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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS

THE wife of Capt. Dickinswas burned
to death at Washington on the 7th by
a fire caused by using gasoline to clean
n floor.
A PANIC was narrowly averted among
500 people, of whom $50 were women,
employed in the factory of the Illinois
Can company at Chicago, which was
burned on the 9Th. Flames broke out
in the third story and the employees
on the floors above were cut off and
crowded to the windows, many prepar-
ing to jump. The ladders were quickly
run up to the fourth story and firemen
kept the frenzied prisoners in order.
Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance, S125, 900.
A FRAME building occupied by T. NJ.
Weiss, druggist, and the Whitehead
laundry, at Indianapolis, Ind, was
wrecked by a gas explosion the other
afternoon. Six people were injured,
two perhaps fatally.
EIGHT lives were lost in storm at
Crookston, n. D., and much damage to
property was done.
A TERRIBLE wind and hailstorm on
the 9Th devastated the country for
miles around Kendalls, Wis. 1t ruined
large IrdCIS VI NdludDlc IiIQDer.
AUGUST BECKER, the stock yards
butcher, was found guilty at Chicago
On the 9Th of the murder of his first
wife. His punishment was fixed at
death.
THE cornerstone of Montana's new
capitol was laid at Helena amid much
ceremony the other day.
In two days there were six attempts
at suicide at Chicago. four being sue
cessful.
ALL former food disasters in Texas
river districts have been eclipsed by
the appalling calamity central in the
vicinity of Sealey and Brookshire. It
is estimated that 300 lives have been
lost and the number may be larger.
The property loss will reach into the
millions. Thousands of people were
starving and Gov. Sayers wired the
federal government from Austin on
the 5th an appeal that it would order
vessels to go up the rivers and distrib-
ute rations-
AN engine on the railroad at Tiptop,
w. Va. exninded and killed three men.
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STANDARD OIL COMPANY.
The Ohio Corporation Closing Up It's Shops
In Cleveland, o., and Employees Offer
ing Their Homes for Sale.

Cleveland, o., July 9.-The story pub
lished several weeks ago that the Stand
ard Oil company was to abandon it's
Ohio territory because of the anti
trust war made on it by the attorney
general is now confirmed. The
Ohio corporation will soon cease to
exist, as is evidenced by the fact that
the trusts immense plant in this city,
the second largest in the world, is
practically abandoned. It's cooperage
shop, the largest in the world, is closed,
as is also its immense tank. Employees
of the company are offering their homes
for sale and preparing to leave the
city. Most of them have no idea where
they are to 90.
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WILL RE-ENTER POLITICS.
Ex-senator John j. Ingalls, Announces
That He Will Endeavor to Give Kan
sas q New Deal.

Topeka, Kan, July 9.-Ex-Senator
John j. ingalls,, in an authorized inter
view published yesterday in the Mail
and Breeze, announces that he pro-
poses to re-enter Kansas politics; that
he will endeavor to bring about a new
deal' in republican politics; that he
will support Charley Curtis for con-
gress in the First district and Senator
Baker for reelection as senator.
When asked if he would enter the
congressional race in the First district,
he said: 1.-THE use of my name in that
connection has been without consult
ing me. 1t is proposition upon which
am wholly uninformed." What, in
your Judgment, is the solution of the
trust problem?" he was asked.
The practical solution of the whole matter
rests with the state legislatures. The solution
is taxation; just the same as the government
undertook to prevent the sale OF oleomargarine
by taxing the product; just the same as the gov
ernment destroyed the state banks by imposing
the ten per cent tax. The law already existing
is practically sufficient. 1t declares all COM
binations in restraint of trade illegal and void.
II that is supplemented by taxation the matter
will be disposed Of promptly. No problem is
simpler than dealing with the trusts.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

