Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-01
General News
Our army in Cuba now numbers
38 900 men.


York is to be limited to AGO feet. .s,
The frozen lakes of Wisco nsin are
killing thousands of wild ducks.
A whole family perisLed in the
burning of Arlington fats in Chicago.
A bridge trust with a capital OF
$40, 600 900 is being formed in New
York.
All the captains of Cervera's s fleet
who escal e death will be court mar
tailed.
During the recent cold weather
fourteen lives were lost by freezing in
Texas.
The Maine memorial day was cele-
brated at Havana with i'm oressive
ceremonies.
Aguinaldo is said to be socialist
by the papers of Munich, where he
was student.
The snow extended as far south as
Tampa, Fla, and the orange crop is
greatly damaged.
The keel of the new Maine was laid
on the anniversary of the blowing up
of the old Maine.
M. Emile Lonbet has been chosen
president of the French Republic, to
succeed M. Faure.
An invention to manufacture arti-
fetal silk from gelatine has been
made in Switzerland.
A number of Italian miners and their
families were buried under an ava
lanche at Silver Plume, Colo.
The sale of intoxicants has been
forbidden on board the war ships, or
within the limits of the navy yards.
Ian Mac Laren (Rev. John Watson)
has landed in this country, and will
begin lecture tour through the
west. ~.
All vessels gin IN New York hafbSr
lowered their flags to half mast Feb.
l5, the anniversary of the Maine dis
aster.
In spite of charitable associations
and relief funds, the poor ia the cities
have suffered greatly during the in
tense cold.
The wild horses which used to roam
over the Texas prairies are becoming
extinct. The cause is the fencing in
of the land.
A large Chicago syndicate is about
to close deal whereby they will get
all the important salmon. traps into
their hands.
Ice is piled up above Niagra Falls
in such manner as to- end&nger
property along the shore when il be-
gins to loosen.
received $500 for a picture, the
highest price ever paid for the work
of an American artist.
A pickaninny, clad only in native
purity, and reposing on silver salver,
was a valentine offered at Mrs. Emma
Eains Storey's valentine party.
Karl Norcross, prominent society
young man of Uniontown, Pa, is ar
rested on the charge of attempting to
hire his year old brother poisoned.
Edward Simon Hayden, inventor
of the Hayden process of electrolysis
for separating copper from precious
metals, died this week in New York
The express train carrying passen-
gers from London to Brussels was
wrecked near the latter city and &c
people killed and fifty others wound.
ed.
During a storm, a shark 8 to IL
feet long was washed aboard of the
Scottish Prince. The sailors had a
desperate fight before killing the man
eater.
The German emperor has granted
funds for the publication of diction.
ary of the Egyptian language. te
comprise all words preserved in hero.
glyphics.
A crop of wheat was grown and
harvested at a Catholic Mission on
the Mackenzie river, just above the
sixty second parallel. This is farther
north than wheat has ever been grown
before.
During the recent cold in Colorado
the wild animals have been driver
near the cities. Cyotes have ven
tured into the suburbs Of Denver
and elk have been fed hay by tn,
ranchmen, while the big gray wolves
lsre making raids upon the stock.