Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS.


AT Celtic, Tex, an eccentric old
woman named Carr concealed her
money in a fruit jar and placed the
same in a nest under setting hen.
The hens nest was robbed and $500
taken.
REV. JOHN ]. JANSEN, bishop of the
Belleville diocese, is about to excom-
municate all the members of st. Pat
rick's parish in East st. Louis, Ill.
Twelve hundred people will be exiled
rom the ministrations of the Catholic
church. The impending wholesale in
Fiction of the church's extreme pen
atty will be the consequence of three
months violent resistance to ecclesi-
astical authority.
UPON one scaffold and simultaneous
ly four negroes were hanged on the
2Sth in the Baltimore (Md.) city jail
yard. Three of the men, Cornelius
Gardner, John Myers and Charles
James, paid with their lives for crimi-
nally assaulting Annie Bailey, 13-
year-old negress. while Joseph Bryan,
the fourth member of the quartette,
killed Mary Pack, anegress with whom
he lived.
THREE girls were drowned in the
river at Evansville, Ind, on the 2Sth.
THE strike of messenger boys at Gin
cinnati ended in failure.
THE rumor that Gov. Barnes. of Ok
lahOma, will soon be removed has been
actively revived. 1t is said that AS
sistant Attorney General Vandeventer
has rendered an opinion finding that
Gov. Barnes has violated the law in a
number of measures which have fig
ured in the charges that have been
pending at Washington for some time.
WILLARD E. THAYER was killed at
Streator, ILL.,, by falling from balloon
a distance of 400 feet. His neck, back,
both legs and both arms were broken
Probably 10000 people witnessed the
accident.
ALTHOUGH the amount of capitaliza-
ton has not been settled on the exist
ence of a great compressed-air power
trust is an accomplished fact, New
York dispatch stated
AN offer has been made by Andrew
Carnegie to give $4,000 for public IL
brary in San Diego, Cal, if a site be
donated and the library maintained as
at present.
ADoLPH L. LUETGERT. the wealthy
Chicago sausage-maker. who was serv-
ing life sentence in the penitentiary
at Joliet, ILL.,, for the murder of his
wife, was found dead in his cell. A
post-mortem examination showed that
he died from fatty degeneration of the
heart.
WILLIAM PINKsTAFF's livery stable
at Bicknell, Ind, was burned down.
Fourteen horses were cremated and sc
buggies and other contents of the
stable were destroyed.
j. A. r. ELLIOTT, of Kansas City,
Mo-, defeated W. B. Crosby at Batavia,
n. Y, in a match for the wingshot
championship of America Elliott now
holds every championship trophy, both
at live birds and inanimate targets, OF
mud pies" and it is the first time in
the history of this class of American
craftsmanship that one man has held
all of these emblems at one time.
THE United States hospital ship Nor
gan City arrived from Manila at San
Francisco with 4S0 sick or wounded
men on board. OF these 81 were mem
bers of the Twentieth Kansas
A CYCLONE struck the eastern por-
tion Of La Porte, Ind, the other night
and wrecked the boot and shoe store
of Butterworth & Co. 1t leveled other
buildings to the east of the city and ii
was feared that the families of Jacob
Horton and William Steele, who live
on the Kankakee marsh, were killed.
Their houses were wrecked