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

Or. Fruiu. the Dutch historian, died
Monday at Leyden, Holland.
The postoffice al AIcDermott, Greek
aa'tfon, I. T.. has been discontinued;
nail to FcEjress.
The director of the international
postal bureau, NJ. Hohne, is dead at
Borne, Switzerland.
Harry Bates. the English sculptor,
Ind am associate Of the Royal Acad
envy, is dead n London.
Twenty children are reported TO
nave been drowned by an ice disaster
at the village of Warpuhnen-Boirhe
East Prussia
Miss HARRIET w. Craig. OF Wichita,
kas.. has aren appointed assistant
matron Of the Sac and Fox Indian
school. Clllahoma.
H. III. Moore and Percy Wentricll
have been designated as members of
the civil service board for the post
office at Joplin, Mo.
Everett L. Snedeker. one of 1.-The old
EST trainers of race horses in the
country. died suddenly of heart dis
ease in New York Monday, aged 81
years.
The mahogany lumber yard of J. G.
Raynar. Morgan ard Fulton streets.
chicago. and ':he box factory owned
ny F. {. Austin. burned Monday, caus-
ing loss of s325.O0.
John Edwards. the slayer of Rich
ard McSwaiin was arrested Monday
by Deputy Marshal Booker and lodged
in Jail at Ar<imore. !. +. At the pre-
liminary hearing taday Edwards was
remanded to .i1il without bail.
There were only 80 votes cast at
Mondays joint assembly of the Penn
sylvan;a legislature fer United States
senator. Mr.. Quay received 80 votes
and Mr.. jerks 4. Less than quorum
voting, there was no election.
Secretary Alger went to Boston has
tily Monday night to look after his
son, Fred. "A student in Harvard Uni
versity. who BROKE his leg there Sum
day. The secretary and his family
have had an unusual series of mis-
haps during the past year.
Special dispatches from Dresden
say that man m med Ref has been
arrested there on the charge of steal
ing diamonds worth 10000 marks. IT
is added that he was formerly a news
paper man of New York. from which
city he is said to have eloped with a
young lady.
Judge Simons, in the District Court
at Fort Scott. Kas., Monday. sem
fenced Ed Henderson, a negro barber.
So years old and for thirty-six years
a resident of Fort Scott ito the peni-
tentiary for five years for a criminal
assault committed upon a white girl
II years old.
With the mercury ait 26 below zero
the Third regular infantry Monday
began their long journey to the tropi-
cal heat of the Philir pines, from St.
Paul. Mimi. This regiment has been
located at Fort Smelling for ten years,
except for the four months of hard
Cuban service.
Three robbers dynamited the safe
in the store of the Kelly Pillow Com
pany. aIt Long View, Tex, Monday
night Quite a sum of money was
secured. The building was badly
shattered. One of the cracksmen was
seriously injured. Joe Carroll, ONE of
the robbers captured, was from Jop-
lin. Mo.
Robert T. Rink, .Jr., aged % years,
took his life Monday night in Phila-
as THAT adopted by Mrs. Ayres ait
Penn Van, n. Y, last weekly clos
ing himself in trunk and then swal-
lowing poison. Rink, who was a
picture frame glider, was in poor
heal th.
&C.. f. Belleville. who escaped from
the Hutchison CKan.) state reforma-
tory while under parole last October,
1aJ; 10 rnffN fCrxy Of
ficials Monday. He had been in Jail
for forgery under the name Of
johnson and attempted to escape a
few weeks ago. His confession, after
capture, led to his return Ito Hutchin-
SON.
Clyde Beshears, of Company NJ,
Twelfth Missouri regiment, who was
arrested at Jefferson barracks Friday
upon the charge of assaulting Miss
Fannie Niles. of Nandalia. was tried
Monday morning in Vandalia, Mo-, and
WAS acquitted. The young lady could
not Identify BeShears as her assailant
and he succeeded in proving his in
| nOcence.
DIR. j. r. Davis, division surgeon
for the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad,
was ARRESTED Monday at Mena, Ark,
on a charge of bigamy and taken to
| Fort Smith to be arraigned. The
warrant is for DR.. Charles Davis,
| and the people are slow to believe
| that this is the man wanted. He re-
moved from Ryan, I. T., last fall, to
| this city.
John Dancy, as he calls himself,
but in reality "'Mollie Matches" alias
DR.. T.. Denmark and DR.. Simpson, one
of the most known pick pockets in
the United States and who has served
terms in Sing Sing and other peniten-
tiaries, has been arrested in Mon
treal. lie was detected picking the
pockets of worshippers at the Church
of THE Holy Sacrament.
A poor woman, Mrs. Cue, who re-
sides i'm "a hovel in the east part OF
Joplin. Mo-. gave birth to triplets Mon
day, all boys. The woman was too
poor to have physician ito attend
her. but as soon as the event was
known she was cared for by the HUI
name Society. Her husband is in Jail
at Carthage for cruelty beating his
wife. Mother and triplets are doing
well.
James Phillips, ticket seller and
former manager of McMahon Bros
circus, was Instantly killed Monday
morning at Wichita, Kas., by being
run over by train on the Wichita
& Western road. "a branch of the
Santa Fe. The body was found horri-
bly, mangled and with the neck
broken. Philips was a member in
good standing of the knights of Py-
y H. L. E L