Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-08-04
mISCELLANEOUS.

RECENTLY some valuable manuscript
records were distracted from the Attorney
Generals Office. Later fifteen of the stolen
documents were recovered and the sus-
pected thief captured. He is an old en-
ploye in the Attorney Generals Office named
VIM. Williamson, and for q considerable
time held an important desk in the Depart
ment Of Justice.
THE French Cabinet Council accepts the
invitation to join with England in the pro-
lection Of the Suez Canal.
THE merchants of New York have applied
TO the State Supreme Court for perempto-
ry mandamus against the New York Gen.
trail and Erie Railway Companies to COM
pei them to receive and transmit freight
promptly. The merchants claim that the
blockade Of freight and the neglect of the
roads 10 forward it causes q loss to them of
81, 600 200 daily and that the roads have no
right to delay shipment because of their
neglect to employ competent men. The
refusal TO comply with the demands Of the
freight handlers is the cause of the trouble.
OUT Of the 800 clerical appointments to
be made In the Pension Office, Secretary
Teller has decided to allow each Represent
alive and Senator to name two of them.
PARTICULARS Of an Indian fight in the
Apache Mountains have been received at
Denver. Capt Shaffe with two companies
OF the Third and Sixth cavalry, struck
band vR1er Chief Nantashe. Lieut.. Nor
gan was seriously and Lieut. Converse
slightly wounded, one soldier and one In
dian scout killed, five soldiers wounded;
six dead Indians were found, and others are
supposed to have been killed.
AN earthquake in the City Of Mexico
lasted two minutes and thirty seconds.
Many walls in all parts of the city fell, and
the National and Municipal palaces were
| damaged.
THE Connecticut Supreme Court has de-
cided women eligible to admission as attor-
neys-
| Hon. J. b. HALL, a prominent member
Of the Legislature from Hamilton County,
Ohio, and President Of the Home Insur-
ance Company Of Columbus, and II. II.
Henderson, Secretary, have been arrested,
charged with perjury in making a sworn
statement OF the condition OF the company
last January, when the assets were return
ed at $50, 600. The investigation shows the
assts to be only 500, 900 and liabilities
$50, 900.
THE United States Iron and Tin Plate
Company, ut McKeesport, Pa, has been
taken charge of by the Sheriff, and the
Company will probably 60 out of existence.
Liabilities $4,000, assets probably $685.
900.
VIENNA dispatches state that a deluge of
rain has occurred in Bohemia, and the de-
struction in property and crops is incalcu-
liable. The bodies of forty-seven persons
drowned have been recovered. A large
part OF the harvest in Bohemia is DESTROYED.
The conference report on the River and
Harbor bill as reported TO the House re-
duces the appropriation for improving the
Missouri River from Sioux City to its mouth
to $3.50, 200.
THOMAS w. WELLS, for years IN en-
ploye of the Fort Smith Railway, and a crip-
pie, suicided at Little Rock, Ark. He
was native OF Indianapolis, and the Coro-
ner In examining his trunk, discovered his
real name to be Thomas w. Scott, who
eight years ago murdered a man in Missis-
siPpb having hed and changed his name &c
| Wells.
A FIRE In Smyrna destroyed fourteen
hundred houses and rendered over 6.OOO
persons homeless. Smyrna contains about
10000 inhabitants, aud claims 10 be the
birthplace Of Homer.
JAS z. WALSH was hanged in New York
for the murder Of his sweetheart.
OSCAR NJ. GOODWIN, late cashier of the
LogAnsport, Ind, National Bank, was ar
rested at Atlanta, Ga, charged with being
q defaulter Of 81, 200.
The late earthquake In Mexico was more
severe In many places than in the City OF
Mexico, especially In the south. In Igula a
church was destroyed, and in Yantepec a
church fell, killing four persons.
WILLIE WELLS, the thirteen-year- old
SON OF minister Of Pomeroy, Ohio. asked
to escort young lady named home from
church In the country. She refused, and
was on her way home with q young man
named Everett Decker, when Wells waylaid
Decker with an AK, cutting him in the back
part OF the head, infiicting fatal injuries.
Decker was twenty years old.
l OFFERS Of surrender Of 81 per cents fol