w. j. BRYAN addressed the Chautau-
qua at Barnesville, Ga, on the 4th.
The steamer Coptic brought the
news of the death at Honolulu of the
dowager queen. Kapiolani, widow of the
late King Kalakaua, of the Hawaiian
islands. She was 65 years old.
A CABLE message from Gen. Otis on
the 4th stated that the California in
fantry and artillery, numbering 1,4OO
men, were boarding the transport
Sherman at Negros to come home.
BISHOP JOHN p. NEWMAN, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
Saratoga, N. Y, on the 5th, aged 73.
MRS. MAY WRIGHT SEwALL, an Amer
lean delegate to the International
Council of Women at London, was elect
ed president and Lady Aberdeen was
chosen vice president.
ROBERT BONNER, publisher of the
New York Ledger and owner of famous
horses, died at his home in New York
on the 9th. Death was due to gen.
eral breaking down of the system.
THE order for the enlistment of ten
new regiments of infantry was issued
on the 9Th by Secretary of War Alger.
IT is evident, officials at Washington
said, that President Schurman, of the
Philippine peace commission, believes
the suppression of Aguinaldo's insur-
rection means the establishment of
peace throughout the archipelago.
The MohawkS, a democratic organi-
zation said to comprise 600 wigwams
and over so, 900 active members, was in
secret session at Buffalo, N. Y, recent
ly and elected officers and adjourned
to meet next year in the city selected
for the national democratic conven-
ton, one week prior to that conven-
ton. Steps were taken to begin i'm
mediately the work of organizing new
wigwams. The resolutions adopted
der eroInceds trusts and sponopolies, in
dorsed Bryan and free silver and op-
posed militarism.
GEORGE w. JULIAN, the famous abo-
litionist, died at his home in Irvington,
Ind, on the 7th. In 1859 he was can
didate for the vice presidency on the
free soil ticket and was a delegate to
the first republican convention at Pitts
burgh in 1859. He served several terms
in congress.
n
white house and asked that part OF
the money now spent for rations fo1
the suffering and starving natives be
invested in agricultural implements
and oxen, SO that they may get to work
tilling the soil and raising crops The
committee believed this would put a
stop to idleness.
The delegates TO the Internationa
Congress of Women at London visiteo
| Queen Victoria at Windsor castle an(
partook of tea at the invitation of hel
majesty.
MAI. HEATwoLE, chief commissary
died at Santiago de Cuba on the 9th O.
yellow fever.
THE committee of the peace dele
gates at The Hague discussed on the
eth, the scheme for mediation anC
arbitration drawn up by the comite
d'examine, but as many of the dele
gates had not heard from their respec
tive governments an adjournment
was taken for week.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

In addition to the 90 world congresses
already decided upon for the Paris eX-
position. preparations are being made
for what will be the most interesting
and far-reaching of all, namely, the
congress for consideration of uni
versal language called esperanto"
Hopes are entertained by those who
have studied it that it will be taken up
by all nations. Its great recommends
ton is said to be the facility with which
it can be learned. The grammar of
esperanto, by DR.. Zamenhof, the Rus
sian savant, is marvelously easy and
can be learned in an hour.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

The agricultural department has
pressed the moving-picture machine
into the service of science. The divi-
sion of vegetable physiology has now a
device of this sort in operation in one
of its greenhouses, photographing the
growth of a small oak tree. The ma
chine works automatically, taking a
picture each hour. When the series of
pictures is completed, it will be possi-
BILE to reproduce with the stereopticon
the growth of the plant from the time
the first shoot appeared above ground
till the tree is in full leaf and foot or
more high.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

THE latest scheme for getting to the
north pole has been suggested by A. C.
jackson, president of the Alaska Geo.
graphical society. His idea is to start
from some point on the north coast of
Alaska with three ships, sail as far
north as possible and then tie the YES
sells to the floating ice and drift as near
the pole as possible. Then he proposes
to unload herd of reindeer and start
overland for the north pole, unreeling
behind spool of copper wire to keep
in telephone communication with the
men aboard the vessels and to serve as
a guide to return after the pole is
reached.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

