Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

after captured or may surrender them
selves, shall be kept under the control of
the War Department at such points on the
San Carlos reservation as may be deter
mined by the War Department (but not at
the agency without the consent of the In
dian ngent), TO be fed and cared for by the
War Department until further orders.
BY direction OF the Secretary of the In.
terror, party under John II. Renshawe
will leave Washington, en- route to the
Yellowstone National Park, TO make a
typographical survey of the park. An
other party under Arnold Hague will make
a geological survey of the park.
DIR. j. II. Rancho, of the Illinois State
Board of Health, has made an inspection of
the sanitary condition of East st. Louis.
He says unless prompt measures are taken
70 thoroughly clean localities where filth is
deposited by the recent food that the city
Is in danger of serious sickness, possibly
an epidemic.
The works of the Bethlehem Iron Com
pany ut Allentown, Pa, shut down last
week and all the employees were paid Off.
Thirty-two hundred men are thrown into
idleness.
BY the giving away Of one ofthe guy ropes
on the powerful derrick i'm the Walker stone
quarry, at Joliet, Ills, recently, the derrick
was PreciPitated upon a number of work
men. Mat Rogers and John Bloomquest
were killed and seven others seriously in
jurod.
The Belleville, Ills, Savings Bank was
recently robbed OF n package containing
sl,454 in broad day light, by three men who
pretended TO enter on business.
In 1877 John and Elizabeth King, pickle
dealers, Vesey street, New York, were
robbed Of over $4,000 in United States
bonds, gold and greenbacks, which they
kept i'm their store. All efforts to recover
the property failed until lately, when after
their death the son and daughter pursued
the search and found the bonds which had
passed through the hands of New York
bankers to the United States Treasury.
THE Treasury Department is informed
that large numbers of assisted" pauper
immigrants are coming to the United States
through Canada.
THE Surgeon General of the marine hos.
pital service has received advices that the
Norwegian bark Vega is at Ship Island
with yellow fever on board.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis for the week ending July !, was
S2S3,JOO; corresponding period last year,
S23l, l23. Customs and internal revenue re.
ccipts increased $40, 7G9 for the first week
Of July, compared with the last week of
June.
HosTILITIEs between the Government
forces Of Hayti and the Revolutionists con.
tinue, with considerable losses on both
sides.
In addition TO the cholera, n cattle plague
In Egypt has caused the death of ninety
per cent Of the cattle attacked.
TANsY, Rogerson, Houghton and Kelly,
four men found guilty at Dublin of being
implicated i'm the murder conspiracy, were
recently sentenced, Tansy for fourteen
years penal servitudc; Rogerson, twelve
Houghton, eight; Kelly, two.
The other night Marshal Hensley, of
Greensburg, KY, with posse of five,
started out 10 arrest James Owen, desper-
ate character, on felony warrant. They
reached Owens house at midnight, and
found the desperate had gathered party
OF his friends to resist arrest. About fifty
shots were exchanged. Marshal Hensley
was killed, one of the posse MORALLY
wounded and the rest fed.
TREMENDOUS forest fires recently ragged
south OF Kalama, Oregon. Six miles OF
railroad and two locomotives had been de-
stroyed. Oak Point logging camp losses
were reported TO be 100000. The flames
| extend for miles so fierce that IL was unsafe
10 investigate the loss.
"A LATE collision on the New England
road near Hartford, Conn, resulted in the
instant death Of George Knickerbocker
engineer, Charles w. Church, baggage man
and Charles Griswold, express messenger
A RECENT storm did great damage in
various sections Of Pennsylvania around
Lancaster, TO growing crops. Corn and
cat fields were beaten level with the ground
Tobacco badly washed, necessitating re.
planting in many cases.
Mrs. ALBERTIE huffman, aged eighteen
and Miss Dolen, fifteen, were drowned in
the Patapsco River, near Baltimore, recent
| ly, by the upsetting Of boat.
THE two-story frame residence of David
Secling at Milwaukee, Wis, was destroyed
by fire the other morning. Selling, his
wife and three chiltren escaped, but Dora
aged nineteen, Armina, aged seven, and
Rosa, aged three, were suffocated and their
bodies charred beyond recognition.
Two MEN have been arrested at Science
tady, N. ", charged with wrecking a train
in 1873 and killing a brakeman.
The Khedive OF Egypt is preparing tS
run away from the cholera.
OVEN six hundred reports had been re.
ceived by the Commissioner OF the General
Land Office TO July 1, from thirty special
agents engaged in an investigation OF
fraudulent land entries. About three hum
dred and fifty reports have shown sufficient
evidence offraud 20 Justify the Land OfHcs
in summarily canceling the entries. The
land already restored to the public domain
upon the reports Of these agents aggregates
about $1,000 acres.
A CLERK In the Examiners division OF
the Pension Bureau named ]. ]. Alley and
a pension agent named J. c. Ellmett were
recently arrested on the charge Of havine
defrauded pensioners. Officials of the Pen.
sion Bureau say they have evidence Of con,
spiracy between the clerks In the Pension
Office and -Ellmctt, by which applicaEss
for pensions have been defrauded on repre-.
sentation Of the ability Of the conspirators
10 push along their claims and secure them
pensions I'm advance Of regular proceedings
of the ofice. Other clerks In the conspiracy
viii be arrested.
Two men entered Selows' Savings Bank.
at Salt Lake, Utah. recently and one Of the
men engaging the Cashier in conversation,
struck him a violent blow with an iron rod.
They then gathered quantity Of gold lying
on the counter and made their escape.
The July report OF the Department Of
Agriculture shows a very general improve
ment in the condition Of cotton
POSTMASTER GENIAL GRESHAM has
forwarded to the postmasters at New
] Orleans aud New York copies Of bis dsciS-