Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

Two new dances have been approved
by the National Association of Masters
of Dancing at its convention at Niaga-
ra Falls, n. Y. This will be followed
by their adoption in society circles all
over the United States. They are the
Harvest dance and the Princess Louise
gavotte. The music for the cake-walk
quadrille was also received. This is a
new dance somewhat similar to the
waltz quadrille.
JOHN BERRY, colored, was hanged at
Marlboro. Md, on the 10th for murder.
ACALL has been issued for meeting
of officers of the independent telephone
companies of the United States, to be
held at Chicago June 26 to 30, to per.
feet arrangements for consolidating
the various companies interested and
build long-distance lines, connecting
all cities that have independent sys.
TENS, and organizing for mutual pro-
lection against the Central Union COM
pany.
GEORGE BARROW, charged with kid
naping Marion Clarke, was found guilty
at New York and sentenced to IA years
and ten months imprisonment.
THE Standard Oil company recently
fled certificate with the secretary OF
state at Trenton, n. j., increasing its
capital stock from $40, O0O, 900 to S110,-
OOO. 900.
FIFTY guests who attended the we'd
ding of Miss Myrtle McLain and George
j. Prescott, near Robins, Ia, were
made seriously i'll by eating pressed
| chicken and ice cream, in which there
was ptomaine poisoning.
THE Chicago police are convinced that
| the murderers of Martin Meiers, the
old miser found strangled in his house
some days since, secured about $4,000
as the result of their crime.
| ACCORDING to the plan of ex-Gov.
Merriam, director of the twelfth CEN
sus, for the appointment OF 1000 clerk.
| for the work of the main office the ap
bortionment from each state will be as
follows: United States senators will
have the appointment of 16 clerks each
republican representatives eight each
and democratic representatives two
and in some cases three each.
| THE town of Bracket, about 120 mile.
west of San Antonio, Tex, was report
| ed under ten feet of water on the 18th
Four persons were missing and wer,
supposed to have been drowned. A
waterspout over that place inundated
the country for miles around.
RECENT advices received from cas-
Africa showed that famine was prev
alent in the German possessions
owing to the drought, which also pre-
vailed alarmingly in the British pro
tectorate. Hundreds of women anC
children were dying of starvation ant
the resident whites were wholly unabl,
to cope with the distress.
A wELL-DEFINED cyclone came owe
southern Oklahoma the other Afternoon
and would probably have blown ava,
the town of Hennessey, it was said
had not large cannon been discharge.
into the funnel-shaped cloud when i
was within so yards or more of tn,
town. Thecloud Immediately dissolved
That was the second cyclone which ha.
passed near Hennessey this summe
which had been burst by firing cannon
into it.
j REV. w. T. PoPE, an educated col
ored divine, of Mcneil, Ark, is takin;
the initiative in the organization of
league whose object is to elevate hi
race and help solve the lynching prob
] lem. The name of the organization i
4 to be the Cooperative League o
American Citizens, and white peopl
! are invited to become honorary mem
bers.