Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-28
BESJAM1N PARRorr was hanged at

liquor. QuafreleQ Win ner ana klIleQ
her with an AK.
Two fishing smacks were capsized off
Brest, France, and II persons drowned.
A DESPERATE attempt to break Jail
was made on the night of the 22d at
Hartsville, Mo.,~by the Macomb train |
robbers, but it was frustrated by the
guards. All the prisoners were after
wards handcuffed.
A MAIL train was stopped by eater |
pillars near st. Johnsbury, VT.
The Huntsville cham Der of COM
merce issued call to every one inter
ested for an industrial convention, to \
be held in Huntsville, Ala, September
4, for the purpose of considering the |
best methods of developing the re-
sources of the south.
| BILL JENNINGS, alias Bill Ryan, was |
convicted at Hartville, Mo-, on the 23d
| of being an accomplice in the train
robbery at Macomb, Mo-, and was SEN
fenced to 20 years in the penitentiary.
In special match at Batavia, n. Y,
on the 23d for cup and the champion
ship of America at inanimate targets
between j. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas
City, and William Crosby, of Batavia,
the latter won by a score of 12S to 1874.
| Gov. MURPHY has issued at Phoenix,
Ariz., over his signature, an announce
ment tantamount to proclamation, in
which he denounces in most vigorous
language the methods of stock-jobbing
mining companies in that territory.
The publication ofnthe announcement
caused stir in mining circles.
THE old town of Carrizo, county seat
| of hoc hooY,
away by the Rio Grande flood. The
town had population of several hun
dreds of Mexicans of the poorer class
Their houses were adobes, which quick
ly melted away when the high water
struck them.
A SMALL twister passed Beaver City,
Neb., on the 22d. 1t wrenched barns,
sheds and windmills and scattered hay
stacks in all directions. The wind was
accompanied by deluge of rain and
hail, the latter being a foot deep in
some places. Crops were damaged con-
siderably.
BY vote of 2,795 for to 49, against
the Kansas City (Mo.,) school board
was authorized to issue bonds to the
amount of $4OO,OO the money to be
used to build new schools and new ad-
ditions in order to relieve the crowded
conditions of the schools.
THE Cherokee executive council at
Tahlequah, l. T., on the 22d liberated
all the criminals in the Cherokee peni-
tentiary There were 16 serving terms
of from one to fifteen years. This ac-
ton was taken on account of the Curtis
bill prohibiting any more convictions
snder the Cherokee laws.
A TORNADO passed over Waterloo, Ia,
On the night of the 21st. Many barns
were blown down and trees uprooted.
a No loss of life was reported, but much
stock was killed. A house in the city
was blown over and carried about 800
feet. Not a whole piece of timber was
left.
A LETTER from Dawson, dated May
36, said that the cleanup for the pres
ent season in Alaska will amount to at
least SIS, ,OOO, 900, more than twice last
years yield.
THE street car strike at Akron, o.,
d was settled. Ten hours are to constitute
e day and small advance in wages was
conceded to the employees. The union
n was not recognized, but future disputes
/ are to be arbitrated.
' THE potato bug is destroying the po-
e tato vines around Sycamore, Ill.
:, jim DARLINGTON was convicted Oh
> holding up Santa Fe passenger train
Il near Fort Worth, Tex, and sentenced
to be hanged July 2S.
THE Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail
n way company has filed an application
Is for an injunction to restrain the town
= IF Muscogee, 1. T., from laying out the
re place under the Curtis law, the rail
e way company claiming every alternate
49, section of land along its line. The
s. matter is causing much anxiety IL
70 other towns along the Katy's route.
n THE tug N. F. Bronson, of the Mon
j trea1 Transportation company, with
r. five barges in tow, caught fire tht
II other morning near Warmers island
# Can. The barges were released, bu
,r the tug was burned to the water's edge
Two of the crew were reported missing
Snd several were badly burned.
IT was said to be conservative esti
- mate at Washington that the treasur,
- deficit for the fiscal year of 1899, which
closes at the end of June, will be les
81 than 500. 900. 600.
JACOB HOFFMAN, farmer residin.
VS. near Columbus, o., was killed by light
es ming as he was taking load of hay ou
at Of field. The horses were also kille,
ne and the hay fred.
THE payment of the $26, 900 author
nd ized to be paid to the Pottawatomie In
at dians of Oklahoma at the last session
It of congress has been ordered by the in
he terror department., the department hay
he ing determined upon what would
d. fair fees for the attorneys
er THE furnished room house kept b
d. Mrs. Mary Caldwell in Seventeent
b. street, New York, was badly damage
Ii by fire early the other morning an
three of the inmates were burned, on
ed fatally.
to THE principal event of the Elks' cor
We elave at st. Louis on the 21st was til
,al parade, many of the lodges making
on hit by their costumes A brand me-
he constitution and an entire new code {
laws were adopted and Atlantic Cit,
On N. j., was chosen as the place for tt
next meeting.
THE International Missionary unio
closed its sixteenth annual session @
=: the 21st at Clifton Springs, n. Y.
THE jury at Hartville, Mo-, four
= John F. Kennedy guilty of holding L
- the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memph
~ train at Macomb, No., on the night
'lc- ond vod hic iCh