Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

$4,000 in bills.
Reports from Pittsylvania county, Va,
state that diptheria is raging to an alarming
extent. Fifty deaths have occurred in the
last three weeks, and more than 100 per-
sons are now down with the disease. In
some cases whole families have been carried
of.
The Cheyenne Indians are still reported
working north through Colorado and Kansas.
There is no doubt they are returning to Pine
Ridge Agency, ID. T., DR. McGillicuddy hav-
ing Offered them permissio to do so, and
having advised the Indian Commissioner to
permit it. The Indians not being equipped
for journey there is every reason to believe
70 ages and raids will mark their migration.
Troops have been dispatched from Fort Lyon,
Fort Hayes and Fort Elliott to intercept
them. The sol iers are ordered to take the
Indians back to the reservation, and il they
refuse 1t is not improbable that blood will be
shed.
The Isthmus of Panama has been most
seriously disturbed by recent earthquake
shocks. For several nights the majority of
the population of Panama walked about, or
slept In the public square or on the plains,
fearful Of impending disaster. Traffic on the
Panama Railroad is suspended, as the bridges
are out of line. The island of Toboga suffered
considerably. Interior towns are reported
badly damaged. The long dormant volcanoes
of Chiriqui are reported to be in active erup-
ton.
Henry s. SCribner, an old man, and brother
OF the New York publisher, was assaulted by
roughs one night lately at Dubuque, Iowa.
/ The attempt to rob him failed, but he was SO
roughly handled that recovery is doubtful.
At Cleveland, Ohio, two lads, John and
Henry Barber, aged nine and eleven years, were
fatally burned by an explosion of kerosene oil,
with which they attempted to kindle a fire.
Charles Clark, aged sixteen, shot and in
stantly killed Mary Carroll, aged seventeen,
at Dallas, Texas. The girl had formally been
his sweetheart.
The jury in the Star Route cases, after be-
ing out three days, returned into court and
! the foreman stated To the Court they had
| reached verdict as to some of the defend
ants, but were unable to reach a complete
verdict. The Court finally consented to ac-
cept their verdict which was read. The
Jury found Reardell and Miner guilty and
Peck and Turner not guilty. AS to Stephen
w. Dorsey, John w. Dorsey, Vale and Brady,
the jury could not agree, and in
their cases a new trial will be
had. The Jury is reported as
having stood eleven for guilty and one not
guilty as to J. w. Dorsey; eight guilty, four
not guilty as TO 8. w. Dorsey; eight guilty
and four not guilty for Vale; and nine guilty
and three not guilty as to Brady. The trial
has been in progress since March.
The late storm in Georgia is the worst and
most destructive since 1856. A large amount
of property was destroyed and crops injured in
that State. The storm also did much damage
in Virginia.
| Twenty new cases of yellow fever at Pensa-
cola the 18th, aud ffty-eight new cases at
Brownsville.
The alarm Of fire in st. Thomas Catholic
Church, Cincinnati, during the children's
mass, caused panic among the four or five
hundred children present on their way to
school. They rushed frantically out of the
doors, knocking down and trampling under
foot the weaker ones. No lives were lost, al
though many of the children were severely
injured by being trampled on.
Geo. F. Nesbet, ranchman living in Tuler-
osa canyon, New Mexico, started from Las
Cruces in a wagon, accompanie by his wife,
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the three were found murdered tits thought
Nesbet, who had been drinking, murdered
them and then drove off,
Arthur Brooks, prominent stock broker of
Richmond, Inj., was arrested at Denver. for
the murder of Thomas ID. Cause, at Rich
mond, August %. He confessed.
The jury rendered verdict of ninety-nine
years I'm the penitentiarv against Sam Hazel.
who brutally murdered his fve-year-old child
at Anna, Ills.
A cyclone struck Atlantic, n. J., the 18th,
uprooting trees and demolishing fences. Con-
siderable damage was done TO proJ erty.
The Association of Old Defenders ceIe-
brated the anniversary of the battle of North
Point, at Baltimore, recently. The infrmities
of age prevented many members from at
tending. Seven men who responded to the
call were from eighty-ive to ninety-ive years
of age.
J. Copeland, who was looking for farming
land near Evansville, Ark, died from the eff.
fects of strychnine taken by mistake for
quinine. In one of the inside pockets of his
vest was found g, 800 In bills. Before diving
he stated that he had wife and two chill rem
living in Stone county.
Isaac Jackson, OF North Baltimore, Ohio.
drew his pension money lately and was enjoy.
ing IL In drunkenness. He started up the rail-
road near midnight for his home aud was run
over by freight train and crushed to death
j plot to rob the express car, mail and pas
sengers on the north bound NIX. q T.
train near Vinita, Indian Territory, was dis
covered and foiled just be ore it was to have
} taken place Two robbers on the train or
dered the conductor to throw up his hands
while on the platform of the smoking car
when men who were watching riddled one O
the robbie with bullets. The condacto
was shot In the face by one of the gang, and
! feh from the tram. He. was taken back b
Vinita- The plan Of the robbers was TO
more OF their men to board the train a few
miles further north, side track and rob it an,
then escape, but one of their number divulge,
the plan and the robbery was prevented.
The Richmond Va.) Banking and Insur
ance Company closed its doors recently. 1t
J liabilities are placed at over s6O0pOO, $780, O
! of which Belongs to the STATE. OF Virginia