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

The Secretary of State has transmitted
to the Treasury Department a report from
X NJ. Daggett, United States Minister resi-
dent at Honolulu, with regard to the state
ment that Chinese sugars are being i'm.
ported ut Honolulu and thence reshipped
to the United States as Hawaiian sugars.
which pay no duty, that after thorough
investigation, he is satisfied the statement
referred to is entirely without foundation.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office sent TO the Surveyor General of New
Mexico patent for the private land claim
known as the Anton Chico grant. The
land is situated in San Miguel and Berna-
lilo Counties, n. NJ, and contains 37S,537
acres.
SECRETARY TELLER has refused to con-
firm or recognize the leases made by In
dams to cattle men for grazing lands in the
Indian Territory.
ID. n. CARGILL, a well-known produce and
stock dealer of Sparta, Wis, and for two
years Town Treasurer, is a defaulter for
upwards Of $4,000. 1t is alleged that tho
money was used in his business and lost in
grain speculation, and that the deficiency
was discovered upon an examination of his
accounts previous TO his reelection. l
THE Sheriff of Cooper County, Mo-, re-
Gently arrested two men about six miles
from Boonville, who gave their. names as
George Stevenson and George Hillery.
They were in a cabin, and were caught in
the act of counterfeiting United States Sill
yer dollars and halves of the issue of 1880
and 1882. t -.I
AT the Cincinnati Cooperage Works, in
the lower part of the city, the other morn
ing, the emory wheel burst, instantly kill
ing George Latt and William Huber and
slightly injuring William Curver.
The State Department has received no
intimation that the Government of Great
Britain will ask this Government to lend n
force of skilled detectives to assist In
tracking. the dynamite plotters in this
country. ,t ID
THE wife OF Sergeant Mason has written
a letter repudiating Bigelow, who claimed
to be her husbands lawyer, and mildly
hints that he is fraud. ...,. 20
RUMoRs OF the receipt of letters threat
ening the life Of the Marquis Of Lorne, and
recent suspicious occurrences at Rideau
have caused some alarm In Canada.
About midnight on the 9Th the Fades
Hotel at Greenville, Texas, fell with a
crash, and took fire and burned. About
forty guests and attendants were in the
building at the time. The cries of the inn
prisoned for help were heartrending in the
extreme. Some escaped, others persisted.
The hotel, with four or five business houses
in its rear, were destroyed. Those known
TO have persisted were: Mrs. N. E. Pruett;
George Pruett; Miss Lou Davis; Frank
Davis, freight clerk of the Missouri
Pacific depot; Captain F. d. N. Riley,
contractor and builder; Mr.. Denton,
railroad contractor and cotton buyer of
Pulaski, Tenn; Louis Albert, jeweler; Mr..
Hill, and John Ford, his repairer, Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, and
four colored boys. 1.r 80
SENATOR VAN WICK has been urging the
Interior Department TO order the innie-
date sale OF the Otoe Indian lands in Kan.
sas and Nebraska, notwithstanding the
House Of Representative neglected 70 pass
the Senate bill, which was deemed necessa-
~ for the complete sale. The appraisers
have finished their task, and value the
lands all the way from 81 to $40 per acre.
Secretary Teller is satisfied he can pretecS
all interests, and the sale will be made about
May 1. 10
THE Commissioner Of the General Land
Office IL taking active steps to enforce the
law passed last session Of Congress to pre-
vent frauds in the entering Of public lands.
A TERRlBLE cyclone swept to the south
and east of Hot Springs, Ark, the other
night. Scarcely a tree was left. Fam
houses, fences and bridges were demol-
ished- A number of persons were killed.
"A DISASTROUS prairie fire recently devas-
tated all the country north Of Lincoln, Neb.
Mrs. Dalton, a farmers wife, was burned
while lighting the fire. There was gene
raj destruction of farm property in its
course. fr. -.5t 80 e.
MICHAEL DAyTTT has published another
letter in which he further expresses his op-
position TO the dynamite policy ON the part
Of 1rishmen. He declares such policy is
insane, idiotic and criminal. ga .s.sd !.
"a MENGRIAL has been sent to the Presi- ]
dent by the President apd Board of Direc-
tors Of the Central Committee on National !