THE average increase in the popula-
tion in the United States for each dec
ade since the first census has been
about 12, 900. 900, but Director Merriam
estimates that the twelfth census will
show an increase of not over 10, 600, 900.
He places the population for 1900, In
round numbers, at .2,O00. 900. The
slight falling off is undoubtedly due
to the restriction of immigration. 1t is
expected that all the volumes of the
twelfth census, save few dealing with
special lines of investigation, viii be
ready for distribution within three
years from the beginning of the work in
the field.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

A COMMISSION has been appointed in
Havana to visit all parts of Cuba and
to collect subscriptions to a fund for
building Gen. MaXimo Gomez a home
and furnishing him with money enough
for the rest of his life. This decision
is universally popular. In the opinion
OF all Cubans, even his political oppo-
nents., he deserves such a recognition,
after his long service and self-sacrifice
in behalf of the Cuban cause.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

EX-CoNGREssMAN FARQUHAR, a mem.
Der of the industrial commission, in
speaking at Washington on the sub
ject of trusts, said: I'VE as nation
are producing vast amount more thar
we consume and the combination is
nothing more than an effort to get pro-
ducts on the market in the cheapest
way. There is one thing in the trust
problem which should be remedied, and
that is the enormous over-capitaliza-
tion of corporations 1t is responsible
for more business depressions in this
country than anything else. The rem
edy for this lies with the state legisla-
tures.'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

SETH WARNER, a leading lo-g-staple
cotton ISlartei. near f'aris. ". has r.
ceived letter from w. T. Knight, of
Hazlehurst, Miss, proposing to ship
him so monkeys to be used in gather
ing his crop in the fall. He offers to
send trainer along and guarantees
them to pick 125 to $50 pounds per day
each. He claims they gather cotton
cleaner than negro labor, at less than
half the cost and pick in all kinds of
weather
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Double Tragedy at Astoria.

Mansfield, Mo-, July &C. w. Hun
ter, merchant at Astoria, shot and in
stantly killed c. C. Winningham and
mortally wounded his son, j. o. Win
ningham. A dispute had arisen over
the division of some wheat, and Hun
ter stepped into his house, and while
the Winninghams drove by he emptied
his Winchester into their bodies. Hun
ter gave himself up.
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Shot His Father in Desperation.

Louisville, KY, July 9.-Driven to
desperation by his fathers act of vio-
lence and fearing for the life of his
mother and sister, Walter Rydell, aged
II years, shot his father, c. o. Rydell,
four times. The wounded man is in a
serious condition. Immediately after
the shooting the boy gave himself up
to the police. The father had been
drinking heavily of late and abusing
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Census of Our Pacific Colonies.

Chicago, July 9.-Parker ID. Red
mond, an agent of the United States
census bureau, arrived in Chicago yes
terday en- route to the Hawaiian and
Philippine islands on official business.
He will set in operation, first in the
Hawaiian islands, the machinery for
taking the census there, and then pro-
ceed to the Philippines on similar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
A Heavy Money Order business.

Washington, July "a comparative
statement of the money order business
of the country for the quarter ended
March 81 last, the final returns of
which have just come in, show that
there were 7,S46, 16S money orders is
sued. amounting to $50. 1888, 93s. This
is an increase over the corresponding
quarter last year of So, 800, 800.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Alaskan Miners Die of scurvv.

Seattle, Wash, July Am uncon-
firmed story comes from Dawson City
that several prospectors who have ar
rived there over the Edmonton route
report that score of miners have died
from scurvy at Wind river, branch of
the Peel river, and that number of
others have suffered from its dread
effects
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

THE Baltimore American declares
that nothing of a practical nature
would have greater tendency to re-
duce the evils of intemperance than a
strict inspection by government of all
liquors manufactured and sold" 1t
estimates that three-fourths of the
crime caused by liquor can be traced
to adulteratiOn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

REV. j. HUGHES PARRY, pastor of the
Moriah church, of New York, has
broken his long fast. For 4s days not
morsel of food passed his lips and he
subsisted entirely on water. He tasted
in the hope of relieving chronic all
ment and his condition was improved,
although he was weakened from the
lack of nutritious food.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Admire American Steel Plants.

