Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-10

son a negro laborer, while digging in
the cellar of department store in Gin
cinnati. He claims it as a treasure
trove.
THE federal authorities of the West
ern district of Texas have received in
formation that gigantic plot is now
| under way to smuggle Chinese into this
country from Mexico. A few months
ago the Mexican Central Railway COM
pany imported about 1000 Chinese to
work on extensions of that line and
soon after their arrival a professional
American Chinese smuggler got among
them and they are making their way
| toward the Rio Grande in small bands.
THE United States government has
| decided to establish military post at
Pyramid harbor in Alaska.
THE opening of that portion of the
Ute reservation located in Colorado oc-
Cured at noon on the 4th according to
the proclamation of President McKin-
| ley. Buffalo Jones appeared near
| Ignacio with 800 followers from Guth-
lie, Ok, and was met by DR.. F. d. AL
len, who was prominent in the opening
Of the famous Cherokee strip. They
|
.alled Tabor.
The first train over the South Park
into Dillon. Col, for four months ran
through solid walls of snow on the 4th
and steamed into the town amid the
blowing of whistles and the ringing of
bells. The snow blockade had been
broken.
| Four hundred United States troops
were on guard in the Coeur d'Alene
mining district and martial law was in
full force in Shoshone county, Ida, on
the 4th. Gen. Merriam, who arrived
from Denver, decided, if possible, to
arrest all the striking miners implicated
in blowing up the Bunker Hill and Sui
livan mines.
A DISPATCH from Manila at noon on
the 4th stated that Gen. Macarthur
was assaulting the town of San Tomas.
The Americans were fighting for the
bridge and the Filipino rebels were
burning the town,
SEVERAL hundred soldiers who were
discharged from the United States army
some weeks ago were awaiting trans
portation home from San Juan de Porto
Rico on the Sd. Many of the men were
| without a cent.
The eminent sculptor, Louis T. Re-
bisso, died at Cincinnati on the Sd.
THE postmaster general ordered that
The rural free delivery service be di-
gided into two grand subdivisions, the
western and the eastern. The former
Is to consist of the states west of the
Ohio and its headquarters will be at ST.
/ Lot.As. ,.is. 'tsser eIivision, comprising
states east of the Ohio, will have it's
headquarters in Washington. Francis
Nj. Dice, of Charlottesville, Ind, will
have charge of the western division
and Henry Conquest Clarke, of Wash
ington, of the eastern.
THE postmaster general directed the
postmaster at San Francisco to take
out of the mails for Manila three PAM
phlets issued by Edward Atkinson. of
Boston, vice president of the Anti-Im-
perialistic league. This order does not
apply to the circulation of the PAM
phlets by mail in this country, but bars
their dispatch from this country to the
Philippines, discomfort and even mu-
tiny among the soldiers being stated
by the department to be the design of
these publications.
BEFORE house packed to the doors
at Louisville, KY, Oscar Gardner, the
renowned Omaha Kid received the
decision over Tommy Hogan. the crack
New York featherweight, in 20-round
bout. The fighting was terrific from
start to finish.
GEORGE X. VAN HORN, the murderer
Of Mrs. Josephine Woscott, a boarding
house keeper, was hanged in the
Lackawanna county (Pa.) Jail on the
fth.
MCkNIGHT's large sawmill. near Hop
kinsville, KY, was blown up the other
morning killing the owners, Barrett
Mcknight and Effie Mcknight. John
Whites legs were blown off and he
was fatally injured. Z. Z. Mcknight
was seriously injured. The mill was
totally wrecked.
TWENTY thousand barrels of oil have
been destroyed by fire from lightning
striking an oil tank near Morgantown,
w. Va, the other day. Loss, $50, 900.
BILL EMBREE, negro, was legally
executed at Thomson, Ga, on the Sd
for the murder of Ellis Martin, an
other negro, about a year ago.
THE last Andree story comes from
Copenhagen, where it was reported
that a bottle containing a note from
the explorer was found in the polar ice
driven ashore at Husavik, Iceland.
THE beautiful granite monument
erected by the state of Kentucky in
Chickamauga park, Tenn, to the mem
Dry of Kentuckians who wore both the
blue and the gray, was dedicated on
the Sd with imposing ceremonies. Gov.
Bradley delivered the principal ad-
dress.
WILL GREGG, IA years old, fell from
a freight train near Porter, Ark, and
was run over and his body cut in two.
ANOTHER conference on the I'd be-
tween Gen. Otis and Filipino emissaries
for cessation of hostilities terminated
without definite results.
A SENSATION has been caused in Ja-
pan by the withdrawal from Christian
ity of three leading orthodox Japanese
Christians. Their action has given the
cause of Christianity great setback in
Japan.
AS the result of foggy weather and a
brisk northeasterly gale on the Sd
three schooners were stranded on Cape
Cod, Mass. Their crews escaped.
GEN. LAwToN's column on the Cd
captured Balinag and the villages in
the vicinity and scattered the Filipino
insurgents. His casualties We're only
two wounded. The insurgents lost a
large number in killed, wounded and