Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-21
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY,

A PITTsBURG & GULF passenger train
was held up by masked men at Shady
Point, near Poteau, l. T. Meager de-
tails received by the general offices at
Kansas City, Mo-, say that the proceeds
of the robbery were S. bill, property
of d. II. Patterson, express messenger,
and one registered letter. The passen-
gers were not molested.
A SPECIAL from lGlace Bay, c.. B.,
stated that an explosion accompanied
by terrible loss of life occurred early
on the 18th. More than 40 men were
in the pit when the explosion occurred
and II of them perished. The explosion
was caused by gas which had accumu-
lated in the old workings.
THE Spiritual Medium Protective as
sociation met at Richmond, Ind. re-
Gently. The association was formed
for the purpose of shutting out false
mediums and it is the intention to
make it national in it's scope.
On the river Oder, off the village of
Zullchow, Prussia, the passenger
steamer Bluecher was run into and
persons were drowned.
THE outlook on the night of the 10th
at Denver was more favorable for an
early resumption of work by the trust
smelters in Colorado, steps having
been taken for conference between j.
B. Grant, chairman of the operating
committee of the American Smelling
and Refining company and a committee
of the Smeltermen's union.
AT Surrency, Ga. "Boy" Williams, a
negro, was taken from Jail and lynched
for an attempted assault on a woman.
Dave Clark, another Surrency negro,
was found dead in the woods with sew
eral holes in his body. He had been
arrested for trying to shoot constable.
ACCORDING to dispatch from Man.
zanillo, Cuba, during severe storm
the other night lightning struck sew
eral tents in the American camp there
and Is cavalrymen were rendered un-
conscious. Fortunately no one was
killed.
HENRY GRIFFIN, a laborer, employed
in sewer construction work, was buried
alive at Keokuk, Ia, by cave-in.
ONE thousand coal miners in the Chi
cago and Alton Qll.) sub-districts struck
on the 18th, owing to the operators
pasting notice that they would pay but
3519 cents per ton, the amount fixed by
the board of arbitration.
A SPECIAL from Xenia, o.. on the 18th
stated that a unique condition of af-
fairs existed there, owing to the refusal
of the city council to provide money
for meeting the expenses, of the work
house. The board of directors of the
workhouse passed resolution order
ing that all prisoners confined there
should be released from custody and
work on the stone pile indefinitely sus-
pended. Twenty-eight prisoners were
to be released.
DIR. JEFFERSON d. GODDARD, who
killed Fred j. Jackson in Kansas City
on April 2, 1897, was convicted of muir
der in the second degree at jefferson
City, Mo-, on the 14th and sentenced to
90 years in the penitentiary.
PLANTERS in Louisiana are alarmed
at the prevalence Of anthrax, which is
killing off stock right and left.
THE factory of the Marietta o. Tor
pedo company blew up the other after
noon. The explosion shook windows
all over the city. Clyde Porter and
Carl Harte, two horses and a wagon
were blown to atoms. Trees for 500
yards were stripped of foliage and the
| limbs of some trees were strewn with
| the flesh of the two men and of the
| horses. The theory is that the explo-
sion was caused by the carelessness OF
| the men in unloading nitro-glycerine.
THE 5000 employees of the trust smelt
ers in Denver, Pueblo and Leadville
| Col, walked out at noon on the 14th
after having extinguished the fires in
| the big furnaces and put everything in
| perfect order for a season of idleness
| 1t was predicted that most of the mines
in the mining camps of the state will
soon be closed, throwing thousands o.
miners out of employment. Almos
| every industry in the state will be af
| fected.
| SEVENTY out of ia COWS at the east
ern Illinois insane hospital at Kanka
| kee showed signs of tuberculosis afte
| incubation with tuberculin They
were slaughtered.
TEN persons dead, 25 injured five o
| whom will die, and half of the remain
| der suffering from very serious wounds
sums up the list of casualties resultins
| from the tornado that wrecked Her
man, Neb., on the 18th. The loss O
property aggregated S150,O0O 100 build
ings having been destroyed and onl,
4 six in the whole town remaining in
tact.
i THE national council of the Osag
tribes was in secret session at Paw
huska, Ok, on the 14th. 1t leaked ou
that part of the business was to formu
late charges against Agent Pollock
who is disliked by the full-blood ele
| ment.
II OVER 800 steam filters, representa-,
every plumbing shop in Cleveland, O.
struck for higher wagers and for a uni
form scale. The men want an eight
hour working day, with So per day TO
steam filters and 81. so for helpers. On
firm on the 18th conceded the men
demands.
JOHN E. HEIDRICK, the 19-year-ol
farm hand who murdered James NJ
Lail and attempted to kill his employ
er's wife on July 1, 1898. was hanged a
Jackson, Mo-, on the 18th.
THE twenty-ffth annual session c
the imperial council of the Ancien
Order of Mystic Shriners opened a
Buffalo, n. Y, on the 14th.
i EDWARD GRAY, a negro, was recentl
charged with series of burglarie
near New Orleans, but was released b
the authorities for want of proof. H
made his way to Reserve, where mo
caught him and hanged him to tire.
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