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

FEW days since the steamship Mace
donna arrived at New York and reported
having rescued from the bark Davis the
captains wife, two children, mate and wife
and six Of the crew. The captain, second
mate and carpenter were washed overheard
before the Macedonia sighted the bark.
COAL miners along the line of the She
mango 81 Allegheny Railroad, in Pennsyl-
vania, are all on n strike because of a re-
duction Of ten cents per ton, except the
miners at COaltown and Harrisville, they
having accepted the reduction and gone to
work.
AT TaylOrsville, Ills, the other day Jacob
Hadley, stone cutter, shot and killed his
son Charles, aged twenty. Hadley was
drunk at the time, and tried to drown him
self after the shooting.
GEORGE RANKIN, was convicted of pen
sion frauds in the United States district
court, at Philadelphia, Pa, and sentenced
to two years Imprisonment.
WILLIAM Dixon and six of his family
were recently poisoned at White Hall, ILL.,,
by drinking coffee made from water that
it was thought had been poisoned by rats,
rat-poison having been put out the day pre-
vious. Prompt medical aid saved the lives
] Of those poisoned.
THE other night, John Bagley, we'll
known sporting man, was fatally shot i'm
the Marble Hall saloon Mt Kansas City, by
Julius Hooks, bartender, who playfully
pointed pistol at him, when it was dis
charged. He was the second victim of
such playfnlness in that city within few
weeks.
BUTTERwoRTH & Co., manufacturers and
dealers in boots and shoes, Cincinnati, have
failed, with liabilities of 100000.
The corner stone of the new capitol build.
ing was laid at Bismarck, the new capital
of Dakota on the 9th with great ceremony.
AT Gainesville, Texas, c. ID. Sharpe, for
outrageously assaulting his step-daughter,
aged fifteen, was assessed by the jury a
term of fifty years in the Penitentiary and
he is yet to be tried for a similar assault
upon younger sister of his victim
OVER 5000 people attended the recent
G.. A. X. reunion at Hastings, Neb.
AT a late parade of the labor organiza.
tions of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City
and adjacent cities about 10000 men were
in line, representing almost every branch
of labor.
STANDARD dollars issued during the week
H.
i97 against $4,000 for the corresponding
period last year.
II is understood that the report Of the
Hill Investigating Committee will criticize
in the severest manner the conduct of the
Supervising Architects office, and recon-
mend an abridgment of the powers of this
official; that the investigation showed
gross carelcssness and a general looseness
i'm carrying on business, and the inaugural
ton of a pernicious system of favoritism.
The State Department recently received
a note from the American Consul at Bor-
deaux, France, containing extracts from
the proceedings of the Chambers of Com
merce of Paris and other cities wherein
they represent to the French Government
that the loss caused by the prohibition to
the merchant marine and the country in
freights, etc, to be great, that the sanitary
question had been decided by n commission
OF public hygiene adversely to tho prohibit
ton, that by prohibition the working classes
had been deprived of cheap food and the
price of food increased, and that as long as
the prohibition lasts retaliation may be ex-
pected from the United States. They asked
that American pork be made free and the
Two hundred persons have been arrested
in the province of Girgenti, Italy, charged
with brigandage. Among those arrested
were a priest, several land owners and
members of the Communal Councils.
AT Manchester, Clay County, KY, in the
mountainous part of the State. one day last
week, Marshal Marcum, assisted by ex.
Marshal Hacker, attempted to arrest Jud
Links, when A. Stivers interfered and
MORALLY wounded Hacker. Links fatally
stabbed Marcum. AS soon as they heard of
Hackers death, his brothers armed them.
selves and shot and killed Stivers. Links
was also shot and slightly wounded and
finally arrested.
AT the Berlin (Prussia) depot some days
since a crowd of people made a rush to
board an excursion train when another
train ran into the crowd, killing seventeen
men, eighteen women and four children.
After the catastrophe the railway was
found covered for one hundred yards with
bodies shockingly mutilated. OF family
of five persons only one escaped.
In the st. Louis Court of Criminal Cor.
rection the other day over 800 cases against
saloon keepers for selling beer on Sunday
were nolle pressed on the suggestion of the
court. This ended for the present the fight
against the saloon-keepers. This action
was taken in view of Judge Noonan's late
decision, sustaining the law of 1857, under
which, in st. Louis City, by a special act
adopted by vote of the people, the sale of
beer and wine on Sunday was permitted.
A FIRE in the Missouri Planning Mill at
st. Louis suffocated William Bell, a car
penter, and badly burned W. j. Wilder.
man, engineer.