Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-19


rope at the other end of the scaffold.
GREwsoME stories come from the Bra.
zos valley in Texas. Outbreaks of
sickness were reported from many
points. and, owing to the scarcity of
nourishing foods and medicines and
the impediments to transportation, it
was feared the mortality will be large.
John Carlisle, who owns a large plan
tation at Chappell Hill, near Brennan,
reported four deaths among his people
since the flood. The waters washed
the carcasses of $50 animals into the
fence corners on his plantation and
portions of his fields were 80 feet under
water.
SEVERAL hundred wood carvers in
the factories at Shelbyville, Ind, went
ON a strike the other day, demanding a
raise of wages of 15 cents per hour.
They now receive 25 cents.
GEORGE NJ. VALENTINE, cashier of
bank at Perth Amboy, N. j., which
was closed on the 18th, was Jailed on
account of a shortage in the banks
funds, variously estimated all the way
up to S165,0OO The affair caused con-
sternation to the residents.
Two lynchings occurred in Texas on
| the 18th. Abe Brown, a negro, who
assaulted and murdered woman, was
| shot to death at Gilead and an unknown
negro was put to death near lola for
numbering white boy.
AT O'Keene, Ok. Harvey Blacks son,
aged three years, drank the liquid off a
plate of fly poison and died in great
| agony from its effects.
| ALBERT SMITH, negro, was hanged
at Harrisburg, Pa, for wife murder.
THE delegates to the Young Peoples
| Baptist Union of America held state
rallies at Richmond Va, on the 14th.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, John II.
| Chapman, Chicago: recording secre-
tary, Rev. w. Reed, Wisconsin; treas
urer, Frank Moody.
MARY VAUGHN, of Cedar Falls, Ia,
died from bite of the kissing bug.
| Mrs. CATHERINE MEYERS, widow,
residing on a farm five miles southwest
of Centralia, ILL.,, was burned to death
while attempting to remove a horse
from a burning barn. She had re-
moved one horse and returned for an
other, when the building fell in, kill
| ing her and the horse.
| WILLIAM GONG, whose Indian name
was Walla Tonaka, was shot at Alikchi,
l. T., on the 18th under sentence of the
Chectaw court for murder. The execu-
tion was a horribly sickening affair
The sheritf's bullet entered the victim s
breast just missing the right spot.
Going fell backward and moaned
piteously for an hour before expiring.
Water was poured down his throat a
number of times to hasten death by
strangulation.
| SERIOUS rioting followed the acquit-
tai of Father Flamidien, of the school
of the Christian Brothers at Lille,
France, who was charged with murder
| ing a boy in that institution. Thou
sands of persons paraded the streets
shouting Down with the Jeshits"
and smashing windows.
THE international conference of hor-
ticulturists opened at London on the
18th, the United States agricultural de-
partment sending special ENJOYS.
THE transports Newport and Ohio,
bearing the Oregon regiment of volun-
teers from the Philippines, reached
San Francisco on the 12th.
THE coal miners strike in Kansas is
costing Kansas City 81, 900 day.
THE spring and wagon works at Pom
tiac, Mich, have been destroyed by fire.
A PASSENGER train on the Colorado
Southern railway was robbed by four
men at point five miles south of Fol
som, n. M. The robbers used dyna-
mite to blow open the sides of the ex-
press car. AS soon as the robbers had
searched the express car they mounted
horses, which were hitched nearby,
and fled without any attempt to go
through the mail car.
THERE were six prostrations from
the heat in Chicago on the 18th, one
proving fatal.
MoBILIZING for the naval maneuyers
began in England on the 11th. 11S war
ships and about 25, 900 men taking part
in the operations
THE Indianapolis News was put up
at public sale the other afternoon by
order of the court at Indianapolis, Ind,
Igrowing out of the litigation between
the partners, and the paper was knocked
down for 1896. 900.
ONE thousand laborers were thrown
out of employment on the 18th by the
closing down of the Schwarzschild &
Sulzb erger packing plant in Armour
ldale, Kan. The plant was closed as a
result of disagreement between the
management and the butchers union
about wages. The men were not dis
charged, the management merely
deciding to shut down the plant until
the differences should be adjusted.
THE ninth national convention of
the Retail Clerks National Protective
association opened in Kansas City, Mo-,
On the 18th. Sixty delegates from va
rious parts of the country were in at
tendance, one being a woman-Miss
Mamie Stoessel, of Ottumwa, La. Chief
lamong the questions that will be dis
cussed at this convention are the six
o'clock closing law and the prohibition
Of child labor.
PROF. CHARLES JONES, of the Dure-
mod high school at Ardmore, l. T.,
was fatally stabbed by pupil he was
Trying to chastise. Jones was well
known throughout the Chickasaw ma
ton.
THE convention of the National As
sociation of the Deaf opened at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 18th. Over 200
delegates were present, 10 states being
represented.
FIRE in ive-story crowded tene-
ment in Monroe street, New York, the
other day resulted in fatal injuries to
i've persons and the overcoming by
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