Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-10-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Chicago is to have raw food re.
hnurant.

Chicago is TO have a raw food rea.
hAuriant.
Ten thousand japanese troops will
remain an China.
A British syndicate is said Ito be
trying to secure control of the Amer
icaA Sereaa company.
The impression prevails in London
khalt basis for united action by the
powers in China is in sight.
The authorities have decided to limit
the number of colonial troops who
are TO be the queens guests in London
to 500.
The treasury department. has given
notice of discovery of a new $40 sill
yer ceruifcate, series 1891, with por-
trait of Hendricks. The counterfeit
d. deschribed as a Photographic print
without the silk fiber, and of inferior
workmanship.
Captain Devereaux Shields, who.
with hfty-one men of company +
twenty ninth regiment, United States
volunteer infantry, was captured by
the insurgents last month in thedsland
Vt Martinique, was recovered Sunday
by the American rescue force with all
the members of his party.
Ground was broken Sunday for the
Schwurzchild g. Shulzberger COM
uany's packing house, which will be
Greeted west of Ashland avenue, be-
tween 10th and 42d streets, Chicago.
1t rs expected that the plant will be
ready fer occupancy March 1. 1t will
cost about 100000, and will give
employment Ito 500 men.
PnesideAt Cassatt of the Pennsyl-
wanda Railroad Co. has awarded con-
TRACTS for $50, 900 tons of steel rails for
which the company will pay $26 a
" ton or a total of $3,90O,00o for the
entire ordeI The contract, it ds un-
derstood, is divided among the Federal
CARNEGIE, Cambria, Pennsylvania and
NHItionaa Steel Companies.
The challenge of Sir Thomas Lip
ION cor another serdes of races for the
Americas cup, has been received by
j. s. V. Oddie, secretary of abe New
York Yaltch club, at IL O'Clock this
morning. Mr.. Oddie said the chal-
lenge would be considered at a special
meeting of the club, called, for We'd
that its text will not be made public
until after itIhalt meeting.
"A treasury warrant for l cent was
certified by Auditor Castle of the
pOstoffice department. 1t forms the
yearly stipend of F. H. Lynch for
carrying abe maids from Mineral
Point to Dodgeville, La. He was afraid
some one would underbid him, and as
he wanted to carry the maids on ac-
count of the advertisement 1T would
give his stage route he Offered 10 do
the work for 1 cent "a year.
Bishop Charles Galloway, president
OF the general board of education of
rthe Methodist Episcopal church
(eouth) will issue cali TO the one
and one-haf million Methodists in the
south to assemble in their places of
worship on the night of the last day
Of the year to hold an old Fashioned
wStch meeting las a fitting Climax to
the twentiath century fund movement.
The fund now amounts to $1,100,00o.
The Rev. Albert B. Simpson, presi-
dent of the Christian and Missionary
ahNhance, Sunday preached his annual
missionary sermon Nt the Gospel tab
ernacle, New York and as a result
over $4,000 in cash, pledges and
property were realized for the sup
port of the missions and mission work
OF the alhliIance bor the. coming year.
w. E. Blackstone participated in the
services. The sermon and the offer
ing was the closing chapter OF the
seventeenth annual convention Of the
nll6ance.
London Dis baking gprecautionsag gainst
introduction OF the bubonic plague.
Gas OF sufficient flow that will prob
ably Justify piping for use, was found
near the One Hundred and Two river,
four miles east OF st. Joseph, Mo-, Sat-
urdIay. For some time 1T has been
supposed THAT COAL in paying quantities
were to be found in the vicinity and
several shafts have been sunk, but
the long sought for vein being an ex-
tension of the Leavenworth supply was
not discovered Today, at depth of
1.116 feet, gas WAS struck in great vol
ume. A layer of coal was also found
which may reach two feet in thickness
Deputy Sheriff Clark, of Kalamazso,
Mich, left Lincoln for home Monday,
having in his custody Charles Evan
sbon, whom he arrested yesterday on
the charge of robbing the Union
bank of Richband, Mich, two years
ago. Evanston tonight confessed to
Chief of Police Hoagland and Sheriff
Clark his participation in the crime.
The Richhand robbery was sensational
and daring, and $1,000 in cash and
$40 OOO i'm shscu rylhiex vUere stolen Siv
men were connected with the job. and
four ar now fn the pepbte thary.
Evanston has been in Lincoln for some
time.