls City, Neb.
The remains of the murdered Mrs.
Rathburu and her daughter, of Bur
lington, Ia, have been buried. The
preliminary examination of Storms
has been delayed indefinitely owing
to the smallpox quarantine at the
county Jail.
W. ]. Guinlan, cashier of the Che m
ica1 National Bank of New York, re-
signs by request, short $685., 200 Claims
the money was Invested in collaterals
without the knowledge of the officers
of the bank, and that the collatera1s
will probably cover the shortage.
Judge Hagner, in the Equity court
of the District of Columbia, holds that
it is unconstitutional for congress to
appropriate money for sectarian in
stitutions, and granted an injunction
restraining the treasurer of the United
States from paying mouey appropria-
ted to an institution of that character.
ALI the big biscuit and cracker COM
panies from Salt Lake, on the west,
Portland, Me-, on the east, St. Paul
on the north, and New Orleans on the
south, are now under one manage.
ment. The National Biscuit Company
was incorporated Friday in the state
of New Jersey, with capital stock OF
| SIS, ,000, 900.
The scenes of destitution in Cuba
are said to beggar description. wher
the food distribution bureau wa.
opened a mass of beggary, livip,
skeletons of all races, all ages ant
both sexes invaded the place wher
food was to be distributed, with ont
stretched hands, almost hesh1ess, i'm
lploring aims, a frightful animation
filling their spectral faces at sight q
the food.
Judge John Guthrie, the new pos
master at Topeka, has received a lie
ter from headquarters at Washiugto,