Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-14
mISCELLANEOUs.

mISCELLANEOUS.
THE planning mill Of Eldridge & Sons, mt
Fort Howard, near Green Bay, Wis, and
one million feet Of lumber burned recently.
Loss, S2OO,OO0; insurance $4,000.
THE Acting Secretary of the Navy re-
Gently cabled instructions 20 the command
ing officers Of the Juniata and Enterprise,
at Singapore, to proceed with those vessels
To the Strait Of Sunda, TO examine into the
condition Of affairs there, and particularly
the effects Of the recent earthquakes on the
islands in that vicinity. They are ordered
20 warn all merchant vessels of all dangers
to navigation which may have been caused
by the convulsion.
BUSINESS failures for the seven DAYS
ending August 81, were 1856, as compared
with l6j the previous week.
TREASURER WYMAN the other day mailed
II ,913 checks for -, lG3,Ol9, representing in
terest due September lst on registered four
and one-half per cents.
THE cholera seems to have nearly disap-
peared from Egypt, or else is not reported.
THERE were twenty-nine deaths from
yellow fever in Havana the past week.
THE mill of the Minnemacher Milling
Company at Milwaukee, Wis, was recent
ly damaged by fire $50 900, supposed to
have been spontaneous combustion.
The public debt statement for August
showed: Cash in Treasury, SOL 800, 0SG;
debt less cash in the Treasury, - ,53G, 5lS,-
'OO; decrease during August, 1851 ,SJl; de-
crease since July %, 1883, S14,j72, AZ.
THE official report showed there had been
27,3lS deaths from cholera in Egypt since
the outbreak Of the epidemic to September
l. There had been 40 deaths among the
British troops stationed in Egypt.
THE authorities Of Port Townsend, Wash
ington Territory, have been notified Of the
smuggling of Cinnamon to this country
along the coast.
The difference between several west
bound routes as To passenger rates between
Cincinnati and st. Louis, eliminated last
week in an announcement of the Louisville
q Nashville Railroad that frst-class pas
senger tickets would be sold for $50. The
regular price is $40.
JOHN PoNNELLY, Waterman at the Treas
ury Department in Washington, recently
shot himself owing to domestic trouble.
The mail train bound west on the Wa
bash road the other morning ran over and
killed Mrs. Allen aud her daughter, n
Mrs. Johnson, at Sampson Creek bridge,
near Pattonsburg, Mo. The body Of each
was fearfully manglcd.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago & North
western Railroad was recently wrecked at
Crescent City, Iowa, and Conductor Wesley
Mum and Engineer Wabin instantly killed.
"A STEAM engine attached to a threshing
machine exploded in grain field, six miles
north Of Frankfort, ID. T., instantly killing
w. BOnnell, Clarence Reed, Geo. Strom and
an unknown man, and injuring five others,
Tour ot whom were i'm critical condition
SPECIALS from San Saba, Texas, say such
drouth rs exists i'm that portion Of Texas,
has not been experienced for many years
From San Saba through Mccullough and
Concho Counties, extensive prairie fires
have ragged, destroying a vast extent OF
range. Stock men will suffer heavy loss.
THE other afternoon a fire broke out in
the rag and paper warehouse of Henry
brennan q Co., Cincinnati, and quickly
communicated to the Times Star office and
other buildings. Several Of the employees
OF the paper house were fatally injured by
jumping from the windows, and FIVE girls
were missing and IL was feared they were
burned. A spectator was crushed against
the wall by hook and ladder company
and fatally injured. The loss 20 property
was about 100000, Of which the Times Star
Office sustained $4,000.
A DRoUTH Of two months duration i'm
Virginia has nearly ruined the corn, cotton
and tobacco crops, and dried upthe streams
AT late hour the other night a man
boarded the train at Smithfeld, Utah, and
covering eight passengers and two train
men with a revolver. relieved them of their
watches and money and then made his es-
cape in the darkness.
Ed. SLAUGHTER, alias f. II. Shaw, was
jailed ut Dallas, Texas, the other day for
horse stealing. He had been Superinten-
dent Of n Sunday School Mt Lisbon and had
been exhorting at number of other places.
When arrested he had in his pocket moral
lecture written 10 be delivered at Sunday
School. He is from New York and twenty
five years old.
FREDERICK M. KER, the defaulting en-
ploye of Che banking firm of Preston, Kean
q CO., Of Chicago, who fed last winter and
was brought back from South America by
detective, sued out writ of habeas cor
pus, returnable September II, in which he
charged that he had been kidnapped by the
detectives.
MAR Camp Supply. Indian Ter, the
other day, @. c. Smith, Of Oxford, Ala,
boss Of the Dominion Cattle Company's
outfit, was shot through the head and in
stantly killed by Al Thurman. foreman for
the Jackson Cattle Company, in a dispute
about a stockIrange.
DR.. CHALFANT, who shot DR.. Bacon, agent
Of the Boston Rubber Tooth Plate Company,
in April, 1873, in San Francisco, and was
sentenced for ten years, recently escaped
from the California Penitentiary.
AT the Treasury Department considerable
anxiety was felt in regard TO the United
States revenue steamer Manhattan, which
left Quebec on August ., for Eastport,
Maine. IL was feared she had been caught
by the late severe storm in the gulf Of st.
Lawrence and lost
LATER estimates Of the loss Of life by the
recent volcanic eruptions upon the island
OF Java placed the number Of those who
persisted at 10000.
The Lyndale Hotel, at Minneapolis,
MINI, where President Wizards guests
were recently bnnqueted, was partially de-
stroyed by ere the 70 lowing morning.
JuD0E HoADLY, Democratic candidate