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

PAT DAvILT, an ex-policemar was shot
the other morning while breaking into the
room Of a citizen Of Milwaukee, Wis.
AT Exeter, N. H, the other day, an en-
banlment on the land of the Newmarket
Manufacturing Company caved and three
men were killed.
CAREY, the informer, has finally left
Dublin. The Government refused to give
him any reward or n written pardon. Hav-
ing been given the alternative of being I'M
protected in the streets or passage to Lon
don, and thence to some colony in the
Eastern Hemisphere, he accepted the lat
ter. His family had already gore to Lon
don separately to avoid suspicion.
CROP reports from Wisconsin, Minnesota,
and Iowa show that wheat and oats are
doing well and promise q large crop, but
corn and barley seem to have suffered from
the co;d and wet.
A HAIL STORM destroyed 5000 acres Of
the growing crops I'm Bonhomme and
Hutchinson Counties, Dakota, recently.
AN attempt was made lately to assassin
ate the foreman of the stereotyping depart
ment of the Boston Herald.
CHANCELLOR MERRITT, Of the Chancery
Court OF Tennessee, refused to grant an in
junction against the funding of the State
debt in accordance with the funding act Of
the last Legislature.
BY the premature discharge Of blast In
the Twin City Slate quarry, at Walnut
Port, Pa, recently, William Keiser was
fatally injured; Oliver Deshler, seriously,
and Robert Parry and Griffith Ellis, slight.
ly.
The President accepted fifty miles of re-
Gently constructed Northern Pacific Rail.
road in Montana, westward from the 625th to
the 67Jth mile.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided to ap.
point a commission to visit the Indian Ter.
ritory to investigate the difference between
the Spioche and Checota factions Of Greek
Indians.
The Wilson Creek Reunion Committee
have everything pertaining to proposed re-
union well under way and earnestly re-
quest that every surviving soldier who
fought at Wilson Greek or Oak Hill, on
either side, August 10, 1861, will at once
forward to j. p. Tracy, Secretary of the
Reunion Committee, at Springfield, NO., a
postal card, giving his name and postoffice
address, and stating il he expects to be
present, as the Committee is anxious to
Ss
etc. Nearly one thousand of the veterans
have already signifed their intention to at
tend.
AN excursion train from Titusville, Pa,
containing about seventy-five members of
the Masonic lodges, while returning from
jamestown, recently, collided with a
freight train on the Buffalo & Southwest
ern, two miles from jamestown, instantly
killing George Bates, conductor, NJ. D..
Colby, brakeman of the freight train, and
fatally injuring w. j. Innis, another
brakeman. The engineers and firemen on
both trains were saved by jumping. The
force drove the excursion coaches back.
ward twenty-five feet, but they kept on the
track.
AT Creston, Iowa, several days after the
Fourth while some parties were having a
display of fireworks that had been left oN er
large rocket exploded, instantly killing a
four-year-old daughter of r. S. Markemier,
prominent business man, seriously in.
juring Mrs. w. A. Palmer, and severely
injuring several other persons.
MRS. EMMA JERSEY, wife of William Jer.
sey, of Memphis, Tenn, was recently ar.
rested upon peace warrant sworn out by
her husband, whom she attempted to shoot.
Mrs. Jersey stated that she purchased the
pistol to defend herself from the assaults Of
her husband, who on several occasions had
beaten her, and once attempted to kill her
with razor.
THREE men, Emil Brie, Isaac r. Biggs
and Wesley Lyon, were recently arrested
in New York upon the charge of forging
certificates Of Indebtedness of the State of
Missouri to the amount of s., 100000.
CHAs. w. SIEMENs, the celebrated Eng.
lish inventor, has entered suit against II.
Sellers Mckee, of Pittsburg, Pa, to recover
100000. The suit grows out of the failure
of the Siemens-Anderson Steel Company of
New York, whose plants are located at
Pittsburg. The company's property was
sold by Sheriff's sale and a portion pur.
chased by Mckee, and Siemens now sues
TO recover from him what he claims to be
his portion of the proceeds of the sale.
Siemens owned 300 shares of stock in the
company, valued at 81 900 each.
THE Atlantic & Gulf Coast Canal and the
Okeechobee Land & Drainage Company,
comprised mostly of Philadelphia capital.
lists, have received from the State of Florida
an award of 53j, 1856 acres of land locate d in
the southern portion of the Peninsula for the
reclamation and operation in that State.
The company has reclaimed nearly one and
one-half million acres of land in Florida,
and the work is still being vigorously
pushed forward.
The Treasury Department has been in.
formed of the arrest at Port Townsend, w.
T., of nine Cinnamon "smuggled" into this
country through British Columbia. The
fact has been reported to the President wbs
will order their deportation.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
SECRETARY TELLER says the indemnity
lands Of the Northern Pacific roads must
not be closed to settlement any longer than
is necessary to enable the company to make
selections of lands in lieu of those lost with
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