Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS,

department. with more than 5,OOO. OOO
pounds of beef for the troops in Cuba
and Porto Rico during the year begin
ming July have been received by Col.
III. c. Sharpe, in charge of the Chicago
subsistence station. Every precaution
has been taken to furnish the men with
the best meat obtainable.
In spite of the fact that steady rain
was falling when the train bearing
Rear Admiral Schley arrived in Oma
ha, Neb., on the 10Th, there was a
large crowd at the Burlington depot to
greet him. He hurried into carriage
and was driven to the residence of en-
Senator Manderson. whose guest he
will be while in the city.
AS the result of "a meeting of the
coal mine operators. the state board of
arbitration and United Mine Workers
officia Is, an agreement was reached
which will settle the long drawn out
struggle at Pana, ILL.,. between the
union miners and operators. The
agreement gives the union recognition
and provides that all negro miners
shall leave the city and only union men
be employed.
| commissioners, appointed to cooperate
with three citizens of Manila in nego-
tiating terms of peace, arrived at that
city on the Goth. They submitted no
| new proposition, but wanted an armis-
tice pending the session of the Filipino
congress. Gen. Otis refused to enter
| tain the proposal.
NINE railroads that the Chicago, Bur
lhngton & Quincy company has been
operating under leases for years were
bought outright by that corporation
and hereafter the;y- will be but parts of
the big system, Chicago dispatch re-
Gently stated. The purchase of the
roads solidifies the Burlington system
east of the Missouri river.
AN epidemic of cere bro-spinal men
ingitis has appeared in cattle herds in
the vicinity of Sioux City. la. Fifty
per cent. of the cattle affected already
have died.
CHARLES HARRIS. company III. Third
United States volunteer infantry was
found guilty of murder by court-mar-
tial in Santiago, Cuba, and was SEN
fenced to be shot. The president has
commuted the sentence to life impris-
Onment. The prisoner will be confined
at Fort Leavenworth. Kan.
DR.. EsMOND, member of posse seek
ing Bill Watson. notorious horse
thief, was shot and killed by the latter
northwest of Shawnee, Ok, the other
night. The gang escaped and another
posse went in pursuit.
THE representatives of a coal trust in
Pittsburgh, Pa, have been at work in
New Orleans for some weeks and have
secured options on all the coal plants
| in that city, with the single exception
of that of g. w. Coyle & Co. and one of
| the largest concerns. 1t was said the
| trust, which has $50, 900, 600 of money,
| was at work at numerous other points
in the Mississippi valley and proposes
| by next fall to control the coal trade
of that portion of the United States
THE negro cake walk in the opera
house at Enid, Ok, the other night
broke up in a riot. The difficulty oc.
Cured between the whites and blacks
and more than so shots were fred. The
negroes shot first into crowd of white
men, wounding three men, all innocent
bystanders. The whites fired and ia.
tally wounded four negroes and several
others slightly.
| IT was announced in a special dis
patch from Allahabad, capital of the
northwest provinces of India. that q
serious epidemic of cholera has fol
| lowed in the wake of the plague. A,
Kurracheo, the principal seaport town
| of Sinde, there were 81 deaths in one
| day from cholera.
| DAVID L. FIELD, a retired capitalist
shot and killed Robert W. Stratford
his negro man of all work. in the vesti
| bule of his handsome residence, No
| 5345 Vernon avenue, st. Louis. The
shooting was the result of StratforG
attempting to assault his employer
| who had just discharged him fol
| neglecting his work.
THE National Reform Press associa.
tion in convention at Kansas CITY, Mo.
indorsed the report of the national or.
ganization committee of the peoples
party and adopted its address denounc.
ing fusion.
A CABLE from Gen. Otis on the 18th
announced the death of William III
Young, chief of scouts. Young had
been with Lawton's column and his
bravery in the capture of Balinag was
commented on in press dispatches a
short time ago, With IS men he en-.
tered the town on the heels of the 500
flying insurgents and rang the. church
bell to notify the American forces thai
the town was taken