Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-06


Indian Affairs, ffty-six new pupils have been
received at the Indian Training -school at
Carlisle Barracks, Pa The new pupils repre-
sented twelve different tribes, four of which
the Caddos, Delawares, Navajos and Semi
noles-had before no representative at Car.
isle.
The Secretary of the Treasury announces
that until further notices he win nav any
called bonds without rebate of interest at the
rate of S. 10000 perweek.
At Heathsville, Va, mill dam was carried
away by the floods and swept down upon the
house of Mr.. Bush, drowning his wife and
five children.
James Wall, James Conway and William
Dugan, of Buffalo, n. Y, were drowned nv
the upsetting of a sail boat ten miles of that
port. James Stewart, the sole survivor. mad
died the boat ashore in twelve hours, against
very strong head winds.
The boys of the Somerville Glass Works
in Boston, striking for an increase of paw. re-
turned to work under threat of the Chief
of Police that he would make them 90 to
school.
The Porte has addressed note to the Brit
ish Ambassador demanding to know the steps
to the withdrawal of British troops from
Egypt, as they are no longer required in that
country.
The people of Denison, Texas, gave grand
barbecue lately to a gathering of 10000 people
in honor of the tenth anniversary of the sale of
the first lot in the city. Where is now a city
OF 1000 inhabitants, ten years ago was but a
cotton patch and pasture, with but family
or two as population.
During the session of the Baptist Associa-
ton at Hampton Cross Roads in Virginia, two
young men under the influence of liquor be-
gan pistol combat in the church, causing a
panic in the congregation. Levi Bryson was
fatally shot by Jerry Cox, but succeeded in
fatally shooting Cox. Both died in the church
Many were injured during the panic.
John s. Tuttle, who had an Office with the
New York note broker, Toilet, who lately
failed, has assigned. He is ON Follet's paper
for nearly 100000.
The Spanish steamer Rita arrived at the
wharf of Newport News, Va, without inspec-
ton by quarantine officers. The Acting Sec
rotary of the Treasury telegraphed that the
civil authorities should order the vessel to
quarantine, and If she refused war vessel
could compel her to.
A man representing himself to be A. j.
Thompson, and an exte sive grain dealer, vic
timized the Prairie City First National Bank
of Terre Haute, Ind, out of $1,000 by draw
ing money on duplicate bills of lading, having
first erased the word duplicate by means OF
oxalic acid. His whereabouts is unknown.
A great prairie fire near Red ;eld, Dakota,
destroyed much farm property, and threatened
Redfield. DR.. II. Town, formerly of Chicago
and Zachariah John, formerly of TAYLOR Ridge,
ILL.,, were surrounded by fire and endeavored
to run team through the flames The horses
turned suddenly, and both we're thrown from
the wagon. Towns leg was broken and he
smothered and was burned to crisp.
The st. Louis d San Francisco Railway
Company have effected the arrangement by
which they acquire the Laclede & Fort Scott
Railroad between Lebanon, Mo-, and Fort
Scott, Kan. About forty miles of the road is
graded, and the remainder of the line has been
surveyed. The work will be pushed and the
line completed as rapidly as possible.
The report of the settlement of the Turko-
Greek frontier question by the surrender tc
Greece Of the whole frontier fixed by the Inter
national Commission is officially confirmed.
The shock of an earthquake was plainly felt
in portions Of Illinois, Indiana and Missouri
on the morning of the 9th. At Centralia, Ill,
houses were perceptibly shaken.
Four persons were killed by recent earth
quake on the Isthmus of Panama One woman
was frightened to death.
The New York Hudson River Baptist Asso
citation of the North resolved to withhold fel.
lowship from the Baptist Church of Green.
bush, because the latter refused to remove its
pastor, G.. B. Simons, a married man, fol
writing love letters to a young lady of his
church.