Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

JONI BoNNERs, a drunken brute living
in the vicinity of Rockville, Ind, recently
locked his wife out doors because she re.
fused him money. She went to the woods
with her children and while building a fire
her clothing took fire and she was burned
20 death.
CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN was shot and
killed the other day in San Francisco, Cal.
The tragedy was the result of seventeen
years litigation. Mclaughlin was the
President of the Central Gas Light Com.
pany, a large capitalist and land owner,
and ranked among the millionaires. He
was the promoter Of the old overland mail
route, which made considerable money in
1852. He contracted to build the Western
Paoific Railroad from San Jose 10 Sacra.
mento for - 400, 900, and sublet the grading
and masonry work 10 Cox. Out Of this
grew the law suits that led to the final
tragedy.
COLONEL BouDINor entered suit recently
i'm the Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumbia against Colonel Phillips, 10 recover
So, 800 alleged to have been received by
Phillips from the Cherokee Nation, under
plea that tho same was TO be paid to certain
high officials for their influence i'm securing
the $4,000 appropriation made last ses.
sion 60 pay for Cherokee lands.
ADvIcEs were recently received at OF
tawa (Canada) Of the discovery Of new
gold mines in the Rocky Mountains, a mile
north Of Padmore. British America. The
find was reported 10 be an immense bo-
uanza.
CHARLES CUMMINGS was arrested at
Denver, recently, for passing counterfeit
money. IL is charged that few weeks
ago he flooded the town Of Salida, Colo,
with the bogus stuff, and then, after dis
posing Of n quantity in bulk TO another
party, left the country. A detective had
been following him for some time.
A PASSENGER train recently coIlided
with a freight train on the Georgia Central
Railroad, south of Savannah. Both trains
were wrecked. ]. +. Wilson, Of Davisboro,
Ca, was killed; o. II. and s. b. Stevens,
OF Barlow, Ca, badly wounded; Fanny
Freeman, Of Milledgeville, leg broken and
Mike Falvey, fireman. badly injured.
FRANZ LIDDLE was recently arrested at
Lincoln, Neb., upon the charge Of rifing
registered letters while he was assistant
postmaster at Ames. Iowa.
The value OF exports Of breadstuffs in
November 1888 was 81, 657 ,325 against $751;
200, l04 for the same time last year; for the
eleven months ended November 20, 1888,
S159, TS9, 406; corresponding time last year
Sl65, ,O75.
FRANK JANIS was released on bail at
Kansas City, upon the charge Of participa-
ting in the Blue Cut train robbery, but be-
fore leaving the court room was again ar
rested by an officer from Gallatin, No.,
upon a warrant charging him with the
murder OF Captain Sheets. He was taken
to Gallatin for trial.
CHARLES H. Walkers sugar house, near
Franklin, Bayou Fouche, La, burned re-
Gently. Loss, $6J,000; insurance, SO, 900.
Il was the largest refinery In the State out
side Of New Orleans, and made the best
white sugar.
TEE other night q small house in Calves
ton, Tex, occupied by an old man named
Carmichael, burned When the flames were
extinguished the charred remains OF Car
michael were found on the floor. Il was
supposed he was murdered and the house
fired to conceal the crimes His house
keeper. Amelia Redmon, was arrested, and
the police were looking for male ac-
quaintance Of hers.
TEE trsstls used in erecting the new
canal bridge at Crescent, Saratoga Coun-
ty, N. Y, fell recently, precipitating i've
men twenty feet 70 the canal bottom. All
were injured. four probably fatally.
Sioux CRY. Iowa. has . local heroine m
the person Of = Ms Todd, Who recently
secured her sight-year-old daughter under
adverse circumstances She journeyed to