Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-21
GENERAL NRws NOTES.

severely inquired one of his handA
Consequently his intended removal
from his estates TO Moscow for ths
winter has been given up.
The first Japenese play actors to
visit Russia have just given their Ill.
itdal private performances at the Jap.
anese legation in st. Petersburg. The
enterprise promises to be successful.
The directors of the Standard Oh
Company have declared dividend OF
10 per cent payable TO stockholders OF
record of November Is. This makes
48 per cent in dividends paid out by
the Standard Oil Company this year.
The Peking correspondent of the
Tribune, writing November 3, says:
News from a private source, coming
direct from the province alt Shen ST,
where the Chinese court took refuge,
says that Emperor Kwang Su is about
to return to Peking via Ho Nam"
The Denver Times says that the
Portland mines at Cripple Creek has
been sold no an English syndicate, in,
Guiding the Exploration Company, the
Ventrue Company and Werner, Belt &
Co. The price is given as $4,000, 900.
A new company will be organized to
take over the property and it's stock
wdll be ffoated in Londan.
There are rumors current that Pres
Edent Zelaya and part of his cabinet
intend to visit Washington during the
winter of 1900 1901, while the United
Saxes congress is tn session. It is
said that the principal object of this
contemplated trip is in connection
with the proposed acquisition by the
United States Of the Nicaragua canal
route.
Miss Grace Carr, OF Louisville, KY,
was married Wednesday TO Lord New.
borough in Savoy SHAPED London
United States Ambassador Choa4e
gave the bride away. Subsequent to
the ceremony the brides mother and
Mrs. Chauncey, her sister held a re-
ception at the Savoy hotel Lord and
Lady Marlborough will go to Ceylon
vha Paris, for their honeymoon.
Doctor Won Slemans, president of the
Deutsche Bank Berlin, is in Paris
completing negotiations for fina icing
the Swiss railroads. The transaction,
1t is said involves loan of 30O, 900, GOO
francs at per cent, which will be
raised principally by American banks,
assisted by English, French, German
and Swiss financiers. The ma tier at.
&racted much attention ON the Berlin
Beers today.
John A. Burr, Jr., night transfer
agent of the United States Express
Company at Gren Bay. Wis, is mis-
ding. Burr is accused by General
vsy,h1< L
express company, of having appro.
pr7ated between $4,000 and $4,000.
A British column under General
Richardson left Paotingfu October 20,
marching in the direction of PekinR.
At Tung My Ing the troops tried thres
Boxer chiefs, destroyers of a chapel
and killers Of natives Christians. The
British shot the chiefs.
Mrs. Mary Ann Jackson. widow OF
Ghe Confederate general ''StOnewall"
jackson, who has been at the Church
Home and infirmary, Baltimore for
more than month, left Wednesday
for her home in Charlotte, N. c., In
company with a friend. Mrs. Jack.
son went to Baltimore for treatment
from neuralgia, from which she had
suffered greatly. She consulted DR..
McLane Tiffany, who advised surgl.
cal operation. The operation waa
performed by DR.. Tiffany three weeka
ago with complete success, and Mrs
Jackson has not suffered any pain
Mnce. She is now entirely restored
TO health.
LIN the basement of the chapel Of
Washington and Lee university ct
Lexington Va, the office of the late
Robert E. Lee, formerly president Of
that institution, is preserved exactly
as he left lit. Not book, a letter or
Q paper has ever been disturbed. Once
or twice year the room is carefully
busted, but at all times the windows
ae kept closed and the shutters drawn.
Letters that he received the last morn
Ing that he was able to work lie ON
his writing table under paper
weight. The newspapers he read
that day are beside them precisely
where he laid them down: the morn.
ing reports of the different members
OF the faculty lie untouched. They
were never examined.