Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
mIsCELLANEOUs.

beverage.
DIsCELLANEOUS
/ A STABLE nt the fair grounds I'm Lexing-
ton, KY, burned the other night consuming
seven Zine trotting horses, owned by James
Shackelford, mostly Of the Wilkes stock
The horses were valued at $4,000.
WILLIAM II. OsTRANDER was hanged in
Utica, ". Y, for the murder Of his brother,
George l. Ostrander, December ~, 1880.
Upon the scaffold he did not want any one
10 pray for him, and was frequently pro-
fame aud obscene.
"A RIOT broke out in the Labor quarter Of
Alexandria, Egypt, the other night in con-
sequence 81 the report that the English
doctors were poisoning natives. The mob
attempted 10 destroy the ambulances, cry
ing; death 20 the Christians" The out
break was easily quelled by the British
troops.
The Treasury Department having been
informed Of the seizure at Richmond Of the
schooner +. q. Irwin for carrying munitions
OF war in violation Of the neutrality law,
has ordered the Captain of the vessel de-
tanned until the matter is fully investigated.
THE First Comptroller of the Treasury
recently heard the argument in regard To
the claims of the States of Tennessee and
New York for balances due from the pro-
ceeds Of sales Of public lands.
THE Louisville Exposition is reported TO
be great success both financially and as
an exposition. For the first week in Au-
gust the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
earnings were S269, 40, against Sl24, 7o5 last
year, gain OF twenty per cent, though
passenger rates are reduced 10 one fare for
the round trip.
THE Quartermaster General having OBJ
tanned authority from the Secretary Of
War, has ordered the purchase Of one thou
sand additional drab campaign hats in
order that they may receive further and
more extensive trial by troops in Arizona
and the department Of Missouri.
The value OF exports of petroleum and
petroleum products for the twelve months
ended June %, 1888, was S440iS,079 against
ST. ,2}2, COG for the same time last yeur.
1T Is understood that the Government of
New South Wales has consented TO allow
the infOrmeTs in the Phoenix Park murder
cases, who went out on the steamer Pathon,
To land, and have promised TO protect them.
THE English doctors now at Alexandria,
Egypt, who had been in India i'm a cholera
epidemic, report tho disease now prevail
ing in Egypt Of n distinctly different char
actcr from Asiatic cholera.
THE strike 81 the Pan Handle Railroad
telegraphers inaugurated at Pittsburg, Pa,
is over. All the operators who left their
instruments returned 10 work, the COM
psny reinstating them with the under.
standing that they leave the Brotherhood.
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Vineyard was almost completely DESTROYED
by fire recently. Tho loss was over $500
On. The territory burned over embraced
about fifty acres OF the heart % the village,
and left hundreds Of people homeless.
A DISPATCH received at the Indian De-
partment announced the Greek Indian
troubles settled in a manner satisfactory Ia
all parties, and peace Is henceforth assured.
REPoRr comes from Queretero, Mexico,
that Corlena was in that place recently
with no revolutionists. From reliable re-
ports u Is probable the Northern States
Of Mexico will be in state Of revolution
before the year is out. The complaint
seems ~ be against manifest usurpation of
power by the General Government at the
city Of Mexico.
THE Kimball House at Atlanta, Ga,
burned at five o'clock the other morning.
The proprietor ordered the guests aroused
and they successfully left the building, al
though Il burned rapidly. The hotel cost
$4,000 and furniture S125OO0. Only $50.
600 insurance.
The issue Of standard silver dollars from
the mint for the week ended August. IL
was S3O7 800; for the corresponding period
last year, $40, 900.
The Subcommittee Of the United State,
Senate Committee on Labor and Education
began It's sessions in New York on tn,
18th. The special subject of investigation
was strikes and labor movements; its gen
eral objects being 20 obtain information
which may be used In securing future leg
islation 10 prevent them.
THE Centennial of the incorporation O
|, the city Of Charleston, s. C., was celebrate,
on the 18th. Mayor Courtney delivere,
the Centennial address, and the ode b,
Paul Hayne was read. The marble bust o
Robert Hayne was unveiled. The MAYO
. presented the city q marble bust, heroi
e size, Of James l.. Pettigrew. At night Their
was n grand display of fireworks whicl
n brought out the largest gathering eve
known in Charleston.
. A FATAL disease resembling cholera wa
4 reported ~ prevailing in Berks County
j Pa. Some fifty had already died and aft
n more were fatally sick.
n MANY Of the telegraph wires leadin
from New York City to various parts of th
country were recently cut, the companie
alleged by the strikers but the telegrapher
y declared the Brotherhood had nothing I
e do with Il.
4 THE rise In the Nile Is greater than Ia
been for years, and continues. Great dan
age has been done TO crops in parts {
Egypt, and IL was thought the harve:
would be destroyed unless measures wer
taken TO prevent the approach Of Ii
= water.
! ASN KITCHEN, Of Randolph County, Mo
e recehtly shot and killed her husband b,
9 cause she wished 70 live with another ma
i. bearing Der husbands name. She and he
!. lover were arrested
TEE Consul General Of the United STATE
for Roumania, reported to the Departmer
Of State, that sccording to a test case r,
d Gently decided, that petroleum Of Amer
3 can origin II transhipped at an EngIis
n port may Be admitted into Roumania dut
free, owing to the British treaty with thr
country.
The private insane asylum In town Z
!. ting. Essex County, England, burned n
u Gently. Five Of the inmates persisted, an
4 others were severely burned. Or. Boyt
n propristor Of the institution, was kille
4 While attempting 70 save the lives Of p'
|. TENTS. His son also persisted In the fame
THE Grand Chapter OF the Royal Arc
= hascns Of The United States, In ssssion
! Denver, Colo, ,lect,d he following q