Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
State News.
G. G. Gillett is running a hotel in
Mexico.

G. G.. Gillett is running a hotel In
Mexico.
John Gilbert, the Clay county mur
derer has pleaded guilty.
1t is reported that the Kansa:
wheat crop will be about one third.
City ownership of waterworks will
be the issue in Enterprise in the city
election.
The negro union of Parsons have
nominated q colored mans ticket fol
that city.
s. Bernheimer who died last week
had been for 81 years the faithful
employ Of S. Barnum.
Horse thieves have been visiting To.
peka and vicinity and several people
have lost horses in consequence.
Privates Cohen and Muhr of the
Twentieth Kansas, were fatally wound.
ed in the trenches near Malabon.
The safe of the Alliance cooperative
store at Osborne, was blown open by
robbers, and robbed of $50 recently.
Greenwald's new clothing store
at 625-627 Kansas avenue is Low
one of the largest and finest in the
state.
Mrs. Louise Reynolds, the Atchison
woman who shot herself ten days ago,
in an attempt to commit suicide, has
died from the wound.
A couple by the name of Nader llv-
ing at Mcpherson, have applied for
divorce. They have been divorced
twice before and remarked.
John moore living near Hutchison
killed his five children, and then set
fire to the house to cover his crime.
The mother was away from home at
the time nursing a sick woman.
Attorney Hayden, one of John
Collins attorneys, declares that
Collins is Innocent and says he has
clue which will soon enable him to
put his finger npon the real mur.
derer.
James O,Brien, prominent attor-
ney Of La Porte, Ind, has been called
to the presidency OF Barker Univer-
sity.' He has been active in educa-
tional work aud will most likely
accept the position.
Nearly all the colleges in the state
have applied to the state board of edu.
cation for permission to grant state
certificates to their graduates, in &C.
cordance with the new law regarding
the granting of state certificates.
Two hundred men are out of EN-.
ployment at Lawrence, as result OF
the American Steel wire trust. The
old Consolidated barbed wire com
pany of that place was lately con-
sumed by the trust, and since taking
charge OF the factory the trust has
laid of the entire force.
The federal grand jury at Wichita
have indicted the Mcpherson ban ker,
Eli Williams, and E. A. Colburn and
John C.::Hamilton, Mcpherson mill ers
for violating the revenue law. Will.
Jams got the millers to use check, in
the form of a receipt to avoid the two
cent war tax.
Eleven new positions have bee n
created in the factory of the Univ or
sity by the board of regents, and ell
even promotions were made of pres
ent members of the faculty. Chan
cellor Shows salary was raised $500,
aud an..sverage raise of $3.50, was
made among other members of the
faculty.
A singular incident of the Topeka
court is a husband and wife, both at
torneys, appearing on different sides
of divorce case While it Is not un.
common for two members of the came
firm to take opposite sides in a case
this Is the first case on record of a hus.
band and wife being antagonists or
opposits sides of law suit.
The Mutual Life Insurance company
Of New York has been admitted to dc
business in the state by:superintendeD,
Church. This company was barred
out by McNall on account of their re.
fusal to pay the Hillmcn claim. The
other companies barred out on account
of the Hillmon case were the New
York Life, and the Connecticut Mutu-
al. The former was admitted last
year upon settling their part of the
Hillmon claim. The latter will be ad-
mitted az soon as it makes q proper
showing.
Slept Thirteen Months.
The case Is reported from San