Barbour County index., 1899-08-09

cutting their thrOatS and then commit
ted suicide by the same means He
was a widower.
JOHN MAxEY. a negro rapist, was
hanged at Van Buren, Ark, on the 4th.
Up to the 4th lilo applications had
been received at the office of County
Judge Evans at Bonham, Tex, asking
for pensions which were granted by
the last legislature to ex-confederate
soldiers and their. widows.
| THE New York commerce commits
sion, appointed by the legislature to
investigate the commerce of New York
state and report as to the means of re-
vival, convened at Whitehall on the
4th.
DISPATCHES from Pine Bluff, Ark,
said the intense heat had caused the
cotton in that vicinity to shed and,
unless weather conditions were soon
changed and rain fell, the result to the
crop would be disastrous.
PRESIDENT DoNNELLY. of the Inter
national Typographical union, COM.
pleted his annual report to be submit
ted to the convention in Detroit, Mich,
August IA. It shows membership of
about $4,000, with something over S19.
900 in the treasury. There were 10
strikes during the year, of which seven
were won, three were lost and nine
were pending.
JOE KENNEDY, the California boxer,
who has aspirations for the heavy
weight championship, has been matched
to fight Peter Maher at the Lenox Ath-
letic club, New York, where the men
will meet on September 26
A WOMAN at Bletchley, Eng, had six
children at one birth recently.
THE worlds bicycle record for 1000
miles, held by T. A. Edge, of London,
and made over an ordinary turnpike
who finished his long ride at Mime
apolis, Mimi, and succeeded in cover
ing the distance in 81 hours and A min
utes. The time by Edge was 1O5 hours
and 10 minutes.
POsEYvILLE, Ind, was in the power
of gang of so tramps the other night
and for awhile they had their own
way. The marshal, with the assistance
of the citizens. finally arrested 12 of
the number and the remainder of the
crowd took the train north. The IL
arrested were released the following
day OH the promise that they would
leave town.
DURING dance at Wellsville, O., the
other night the floor of the room gave
way and the audience of 200 persons
| were precipitated to the cellar, dis
tance of IL feet. Many persons were
badly injured, but no one was fatally
hurt.
SBEisf1 herS,ers and cattlemen-were
reported fighting in northeastern Col
orado. -Four horsemen, carefully dis
guised both as to person and their
horses, rode into large fiocks of sheep
which were grazing along Two Mile
creek and shot and killed $50 sheep and
crippled 25 more.
OSCAR E. RICE, white, and John
Kennedy, a negro, were put to death
by electricity in the prison at Auburn,
n. Y, on the I'd. Oscar E. Rice killed
his wife and John Kennedy murdered
John Hummings.
DYsENTERY is causing many deaths
among children in Wells county, Ind.
WORK has commenced on another
railroad in Oklahoma. 1t is an exten-
tion of the Rock Island from Enid to
Tonkawa, II miles. The first dirt has
been thrown. Several new towns will
sping up on the new road. AT Tonka-
wa connection with the Santa Fe and
Frisco will be made.
THE preliminary steps have been
taken toward the founding of an oil
exchange in San Francisco. Stock will
be listed and a call board established.
THE United Brotherhood of Friends,
An order of colored people, held pic
nic and celebration at Burton, Tex.
the other day. During the progress OF
.he affair Sandy Templin was shot and
killed by another negro. The trouble
was over woman.
DURING an electric storm lightning
struck the barn on Ben Hammers farm,
In Union Grove township, Ill. The barn
and so tons of hay and five head OF
horses were burned to a crisp.
FIFTY square miles of crops were de-
stroyed in Polk county, Mimi, by a
hailstorm. At Gary. S. D.. strip of
grain land 12 miles long and four miles
wide was also destroyed.
THE fast mail on the Chicago & North
western railway jumped the track at
"Kate-Shelly curve" near Boone, Ia,
at five o'clock on the morning of the
1st. The engine and all the cars were
wrecked. The engineer, fireman and
two postal clerks were killed and six
Or seven other persons were injured.
ACCORDING to the weather bureau
st. Louis was the hottest city in the
United States on the Sd, when the ther-
mometer on top of the custom house
registered SO degrees. At the time sew.
eral thermometers in the street showed
the mercury at 1O5. While there were
many cases of sunstroke, none was
fatal.
Gov. GAMBLER has issued an appeal
to the people of Georgia to join hands
and put an end to mob violence in the
state by upholding the courts and aid
J ing them in bringing to speedy justice
all criminals and, by the strong force
of a virile public sentiment, have law.
breakers of all kinds Punished.
NEWS reached Ortiz, Mex, that sew
eral Americans and Mexicans had been
killed in towns in the Yaqui river val
ley by the Yaqui Indians, who are on
the warpath. The inhabitants were
said to be in state of terror and many
we're deserting homes and mining
camps and fleeing to the guarded settle
nents for safety.
A LIGHT engine in charge of Engineer
Mcleod and Fireman Goldsworthy ran
nto the rear end of freight on a side
rack few miles west of Winslow,
Ariz. Brakeman Constable, of the