Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-07
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE

RADIO river at Wharton, Tex, was to-
tally wrecked through fire. The east
bound train on the Southern Pacific
came near dashing into the burning
wreck. Loss, $4,000.
THE Christian colored people of
Knoxville, Tenn, observed the I'd as
day of fasting and prayer. Supplica-
tions were offered for freedom from
mob violence and for the lessening
of crime throughout the land.
JAMES E. TOwNLEY, aged 70, put
gasoline on his bed at Kansas City,
Mo-, to kill bugs and in little while
went to see what efSect the fluid had
had. He carried lamp and held it
close to the bed, which burst into
blaze and enveloped him in flame. His
cries brought help and the flames were
eXtinguished, but not until Townley
was perhaps fatally burned.
JOHN LIND and his four-months-old
son Raymond were attacked by horse
in his barn at Chicago the other day.
The child was trampled to death and
Lind received injuries which, it was
thought, will prove fatal. The horse
attacked them when Lind, carrying the
baby in his arms, entered the stall
| GEORGE STALKER, aged %, shot his
father and mother and then sent bull
let into his own head ct Mayville,
Mich. 1t was thought the parents
will recovSr. Stalker died half an hour
after shooting himself. Young Stalker
had been drinking and his parents re-
monstrated with him.
| ROBERTSON, LINDSAY & Co.'S depart
ment store at st. Thomas, Ont, was
burned the other night. Loss, $4,000.
| Two hundred employees in three sewer
pipe works near Toronto, o., struck on
the 1st for 25 cents increase per day.
| SURGEONS from all states in the union
| gathered in Chicago on the 31St in at
| tendance on the twentieth annual
meeting of the American Surgical asso-
| citation.
THE Transmississippi commercial
congress opened at Wichita, Kan, on
the 31st with 800 delegates in attend
ance and many more expected the next
day. Vice President Prince, of New
| Mexico, called the congress to order.
Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, delivered the
address of welcome and Mayor Ross
spoke for the city of Wichita. Ad
dresses were made on appropriate sub
| jects and several resolutions intro
duced, which were referred to the res
buttons committee.
FIFTY residents of Granite City. ILL.,,
were poisoned by eating sugar which
was in packages labeled with green ink.
DECORATION day was generally OBJ
served throughout the country and in
Havana, Manila and Paris. In Havana
harbor the wreck of the Maine was
strung with wleaths of flowers. In
Manila the graves of the soldiers buried
there were decorated with flowers and
services held. In Paris Americans dec
grated the tomb of Lafayette and eX
President Harrison was the orator of
| the occasion.
LIGHTNING killed ten head of fine
COWS, owned by Paul Wood, dairy
man, living near Carrollton, Ill. They
were found dead near wire fence.
FRED BRoKEw was drowned near
! Waldron, Ark, while bathing.
THE state health officer of Texas. on
hearing of the case of yellow fever in
New Orleans, placed quarantine guards
and inspectors at points of entrance to
Texas by telegraphic orders and sent
the following telegram to every rail-
road entering Texas from New Orleans:
''Do not sell tickets over your line from
New Orleans to any Texas point. Do
not bring any passengers or things
from New Orleans. either by express
Or freight. into Texas until further or
ders." This will tie up the Southern
Pacific.
A BOAT containing Fred Willis. his
wife, two children and John Griffith
| Of I Il
ing Willis and both children. Griffith
boat until picked up by tug.
Mrs. MoLLIE BLOND at Kansas City,
Mo-. endeavored to fill a lighted gaso-
line stove while holding her baby in
her arms when there was an explosion
and both were so severely burned that
they died in the hospital soon after.
| IT was officially announced at the
war department on the 3;st that the
Twentieth Kansas regiment, now in
the Philippines, will be mustered out
| in San Francisco.
The seventy-fourth annual meeting
of the American Unitarian association
was held in Boston on the 3Oth Car
roll D. Wright. of Washington. presi-
dent of the association, presided.
| THE Washington Post stated on the
31st that Gen. Otis had informed the
war department that he would be sat
isfied if the army under his command
was kept at maximum of 80, 900.
| A FARMER named Wells, living near
| Thorntown, Ind, while insane. threw
his four boys into a well and then at
| tempted to drown himself in the river.
He was rescued and arrested. Two OF
| the boys are dead, another will die, but
the fourth was not badly hurt.
! WASHINGTON observed Decoration
day and there was big parade of
Grand Army men, national guardsmen
and other military organizations. The
ceremony at Arlington cemetery was
notable by the presence of President
Mckinley, members of his cabinet and
many leading officers of the army and
navy. Webster Davis, of Kansas City,
Mo-, was the orator.
| THE Chicago & Northwestern limited
train the other evening crashed into
the engine of suburban train at Des-
plaines II miles west of Chicago, de-
molishing both locomotives, killing a
colored man and injuring three train
men.
| THE Ancient Order of Hibernians
held it's fiftieth annual convention in
New York on the 31st in affiliation
with the Board of Erin, the parent or
| ganization of Ireland. After electing