Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

| MISCELLANEOUS.
A fire in the printing and publishing estab-
Iishment of Guffy, eastman q Co., Columbia,
S. c., caused a loss of $4,000.
The Chicago Lumbermen's Exchange ad-
vanced the prices on about half the
grades of lumber quoted in the official
list, which will supplement the August
list The advance is from 50 cents to S1.0O
per 1000 feet The highest advance is on
stock and box boards, common - inch boards,
and common fencing, and similar advance
on common boards, flooring, joists and
scantling.
Ayoung man named Jordan took stychnine
at Kenton, Ohio. and died, because he was
disappointed in love affair.
The scouting parties who were searching
the country for the Kewanee, Ills, bank rob
bers have been unsuccessful in capturing the
parties, and the case has been put in the
hands Of detectives. All sorts of conjectures
| are INDUCED as TO collision, and there is sus-
picion that a Chicago drummer, who was
there about the time of the robbery, but dis
appeared shortly afterward, was concerned
| in it.
There were twenty-eight new cases of yellow
fever at Brownsville, Texas, the 18th, and
seven new cases at Matamoras. The fever is
spreading in the latter city. Montgomery,
Ala, has quarantined against Pensacola where
the fever is reported to have broken out.
Geo. b. Hamilton, late assistant cashier of a
bank at Wyoming, ILL.,, was lately arrested in
New York. On August Sth he robbed the
bank of $4,000 and fed. All the money
except about $1,000 was recovered.
Surgeon General Hamilton received a tele-
| gram from the Mayor of Galveston, Texas,
asking Government aid in establishing
quarantine, of portion of the $4,000 APP
preparation TO aid local and State Boards of
Health in suppressing epidemics.
A few days since two men called at the
First National Bank of Kewanee, ILL.,, and
asked permission to leave satchel for a short
! time. After banking hours they returned.
knocked at the door and asked for the satchel
| Miss Palmer, the cashiers assistant, opened
the door, when one of the men grabbed her
| by the neck and kicked her nearly insensible.
| The other man rushed past her toward the
vault near which Pratt was standing and
Knocked the latter senseless, striking him on
the head with a revolver. Pratt and Miss
Palmer were forced into the vault, where the
men secured about $4,000.
| A special says United States Deputy Mar
shall Young was shot fatally by Jones and
Randall, in the Choctaw nation, while ex-
ecuting warrant at the ranch.
Adam Blandan fatally shot his wife at their
residence in Cincinnati. His brother, who
was about to go to Colorado, was at the
house with a new revolver. Mr. Blandan
playfully pointed it at his wife, while holding
| hv in ar ri aid
to shoot" when the pistol was discharged
with fatal effect.
John Thompson was killed by James Neal
at the annual Confederate reunion at Glenn
Springs, Upton County, Tenn.
drunken young fellow named Leibst shot
man named OldalOer, at St joseph. TO
whom he was an entire stranger. Leibst,s
brother. young man of twenty years.
grappled with him and endeavored to take
the pistol away from him, but before he did
Leibst also shot his brother in the abdomen.
Both men will probably die. The murderer
was arrested.
Alexander Wieser, German saloon keeper.
his wife and little son, seven years old, were
recently found murdered in their house at
Evansville Ind. The father and mother were
in their bed and the boy in the adjoining
room, evidently killed While attemptin0 10
escape. A six months old infant was found
In its crib unframed. The tragedy is one of
those mysteries which may never be solved.
although several parties have been arrested.
The guests OF the Hotel Bellevue, near Sea-
bright, In the vicinity OF Long Branch. stam-
peded because OF two cases of typhoid fever.
The patients were n. w. Andrews brother-in-
law OF Cyrus w. Field, jr., and Mrs. Albert
Levy, relative of the bankers, Seligmaps.
Physicians said the patients could not be re-
moved within ten days and the proprietor de-
handed TO keep the hotel open for them tina,
time 1850 each, or their removal, otherwise
he would close the hotel. After a stormy
time with the proprietor IL is stated friends OF
the two sick parties agreed to pay the 5000
and Corey Is TO keep the house open ten DAYS
for their benefit.
Pat Mehan, an employee in the Pullman
works near Chicago, went to the city on bust.
ness, leaving his two little girls, seven and
nine years old, in his house alone He missed
the last train and was obliged TO remain I'm the
city all night On returning home nexi
morning he discovered that the children had
J blown out the gass and were smothered to
, death.
B. +. Bigelow, teller of the National Bant
of the Republic, Washington, is defaulter
for $4,000. He is in jail in default OF S55,OOC
bail.
Reports from Tucson, (Ariz.) continue tc
give accounts OF depredations in Sonora
/ Mexico, by the Apaches. Over 200 warrior,
| are in the Mazatlan mountains near Ares, ans
make daily raidsin the valleys in small bodies
burning crops, houses, and numbering the in
habitants. During the the past twelve day.
l.forty-6ye persons have been murdered within