London, July 9.-The Russian gov
ernment engineers who toured the
United States and inspected its steel
factories have reached London on their
return journey to st. Petersburg. They
speak in glowing terms of the equip
ment of American steel factories, but
express doubt whether Americans
have yet discovered the proper method
for producing durability in rails.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

The Fourth was ceIe brated at Manila
with fireworks, bands, speeches and
declarations, all nationalities partici-
pating. Several hundred boys and
girls-Filipinos, Spaniards and Chinese
from the public schools, each carry
ing an American flag, sang America"
in a curious mixture of dialects.
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VIII Not Deal yyith IInion..

Denver, Col, July al. B. Grant,
chairman of the operating committee
of the American Smelling and Refining
company. is quoted as follows: '.Our
smelters which are idle will never
start up again if we have to deal with
any union to effect settlement of this
ST rilse >,
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Fairs Throughout the State.

Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, announces the follow
ing list of Kansas fairs:
lola, September SO; Garnett, September %
%; Hiawatha, August 29-3l: Clay Center, Sep
tember 12-15 Burlington, September 11-l5: Win
field, September 1922; Lawrence, September 12-
15; Garden City, September 12-15; Ottawa, Sep
tember 1922; Tribune, October As; Holton. Sep
tember Ills; OSkaloosa, September 5-S; Edger-
ton, September 26-29; Frankfort September 20
%; Paola, September l2-1o; COffeyville. August
1919; Council Grove, September 26-29; Erie,
August 28-September / ; Chanute. September g.
9; Ness City, September l4-16; Burlingame
September 5-s; Osborne, September 12-l5;
Riley, September 5-S: Stockton, September 49,
p; Salina, September 25-29; Wichita, state fair,
September 25-3O: Fredonia. August 22-25
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Refused to Give Up His Office.

DIR. w. b. Swan, of Topeka, the
newly-elected secretary of the state
board of health, went to the state
house Saturday to take possession
The doors were locked and the populist
secretary, DIR. H.. u. Gill, responded
only after Mr.. Swans vigorous rap
ping. Then DIR. Gill opened the door
only a short distance and refused to
permit DIR. Swan to enter the office.
DIR. Swan will probably institute legal
proceedings to GUST DIR. Gill,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

New York, July 9.-The Mutual Life
Insurance company, through its presi-
dent, Richard A. McCurdy. yesterday
telegraphed to Gov. Sayers, of Texas,
to draw on that company for the sum
of S., 600 in aid of the sufferers from the
Brazos river floods.
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State school Money Goes begging.

Lyon county last week redeemed
$192. 600 of bonds held in the state
school fund. They were 2O-year four
per cent. bonds and were issued two
years ago. The county got a chance to-
scale down the interest and took them
up and issued new bonds at 3& per
cent. The state school fund now has
$500, 900 in cash lying idle because the
commissioners cannot get good invest
ments for it on account of the compete,
tion of eastern bond concerns.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

MILE STEVENS. negro woman, re-
Gently died at Lexington, Ga. She was
said to be la years old and was hale
and hearty up to within a few weeks
of her death.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

OREGON and Washington horses,
which used to bring $1.5O and So head
for horse meat, are now bringing SIS
each. There is demand for heavy
work horses and also for horses for the
cavalry service which has brought the
price ND
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
An Error Corrected.

A list of Kansas corporations which
have gone out of business lately was
prepared in the secretary of states
Office and given to the newspapers.
The Marshall County Farmers Mutual
Fire and Lightning association and
the Mutual Fire and Lightning asso-
citation of northeastern Kansas, both
of Marysville, Marshall county, were
on the list. They should not have
been there. Being mutual concerns,
they did not have to'report to the Sec
retary of state. They returned the
blanks, but the explanation escaped
the eye of the clerk, hence the error.
The associations named have no inten-
tion of going out of business
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Agricultural Bank In Cuba.

