Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-05
General News.

preliminary steps are being taken to
form mammoth clothing trust with
800 900, 900 capital.
The headless corpse of a man,
mangled and bruised, was found in
Lake Michigan near Hyde Park.
ex-governor Altgeld is candidate for
mayor of Chicago and thinks he will
be elected by majority of 3d. 900.
Whipping as means of punish
ment for wife beating, highway rob-
berry and cruelty to children may
soon be adopted in Illinois
The mayor of New Orleans has offer
ed reward of $500 for the person or
persons who have lately attempted to
burn the Catholic institutions of thet
city.
Fifty Lime employees of the war
department have been discharged.
They were hired as special force to
the emergency Of the war, and were
mostly women.
An erecting gang from the Pen
coyd iron works will be sent from
Philadelphia to Africa for the pur-
pose of building bridge across the
Atbsra river in the Soudan.
1t is reported that five Finlande rs
claim to have discovered evidences of
the old Russian boundary line in Alas
ka. If this be true the Klondike coun-
try will be within the boundary of the
United States.
Gen. Otis called for more guns,
that could be put upon the backs of
mules and used as mountsin batteries.
The war department has ordered
three light batteries and half doz-
en- Hotchkiss guns to be sent.
Two Kansas City young people
VIM. McCrane aged 20, and Ethel
Mcpherson aged 16, met for the first
time at 1880 Sunday morn ing.
They became infatuated with each
other and were married at :15, that
fame evening.
The st. Agnes Roman Catholic
church of Greenport, l.. L. was struck
by lightning recently. Services were
being conducted when the bolt struck,
and $50 people were in the church.
None were seriously injured, tho the
choir was stunned.
Ex-Governor George Nj. Peck of
Wisconsin will again enter the news
paper field. He will revive Pecks
Sun, which he discontinued when he
became governor. His paper was
once the most widely circulated
humorous paper in the country.
John Griggsby, aged g., and
Dycia Clark, aged 81, were recently
married at Anderson Ind. 1t was
his sixth and her fifth marriage
AS a result of the eleventh marriages
the couple have, including both chill
dren and step children, family of
nearly 100 children.
At recent meeting of the citizens
of Indianapolis, held in the interes of
Scent car fare, about 500 hired thugs
crowded into the hall and commenced
to make disturbances. Police were
called in but could do nothing with
the crowd, and the center of the hall
was one mass of struggling, lighting
men, untila full company of police
reserves arrived and restored order.
In Little River county, Arkansas,
bands of white men are hunting
down negroes and hanging and
shooting them. 1t is claimed that
there was plot among the negroes
to preclpltate race war, and the
white men are trying to extermlnate
all whom they think were in the
plot. Seven bodies have been found.
1t is not known how many more
have met death at the hands of the
mob.
An odd kind of mice have been
brought from Japan for pets. They
are spotted black and white and have
pink tails devoid of hair. The most
peculiar feature of these mice is, how
ever, their Waiting. They sleep thru
the day and come out and spin and
waltz thru the night. The young have
the same characteristic as the old, and
when two weeks old begin to waltz.
They sometimes spin separately, and
again in couples like human dancers.
During the past decade the DO
main of Uncle Sam has increased in
population from $1,000, 900 to over
80, 100000 about 40 per cent. This
includes the Philippine islands with
a population of 100000, Hawaii
with 10000, Porto Rico 100000.
Excluding the added territory the
increase is 81 per cent in ten years,
The Calvary Episcopal church at
Fourth avenue and East Twenty
first street, New York, is about to