Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-15

General News.

a dig COmn trust le Delng formed
in the east.
Leadvilie, Colo. is again blockaded
by snow.
All wall paper CONTAINS arsenic
poison.
Pope Leo was stricken suddenly
very ill Feb. 2Sth.
Congress adjourned shortly after
noon of March 4th.
Queen Marie of Belgium is seriously
i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs John A. Logan is seriously i'll
at her home in Chicago.
The Oklahoma legislature passed
only two bills in 40 days.
The St. Louis saloons are ordered
closed on Sunday hereafter.
1t is reported that 3, 200 Of the Fill
pinos are anxious to surrender.
The senate passed the compromise
army bill by vote of IS to 13.
There have been lib deaths from
grip in London during the past week.
A Methodist hospital will be erect
ed in Chicago at the cost of $500, 900.
There is wrangle in the Pennsyl.
vania house over bribery investiga-
tion.
Cripple Creek leads the world in
the application of electricity to min
ming.
The North American Review has
been sold to Col. G. B. McHarvey for
$225.OOO.
Steps are being taken to eonsoli-.
date the entire wooden industry of
Shis country.
New Hampshire has defeated high
license, which leaves the old prohibi-
tion law in force.
The 55th congress just closed passed
1.636 bills. The 54th, l 200. The
SD, 95l. The 52nd, S92.
Jacob Frontz who lives at st.
Micheals, Md. makes a business of
raising bull frogs for the market.
A terrific tornado swept over two
counties in Tennessee, killing two
people and injuring many others.
Amos Babcock, a prominent aboli-
Zionist, and one of Lincoln's sup
porters, died recently in Chicago.
The distinguished Austrian states
man, Count Bernard Rochberg- Roth
enlowen, died recently at the age OF
SO.
NICE, Feb. 26.-Baron Paul Julius
de Renter, director and founder OF
Reuters Telegram Co. is dead, aged
S3 years.
Another big combine with CAPT
tai of $50, 100000 is about to be eff.
fected in New Jersey. 1t is a tube
works com bine.
The Gear of Russia is prostrated,
and unable to do any business. The
Grand Duke Michael is the real pow
er at the head of affairs.
j. P. Parrett of Missouri fell dead
upon hearing that his son was in q
railroad wreck. The son came home
later and was not hurt.
Lexington, KY, has experienced
the worst hail storm in 40 years. Fol-
lowing the hail was a torrent of rain
that resembled a cloud burst.
The five story building occupied by
the Tribune in Minneapolis was totally
destroyed By fire last week. Nothing
was saved from the flames.
Baron Curt E. Won Biedenfeld, a
German baron, and husband of q
Chicago heiress, is arrested in Chica.
go for shooting a saloon keeper.
Six car loads of discharged Missouri
volunteers on the way home were
wrecked near Tupelo, Ala. Two were
killed and twenty seriously injured.
A six year old child of Tuscaloosa
Ala. deliberately set her 2-year ole
brother on fire, and watched him burr
to death while her mother was absent
Chicago is bringing action agains
! the street railway companies for th'
| recovery of damages for the alleged
| destruction of water mains by cleo
trolysis.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wells of New
York City have both been admitted
to the bar. This is the only instanc,
| in New York of husband and wife a
law partners.
The first automobile ambulance
ever constructed was presented to.tht
Michael Reese hospital Of Chicago
last week by five prominent business
men of that city.
The senate of North Dakota hal
/ passed bill providing for the sp
pointment of three ply sicians in each
country for the examination of al