Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-17

1he committee Tor the prosecution OF the
rebels, which is holding daily sessions at
Cairo, Egypt, has tried $50 prisoners, of whom
fifty were found guilty. These will have a
trial by Court Marital as soon as it can be con-
vened Eight thousand troops are on the
point of starting to Zuakim to oppose the new
instruction. A reserve force of 5000 has
been detailed to remain at Koroskon and
guard that point.
A terrible confagration has taken place at
Uleaborg, Russia, and enormous losses have
resulted. Stores, hotels, theaters, etc, were
destroyed.
1t is announced that on January /, the
management OF the Illinois Central Railway
and Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans road,
the latter being now a leased line of the
Illinois Central, will be consolidated.
Several members of the Court Martial which
is engaged in the trial of Arab Pasha have
resigned because of an intimation which had
been conveyed to them by the counsel that
they may be called as witnesses as to who
shared in the military uprising.
A farmer in Dubuque County, Iowa, re-
Gently took his two little boys aged five and
seven, with him to the stable to hold lamp
while he did the milking. While thus en-
gagged the floor of the hay loft gave way under
the pressure of grain and caught the father
and children, and the lamp exploded setting
the hay on fire. The father with difficulty
extricated himself after being terribly burned,
but the little boys were burned to DEATH he
being unable to rescue them, although the
parent could hear one of them crying until
his voice was hushed by the flames.
A Durango, Colo, dispatch says the Ute
Indian young bucks threaten to go on the war
path and scalp every male settler living on
the Doloras. The citizens are greatly alarmed
and they say unless the Government takes the
matter in hand bloodshed will surely ensue.
Neil Slicer, prominent farmer who lived
near Bellefontaine, Ohio, was found dead at
his home few days since. His head was in
the fire place and his face half burned off. He
had been subject to epileptic fits and it is sup
posed he was seized with one, and fell in the
| fire.
\ special bulletin issued from the census
office, relating to statistics of the manufac-
ture of petroleum, shows that on May lst,
1SSc, eighty-six firms were engaged in this in
dustry. The amount Of capital invested was
S27, 100000, and nearly 10000 persons were
employed, to whom nearly 81, SOC, 900 were paid
in wages. Nearly 750, 0OO, 900 gallons of crude
featured products approached $44, 100000.
| During the week ending November 4th,
| 1882, 900 standard silver dollars were put in
| circulation by the United States minis. The
same period last year but 800, 400 were circu-
lated.
John H. Johnson, Mayor OF Danville, Va,
who shot John E. Hatcher, Chief of Police re-
Gently, has been indicted for murder.
/ TaffaV e., I'll. 4
pending in counties Donegal, Clare and Ross
common. The potato crop has been failure,
while storms have devastated the delds and
cabins of the poor. Guardians of the Work
house Union declare that the prospect is the
worst since the famine of 1S4S.
All prisoners in the Prince George County
Na.) jail escaped by burning the lock from
| the door.
While Misses Minnie Shanks and May God
frey sat under tree on the bank of Sugar
Orchard Creek, near Yellville, Ark, they
discovered IL was falling. Both ran, but were
caught in the limbs, and Miss Shanks was so
badly crushed that death ensued in a few
hours. Her companion was also fatally
injured.
Destructive gales and foundations have oc-
Cured throughout England. In Radenshire
the grain crops have suffered complete de-
struction.
Trouble is pending between the Irish and
colored laborers employed at the rubber works
at Setauket, Long Island
y dispatch from Alexandria saws there Is
great distress among the victims of incendi-
aries, who are waiting to be paid indemnity.
and they have been compelled to appeal 70
private charities in order to sustain them
selves.
sam. NJ. Adams, of jefferson County. Ark.
In financial settlement with his son, Newton.
disagreed. The Young man became enraged.
and shot three times at his father. The father
then picked up gun and shot his son. who
fell and expired. The old man, broken-hearted
at the fearful deed, surrendered to the author
tiles.
The British Consul at Jeddah telegraphed
ne had received unofficial advices that the
cholera had disappeared from Mecca.
On the 9th the Poor Asylum at Halifax. Y.
3, was entirely destroyed by fire and seventy
OF the invalid inmates, consisting principally
OF old persons and children, were burned To
death, being in the upper wards of the build
ing and beyond the reach Of assistance.
The Olive Wire Mill at Philadelphia burned
recently. The mill was the largest in the
country and filed with the finest machinery
All kinds OF wire we're manufactured, the an
nual product being $1,000 tons; the loss is
<lOO,OOO fully covered by insurance. Eight
hundred men are thrown temporarily out of
employment. The fire originated through a
workman placing aHghted lamp near a barrel
OF oil, thereby causing an explosion.
Prof. Narcisse Duval, leader of the French
bapusts OF Worcester, Mass, was recently
arrested on charge of bigamy.
The mill where the powder is grained and
polished at Windsor Mills, Canada, exploded
recently. The conclusion exploded the mill
J containing the press and cylinders. at a dis
lance of eighty feet. Both buildings were
completely destroyed. About six tons of
powder exploded. Ten acres Of ground were
covered with the debris. Only one man John
Randall, was in the min at the time and he