Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-24

cutting the carotid artery. The cause Of his
action was his inability TO meet deficiency ot
! s., 224 in his account with the Postoffice De.
partment.
At Bullett's Grove, near Louisville. XIV
George and John Mean, brothers, were TARGET
shooting, when George carelessly got in the
range Of the gun in the hands of his brother
receiving fatal shot in the abdomen
Near Plaquamine, La, the st. Louis tow.
boat Cole, and the John NJ. Chambers collided
lately. The Chambers sunk in seven feet of
water. She had aboard 500 bales of cotton.
On the afternoon of the 18th a boiler in the
Forest City Iron Works at Cleveland. Ohio
exploded with a terrific force, killing four
men, seriously injuring four or five Others.
and slightly wounding half a dozen more
The wonder is that larger number were not
killed, as nearly $50 men were at work in the
building, which was open at the ends and
sides, all under one roof, and no parti
tions. The boiler was eighteen feet
long and forty-two inches in diameter.
A large part of the roof was torn off
and fragments of the boiler were hurled a
great distance. The cause of the explosion is
unknown. The killed were William Atkins.
master machinist, d. Wright, who had lust
entered and was seeking employment, John
Gallagher, furnace man, and John Williams.
engineer.
Archibald Scott, a farmer, while driving
across the Michigan Central Railroad, four
miles west of Dexter, Mich, with team, was
struck by an engine of the Day Express and
instantly killed. The twelve-year-old son, on
the wagon with his father disappeared, and
at last accounts hai not been heard from.
The report by telegraph that A. j. Neven,
ex-Mayor of Adrian, Mich, charged with forg-
ing water works bonds, had been arrested at
Ell Paso, Texas, turns out to be untrue.
The latest advices from Chill announce that
peace negotiations are renewed with Peru, re-
ported on the basis of the cession of Tacna
and africa.
Louis Olsen lately arrived at New York from
Minneapolis with his wife and three children,
and put up at the Vanderbilt Hotel He had
been drinking heavily and quarreled with his
wife, when he fired three shots at her, one
taking effect in the right arm, which had to
be amputated. The wife was taken to the
hospital, the husband jailed, and tile children
turned over to the Society for the Fteyention
of Cruelty to Children.
"An Undeserved Stigma" concisely reviews
the case OF Gen. Fitz John Porter giving the
grounds for his former belief in Porters guilt
and his present conviction of his entire inno-
cenCe, and appeals to the Government and
country for prompt action in Porter's behalf
Gov. Colquitt has been elected United
States Senator by the Georgia Legislature for
the long term to succeed the la,e Senator
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term.
The Greenback State Committee of Maine
met recently, when it was decided to thor
oughly organize for the next campaign bv a
careful choice of town committees, who will
be instructed to arrange for school district
campaign similar to the one few years ago,
which resulted in avictory for the party.
Charles s Bundy has entered suit against
the Bar Association of the District of Column
bia, claiming $4,000 damages The suit
grows out of an action of the Bar Association
in recommending that Bundy be not appointed
to act as Judge of the Police Court
There is much unfavorable comment in
Washington respecting the award for dredg-
ing the Potomac flats, which it is said, was
awarded to Sanford Bros, of Jersey CITY,
when another firms bid was $4,000 less.
Jasper Spaulding, well-to-do farmer, re-
siding near Raub, Ind, lately killed his wife
and child and then himself during a fit of
insanity.
The merchants and clubs in the wholesale
part of the city of San Francisco, have recent
ly been quietly subscribing to the stock of the
Nicaragua canal. The subscription was started
by the Board of Trade. About 500, 600 had
been subscribed in two DAYS.
Thomas r. Foote, colored, charged with
jury fixing in the Star Route trial, surren-
dered himself to the authorities at Washing
ton and was released on bail.