Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-21
nySCELLANEOUS.

REPRESENTATIVES, ANDERSON, of Kansas,
has revised the Postal Telegraph bill in
troduced by him last session, and will soon
introduce IL i'm the House. BY its provis-
ions the Postmaster General is authorized
to construct, maintain and operate three
main lines Of telegraph, the northern line
to extend from Bangor, Me-, 10 st. Paul;
the central line from New York To Topeka,
and the southern from Baltimore To San
Antonio.
FIVE men raided the town of Bisbee, Ariz.,
the other night and killed j. G. Tappiner,
j. a. Molly and ID. a. Smith and wounded
Mrs. Roberts. They then robbed "a store
and left. The whole affair was the work of
a few minutes.
A DISPATCH from Austin, Tex, referring
60 the recent report of suit soon to be
brought i'm the United States Court of
Claims, by parties in Texas, to recover the
value OF slaves emancipated during the
war, says: Governor Ireland, Attorney
General Templeton and several prominent
lawyers, who had been consulted, scout the
idea that Texas has any more claim on the
Federal Government than any other South
ern State. They consider the scheme
very foolish one, and that il anybody is
engaged in il, which is regarded as doubt
full, IL is for political purposes.
BEN Brown, a colored waiter, was re-
Gently arrested for robbing the Eldridge
mansion at Norfolk, Conn, Of five thou
sand dollars worth Of diamonds and jew
elry and four hundred dollars in gold coin.
Tue Prince Of Wales and members Of
the Executive Committee Of the late Inter
national Fisheries Exhibition in London
have conveyed to the American Govern
ment n special expression Of gratitude at
the admirable manner in which the United
States effectively responded to the appeal
for cooperation at the exhibition.
The Annisquam mill at Rockport, Mass,
was recently damaged by fire 10 the extent
Of $4,000 The mill was built in 1876.
ALL the United States Deputy Marshals
at Mobile, Ala, have been removed.
a TRAIN on the Union Pacific road was
recently snow bound for thirty-six hours.
near Deer Trail, Colo, about one hundred
miles west Of Denver.
THE Union Rolling Mills at Cleveland. o.
were mostly destroyed by fire the other
morning. Loss on building, $4,000; ma
chiuery, probably SGO,OC0.
SANFORD Toll recently committed sui
eide by hanging himself In his cell in Jail
az Muncie. Ind. He was under sentence
for twenty-one years for assault with ina
tent to kill the Sheriff.
AMONG the measures introduced by Con-
gresham Anderson recently was bill re-
ducing the Fort Riley Reservation, and a
bill amending the Thurman Sinking Fund
act. The latter bill provides for the assert.
ment by the Secretary OF the Treasury OF
the total indebtedness, principal and inter
est, Of the Pacific Railroads, after which
the roads are required 20 pay one-tenth
thereof annually after January, 1885, OF
else be placed i'm the hands of receiver.
A RECENT Suakim dispatch stated that
there was n panic among the Egyptian
officials. The fall OF the garrisons at Tokai
aud Senkat was expected daily, owing q
starvation. Il was also stated that 9th
man, chief of the slave dealers, was killed
in late fight. The British ship Ranger
holds Suakim, and there was no fear fol
the safety OF the Europeans.
WITHIN the past few weeks the desertions
from the United States forces stationed Al
Fort Douglas, Utah, have been one hun
dred and fifty.
The Palace Legislative Chambers Al
Brussels burned recently. Nearly all the
documents connected with the foundation
OF Belgium independence, including the
original constitutional charter, were de
stroyed. The damage by FIRE was reported
at Il 100000 francs.
AT the beginning Of the last fiscal yeai
there remained in the Treasury to tn,
credit OF the Quartermastsr's Department
Il, ls2, 2se.65. The sum appropriated wa,
81, s75, 900, and the balance undrawn a
the close OF the year 81 ,295 ,25e.IO.
AT East Saginaw, Mich, William Amber
shot his brother, nistaking him for burg
lar.
Boxs playing about a haystack in Ia
cross, Wis, on the 10Th discovered tn