Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-05

THE Asphalt Company of America has


The main business of the concern will
be carried on in Philadelphia.
ENGLISH capitalists have bought the
Elkton gold mine at Cripple Creek,
Col, for S1,sT5, 900.
CHARBoN is raising havoc in Claiborne
county, Miss. One farmer lost nine
mules in one night and another lost
eight. 1t still seems to be spreading
The feature of Milwaukee's great
midsummer carnival on the 30th was
the gorgeous pageant of 20 floats, the
subjects being nature and the elements,
the emotions and stories of myth and
fable.
THE Greater American exposition at
Omaha, Neb., was opened on the 1st. 3
INDIANA's wheat crop will be the
lowest in 20 years. In February it was
estimated that it would be $1,000, 900
bushels, but now it is reported that it
will not exceed II, 900, 900.
A STRIKE was inaugurated at the
Homestead Steel works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the SOth through the discharge
of some men belonging to the Anal
gamated association. The fear was ex-
pressed that it would. assume huge pro-
portions.
JAMES REDMOND was killed by light
ming while plowing near Dubuque, la.
In view of the outbreak of yellow
fever at Santiago Gen. Leonard Wood,
the governor, who has been visiting in
Washington, has decided it was his
duty to return there at once.
JUDGE MOORE, of the Eighth circuit,
decided the Is liquor cases of Sturgis,
S. D., in favor of the saloonkeepers.
The grand jury recently brought in
dictments against the saloon men for
violating the prohibitory liquor law.
The decision practically leaves that
| part of South Dakota without a liquor
law of any sort that can be enforced.
THE trial of August Becker, the Chi.
cago butcher, charged with having
murdered and then boiled the remains
of his wife in order to leave him free
to marry 17-year-old girl with whom
he had become infatuated, came to a
sudden end on the Goth when it was
found that the Indictment named Mrs.
Becker as Elizabeth. when it should
have been Therese. The court at once
nolle pressed the Indictment. Becker
was afterwards rearrested. The result
may be that Becker will escape punish
ment for having once been placed in
jeopardy.
A RECENT dispatch from Pawhuska,
said that Oklahoma's greatest wheat
harvest was just ended. The wheat
area included 1, $50, 900 acres, the largest
in the history of the territory The
product of the great crop is safely es-
tilnated at &c, ,000, 900 bushels In some
of the counties the yield was 40 bushels
per acre, but in others not SO large,
making Is bushels per acre a conserva-
tive estimate for the territory.
ALLEN RIGGs and Deacon Daniel Her.
rim were jailed for killing Paul Gilbert
over game of euchre at Bobtown, KY.
| They were all church members.
THE assertion came from ST. Louis
on the 2Sth that the National Baseball
league will have a rival association
next year in all its leading cities. In
st. Louis the grounds have already
been secured and are being put into
shape to build grand stand.
Miss IDA OGLEsBY was fatally shot
by Mrs. w. K. Martin at Blooming ton
ILL.,, on the 2Sth. Jealousy was the
cause. They were from Paola, Kan.
| THREE strikers were killed in a riot
at the Bochum coal mines in Germany.
| A SEVERE storm swept the section
around Dubuque, Ia, on the 27th. The
| Illinois track at Julien was washed
away and crops were badly damaged.
ALL the coal companies in the Pitts
burgh, Pa, district have combined.
| SAMUEL OWENS quarreled with his
| 0,.f No. ,4
Foster. R. l., and drove her into the
yard, knocked her down. split her head
open with an ak, stabbed her twice
with a carving knife, poured oil on her
and then set fire to her, burning her to
a crisp. m
GRAssHoPPERs were reported as de-
stroying the cotton in the Hickory
creek bottom, southwest of Denton,
Tex, and leaving path behind them
utterly destitute of anything green.
MRS. A. C. ABBOTT, of Huntington,
Ind, gave birth to three boys the other
day. Her husband is freight conduct
or on the Erie road.
THE brick works at Anderson, Ind,
were completely destroyed by fire, in
ficting loss of $40, 600. Three hun
dred thousand green brick, together
with all machinery, were lost.
FIVE men were scalded by the col
lapse of steam f1ue the other night on
the steamer st. Paul when near Elsah,
Ill. Two soon died and the other three
were in such a serious condition that
they could not live.
A SMALL yacht capsized on Lake
Michigan and Thurman Malone, of Gin
cinnati, went to the bottom. The three
men in it had attempted to sail from
Chicago to Waukegan, but the loss of
their compass left them helpless.
HENRY STEWART, a negro, who
robbed and seriously shot Gail Hamil-
ton, negro, and robbed section fore
man, was 1ynched at Fulton, KY, the
other night.
THREE negroes were killed and an
other was not expected to live as re-
suit of riot between the white and
negro miners on the 27th at the ore
mines in Jefferson county, Ala.
THREE hundred whist players are ex-
pected in Chicago from all over the
United States for the ninth annual con-
gress of the American Whist league. to
be held during the week beginning
July 10. Four trophy matches are to
be held.
A TRAIN on the Peoria & Eastern
division of the big Four" carrying
Knights of Pythias to attend cele-
bration was wrecked near Danville.
Ill. Three boys were seriously injured
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