Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

OWATLmau, LOOh lAAhCC 10 AhOaShc,
and years old, to well in the yard and
threw them in. There was only thirteen inches
OF water in the well, but the children we've
dead before assistance could reach them. AS
soon as the last child was thrown down he
leaped into the well and was also drowned.
The man was laboring under temporary in
! sanity. ~
The late three-mile race on Canandagua
lake, New York, between Courtney and Lee,
was rowed in the unprecedented time of 10
minutes and 3lJ4 seconds, with the result in
favor Of Courtney.
A case of genuine Asiatic cholerai is reported
from Hillsdale, Mich.
L. ID. Ross, a well known Kansas City ticket
"scalper," has been detected in issuing bogus
tickets and committed to jail.
The Utah Commission have concluded the
work necessary to secure thorough revision
OF the registration lists. Officers are being
appointed in every. county with deputies in
each precinct, with power to purge the lists
Of every voter DISTINGUISHED by the Edmunds
law. This comprises every person, male or
female, who, since the passage of the law Of
1852, has at any time lived in violation of said
law. 1t Is not expected that the result of the
election will change materially the existing
condition Of affairs in the Territory, the mon
ogamic Mormons still being in the majority.
Five hundred mules have been purchased in
the st. Louis market for military service in
Egypt
A desperate attempt TO release political
prisoners from the Saratoff Jail Is reported
from st. Petersburg. The jailer was killed,
but the fugitives were arrested by citizens.
John d. Wickeser and Charles Cline were
building a school house near Upper Sandusky,
Ohio, when the structure fell, crushing and
instantly killing them.
Daniel N. Sherwood, for fifteen years mail
rout agent on the North Carolina Railroad,
from greensboro to Goldsboro, was detected
i'm purloining registered letters, and confessed
that his depredations had extended over a
period Of ten years. He subsequently COM
mitted suicide by poison.
A desperate attempt was recently made by
the prisoners on the second floor of the Jail, at
Dallas, Texas, to escape. They overpowered
the guard who took them their diSner, and
were gagging him when the Jailer appeared
on the scene with pistol in hand, which put a
stop to the proceedings, and the prisoners re-
turned to their cells.
| An excursion train containing 200 persons,
running between Leeburg and Colmar,
Prussia, was thrown from the track and fifty
persons killed and many others wounded.
| Charles l.. Vernier was assaulted i'm his
store in Union township, near Lombardsville,
Ohio, by two masked men, armed with hickory
clubs, who entered by rear window. Being
a powerful man he kept them at bay for an
hour, but was overpowered, bound and
gagged, and left apparently dead. The men
robbed the store of $500 and fled.
Mt. Vernon, Ind, has been threatened with
mob violence growing out of the effort to
close saloons on Sunday. The residence OF
John Paul, City Marshal, was fired by the
mob and burned to the ground. The Deputy
City Marshal was terribly beaten by gang OF
| roughs.
The wife of George Green, of Mexico, Mo-,
procured divorce and the custody of their
two children, aged two and four years. The
court decreed that he should have the priv.
lege of seeing his children twice month
While enjoying this privilege recently, and
after playing with them two hours, as they
were being taken back 20 their mother he
shot both of them dead and afterwards shot
and killed himself.
Senior Camacho, Minister of Finance a,
Madrid, received large packet from Bar
celona. On proceeding to open it his sus
picions were aroused regarding the contents
The packet was subsequently cautiously
handled and found to contain dynamite.
The United States Grand Jury at Parkers
burg, West Virginia, brought in a present
ment OF granddaughter against Inspector
Young for granting permit to the steamer
Scioto TO carry more passengers than. author
lied by law; also against David Keller, pilot
OF the Scioto, and Capt Iglebright and Pilot
Long, Of the steamer Lomas.
Byron Smith, express agent at Salem, o.
shot himself twice in the head with revolver
He Is In q precarious condition.
B, g.. Seymour, New York broker, hai
been arrested upon the charge OF stealins
Sl4, 900 In railroad and Sc, 700 in Government
4 bonds from Boston Safe Deposit Compan,
last January.
/ Martin Wade, a negro, was lynched nea
Union City, Tenn, for outraging lady.
The house of George Dunbar Ellsworth
near Dubuque, Iowa, was entered by burglar
and $500 stolen.
Another great rain storm is reported II
Western Texas, which prevailed for thirty-si,
hours. -Four serious washouts are reporte,
on the Texas & Pacific Railroad between Bi,
Springs and Tayuh, two OF which are only %
yards apart. The storm was near the sam
section recently visited by the deluge which
wrought so much damage to property an,
destroyed so many lives.
A desperate from Burlington, named Franz
Allen, entered a saloon in Milwaukee an,
threatened to shoot the woman who was tend
ling bar. A bystander named John Walter
interfered in behalf of the woman, when Al
Ian cred . ball from his pistol clear throue,
the body Of Walters, who fen diving. -Allea
then shot another bystander named Charlie
, hJohuson tflropgh the, leg, and attempted L
escape. ! A mob attempted TO lynch him, bu
he was successfully jailed
p The rigid censorship of press dispatche
from Egypt, established by the British, Ia
beenc protested against BY correspondent.
Y .eepo woheleS promises 70 remedy ns ma
ter.
i Aight between the families OF two farmer.
named Respectively Nicholas and Smith, +
, Newton county, Ark, resulted in the KILN
; OF one man and wounding of three others.
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