Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-01-02
General News.

Vice-president Roosevelt has joined
the Masons.
Sears. Roebuck & Co. of Chicago
lost $4,000 in the fire recently.
A Philadelphia pugilist WAS killed
in boxing contest this week.
The State Normal wants $I5, 900
for new library building.
''As black as your bat' expresses
q darkness that might be felt.
A 40 pound wild cat is said to have
been killed near Abilene recently.
1t is reported that gold has been
discovered in Linn county, Kansas
Worm eaten corn has caused the
death OF number Of horses recently.
A bill has been passed which pro-
vides the jury system for Peurto
Rico.
Ohio electrocutes her criminals.
Indiana glass blowers are on a
strike.
1t is estimated that $15O,OOO will
sill be needed to finish the state
house.
Butler county is entitled to 154
Jurors and 404 were drawn in the
Morrison case.
Senator Mark Hanna and family
scent Christmas in Florida among
palms and flowers.
The middle of the Road" Popuist
national com mittee meets at ST.
Louis, Dec. 10th.
Wichita business men will erect
monument over the grave Of ex-gover-
nor Lewelling.
Mine ola Springs. 85 miles southeas
Of Mexico, Mo-, are being improved
for health resort.
A little girl fell from Rock Island
flyer and was not killed, not even
awakened from sleep.
Numerous foot pads have done
their work in Omaha since the event
OF the kidnapping.
Peasants Of Spain have taught
roosters to hatch eggs. This gives
hens more time to lay.
In Kansas a girl may marry with
the consent Of her parents If she is
not under twelve years of age.
- Although Austria has only private
citizens in China, it has 8, ,O0esoldiers
there to protect it's citiz snshjp.
An eastern company contemplates
connecting the leading towns in the
Kansas gas field with trolley lines.
Albert Mulliken Of the State Nor
NAL Literati Society won the przs in
debate over the Bellies Letters Society
The Philippine and Porto Rico
cases are not likely to be heard in
the SUPP eme Court before January
7th.
State Treasurer, Grimes, is OF the
opinion that the state treasurer
should receive So 500 year instead
of 81, 500.
During the last year $7,S24 was
collected in fees from the students of
the State Normal. 1t is claimed
that this is illegal.
The new Kansas City fast mai
leaves Kansas City at 2.40 a. m. and
arrives at Chicago in ten hours and
twenty minutes.
E. R. Ridgley chairman OF the
Peoples Party state committee in u
recent interview stands for the con-
tinuance of the Fusion organization.
The superintendent of insurance
has ruled that fraternal insurance
companies are not obliged to publish
annual state ments of their business
The directors Of the new Demo
Gratis daily paper at Leavenworth
are R. M. Ruggles, J. +. .Edmonds,
Ell. Murphy, CIV. Greever ard S.
F. Nee'y.
A,dard~n City man was sentenced
to the rock pile for beating his wife
and Rll day the woman held a parasol
over him to protect hirA from the sun
while he worked.
Charters for eight new corpora
ti,ns with an aggregate capital of
about four millions were filed with
the secretary OF the state OF Missouri
in one day this week.
A Wamego lusher got drunk one
cool night recently and slept with an
old SOW and four pigs. The fact that
hogs are somewhat choice in their
diet prevented its beng his last
sleep.
The Kansas City police Judge who
has been in The habit of fining men