Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-26
General News.

Broom corn has gone up $lO a ton
owing 10 trust in broom corn.
A 5000, 900 syndicate is negotiatin {
for all of Chicago's street car lines.
The town of Espanola New Mexico
was almost destroyed by fire recently
A German steamer arrived In New
York with 10 cases of smallpox OF
1oard.
An Indiana man who was the father
OF 80 children died recently in the
poorhouse.
The grain elevator at ST. Paul MINI
is the largest in the world, having a
capacity of $500 900 bushels
A hundred word message was re.
Gently transmitted by means of a
wireless telegraph in England.
A mammoth photograph which car
be heard by 10 600 persons is being
constructed for the Paris exposition.
The six cruisers which are to be
named after cities are to be named
the Denver, Des Moines, Chattanooga
Galveston, Tacoma and Cleveland.
New York has had another fatal
fire. 1t was IN the wealthiest part
of the city, and destroyed the residen-
ces of Wallace y Andrews and Albert
J. Adams. Fifteen people were
killed and several badly injured.
The president has authorized the
battleships and armored cruisers
which the law requires to be named
after states to be named the Pennsyi.
vania, New Jersey, Georgia, West
Virginia, Nebraska, and California
Agoncillo has written a letter to
the Associated press in which he
states that it is false that Aguinaldo
is willing to accept an autonomist
system of government. He also stat IS
that the Filipinos have 1900 American
prisoners.
The saloon tax paid in Ohio is about
So, 100000. But the expenses to the
state of the poverty, crime and waste
of labor the saloons cause is fully
81, 100000. The saloon is indebted
to the expense account of Ohio quite
81 900 900 yearly.
The third annual convention OF
the National Good Citizenship League
will be held at Cincinnati May 2, 8, and
4, 1899. The aims and objects OF
which movement, briefly stated, are
as follows :-Uniication of reform
forces. Promotion of the study and
practice If good citizenship. Electric
ism at the primary, caucus and con-
ventiOn-Selection of the best and
most competent in nominating candi-
dates for public office. Direct legisla-
ton thru the Initiative and Referen-
dunn. Proportional Representa- ton.
The Imperative Mandate.
A cable is to connect Canada and
Australia.
An extra session of congress Is ex-
pected about Sept. for currency &C.
ton.
At HastiDgd, Nebraska, three
women ate candy which contained
arsenic, aud narrowly escaped death.
Seventeen of Dewey's men were
captured by the Filipinos in making
an attempt to secure the soldiers of q
Spanish garrison.
There have been 25O,OO0 deaths
recorded since the commencement OF
the bubonic plague i'll India. The
deaths in Bombay average 100 per
day. This is the third Epidemic OF
the plague.
A new transcontinental line OF
railroad is to be built from Sioux
City to Los Angeles, which will be
shorter by 500 miles than any other
line across the continent. The es-
timated cost is SAP 100000.
The Liggett & Myers Tobacco com
pany of st. Louis, which has been
making brave fight against the
trust, has at last sold out to the com
bine. They employed 5000 people
and many will be thrown out OF en-
ployment. The company had been
doing business throughout the world
OklahOma's New Game Law.