Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-08
General News.
Rudyard Kipling is dangerously ill
with pneumonia.

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with pneumonia.
The Oklahoma legislature passed
only two bills in 40 days.
There were three wrecks in one
night at points along the U. P. road.
Jesse James, SON of the notorious
OUTLAW is being tried for train rob-
berry.
The North American Review has
been sold to Col. G. B. McHarvey for
$225,0OO.
$4,000 has been appropriated by
congress for Improvements at Fort
Leavenworth.
The yield Of oranges in the southern
part of California this season was
100000 boxes.
The winning man in an Australian
bicycle race dropped dead as he went
under the wire.
Enoch Carson, the highest stand
ing Mason in the United States died
recently at Cincinnati.
Boston proposes to have a city
crematory to incinerate the bodies of
paupers and criminals.
Jacob Frontz who lives at st.
Micheals, Md. makes a business of
raising bull frogs for the market.
Amos Babcock, a prominent aboli-
zionist, and one of Lincoln's sup
porters, died recently in Chicago.
Hundreds of small vessels have
been frozen in the ice off Chesapeake
Bay. Some of the crews are missing
The distinguished Austrian states
man, Count Bernard Rochberg- Roth
enlowen, died recently at the age of
90.
A vein of ore which averages $31,- :
600 to the ton has been opened in the
Norwich mine in Strawberry Gulch,
S. D.
Professors Wood and Jaxon have
invented a method of clearing frozen
water pipes Of ice by means of cleo
tricity.
NICE, Feb. 26.-Baron Paul Julius
de Renter, director and founder of
Reuters Telegram Co. is dead, aged
S3 years.
Ten thousand Indians of the Chero-
kee, Greeks and Delawares have left
Indian Territory to make their hom Q
in Mexico.
1t is rumored that the King Of
Siam is to visit America and the
countries of Europe some time in the
near future.
The five story building occupied by
the Tribune in Minneapolis was totaly
destroyed by fire last week. Nothing
was saved from the flames.
The ninth infantry, now at New
York, and the sixth infantry now at
San Antonio, Tex, are to be sent to
Manila to reinforce Gen. Otis.
A six year old child of Tuscslooss,
Ala, deliberately set her 2 year old
brother on fire, and watched him burn
to death while her mother was absent.
The subcommittee of the Michigan
house which is drafting a general tax
alton bill has recommended the en-.
actment of graduated income tax
law.
Mrs. H. G. r. Wight the woman
Representative from Arapohoe county,
Colo, made speech in Congress
against the u S. control of the Fill.
pinos.
Ten Thousand medals bearing the
head Of the Duke of Orleans were
seized and confiscated by the French
police. Moulds for striking them
were also seized.
The first automobile ambulance
ever constructed was presented to::the
Michael Reese hospital of Chicago
last week by five prominent business
men of that city.
The United States may have trouble
with Cuba. 1t is reported that s
prominent Cuban said that if tn,
Americans did not ''get out by July
first Cuba would declare war"
The senate of North Dakota hat
passed bill providing for the ap
Epointment of three ply sicians in eact
courtry for the examination of al
applicants for marriage licenses.
There is bill before congress tt
Ipension the widow of w. ]. Bryan.
lgreat-grandfather. She 10 the daugh
ter of Revolutionary soldier and the
widow of soldier of 1872. and hal
been a widow over so years.
/ Thirty Spanish immigrants arrived
lin New York recently. They art
lgoing to mining towns in the west
The authorities say that since thu