Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-17
MISCELLANEOIrS.

"A q OdlI ny Iho COIOTcu cOdcH-
men of Quincy, Ill, the other night
Harry Miner shot and killed George
Williams. The trouble started from a
dispute over partner for a dance.
The coroner's jury held him on the
charge of murder.
DEVELOPMENTS point to a gigantic
swindle in school warrants of district
No. 2, st. Clair county, Ill. The sum of
the alleged fraudulent transactions will
aggregate at least $50, 900 and NAV
reach $50, ZOO.
The London correspondent of the
Associated press stated that negotia-
tions have never been broken between
the joint high commissioners of the
United States and Canada and when
Sir Julian PauncefOte returns to Wash
ington it will be signalized by the con
| clusion of a treaty embracing every
question in dispute in manner hon
orable and pleasing to the two coun-
| tries
GENUINE cases of tuberculosis have
been discovered in herd of cattle be-
| longing to Charles A. Nicholson. a
| farmer living near Lincoln. Ill. The
state authorities pronounced two oi
the cows to be suffering with acute
tuberculosis and ordered them killed
and cremated. The veterinarian, said
| they pity those who have been using
the afflicted animals milk
FoRTY-EIGHT thousand acres of land
on the Colorado river, 12O miles above
Yuma, Ariz., are to be reclaimed this
fall by colony to be brought from the
east by William IL. Martin, of New
| York. Large irrigation bitches are to
be constructed from the river to the
colony lands.
A COLLISION of passenger trains oc-
Cured on the Philadelphia & Reading
road at Exeter station. near Reading.
Pa, on the 18th and 25 persons were
killed and so others injured. An ex-
cursion train crashed into an express
and plowed its way through three cars.
OWING to drought famine threatens
Indians in Arizona.
| THE First Nebraska volunteer in
fantry took the unusual step of re-
spectfully petitioning the division COM
mander, Maj. Gen. Macarthur, to tenn
porarily relieve them from duty at the
front in order that they might recuper-
ate. 1t was said that many of the men
had been unable to have their clothing
washed for months, having been COM
PEELED during all that time to sleep in
their uniforms to be in readiness for
| fighting.
THE legislative committee that in
vestigated the Industrial school for
| girls at Chillicothe, Mo-. showed the
| need of great changes in the institu-
ton. but declared there was no truth
in the charges of immortality. The dis
| charge of Dayman A. c. Vandiver was
recommended.
THE Legislative committee appointed
to investigate the Fulton (Nio.) insane
| asylum submitted unanimous report
to the house at Jefferson City on the
18th finding DIR. Coombs, the superin-
tendent, guilty of drunkenness and
recommending his removal. The house
adopted the report.
A GRAND stand at Paris, Tex, on
| which were seated 1000 people who
were witnessing display of fireworks,
fell with a crash and a great number
were injured, some proba bly, fatally.
1t was miracle that no one was killed
| outright.
The Catholic Knights of America
opened their twelfth biennial conven.
tion at Kansas City, NO., on the 9th
by parade to st. Patrick's cathedral,
where religious services were held.
They then marched to Lyceum hall,
| where addresses of welcome were made
and an adjournment was taken soon
l after until the next morning.