Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-11

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which provides that Boards of Supervisors
Of counties in that State shall provide TO:
the burial of deceased soldiers, sailors OF
marines, and shall also provide an appro-
pirate headstone. This act will prevent the
burial in future Of any soldiers in pauper
graves.
The other day a construction train on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad ran over steer
near Fort Worth. The two head cars were
thrown from the track, killing F. A. Sim
mons, civil engineer; Price johnson, brake
man, and j. /. Bond, one of the workmeI..
JEFF Ward, Charles r. Porter and Albert
Simms, brakemen, were badly hurt
AT the Toledo tOhio) National Bank the
other day gentleman drew $1,000. which
be laid on the counter for the moment
when n young man standing near seized
the money and made of with it. He was
quickly overtaken, the money recovered
and the thief conducted to the Police sta
ton.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, eight thousand coal
miners, several hundred cigar-makers and
a large number Of journeymen plasterers
have struck for higher wages. The cigar
makers demanded II advance per thousand,
the plasterers an increase from - 10 p. -
per day, and the miners are fighting the
reduction of n half cent per bushel on coal.
HALF the business portion of Phelps City,
No. was lately destroyed by fire.
THE importation Of American pork into
Greece has been forbidden by that Govern.
ment.
The cab driver, Fitz Harris, recently
tried at Dublin charged with being one of
the principals in the Phoenix Park murders.
was acquitted. After the verdict had been
rendered he was taken back to Jail to await
trial on the charge of conspiracy To murder.
AT Corrine, Me-, the other day George
Parkman of incorporate habits, married
the previous week, jumped out of bed
through window, and savagely attacked
his wife, mother-in-law and neighbor. He
died shortly after he was secured.
SIMON RUPERT, a well-known farmer of
Allen County, Ind, was instantly killed
the other afternoon by premature dynam.
tie explosion while preparing to blast
stumps on his farm.
THE business portion Of the town OF
Rogers, Tex, was recently burned.
THE President has selected Boston, At
lanta and Chicago as the names for three
new steel cruisers of the navy.
PATRICK DELANEY and Thos. Caffrey.
two more of the men charged with partic.
ipation in the murder Of Cavendish and
Burke, in Dublin, when arraigned for trial
created a sensation in the court room b
pleading guilty TO the charge against them
Both were sentenced to be hanged the 2d of
June.
ROBERT NJ. THoRNBURY, recently of Bis
marck, ID. T., now a mining operator in
New York City, says in regard TO the state
ment telegraphed from Pine Ridge Agency,
announcing the discovery by Red Cloud of
a valuable gold mine which he wished to
work in secret for ten years, that it was
either a clever dodge of the old Chief to i'm.
duce the Government to buy a portion of
his reservation, or to attract prospectors
who could be plundered by his tribe. He
explored the whole country in 1878, and
pronounces Red Cloud thorough diplomat
and all accomplished liar.
THE union stone-cutters and plasters of
st. Louis presented n demand on the
bosses the other day for an increase from
$3.50 to 81 day and the establishment of
uniform rate. The employers refused to
accede and about 800 stone-cutters and COG
plasterers quit work.
THE Grand Jury at Harrodsburg, XIV.
indicted Hon. Phil. b. Thompson for the
recent killing of w. II. Davis.
WILLIAM JACKsoN's residence at Bailey's
Harbor, Wis, was recently DESTROYED by
fire and his daughters, Olive and Bertha.
seven and twelve years of age, were burned
to death while up stairs, where the fire
started.
ISAIAH II. CAIN, prominent farmer near
Little Spring, Franklin County, Miss, was
recently killed by n negro named Amos
Bailey and mob hanged Bailey.
THE following Board of Visitors to the
Naval Academy has been appointed by the
President: Hon. Eldridge G.. Lapham,
New York; Hon. Johnson n. Camden,
West Virginia; Hon. Alfred C. Horner,
Pennsylvania; Hon. Thos. Updegraff, Iowa;
Hon. Roger O. Mills, Texas: Rear Admiral
John {. Howell; Major General Irwin Nc.
Dowell; Edward V. Kingsley, West Point.
y. v; Rev. John W. Dinsmore, Blooming.
ton, ILL.,; General Arson q. McCook, New
York; Professor George Inman Richie,
Philadelphia; DIR. Samuel Abbot Green.
Boston. Secretary Chandler has written
letter To General Mcdowell requesting the
latter TO visit the academy in connection
with Rear Admiral Howell and Edward V.
Kingsley between the Goth of May and the
meeting Of the Board of Visitors June |.
for the purpose of informally inquiring
first whether the standard of scholarship
adopted is too high, and second, whether
the discipline during the past year has
been too severe.
ACCORDING to an FL Paso dispatch Gen.
eral Crook recently crossed into Mexico
with his command and had been in the
Sierra Madre mountains four days in pur.
suit of the Apaches. The Mexican authori.
ties co-operated by sending two companies
to the frontier. Other troops were in the
field.