Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-30

500. 900 was DESTROYED.
The war department has contracted
for a powerful movable searchlight,
which will be Immediately sent to Ma
Mia. The searchlight will be mounted
on intrenchments and used at night to
light the surrounding country. The
use of the light will, army officers say,
prevent any surprise.
ED TURNER, formerly an engineer on
the Missouri Pacific from Eldorado to
Fort Scott, Kan. has written a letter
from Arizaba, Mex, saying he has been
in prison for five months for being in a
wreck on the Mexican & Vera Cruz
railroad. He did not have trial and
is not able to get one. He expresses
the fear that he may be taken out and
shot, as engineers are, frequently. in
Mexico, and sends an appeal to Gov.
Stanley for help as an American citizen
FAILURES for the week ended August
% were 1853 in the United States, against
1i9 last year, and 16 in Canada, against
,6 last year.
THE Union Veterans union closed it's
annual convention on the 25th. The
inal reports showed the order prosper
,us financially and increasing rapidly
n membership. The next meeting
will be held in Washington in October,
1900.
FOSSIL remains were said to be re-
ceived daily by the University of Wyo-
ming from the scientists now operat
ng in the fossil beds beyond Medicine
Bow, Wyo. The University of Wyo.
ming is proceeding rapidly with the
m Sl- Of I,
known to science.
SILAs A. BROWN and Matthew Craig
were hanged at Muskogee, 1. T., on the
25th for murder.
THREE people were killed by light
ming during thunderstorm at Owens
boro, KY, on the 25th.
FINANCIAL crisis is said to be i'm
minent in Turkey.
ABOUT half of the 40 pattern-malzers
employed by the Union iron works at
San Francisco went out on strike be-
cause demand for an increase of 25
cents day in their wages, made sew
erai days ago. was refused.
The Cherokee spirit dance to deter
mine whether the Great Spirit was ia
vorable to the moving of the tribe to
Mexico closed at Hanson, l. T. At its
conclusion the medicine men of the
tribe decided that it had demonstrated
the Great Spirits unfriendliness to the
move.
A GREAT forest fire ragged on the 25th
at Rothiemurchies, Invernesshire,
Scotland, miles of superb woods around
Lake ELLEN being involved.
AT the mill of the Marguerite Mining
company near Carterville. Mo-, Henry
Gilbert was preparing a blast when a
stick of dynamite he held exploded.
The conclusion exploded box of dy-
Mantle which stood near and in an in
slant the big concentrating plant was
destroyed and the five men working in
it were blown to pieces. The shock
was felt at Oronogo, three miles away.
SMALLPOX broke out at Colbert, 1. T..
and people were fleeing from the place
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
the organization of $50. 600, 900 dry
goods corporation in New York to con-
troll and operate dry goods and depart
ment stores throughout the country.
JAMES WILLIAMS. a stockman, was
shot from ambush near Collinsville, 1.
7.
GEN. TORRES Mexican army did bat
tie with 700 Yaqui Indians at Potam
and the Indians were slaughtered.
THE forest fires in the Adirondacks,
n. Y, have been extinguished.
THE thermometer reached 100 de-
grees at three o'clock on the afternoon
of the 2Sd at Kansas City, Mo.
THE $500, ZOO union depot of Sioux
City, Ia, and 81, 600, 900 worth of ter
minal properties were sold at auction
under foreclosure to the Trust Company
of North America. trustee, for the sum
of 81, $50, 900.
AT Mombasa. East Africa, the ravages
caused by famine and smallpox have
become so appalling that it has been
decided to appeal to the lord mayor of
London to open a mansion house fund
for the relief of the stricken British
subjects in East Africa.
OPTIONS have been secured on about
100 mines in the Pittsburgh, Pa, district
by the soft coal trust. The company's
capital will be $4,000, 900.
THE stage between Salmon City and
Red Rock was help up half a mile in
side the Idaho line, so miles from Dill
lon, Mont, by four men. H. 7. Reilly,
manager of the dredge company work
ing on the old McNutt property. near
Salmon City, Ida, had more than SIS, 600
in gold dust, which the robbers took
| and escaped.
WINDOW glass manufacturers at a
meeting at Martinsville. H., organized
a combination which will be capitalized
at $50, 900, 900,
THE Afro-American council, in ses-
sion at Chicago, indorsed bill making
lynching crime against the federal
government.
SINCE the advance in the price of
meat the demand for poultry has great
ly increased. Eastern buyers are now
scattered all over the west and a large
per cent. of chickens are shipped to the
Atlantic coast cities.
Four additional acute cases of the
bubonic plague have been reported at
Oporto, Portugal. The streets of that
city are now patrolled and the town is
| completely isolated.
THE Dawes commission announced
that the land Office for the Creek nation
located at Muscogee, 1. T., will close
September 1. Land offices will be
opened for the Creeks at Okmulgee and
Wetumpka-
THE government of Japan has taken
charge of the religions of the empire.
The home department issued decree,