Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-22
Sec. F. D. Coburn is being urge

as com missioner to the Paris exposi-
tion.
A railroad monopoly is being rapid
ly fastened on Cuba by an American
syndicate.
On account of the recent Kentucky
combine, there is rapid rise in the
price of whiskey.
A New Jersey youth dislocated his
shoulder by violent fit of sneezipg,
while riding on train.
The third annual session of the
National Congress of Mothers, meets
in Washington D. c., Feb. IA.
An immense combine of car makers
is contemplated with a capital of
over $50 900 900. Pullman may be
in it..
A number of war like Indians were
killed at Vancouver B. c., by U. S.
Marshal Mcclure and his deputies
recently.
In New York an offer of five hund-
red dollars was made for the return
of dime marked in a peculiar way.
1t was desired as evidence in a prop
erty dispute.
Twenty six miles of the Panama
canal are said TO be completed. 1t
is estimated that the whole canal
will not be ready for ships in less
than ten years.
Bishop Potter is constructing a
$I5, 900, twentieth century saloon in
New York City. It is to be provided
with all saloon attractions except in
toxicating drinks.
The national live stock exchange
censures Major General Miles for
making unjust statements which are
greatly to the detriment of the pro-
ducers of live stock.
All the currency issued by the U.
S. government is handled by one
man. He is negro, and his name
is John r. Brown. Sometimes $25, :
600 900 goes through his hands daily.
Mrs. Epps, clairvoyant has sued
Ben Bruce, Fort Scott colored man
for 500, as services for ridding two
of Bruce's houses of the ''hants". 1t
took her five months to get the spooks
all out.
A reduction in the price of beer is
expected. Ten years ago an English
sydicate bought most of the large
breweries of the west, the latter agree.
ing not to enter the business for ten
years. The time has expired.
M. Cornochan of New York has had
his dog insured for $4,000 and the
premium paid annually is $500. The
dog is wire haired fox TERROR named
Co. Bang. His owIer declares the
animal to be profitable investment.
Officers arrested ten men for rob.
bing the mails in Oklahoma, between
Ell Reno and Aropahoe, eighty miles
west and from Bridgeport to Cloud
Chief, seventy five miles southwest.
81 900 worth of merchandise was re.
covered.
A meeting of the New York society
for the suppression of vice was held
recently. The report showed that
during the year 5265 pounds of OBJ
scene books and pamphlets, and 2714
pounds of pictures we're siezed and
confiscated, fifteen arrests were made
and the cases tried in the U. S. courts.
Mrs. Thos. NJ. Strickland, of Allan
ia Georgia, committed suicide while
her husband, who had deserted her,
was serving out seven days sentence
for drunkenness in the chain gang.
Upon being released the husband
went to the grave and took an oath
that he would never touch a drop of
liquor again.
A valuable collection of mum mics
of three Incas-ancient rulers of
Peru-and many other antiquities
from South America were destroyed
by fire in New York recently. There
were twenty-five thousand pieces in
the collection valued at twenty thou
sand dollars.
A board has been appointed to in
vestigate whether to Sampson or to
Schley are due the honors for the
victory at Santiago. This board con-
sists of Captain r. B. Evans, who
commanded the battleship Iowa in
the Santiago engagement Captain
II. G. Taylor, who was in command
of the battleship Indiana; Lieutenant
w. J. Sears, who was Rear Admiral
Schley's flag lieutenant, and Ensign
II. III. Ward, assistant to Captain
Crowninshield, G chief of the bureau Of
navigation.
A shotgun quarantine against
smallpox prevails in large part of