Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

The cotton returns OF the Department of
Agriculture for October indicate an unusual
size and vigor of the plant and a capacity for
large production.
The evidence given before the Coroner's
Jury at st. Louis, as to the killing of Col
Slayback by COL Cockerill, was extremely con-
Trajectory. Mr.. Clopton, who accompanied
Col. Slayback to the Post DiSpdtch Office and
participated in the melee, swore that the latter
was unarmed, and that the shooting was
deliberate. On the other hand, John M.
McGufiin, business manager, and Victor T.
Cole, foreman Of the Office, who were present
and witnessed the whole affair, both swore
positively that Slayback drew a revolver as
soon as he entered the room and advanced
towards Cockerill pointing it at him.
McGuflin further testified that he wrenched
Slayback's revolver from him in the scuffie
that ensued, and produced an ivory handled
six-shooter in Court, which he swore was the
weapon with which Slayback was armed.
Cockerills revolver was lying on his desk
when Slayback entered, and he had but to
reach out his hand and grasp it, which all
agree that he did. Col. Slayback leaves a
wife and several children. He was
born in Marion County, Missouri, in
1885, served in the Confederate army during
the war, and has since practiced law in St.
Louis, where he attained a high standing at
the bar, both on account of his legal acquire
ments and his natural gifts of oratory. His
| brother, Chas. Z. Slayback, is President of
the st. Louis Merchants Exchange. Col
| Slayback was the law partner of Col. James o.
Broadhead, and the luminosity of the Post
Dispatch grew out of the latter's nomination
to Congress in the Ninth District, that paper
having espoused the cause of John NJ Glover.
At Syracuse, n. Y, an express train struck
a carriage containing Jno. K. Millonee, aged
%; his wife, aged "a; and Mrs. H. c. Com
stock and Mrs. Munro Burgess, two elderly
ladies visiting from Marathon, n. Y. The
three women were killed and the man serious
ly injured.
DR.. r. d. Wait, dentist, while crossing
the Panhandle Railroad track at West La
1ayette, OHIO, was struck by passenger train
and instantly killed.
Ed Wyatt, wellkno sporting man, went
to the Hotel Emery, in Cincinnati, engaged a
room, and left with James Sexton, the night
clerk, package containing $4,000 to be
locked up for safe keeping. Wyatt then went
to his room. The next morning he learned
that the clerk had skipped out with the
money. The thief had been employed by the
hotel only few days before, upon recon-
mendations which turned out to be forged.
Investigation proved him to have been crool,
and ex-convict.
The Hebrew Immigrants Aid Society. of
New York, has decided to notify London,
Paris, and Berlin authorities not to forward
any more refugees to this country.
The Department Of Agricultural at Wash
ington, reports the average yield of oats will
be somewhat higher than last year or in 1879
and the products nearly as large as that OF
wheat, probably about $4,000, 900 bushels
Illinois, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin. Mis-
souri,, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Kan.
sas are the States Of highest rank in produc.
ton. The rye crop will reach %, OO0, 900 bush
els, barley 100000, buckwheat i1,OOo 600
and the potato crop will show total Weld OF
about 100000 bushels.
The total values Of exports of domesti,
breadstuffs during the nine months that end
! ed the SOth Of April was 134.512 ,77g. For tn,
corresponding period of 1851 the values were
$177, 452,6SS.
According to the report of the Director o.
the Mint the total coinage for the fiscal year
ending June SOth, was IL zee, O0S pieces; value
sS9, 4lSe47; nearly 81, OOo, 900 more than IL
any previous year. The silver coinage con
sisted OF 7,", 9O5 silver dollars, and l21, 81:
pieces of fractional coin.
Morris Michael, a pawnbroker of Sc. Iouis
says that the pistol which John NJ McGuffir
had testified to having taken away from Col
Slayback In the shooting ARRAY with Col
Cockerfl really belonged to Slayback, ant
} that he (MichaeD had sold 1t to him. DIR
; Frank, the Coroner, recalled the jury that sa
on the inquest, and summoned Michael befor
II, who swore that he identified it as the on
he sold to Col Slayback about four month
ago, and thatit still retained his private trad
: mark. This changes the aspect of the who'll
{ affair, and is regarded by Cockerilps friend
, as an additional and very strong point in hi
favor.
John Blackwell, a weIl-known merchan,
] also President and Secretary of the Crow,