Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-09-06
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1see
ATTORNEY GENERAL SMYrH has fled

1ey general states. have formed com
| oination under the name of the Ameri-
IAN School Furniture company V and are
| ioing business in Nebraska.
New ORLEANS has been quarantined
against on account of yellow fever
| THE boiler in Chapman & Sargent's
| bowl factory at Copenish. Mich, ex-
oloded the other day, killing three men
and fatally injuring four others. The
building was totally wrecked.
CONSUL MCCooK, at Dawson City,
| Alaska. reported to the state depart
ment under date of July that no less
than 1900 persons had gone down the
Yukon from that place within a month,
bound for the most part for the Cape
None gold fields. He said that the
poor mans chance, so far as that coun.
try was concerned, was gone.
A SPECIAL train bearing Cooper's cir
Gus was wrecked at TONER'S Station,
Tenn, by the bursting of an air brake
hose and IL persons were more or less
injured and circus property and ami
mails scattered in all directions.
| A TRAIN on the Peoria, Decatur &
Evansville railroad was held up by
robbers at Lincoln, Ill. The robbers
boarded the night passenger train
when it stopped for coal at a mine near
the city. Resistance was made by the
train crew and one robber was killed.
THE comparative statement of gov
ernment receipts and expenses show
that during August, 1899, the receipts
from all sources amounted to $49, 97S,-
173, an increase over August, $685. of
about IS, $50, 600. The disbursements
during August amounted to S45, 522, 311,
as against $50. 6.260,71 for August last
year. This left a surplus for the
month of 81. 455, S62
| SIX HUNDRED lives were lost by the
flooding of copper mine at Besshi,
| Japan.
| ONE man, three girls and one boy
were drowned at Blackrock, Conn, on
the Ist while sea bathing.
| THE annual report of Ii. Clay Evans,
commissioner of pensions. shows that
during the year there were added to
the pension roll 40. 229 names and 49,
lSS were dropped, 34,345 of these by
reason of death. The annual value of
the entire pension roll amounts to S13i,-
617,961, being $649. 496 more than it
ever was, due to the higher average
annual value of pensions. Tine roll is
made up of 753, 451 surviving soldiers,
237, 4l5 widows and dependent rela-
tives and 6o3 nurses. During the year
107, ,919 claims of all classes were re-
jected, a large percentage of this being
claims for increase.
| A GIGANTIC company capitalized at
$40, 900, 900 is organizing at San Fran
/ 10 6a 1.,.1 of - fh.af j.,
tofUnfna. The conip:elg, iG is said, has
the encouragement of the Chinese gov
ernment, which seeks to form com
mercial alliance with this country to
prevent total annihilation as a nation.
| YELLOW fever broke out at Key West.
Fla, and the health officials instituted
a rigid quarantine against the place.
| 1T was reported that Aguinaldo, the
| Filipino leader. has ordered the rebel
generals in the province of Cavite to
close in on an attempt to take the
town of linus. The Americans were
said to be entrenching the town and
they have no fear of the result of any
attack by the rebels
A DISPATCH from Anderson, Ind,
said the project for window glass
combine had fallen through.
THE little town of Trio. O., was
nearly wiped out by fire on the 3Oth.
MRS. JOSEPH JUBENvILLE and her two
children were burned to death at their
home in Letellier, Man.
THE threatened strike of bakers in
Havana, Cuba, was averted, the men
receiving an increase of wages
THIRTY-FIvE hundred persons were
at the ceremonies at the reinterment
of the bodies of John Browns follow
ers at the John Brown farm at North
Elba, n. Y. The date is the forty-third
anniversary of the battle of Osawato-
mie. Rev. Joshua Young, of Groton,
Mass, who preached John Brown IS
funeral sermon 40 years ago, made an
address.
AMERICAN troops under Col. Bayless
attacked band of natives in the hills
about Cebu. The rebels were en-
trenched, but were driven back with
heavy loss. There were no Americans
killed, though several were prostrated
from the heat.
YOKOHAMA, Japan, experienced the
greatest fire in her history recently.
a square mile of the town being burn ed
over. Sixteen lives were lost and prop
erty to the value of nearly So, 900, O0o
DESTROYED.
The congress of blind people. in ses-
sion in Kansas City, Kan, decided to
ask the next congress to establish uni
versities for the higher education Of
the blind and make liberal appropria-
tions for their support.
THE Employers association, repre-
senting from $1,000, 600 to 50, 900, 600 OF
local capital, has been organized at
Spokane, Wash, to resist any unjust
demand of organized labor there.
| A AwELL-DREssED woman whose identi.
ty was unknown was found dead on
the pavement on Park avenue in Oma-
ha, Neb. She had been dead several
hours
THE American army. which, Secre-
tary Root has declared, will eat its
Christmas dinner in the Philippines y
will be the finest army, from phys
ical standpoint. the world has ever seen
| SECRETARY RooT says the hospital
facilities at Manila are inadequate fol-
an army of $4,000. Five hundred hos
pital tents will be forwarded for i'm
mediate use and the number of sur
geons and female nurses will be great
ly augmented.
A HEAVY hail and windstorm visited
the country north of Hanson, S. D., or
the night of the SOth. The hailstone.
were reported as large as hens egg.
and did much damage to corn anl