Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-08

Duffey q Co., one of the largest in the West
burned at Quincy, Ill, on the night of thr
25th. Total loss about $50, 900; insurance
$4,000. Over 100 men are thrown ont of
employment.
A fire broke out in the works of the Brook.
| lyn Oil Company on Long Island on the even.
ing of the Goth. The bark Thism was at the
dock when the oil tank exploded that caused
the fire, and the crew jumped overheard. Two
were drowned. The flames extended to and
! ignited Devoe's oil works, and Church & Co. :
salsoda mandatory, but the efforts of the
fremen saved it from total destruction.
! Sparks set fire to the box mandatory 42O
Oakland street. The tank boat, Sweepstakes.
which was filed with oil and was living at the
dock, took fire and burst into fragments.
Blazing oil spread out on the river and for a
time it was feared the fire would spread to
Long Island City, but the tide averted this
danger. The barge Estelle, lying close to the
tank, was also set on fire. Her captain, James
Connors, wife and deck hands jumped over
board. They were rescued, but the captains
wife was badly burned. The loss of the Brook
Ign oil works, estimated at 800, 900; DEVICES
oil works, 100000; bark Thism, $4,000
Church & Co.'s salsoda works, So, 600; Smiths
box factory, $4,000.
The steamer Collingwood, bound for Chicago
from st. Helena, was wrecked during the late
storm on the lakes, and the captain and five of
the crew lost
The mail train on the Lehigh & Hudson
River Railroad was recently wrecked near
Newbury, n. Y. Engineer William Nolan
and fireman Frank Porter were scalded to
death.
II. A. Pitts Sons Manufacturing Company,
OF Chicago, manufacturers of threshing ma
chimes, and other farm implements, and one
OF the oldest firms in that line of business,
made an assignment recently to r. c. Minor,
bookkeeper of the establishment. The sched-
ule shows liabilities of $3.50, 900, assets $780,
900.
An agreement has been reached between the
managers of the Rock Island, ST. Paul, Omaha
and other Western roads to declare a truce in
the railroad war in the Northwest for thirty
days, pending meeting to consult about the
differences. 1t is understood the rates on all
lines were to be restored and remain so pend
ing negotiations.
Turkey refuses to recognize the cession of
Massomah, or any territory on the Red Sea, to
any power. Assym Pasha has been appointed
Pasha.
Francis A. Wordell, Special Agent of the
Pension Department, at Detroit, Mich, has
been detected in a series of audacious forger-
les, which eliminated in the issuing of war
rants for his arrest, but the officers have been
unable to find him. Wordell was one of the
keenest and shrewdest detectives in the en-
ploy of the Government, and during the past
year or two he has paid particular at
tention to that district, he has won the
highest approval from the Government Off
Gals and all connected with the cases which
he has ferreted out and prosecuted. For some
time past, however, he has been in the habit
of going on lOrdly sprees out of working
hours, his boon companions being noted
women of the town, and his fall comes as a
matter of course. He forged Pension Agent
Posts name as endorsements to his private
notes and obtained the money, besides other
similar transactions. He has wife and fam
lily at New Bedford, Mass.
The family of Thomas Hughes, living near
Spottsville, KY, went to church recently to be
gone all day, leaving an infant in charge of a
colored girl The girl went to a neighbours.
leaving the child on pallet on the floor, and
was also gone all day. When the family re-
turned they found the child dead and most
horribly eaten by rats.
For some months past valuable packages
have from time to time been missed from the
Union Depot office of the Adams Express
Company at Kansas City and it seemed impos
sible to trace them to the thief A detective
was however put to work and he traced the
thefts to young man who was porter in the
Office.
Rear Admiral James H. Strong, retired,
died at Columbus, s. c., recently.