Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-01

The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Com
pany sold tickets from Sioux City to St. Paul
for twenty-five cents, and from Sioux CITY to
Chicago or Milwaukee for SIPS, to meet the
cut of the Omaha and st. Paul Railroad.
Judge Advocate General Swain decided
that future failures of army officers to satisfy
an Indebtedness fairly contracted, would not
be violation of the sixty-frst article of war
Hook Viesen's Touring mill in Detroit lately
burned. Loss $4,000; small insurance.
Snow fell at Atlanta, Ga, the Goth.
Domestic trouble caused Mrs. Mary F. Eys.
linberg, of Louisville, KY, to take poison and
kill herself. She left nine children.
The Boston Board of Health has prohibited
public funerals, owing to the existence of
diphtheria and other contagious diseases.
The Postofiice Department decides where
communications by the kektograph process
are mailed as circulars, without evidence of
the fact, the matter is subject to frst-class
rates of postage.
The body of Newton Ashton, aged twenty
four, was found recently in the woods near
Martins Ferry, o., with a bullet hole in the
right temple. Investigation revealed the fact
that he had gone there and shot himself be.
cause the Young lady to whom he was soon to
be married had returned his ring and wished
the marriage postponed.
The st. Charles, Mo, Car Works, an exten.
i've car manufactury with a capacity to make
twenty cars per day, has shut down and dis
charged about& 500 men. The cause of the
closing is simply lack of orders. There is no
financial embarrassment.
The starch manufacturers of the West, met at
Chicago recently and formed pool to prevent
over-production. All the factories except two
Joined the movement
The annual report of Fourth Auditor Boards
ley shows that the aggregate payments on
account of the navy for the fiscal year that
ended June 30. 1882, were little less than the
aggregate appropriations made by Congress
for that year. For the support of the service
in foreign waters bills of exchange were sold
amounting to 81, no. 723, OF which 81, 1853, 137
were drawn on our agents in London and
$412, $50 on the Secretary of the Navy. This
latter sum is more than double that of the
previous years and indicates an improved con-
dition of our foreign trade and credit.
The Election Commissioners OF Tate Coun-
ty, Miss, have certified to the amended re-
turns from that county, which gave Chalmers
1,472 votes and Manning /, 166 votes. This is
the county whose vote was thrown out by the
Secretary Of State for being defective and the
certificate awarded to Manning. 1t elects
Chalmers beyond all doubt.
The st. Louis limited express East, on the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati 81 st. Louis Road, was
wrecked near Union Station, Ohio, lately, by
a rail which had been placed across the track.
The engine pitched down an embankment over
thirty feet, turning twice over and landing in
field. The two postal and baggage and pas
senger cars were thrown to the bottom of the
hill in confused wreck. Six persons were
seriously injured, and many slightly.
Ludwig Stallmeyer, a cabinet-maker of Con-
nersville, Ind, recently had over 81, 900 in
Government bonds stolen from his trunk by a
roommate.
Gov Crittenden, of Missouri, has issued an
unconditional pardon to Martha White, SEN
fenced for two years from Lafayette County
for infanticide.
To punish the st. Paul and Omaha road from
Sioux City, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul announce that they will carry passen-
gers from Omaha to st. Paul for ST.
The four other men on trial at Dublin for
the murder of the Joyce family, plead guilty
and appealed to the clemency of the Court.
The Court sentenced them to be hung Deem
Der 15th--the same day that Casey, who was
found guilty, is to be executed.
The Postoffice Department announces that
after December 1st, correspondence for Rus
STA will be sent in closed mails, made up in
the New York pOstoffice four times a week.
These mails will be dispatched via Great Brit
ain instead of Germany, as heretofore. Cor
respondence from Russia for the United States
will come via Germany.