Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The business failures of the past week were
13l, of which seven were I'm New York City.
The total output Of coal for the State Of
Iowa from July l, 1881, to July 1, 1882, was
3,l27,7OO tons; average prices per ton for
mining, 90 cents, making the total earnings
Of 1900 miners s2,s14939. or 50, 466 per
month per man. The wages range all the way
from three to five cents per bushel.
A man calling himself DR.. Elliott, recently
located at Grand Forks, Dakota, and became
obnoxious by his advances to young school
girls. A party Of men took him from bed at
his hotel, and giving him a coat of tar and
feathers, turned him loose. He was found
afterward on the Minnesota side of the river
in a terrible condition.
The south bound passenger train on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
collided with freight on the Both, twelve miles
below Rome, Ga. Fireman Gresham was
killed and Engineer George Garvin had his
leg broken.
A Santa Fe special says ]. A. Achuletia, a
Justice of the Peace and prominent banker
and merchant of Conejos, Colo, shot and
killed Deputy Sheriff Blanchett at Farming
ton, n. NJ, few days ago. A crowd of Mex
leans took Achuletia from Jail and lynched
him.
The first snow of the season fell in the
northern part of Dakota the 3Oth.
In dispute about attorneys fees at Mich
olasyille, KY, recently, George B. Letscher a
young attorney, shot and killed Edward Err
vine, young physician.
Avis Regar, hotel keeper, of Buffalo, N
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pancakes. One child is dead and the father
and mother in precarious condition.
The Directors of the National Mineral and
Industrial Exposition, to be held in Nashville,
commencing the first Wednesday in Septem-
Der, 1883, have organized with a capital of
$3OO,OOO All the proper rules have been
adopted. The Exposition will embrace dis
Plays from every branch of industry in the
Union, as well as minerals and timbers. 1t is
also designed to include those from Mexico,
South America and the West Indies. The
chairmen of the principal committees have
been selected, and the work of preparation
will begin at once.
John Bates, seventeen years old, was killed
in shooting gallery at Kansas City few
days since by the accidental discharge of a
target gun in the hands of another boy.
Abbey's Park Theater, Broadway and TWEEN
ty-second streets, New York, burned on the
evening of the Both, four hours before Mrs.
Langtry was to make her debut The build
ing, with all its contents was DESTROYED. The
loss is estimated at S25O.OOO. Scores of en-
ployes were on the stage at the time of the
fire. All escaped with the exception of Henry
Clark and William +. Doran, who were driven
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ing out were badly injured. John Leo. stage
carpenter, was reported missing. 1t was
thought he persisted in the flames. The fire
started in the proscenium box behind the
private box, apparently in a partition
wall, caused it was thought by
the bursting Of a gas pipe The
alarm refused to work and the flames were
beyond control when help arrived. Mrs.
, Langtry had just finished packing her ward
robe In which she was to appear in the even
ing and was in the very act of sending it to
the theater when the fire broke out. She
viewed the confagation from the balcony OF
her hotel only two blocks away. The theater
: had been newly frescoed and upholstered in
preparation Tor Mrs. Langtry's debut The
scenery Tor the play was costly and elaborate.
especially that of the second act, being paint
ed on satin and hand embroidered. 1t was all
destroyed. Mr.. Abbey Immediately made ar
engagements to open the Grand Opera House
for Mrs. Langtry's debut, which was neces-
sarily postponed.
Continuous rains in England have fuun.
dated large districts Of country and causel
much loss. Railroad traffic has been suspend.
ed in many localities. The damage done to
property Is immense, and much suffering will
{ ensue.
The Servian Ministry rendered their resiena-
) lions in body. They gave as a reason 70,
the sep that King Milan expressed dissatis-
faction with the measures they had taken 10
discover the author of the plot which resulted
In an attempt to assassinate the King. The
: King at once notified his Ministers thei,
{ designations would not be accepted, showing
thereby his confidence In their honesty and
fidelity of purpose.
Emil Trompstor stabbed and instantly killed
Anton Delano at amechanics' boarding-house
on Liberty street, in Cincinnati, because the
I latter persisted in dancing in his room to the
5 annoyance OF other boarders. Both men were
reported to be sober.
William Poranteau, Superintendent of IN.
Tunnel Mines, while hunting near the head
OF Mammoth Gulch, in Colorado. lately. wa,
attacked oy huge bear. He killed the brute
with knife, but in the struggle was so fear
? fully lacerated that he win die.
Samuel Levair, st. Louis letter carrier. Ia,
been arrested for robbing the mails. His pl.r
was to open street boxes on routes adjoining
his own, abstract such letters as he thought
valuable then rife and destroy them. Money
from decoy letters was found on his person,