Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-10

hold and desperate battle followed. Two
of the pursuers, Shelton Caldwell, of Gar
land County, and Charles Carter, of Oar.
danelle, were killed. Barnes, of Darda-
pelle, was wounded. The outlaws escaped
uninjured.
The number killed blythe late accident
on the Rome, Watertown a. Ogdensburr
| IN. W Railroad was twenty-five. Thirty
five were injured, three OF whom, it was
thought, would die.
| CHARLES HOOP and L. ID. LissOn, or Paw.
catuck, X. l., were drowned recently by
the capsizing of boat.
A NUMBER OF Americans and English
were lost in the great earthquake near
Naples. The list OF deaths has been swelled
by later reports TO about 5000.
JOHN WALTERS oil cloth factory at
Albany, n. Y, recently burned. Loss
$4,000.
MOUNT EEsUvIUs is in a state Of eruption
and lava descending from the crater in the
direction Of the town of Tore Del Greso,
southwest OF the foot of the mountain.
The Sheriff and posse that lately suffered
such fatality in attempting TO capture
Arkansas outlaws, it is stated were led into
ambush by farmer named Coke, a friend
OF the desperadoes. The survivors of the
posse subsequently, hanged Coke.
The buildings OF the Nashville Cotton
Compress and the sheds of the Nashville
Warehouse Companies, in Nashville, Tenn,
were recently destroyed by fire, together
with four hundred bales of cotton and a
large amount OF hay and grain. Loss,
5000; fully insured.
Ben HARDY and two other men, Govern.
mcnt pile drivers, fell overheard and were
drowned near Mayersville, Miss, the other
day, near the point where five other men
were drowned few days previous.
The Congressional Commission, consist
ing OF Senators Dawes, OF Massachusetts,,
Logan, OF Illinois, Morgan, Of Alabama, and
Vest, Of Missouri; Representatives Has.
kell, of Kansas, and Cameron, of Wiscon-
sin, and Delegate Maginnis, of Montana,
charged with investigating the condition of
Reservation Indians in the Northwest. and
reporting 10 Congress the ACCESSIBILITY of
opening up TO settlement some of the land
now reserved TO Indians, met at Chicago
the other day. 1t was arranged that the
Commission should go to Helena, NJ. T.,
where it will divide into subcommittee and
visit all the reservations in that section of
the country.
PUBLIC debt statement for July: Cash in
Treasury, 1851 ,j3G3lj debt less cash i'm the
Treasury, S1,543, l9O,GlG; decrease during
July, -, 900, $50.
A CERTIFICATE Of incorporation for the
Exchange Telegraph Company was filed at
New York recently. The line is to run from
that city TO San Francisco. The capital
stock is S2,OOO,OOO.
SPECIALS from parts of Minnesota and
North Dakota report the wheat crop in the
wheat belt practically rescued from danger
from drouth. The average crop will
probably exceed last years average by an
increase of about twenty per cent.
The caulkers employed at several boat
yards at Pittsburg, Pa, to the number of
about 300, recently struck against a reduc.
ton from $3.50 to S;i.25 per day.
THE steamer Elizabeth recently ran into
and sunk the Octorora, of the Ericsson line,
plying between Baltimore and Philadel.
phia, within sight of Chesapeake City. The
passengers were safely gotten from the
sinking steamer without injury.
BECAUSE his uncle declined to board him
any longer, without pay, John Brixus,
of Newark, n. j., aged twenty, recently
shot his uncle and then ran TO a stream,
shot himself twice and jumped in. He was
fished out dead, but his uncle will recover.
Mrs. CHARLES BURKE, forty-three years
old, left her dwelling on Clifton street i'm
Cleveland, Ohio, the other night, attired
only in her sleeping raiment and walked to
10 the lake at the foot of Washington street
and drowned herself. The cause of the
deed was said to be that she was driven in.
sane by her husbands treatment of her son
by former husband, whom he lately drove
from home.
DEXTER's hat factory atDanbury, Conn.,,
| recently burned. Loss, 100000.
AT a late meeting at Sewanee, Tenn, of
| the Convention of the Episcopal Church.
consisting of bishops, ministers AID laymen
from thirteen Southern States, il was re.
solved as the sense of the meeting that the
General Convention of the Church, which
meets this fall, DO memoralized to estab.
lish schools for the education of colored
men who desire TO enter the ministry of
the church, and that AL colored ministers
of the Episcopal Church have equal rights
and powers in all Church Councils.
ABOUT four hundred laborers on the
Pittsburg, McKeesport & Youghiogheny
(Pa.) Railroad, now in course of construc.
ton, struck against n reduction Of wage.
Of from fifteen 60 twenty-five cents iav.
About one thousand more, il was thought,
would soon follow.
THE entire force of four hundred men AT
Republic mine at Humboldt, Mich, struck
the other day for an advance of wages.
The President of the company shut down
tho mine at once and told the men to confer
with the Executive Committee at Cleveland.
There was much excitement, but no disorder
prevailed. The men expressed a determine.
ton to hold firmly together and compel the
company to accede to their demands.