Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-14
GENEREL NEWS NOTES.

G0e German government has adopt
d the American system of consulAa
Eeports-
Count Tolstoi Is enjoying excellent
health. He is engaged in writing Q
Arama entitled "A Corpse"
The picture postcard craze is In full
6wtng In the Baltic provinces and
Poland. A postcard exposition II to
be held in Warsaw during the coming
winter.
District Attorney Gardiner, New
York, announced Wednesday after.
boon THAT defauIter Alvord would be
turned over to the United States au.
th'orities for trial.
Yvette Guilbert, the French music
ball artiste, is in Berlin TO undergo a
dangerous surgical operation for the
relief of her throat. This will be per.
formed by Professor Israel.
Eight distinct earthquake shocks
were felt in Jacksonville, Fla, We'd
hesday. The severest shock of the day
was at 4:40 p. m. 1t made the win.
dows rattle in several sections of the
city.
The department. of the Missouri has
been under command of General Mer-
nsam and the department. of the lakes
under command of General Wade both
Of whom have had the command tenn.
porarily.
Harvey Dara, one OF the rioters In.
dfcted by the special grand jury, at
Akron, o., was Wednesday convicted
OF Illegally possessing and using dyn-
Gm6te. The is the first of the riot
cases to be tried.
While trying to quell a disturbances
outside country school house near
Tyler, Texas, in which services were
being held, Will Cawthorn was mur.
dered with pocket knives in the hands
OF the disturbers. Four young men
have been arrested.
Three hundred miners employed at
ehe Hudson colliery, of the Delaware
q Hudson Company at Wilkesbarre
Pa, went on a strike Wednesday be.
cause the foreman insisted on more
topping" on the cars than the men
were willing to give.
The figures of the Russian official
budget for the Last year After TAX
Ing into account extraordinary ex-
penhitures, show "a net surplus of a..
100000 roubles. which is regarded az
large considering the recent financial
and commercial depression.
Major II. +. l.. Michie, assistant ad.
Jutant general United States volun.
beersr now ON duty in the departments
Ddf Western Cuba, has been ordered
20 Omaha, Neb., for duty as adjutant
general of the department of the Mis-
souri,, relieving Captain James B.
Erwin, Fourth caWa'rly.
The Women's Club of Medford.
Mass, voted to withdraw from the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
because the eexcutice board of the lat.
ter organization, ait the fedora tion
convention ait Milwaukee last June re.
fused to seat Mrs. Josephine St. r.
Ruin. VINO represented a club of col
Ored women.
Fire set by safeb!owers in the post
Office ait Shelby, Neb. burned a block
OF property a't O'Clock Wednesday
morning, causing loss of $4,000.
The losses include the opera house
block. owned bv DR.. Inks and George
and Frank Brigham, $4,000; general
store of Frank +. Brigham, $4,000.
The burglars secured nothing.
Eight steamships were cleared ak
che custom house ait New Orleans Wed.
nesday fer Liverpool, Barcelona, Genoa
and Hamburg with 76.767 squWre bales
OF cotton and 1921 round bales. This
- the largest amount of cotton ever
cleared from any one port in one day.
These vessels also carry large quanti.
ties of wheat, corn, cotton products,
etc.
While William Frye, of Ravenswood,
. Chicago suburb. was making up .
deposit of $500 in the First National
bank Chicago, Wednesday, he was
robbed of ain his money by two men,
one of whom at'trHcted his attention
while the other did the stealing. Frye
had laid his money on a window sill
and did not discover his loss till the
thieves hald escaped
For some time the Prussian govern.
ment has been vigorously proceeding
against anti. German agitators IN
Rrussia's PotJASh provinces, and con-
siderable number of Polish editors
have been imprisoned for such agita.
lions Wednesday Ladisbah Stemiat.
wsl1i, editor of the praca. was sem
fenced to six months imprisonment
Tor an offensive article.
The first annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Cuban Central
rai1road was held in London, Octobel
30, and "A 515 pere cent dividend wac
declared on preferred stock. Presi.
dent Todd expressed complete salts
faction with the American manage
ment of Cuba and said he was cons
vinced the commercial outlook for the
island was hopeful.
The third story OF the west wing Of
the Administration building of the
0hate reformatory, at Pontiac, Ill,
was burned Wednesday and the stories
below badly damaged by water. Fire
broke out in the chair factory from
an unknown cause There was NO
0oss of life. the inmates being out Of
the building at afternoon drill. The
loss is not over $1,000.