Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-10

and he confessed his guilt. He has wife and
family.
Mrs. Seguin, aged thirty six, wife of DR.
Edward o. Seguin, noted specialist on dis
eases of the brain, killed her three Young chill
dren on the afternoon of the 31st, and then
killed herself, at No. Al West Twentv-frst
street, New York. There is no other canse
known for the tragedy than the insanity
of the mother. The children were Edward
D., aged six years; John Van Duyn. AGED
five, and Jeanette, four years. They were all
shot through the head and instantly killed.
The mothers death was as sudden as theirs.
| A frightful feature of the tragedy is the
manner OF the murders. Mrs. Seguin took an
empty spare room, at the top of a ive-story
house, in the absence of her husband and
when the servants were engaged in the base
ment, and locked herself in with them. The
servants believed they had gone out for a
| walk. What happened in the room will never
be known, but when DIR. Amidon, Mrs Seguin,s
brother, called at p. m, with his suspicious
aroused by the long absence of the family.
made search of the house, mother and
| children were found dead, all shot
| through the head. The children's hands
were tied behind their backs with
whip cord. They were blindfolded
with handkerchiefs, and from all appearances
they must have been shot while PLAYING at
blind mans buff with their executioner The
family lived in a five story brown stone front
English basement. The house is elegantly
furnished. The room in which the traget =
took place is on the fifth floor, and is scarcely
ever used by the family. When Dr. Se2uin
returned home he was so Frustrated that II
was thought his reason was overthrow.
George Thompson, aged thirteen, and Fred
HOTEL, aged fourteen, got into quarrel at
Cleveland, Ohio, when Hotel drew a knife
/ and fatally stabbed Thompson. The Youthful
murderer fed.
A burglar lately attempted to enter the
residence of Mr.. Rudolph Reed of Milwaukee,
Wis, after the gentleman had retired for the
night, but well-directed shot from Mr.. Reed
fatally wounded the thief
About twenty-five men and boys partly in
toxicated, attempted to take the murderers
Craft and Neal from the officers ut Catletts-
burg, KY, for the purpose of mobbing them,
when the State military that was guarding
the prisoner fired upon them, wounding sew
e-al The prisoners and troops got safely on
board steamer when the mob seized a train
and headed off the boat at Ashland, KY, where
another attack was made. The troops returned
the fire, and killed and wounded a number of
persons, mostly people who had collected owing
to the excitement Among the killed was an
infant in its mothers arms.
Postmaster General Howe has submitted to
the Secretary of the Treasury estimates for
lSS3-S4. The estimates are Receipts, $50
go, 1864; expenditures, $46 al, 111.25; leav-
ing net surplus of SO, go, 345.O2
The public debt statement for the month of
October shows cash in Treasury, S275, 1856
1866; debt less cash in Treasury, 81, 62S, 491,
! O425S; decrease during the month, $780,
| 1898; decrease since June Both, 1882. SEQ
423, 41S.14.
Bids were opened in Washington recently
to supply beef to the Pawnee, Kiowa and
| Cheyenne Indians. Among the bidders were
w. c. O'Brien, OF Kansas City; Levi Wilson,
of Leavenworth; Alexander Borday, of St.
Paul; II. c. Slavens, of Kansas City; H. L.
Newman, of National Stock Yards, and the
st. Clair Company, of Illinois. The bids
ranged from 1928 to 1890 per cwt, and all
were rejected as being excessive.
A mob broke into the St. Francis County
Jail at Forest City, Ark, and rescued ex-
Town Marshal Henry Apperson, recently SEN
fenced to the penitentisry for killing Tate
Wallace, brakeman on the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad. The mob undoubtedly
| sympathized with Apperson.
DR.. E. L. Lapham, q former resident of
Newton, Kansas, but later Postmaster at So.
zorro, n. NJ, was arrested some time ago
charged with robbing the mails of over 50, 900.
He was recently tried at Albuquerque, found
guilty and sentenced to two years in the pen.
itentiary at Secor, ILL.,, and to pay fine OF
$4,000.