Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-04-18
Andrew C. Fields. former legisla-

| grave charges against the trustees of
the company, which, he says, he will
back up with proof at the proper time.
Another survivor Of the great min
ing disaster at Courrieres, France, in
March was recently taken out Of the
| pit after an entombment of 25 days.
| He was in much better condition than
| the IA men recently rescued.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is
assuming alarming proportions. Burn
ing lava is threatening the villages
and roaring explosions are heard for
! 20 miles around. Naples is sprinkled
with ashes.
The value of exports from the
| United States for the first eight
months of the fiscal year 1906, which
ends June 80, were $190,000,00O in
excess of those for the corresponding
period in 1905.
Chancellor Won Buelow, while at
| tending a debate in the reichstag re-
| Gently was stricken with illness and
had to be carried from the chamber
| His breakdown is attributed to over
work in connection with the Moroc-
| can conference
During the progress of a festive
| dinner at the Stag hotel at Nagold,
| Germany recently the building COL
| lapsed and Is of the 200 guests pres
ent were killed and more than 100
| injured.
Columbia university's highest or
storical honors, the George William
| Curtis medal, went this year to
full-blooded African prince, the son
| of Zulu chief. His subject was
| The Regeneration of Africa"
The state primary law of Illinois
has been declared unconstitutional by
the supreme court A special session
of the legislature will be called to
meet Immediately to pass a new law
in conformity with the decision.
The president has decided not to in
| terfere in the coal strike as long as
conditions remain as they now are.
Paul racquet, French sculptor of
note and an enthusiastic amateur aero
| naut, recently lost his life after a bal
loon ascension at New York The
| balloon alighted on Jones' Beach, Long
| Island at night and in attempting to
| reach Amityville the young man was
| drowned
The st. Petersburg election commits
| sion recently arbitrarily removed two
constitutional democrats who had
been elected as delegates by the peo-
pie and substituted two conservatives
who had received less than one tenth
Of the votes cast.
The general Baptist convention ar
ranged for Louisville, KY, May to
16 has been postponed until next
year. 1t will be held at Jamestown,
Va, during the exposition.
The work of destruction by Vesu-
| vius has reached an appalling magni-
| tude. Refugees from the destroyed
| villages poured into Naples by thous-
ands. The roads were crowded with
| men and women bearing crosses and
| crying piteOusly. Several towns have
been almost completely buried in
| ashes.
The bituminous operators of the
i central west have made proposition
to arbitrate their differences with the
miners exactly similar to the propo-
sition made by the miners in the an
! thracite field.
The supreme court of Kansas has
| issued a writ of custer against Mayor
w. w. Rose of Kansas City, Kan
The city of Boscotrecase on the
southern slope of Mount Vesuvius has
| been entirely obliterated by the burn
| ing lava from the volcano. The TO-
| 600 inhabitants succeeded in escaping
with their household effects. The.
panic has spread to Naples and the
streets are crowded with terror strick-
en- people
At a meeting of 5000 Dowieites at
Zion City recently the former leader
was publicly denounced as a spend
| thrift, liar and traitor to his trust, and
| by a unanimous vote decided to fol-
| low Overseer Voliva as their new
| leader.
The anthracite miners have made
proposition to the operators to refer
| their differences to the national board
of Cancellation for arbitration.
Germany and England have joined
| with the United States in Directing
| to the date set by Russia for the sec
| ond peace conference at The Hague.
For the first time in 80 years gam
bling has ceased at Hot Springs, Ark.
a tornado recently struck Fayette,
| Mo-, unroofing IL dwellings and blow
| ing several small buildings from their
foundations. No one was injured.
| The most recent revolution in Santo
Domingo has been satisfactorily set
tied and everything is now quiet.
The overwhelming victory of the
constitutional democrats in the cleo
| ton at Moscow have brought the
struggle between reaction and reform
in Russia TO a head. Premier Witte
| has again rendered his RESIGNATION n,