Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-14

| NINETEEN persons died of the heat in
New York on the~Sth and 80 others
were prostrated.
EFFIE DAVIS, aged IA years, was
burned to death near Zeevee, Tex. She
poured oil in stove from a can. The
can exploded, scattering burning oil
over the house and setting fire to the
girls clothes. She ran screaming to a
tank quarter of mile from the house
and plunged in, but her burns were so
serious she died three hours later
THE attorney general of Indiana will
soon move against trusts in that state.
| SLAVONIC laborerS are reported as
coming in great numbers to South Chi
cago and the majority are promptly
given employment by the Illinois Steel
company. United States immigration
inspectors are convinced that there
have been many violations of the con-
tract labor laws.
| TwENTY-THREE manufacturers of
glass tableware, including representa-
tives of the United States Glass COM
pany, owning 20 plants, were repre-
sented at meeting held at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 9th. 1t was announced
that 80 per cent. of the output favored
4 combination.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
passenger train, which left Kansas
City at 7:30 p. m. on the Sth filed with
| people who had been in Kansas City to
see the woodmen's parade, was wrecked
| at Grandview, Mo-, two hours later.
More than 80 passengers were injured,
but only two will probably die. The
cause of the wreck, according to the
railroad officials, was the spreading of
the rails at a curve, the roadbed having
been made soft by the recent heavy
rains
JAMES j. JEFFRIEs knocked out Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons in the eleventh round
in the fight for the championship at
the Coney Island Athletic club in New
York on the 9th. Jeffries had Fitz-
simmons whipped from the ninth round
and was never at any time in serious
danger.
ONE death occurred in Chicago on the
9th from the heat.
ADvICEs from Yokohama stated that
nearly 1000 laborers will leave Japan
during the current year under contract
| to work on the Hawaiian plantations.
DESPITE the drizzling rain which at
times swelled into downpour, the
Modern Woodmen of America gave a
| parade on the Sth at Kansas City, Mo-,
which was credit to the order. The
parade was one hour and ten minutes
passing given point. There were 80
bands in the line, dozens of Forester
teams, scores of carriages and hundreds
of men. w. j. Bryan made a speech
on ''Woodcraft" in the afternoon, be-
T
train. William A. Northcott, of Green
vile, ILL.,, was reelected head consul.
KINGsLAND, Tex, was partly swept
away by flood on the night of the
sth and the people fed to the high
lands.
Miss R. M. GREER was burned TO
death at Whitney, Tex, by the explo-
sion of a lamp.
JONAS PRESTON, Jr., colored, was
hanged in the Jail at Westchester, Pa,
on the 7th for the murder of his wife
in February, 1898.
THREE men were smothered in
quarry at Berinsville, Pa, by cave-in.
A HOT wave prevailed over Europe on
the 7th. Many deaths were caused by it.
THE temperature in Salt Lake valley,
Utah, dropped down below the freezing
point on the 18th, covering the ground
with white frost. Crops were killed.
OWING to the strike at the Durango
smelter the Iowa, Tiger and Silver
Lake mines were closed, throwing 500
men out of work, a dispatch from Sill
verton, Col, on the 7th stated. 1t was
predicted also that operations will be
stopped at every mine in San Juan
county within a week.
MANY refugees who attempted to get
into Manila were turned back by the
authorities, who were fearful of the
city becoming over-populated, causing
pestilence and famine. The Ameri-
can officials issued rice to them for their
present needs.
A RECENT waterSpout near Wagner,
l.. T., did considerab BILE damage to prop
erty. At Leliaetta 800 feet of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railroad track
was washed out.
A TERRIFIC clOudburst and thunder
storm on the night of the 7th at Peru,
Ind, did great damage, leveling scores
of houses and demolishing so derricks
on the oil fields.
GREAT excitement prevails in the
Usage Indian nation, in Oklahoma,
over a crusade against intruders in
augurated by Indian Agent Pollack.
Fences were destroyed by the Indian
police and hundreds of head of cattle
turned into the grain fields planted by
the intruders. Conflicts between in
truders and police were frequent and
many have been hurt but so far no ia
talities are reported. Many women
and children were left homeless, but
Agent Pollack says every one must go.
AUGUSTA, Ga, experienced one of
the largest fires in it's history on the
7th. 1t started in the drug store of
Davenport & Phinizy. Loss, $3.50, 900.
Four hundred people recently con-
verted to Mormonism in upper east
Tennessee, southwest Virginia and
eastern Kentucky have been warned
against building a church. Neverthe-
less. the church has been ordered and
trouble of serious nature is antici-
pated.
THE head camp of the Modern Wood
men of America at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 7th voted to leave the whole
matter of reserve or emergency fund
to the consideration of members of the
organization for two years, in order
that it'might be taken up again when