Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-01

MISCELLANEOUS.
Near Olney, ILL.,, a sleeping-car on the Ohio
and Mississippi express train became detached
from the train, causing a collision. A boy
was thrown from an upper berth and killed,
and several other passengers were more or less
injured.
The steamer Kaaterskill, while coming down
the Hudson, broke her walking-beam which
caused the explosion of the cylinder, filling
the saloon and cabins with escaping steam.
Many Of the passengers were badly scalded,
Eve It was thought fatally.
At Omaha several soldiers got on a spree
and committed some small depredations. At
night one Of them named Shredder, of Com
pany ID, 9th Cavalry, halted two men in a
buggy near the city with the demand 'syour
money or your life" when AL. SQuires, one of
the occupants of the buggy, drew pistol and
shot Shredder dead. SQuires surrendered but
was released.
A diabolical scheme to massacre all the
white inhabitants of Choctaw County, Ala,
was lately discovered by the finding of bundle
of papers disclosing we'll organized plot
among portion OF the negroes Of the county,
numbering about 400, to commence their
murderous work on Sunday night the 18th of
September, when the white people would be at
a camp meeting and unarmed. The negroes
had secured arms and ammunition, and the
papers found disclosed the names of the ring
leaders. A meeting was quietly called and
their arrest was agreed upon aud accomplished
without difficulty. Another meeting was
then held to take decisive action at which
were 200 men, 10 being colored. At this it was
hof To oil fl,ol
Gus and turbulent character, should die. He
was therefore taken from Jail and hanged.
A deputation Of the Irish members of Par
lament will soon be sent to America BY the
Dublin Mansion House Committee for the
Relief and Protection of Evicted Tenants, to
| secure assistance. A conference of the Celtic
Confederation will be held to consider the
best means ofassisiing the movement
The stage going into Globe, Ariz., from
Tucson was recently attacked by road agents
Andy Hall, the messenger, was killed and the
treasure box, with over $1,000 taken.
Indian Agent McGnlicuddy telegraphs
from the Pine Ridge Agency: Red Cloud and
the hostiles are completely squelched. He
was forced to come to the Office and hear the
warrant for his. arrest read. He is now on
parole.
Z. l.. Humphrey, a brakeman, near Sedalia,
Mo-, was killed while uncoupIing moving cars.
| Jos. Bird, of Warren, ILL.,, became Jealous of
his wife who had left him and was stopping
| with her sister. He visited her and after a few
minutes talk drew a revolver and shot her
twice. He then shot himself In the abdomen.
Western Texas has been visited BY terrible
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spouts In some localities. In some places the
plains, where tradition says it never rains,
had the appearance of a sea, and the rainfall
Is estimated at six inches. The flooded section
begins near Abilene and extends west for
near 300 miles, including the country from the
Brazos to the Pecos River. Miles of track OF
the Texas & Pacific Railroad have been dam
aged, and in some places the road will have 70
be rebuilt.
In consequence of the incorporate protests
OF DeLesseps, the French Government has
sent him official communication inviting him
to employ prudence and circumspection in his
language.
At Frostburg, Nd, the strike Of the miner.
has been declared ended, the men permitted
to apply for tools to go to work. The strike
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, is also ended.
A fire In Louisville I'm the Linden -four mill,
damaged the building 5000, stock $1,000
and machinery $4,000; all fully insured ex
cept the stock, on which the insurace is about
1850.
Jno. Rush, discharged farm hand. Ia,
been arrested at Springfield, Ill. charged
with the murder of McMahon and two otbe,
men at Mt. Pulaski, who were found blind
folded with their threats cut a few days since
At FL Paso, Texas, a man named Bosficl
met school teacher who had whipped hi.
son, on the street, and stabbed him to tn,
heart.
Lord Gray the imprisoned Journalist and OF
Lord Mayor Of Dublin, has written the LORI
Lieutenant OF Ireland, claiming the right to
be present at the inquiry into the conduct O
the jury which convicted Hynes. He offers Il
attend In custody Of an officer, IL necessary
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has written to GRAY
expressing sympathy with him.
An engine on the Hampton branch of III,
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
collided with a coal train at Washington. n. ]
The conductor and q boy were instantl,
killed The engineer Of the coal train haI
both legs broken, and one other boy, a cousin
Of the lad killed, was seriously hurt.
The boiler Of A. B. Perkins & Co.'s saw
mill at Sullivan, Ind, exploded, and Geore,
Inglewright, Irwin Bailey aud George Morri
were injured, probably fatally.
Two convicts who were at work ON IN,
Texas Central Railroad near Kaufman
Texas, seized Winchester rifles from thei
, guards and escaped into thicket on Trinit,
River. posse Of armed men with blooc
hounds went in pursuit and overlook tn
convicts- A fight ensued, in which two O
the posse were dangerously wounded, but IN
eonvicts escaped unhurt- Both were sent N
for murder, and were serving fifteen years
sentence.
Curtis b Howley, Lafayette Grimes an
Cicero Grimes, who robbed Wells, Fargo 4
Co.'sexpress and killed ANDY Hall. the me,
senger, and Dr.. w. A. Vail, lately, nea