Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-26
LODGE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2e 1899

NEGROES of Lake Village, Ark. have
arisen in an armed force against the
white people of that vicinity. The
home of B. Vinson, an attorney, was
burned and the white people have
armed themselves with the intention
of suppressing the riot.
A DISPATCH from Birmingham, Ala,
said that John Turner and his wife,
negroes, brutally killed Mrs. Measles,
white widow, who lived on an ad-
joining farm in Clay county. Mrs.
Measles was driving Turner's hogs
| from her own field when the Turner's
set upon her with clubs and beat her
to death. Mrs. Turner was caught and
her husband was hotly pursued. There
was open talk of lynching the Turner's.
A FIGHT ragged for two days recently
between SO japanese and $50 Chinese at
] the salmon cannery at Fair Haven,
WASH, the result of a drunken debauch.
Knives, rocks and iron bars were the
weapons used. Ten Cinnamon and one
Jap were badly injured.
FIRE destroyed a portion of Volcan,
COL, the other, morning, including the
Volcan hotel. Peter Dolan, the pro-
prietor. his wife and two children per-
| ished in the flames.
CLAY FORD, negro was hanged at La
Grange, Tex, for the murder of his wife.
THERE is to be another advance in the
price of lum Der shortly. The manufac-
turers met at Beaumont, Tex, and de
cided that 81 a thousand would not cut
Off the heavy demand to any great ex-
tent. The price has been raised $3.50
| thousand in less than year.
The board of equalization s report on
the assessment of Oklahoma counties for
the present year shows total 'valua-
tion, including railroad property, of
$42, 9S2, Ala, gain of 81, $685. 59S over last
| year. ai s., .tt.-El
COMMISSIONER GENERAL PowDERI.Y
on the 21st ordered the deportation of
| Is Hungarians who recently arrived in
| this country and Immediately proceeded
to Rathbun, Ia, where they went to
work in the coal mines, on the ground
that they were alien contract laborers.
The official figures of the number OF
immigrants who arrived in this coun-
try during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1899, were made public by the i'm
migration bureau. OF the 1921 inn
migrants admitted, the greatest num-
ber, So, 1888, were from Italy. There
were 21, 153 Hebrews, 1S.191 Polanders,
IA, 741 Germans and Is, 72O Irish.
NEWS was brought by steamer of the
explosion in colliery at.-.Wakmast,
Japan. One hundred and forty-seven
corpses were recovered, but the total
number of persons missing and dead
was 211.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CLAY, Clerk Tay-
lor and Sheriff Wolfe had hearing
before Commissioner Hackett at An
tiers, 1. t., on the charge of murder in
allowing the execution of William Co
ing. The defendants were discharged,
the court holding that the case was be-
gun in the Choctaw courts prior to the
passage of the law by congress confer
ring Jurisdiction on the United States
authorities and the United States had
no jurisdiction in the matter.
WHILE making soap at her residence
at Avonda1e, Tex, Mrs. C. B. Cauthorns
was burned to death. AS she stood
with her back to the fire the wind;
swept her skirts into the blaze and inis
an instant she was asnass of flames. <
The boil weevil is doing damage in 4
the cotton fields of Texas. &
On rush order from the war de-
partment, 200 horses and mules and so.
escort wagons were shipped from the
quartermaster's department at Chicka-
mauga, Tenn, on the 18th to San Fran
cisco by special train, to be forwarded
at once to Manila.
THE southbound flyer on the Illinois
Central was wrecked at Lenzberg. Ill.
m tho 1Qfh -, =!
Fireman Thomas Jones and injury to
four passengers, one of whom was IA.
tally hurt. The cause of the accident
was not known. IA
The subcommittee on the mines of
the United States industrial commis-
sion closed its labors at Denver, Col.
Ex-senator Hill, in his testimony be- 4
fore it, declared his strong opposition.
to trusts of all kinds He thought
they were detrimental to the public
welfare. He said he favored labor or
CARNATIONS as means of maintaining.
wages.
GEORGE SHARP, Eve years old, was
run over by wagon at Kansas City,
Mo-, and died from his injuries few
minutes later. The driver did not
know the little fellow was anywhere
HARRY ELKEs of Glen Falls, N. Y. al
the middle distance champion bicycle
rider of America, at Washington on the
10th covered a mile in 1881 fat, lower
ing the record for that distance held bv
Eddie McDuffie, of Boston. of 1881 2-5.
A FIRE at Saratoga, N. Y, on the
10th was caused by an explosion of
naphtha in Leggett's bicycle store.
About a dozen establishments were
burned, entailing loss of 500, 900.
THERE was an eruption of Mount
Etna on the 10th. After loud subter-
ranean noises the crater vomited forth
dense columns of smoke, which were
followed by enormous masses of sand.
strong earthquake shock occurred at
Rome at 2:20 a. m. and was followed by |
number of other severe shocks.
A REPORT from Childress, on the line |
Of the Colorado Southern railway in
the Texas Panhandle, 200 miles north
west of Dallas, stated that a cIoudburst |
occurred in that region with disastrous
results. Much of the track of the rail-
way was swept away. together with
several bridges 1t was feared that
some lives had been lost.
A. w. BLADES, his wife and eight |
.hildren-while en- route to Minnesota
n an emigrant wagon and encamped |
'or the night in northwestern Iowa |