Havana, July 9.-The Agricultural
bank has been organized at Santa Clara
by number of prominent citizens, in
cluding the mayors of various towns in
the province. The bank proposes to
lend farmers amounts necessary to cul-
tivate their lands, taking small in
tsrest mortgage on the crop and landa.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

xAE Chicago Tribune day or to ago
printed statistics from 63 of the prin-
cipal cities of the nation showing the
results of patriotic fervor on July 4.
The number of killed is three; injured,
1,074; fire losses due to fireworks, $149,-
10S
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Kansas Bankrupsey Gases.

By direction of the attorney general
the five referees in bankruptcy have
fled with Frank Brown, clerk of the
United States district court for the dis
trict of Kansas, report of their bank
ruptcy business from the time the
bankruptcy law took effect, August 1,
1898, to March 81, 1899. Up to March
81, 1899, 202 persons or firms volun-
tarily asked the court to be adjudged
bankrupts. The total liabilities of
these 202 bankrupts are $1,95l. 725. 55:
total assets, 800, 954. AZ; total dividends
declared S3. 237. Sc.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
yellow Fever at SANTIAGO.

Santiago, July 9.-Four new cases of
yellow fever, all in the city of Santa
go, were officially reported Yesterday
Two deaShs were reported. Up to date
132 eases have been reported and 27
deaths
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE United States has in Is years, it
is stated, lost more than 1000, 900 per.
sons by tuberculous diseases
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Krag-Jorgensens for voIunteers.

Washington, July s.-The ten regi.
ments of volunteers will be equipped
throughout as are the regulars. The
ordnance department has on hand
sufficient supply of Krag-Jorgensen
rifles and other arms to equip the regi.
mentS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12

The great Standard Oil trust is said
to be reaching after the street railway
lines in a number of western cities.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
DEATH OF LIEUT.. PAGUE.
The Officer Who Was Court Martialed for
Shooting at His Colonel Believed
to Have Suicided.

Chicago, July 9.-Samuel s. Pague,
who, while stationed at Fort Sheridan
as lieutenant of company F, Fifteenth
United States infantry, fired three
shots at Col. Crofton and who was dis
missed from the army on the finding of
court-martial, died in the office of a
Clark street lodging house to-day under
circumstances which indicated suicide.
The former officer spent the night in a
room at the house, and early to-day
entered the Office and threw himself
wearily into chair. A. half hour
later the clerk found his dead body
still seated in the chair and an empty
choral bottle in a. pocket. The dead
man left no letters which indicated
that he had premeditated self-destruc-
ton.
The court-martial of Lieut.. Pague at
tracted widespread interest. Pague
was jealous of Col. Crofton, imagining
that the latter's attentions to Mrs.
Pague were too pronounced. On Octo-
Der 81, 1895, Pague, heated with wine.
attempted to kill the colonel. Two
bullets went through the latter's over
coat, the third striking the ground.
Mrs Pague rushed to her husband and
seized his arm. He was arrested and
dismissed from the army on the find-
ing of the court-martial.
Insurance Companies Want q Rehearins.
jefferson City. Mo-. July 9.-Given
Campbell, of st. Louis, and Thomas
Bates, of Chicago, attorneys for the 73
fire insurance companies affected by
the recent decision of the supreme
court, have fled a motion for rehear-
ing in the case in the supreme court in
banc. The motion win not be passed
upon until July IA, at which time the
court in banc will be in session again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-12
Soldiers in Chains.

Charles Farris and Charles Reiffe1,
privates of the Third United States IN
fantry, sentenced to life imprisonmenA
in the military prison at Leavenworth,
for murder committed at Santiago, ar
rived at Leavenworth Saturday. They
were in chains and under guard of
five soldiers. Isham G. Franklin, a
third prisoner, was of the Twenty
third Kansas volunteers. He is sem
fenced to five years for cutting another
soldier.
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Refuses to BE Removed.

Thomas E. Will, who was removed
as president of the state agricultural
college at Manhattan, has written +.
T. Fairchild, president of the board of
regents, that he will continue to act as
president of the institution and will ig-
more the order of removal. As the in
stitution is now practically in the
hands of the republicans no attention
will be given Mr.. Wills communica-
ton.