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

| robbed a train on the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad near Sagi-
nav and killed Fireman Whitaker and
Engineer Williams.
THE new passenger steamer Mistas-
| sini was burned at her wharf at Rober
VAL Can, on Lake ST. John.
! NOTICE has been given at the state
department. in Harrisburg, Pa, that an
application for a charter for the Amer
can Iron and Steel Manufacturing
company will be made on August Is.
The capital will be $50, 600, 900. The
formation of the new company will re-
suit in the consolidation of a mum Der
IF the nut and bolt interests in that sec
tion, employing altogether 4, 600 hands.
The secretary of the Dewey home
fund at Washington published a state
nent on the 2sth saying that the aggre-
gate amount Of cash actually received
by Treasurer Roberts up to date was
SIC, 700, from total of over 90, 900 sub
scribers, and that the $1,000 promised
some time ago by the New York Jour
nal would soon be forthcoming. Those
who want to contribute are urged to
forward their money at once.
HOWARD r. SAMSON, an emissary seek
ing miners for Missouri and the Indian
territory coal fields, was fatally stabbed
the other night at Bramwell, w Va.
His assailants were unknown.
| A FRIGHTFUL catastrophe was report
ed from Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol. A
party of tourists were ascending the
Schneeburg, one of the highest noun
tains in the Alps, on cable road, when
the cable broke and the car was pre-
cipitated down the slope and dashed to
pieces in the valley. OF the II persons
in the car one was killed outright and
six were fatally injured.
OF the ten designs submitted by the
leading architects of the country for a
new department of justice building at
Washington three have been selected
for further examination and the re-
naming seven have been rejected.
These designs will be elaborated and
when completed the attorney general
will select the one which he regards as
the most meritorious. The building
will be of white marble and will cost
81 900, 900.
the report of the Missouri river COM
mission for the year ended June 80.
AT a mass meeting of the Women IS
Christian Temperance union, held at
Beaver Falls, Pa, the other day, reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted pro-
testing against Attorney General
Griggs' decision in reference to the
canteen system and appealing to Pres
ident Mckinley to carry the anti-can-
lteen law into full force.
A DISPATCH from Mini Novgorod on
the 27th reported that cargo vessel
and a passenger steamer collided on
the river Volga. The passenger steam
er sank and 155 persons were drowned.
The captain of the cargo ship was ar
rested for disregarding signals.
A PECULIAR disease among cattle has
been discovered in the herd owned by
James Cunningham, a farmer near
Clare, Ia. Within a month, out OF a
herd of IS, one-third lost their sight
Stockmen said that they had never
known anything like it. The blind.
ness was caused by film forming g over
the eye.
The delegates to the national conven-
ton on the bankruptcy law concluded
their deliberations at Chicago on the
27th and adjourned. Before closing
the organization was made permanent
under the name of the National Asso-
citation of Referees in Bankruptcy. The
intention is to hold annual conven-
tions.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has given $50, 00(
to the Fort Worth (TeX.) Library asso.
citation.
THE Roman Catholic reformatory
ship Clarence was destroyed by fire
at Liverpool. Intense excitement pre-
vailed until it became known that the
hundreds of lads and officers on board
had been saved by ferryboats This
ship of the same name that burned on
the Mersey river. Her predecessor was
fired by boys on board of her.
THE agricultural department al
Washington is in receipt of informa.
tion of threatened invasion of grass
hoppers in North Dakota and Mime
sofa The insects are of migratory
species and breed in the Turtle noun.
tains.
HENRY NOVELS, negro who attempt
ed to assault Rosaline Davis at Hatties
burg, Miss, was captured near Bond
Miss, and later identified by the young
lady. A mob tied him to a tree anC
shot him to death.
THE mystery surrounding the murder
of Charles A. Brant, the stenographer
who was shot and killed at St. Loui.
on July %, 1898, has been cleared up
Three men participated in the murder
and all of these are now, year from
the date of the commission of tn.
crime. in custody. The men who, by
their own admissions, killed Brant ar,
John Connors. Harry Morris ant
Edward Hellman.
A SPECIAL to the Atlanta Journa
from Brinson, Ga, on the 25th said
Charles Mack, the leader of the gang
that has been robbing and raping il
this vicinity, was lynched at Saffole
and his body cut into hundreds O
pieces
FOURTEEN persons came near losing
their lives as a result of eating poi
soned ice cream the other night il
Revel's boarding house at Non tgom
cry, Ala.
AT Decatur, Ind, four-year-old sol
of John Burke was dead and Mrs
Burke and an eight-year-old son wer.
reported dying through eating poisoned
beef. Mr.. Burke failed to eat any.
THE wife of Sam Leng, a Chimes.
laundryman at San Francisco, wa.
found bruta1ly murdered in her home
Suspicion points to Sam Leng, who