Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-20

Labor Legislation, petitioning for an extrs
session Of Congress to be called as soon as
practicable, for the purpose of considering
the relations between labor and capital.
The memorialists claim.to represent the
wage1workmen of the Uhited statesIsa d
| The Hawaiian Govers1tnes,t having 40.
piled to have its silver money coined At the
minis OF the United Stats, Secretary Fol.
ger decided TO grant the request, and pre-
urinary arrangements for the coinage will
be made at once. The mint at San Fran.
cisco was selected as the place of coinage.
HE bill to amend the law in regard to
explosives was introduced in the English
House of Commons one day last week, then
taken up in Committee of the Whole. con.
sideredand passed through without amend.
ment. The bill was read a third time and
passed. It was Immediately sent TO the
rouse OF Lords and adopted without delay.
The Royal assent was received by tele
graph, and the act became a law. all in less
than twenty-four hours.
a LARGE brick building in Buffalo. v. Y,
not yet completed, fell one day recently,
burying about dozen men in the ruins.
One man was taken out dead and Others
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building was on the roof at the time and
was badly hurt. 1t had been erected dur
ing the winter, and it is supposed the NOR.
Jar was frozen, and the warm weather loos-
ened the bricks in the building. 81 :
II Is reported that Howgate, whoescaped
from the custody of officers in Washington
about year ago, was lately seen upon the
streets OF Washington by an officer of the
Signal Service.
dick LIDDILL, who was convicted at
Huntsville, Ala, of being one of the Mussel
Shoals robbers has been released upon his
own recognizanoe. He can now testify in
the Frank James case. 1t is thought he
VIII probably never be called up for sen.
tence.
JOHN GREEN, an employee of the Tele.
phone Company in st. Joseph, No., fell
from the top of a pole fifty feet high, the
other morning, and died in fifteen minutes.
His uncle, a brakeman on the Kansas CITY.
st. Joseph & Council Bluffs Road, was run
over and killed at Hamburg, Ia, the day
before.
A. G. MowBRAY's Touring mill, at Stock
ton, Mimi, burned recently. Loss, $4,000;
partially insured.
AN investigation into the management of
the Tewsbury (Mass.) Almshouse has re.
vealed horrid state of affairs in that insti.
tuition as tothe inhuman treatment of chill.
dren and pauper inmates. f7
A cAvE-IN occurred at the Keel Ridge
mine, between Quinnessee and Iron Noun.
tain, Mich, on the 18th, carrying down the
engine house and eight men. The cave-iD
embraced space of about IS by 30 feet,
and besides the men engulfed took in all
the mine machinery, including four boilers.
falling distance of 100 or 200 feet. 1t was
thought the recovery of the bodies would
require a week or more.
AT Muncie, Ind, recently, Chas. Rhoades.
aged Is, and Beach Tinsley, aged s., started
into the country, carrying can of Her.
cules powder. Half mile from the city
the powder exploded, instantly killing
Rhoades, tearing him to atoms. TinsIey
was thought to be fatally injured.
HELEN NJ. COUGAR, editor of orr Herald.
Lafayette, Ind, and public lecturer on
woman's suffrage, was recently awarded
5000 by the jury in her suit against Henry
/. Nandler, Chief of Police of LAFAYETTE
for libel and slanderous words spoken of
plaintiff by defendant. The defendant
pleaded justification. In the trial before
Judge Gould of Delhi Circuit, the fight was
a bitter one, lasting eleven weeks, and was
given wide publicity.
A YOUNG Indian of fifteen died on the
west bound Fl. Wayne train, near Valpa.
raise, Ind, the other day. He was a son of
the celebrated Indian Chief, Red Cloud
and was on his way to join his tribe from
Carlisle, Pa, where he had been at school
A BILL was recently introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature preventing any
attempt to personate or represent any be.
ing recognized as Divinity in the Old or
New Testament in any show or other the
atrical performance.
IN the Tewksbury (Mass.) Almshouse in.
vestigatiop recently, Frank Baker, former.
ly in charge of the insane building, testified
that the beds were in filthy condition in
the male wards. He had charge of the
bathing of male patients in a tank ten by
fifteen feet and four feet deep. AS many
as eighty-four bathed in the same water
which was rarely changed. The patients
would object to going in and be put in by
force. DR.. Dean, graduate of Harvard
Medical School, testified that when he wa.
a student perhaps fifty bodies were usec
during the winter term.