Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-19
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| Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of
Tennessee, has been arrested at San Antonio.
Texas
In fight between the Albanian and Euro
pean members OF the police force at Alexan-
dria, Egypt, one Albanian was killed and six
dangerously wounded Two European police
were injured.
The InmAn line steamer City of Brussels.
Capt Land, from New York, December %, for
Liverpool, was run down, In the British chan
mel by Glasgow steamer during fog on the
9TH, and ten persons were drowned. Two of
those drowned were passengers.
Jas. A. Scott, one of the pioneers Of Kansas,
committed suicide by strychnine In Kansas
City last week. He had been wealthy, but
lost all his money in Kansas and Texas. He
moved to Kansas City and opened q small
grocery store, but his previous losses preyed
upon his mind to fatal extent. His age was
forty-eight He left wife and babe.
The northern part Of Ohio was recently
shaken up by the shock of an earthquake.
Mr.. Anderson, Of Kansas, has introduced a
bill In Congress to create q postal telegraph
OF the United States, and provides that the
Government issue bonds to the amount Of
5000, 900, redeemable in twenty years and
payable in thirty years, and at the expiration
Of ten years there shall be set aside from
the earnings OF the telegraph $500, 600
per year, to form a sinking fund for
the payment OF the bonds. The bill also pro-
vides that there shall be q uniform rate OF
twenty-five cents per message Of ten words or
less, and twenty-five cents for every additional
ten words. 1t contemplates telegraph postal
Office at every postoffce where there is q car
rier system.
The President approved the act to reimburse
Oregon and California and the citizens thereof
for money paid in the suppression of Indian
hostilities during the Modoc war. Also an act
to provide for holding the District Court of the
United States at Wichita, Kansas.
Herbert Gye, Of the Mapleson Opera Com
pany, recently boarded train in Philadelphia,
and put his valise containing nearly 5000 in
money, checks and jewelry in a seat. He then
went to the platform of the car for moment
to inquire the cause of trifing accident
When he returned to his seat, his valise had
been stolen and q well-dressed stranger was
missing.
The Secretary OF the Navy asks further
appropriation to put the Pensacola Navy Yard
in a state Of efficiency.
The steamer City Of Brussels, recently sunk
in the British Channel, carried out from New
York forty-one bags of letters aud eighty six
bags OF newspapers. For delivery at Queens
town there were &c, 604 letters, 2,4l9 of which
were registered, and sixty-eix baes of news.
papers. For Liverpool there were 1,7l9 let
tiers, sixty of them being registered, and
twenty bags OF newspapers. One bag of let.
tiers and two OF newspapers were from Boston
and the same quantity from Philadelphia
Neither passengers nor crew were able to save
anything, and many persons were obliged to
leave the ship with but little clothing. The
cargo Of the Brussels was va lued at about
$3.50 coo and the vessel at $S00,0O0.
At ball in Bedford County, Va, lately, 4.
young lady, Idelle Read, said to Scott Clay
ton, who was calling figures, that he was not
calling correctly. He made some sharp re-
sponse, which was resented by one of Miss
Reads admirers, Armsted Barksdale. The
latter called Clayton out and hot word:
passed. Barksdale drew knife, sprang or
Clayton and severed his iugular vein, causing
immediate death.
A fearful calamity was visited upon NIL
waukee, Wis, on the morning OF Januar,
10. Just before daylight the Newhall House
the second largest hotel In the city, Was dis
covered TO be on fire. Somewhere hear 3O(
persons were asleep In the building, q si1
story structure, At the time, and the build
Ing, which was Of . highly infammablt
| character, was soon q mass OF flames. The
scenes which followed were heartrending
With all means Of escape cut OF, the
guests rushed hither and thither through
the building, panic-stricken and dismayed
Some were fortunate enough TO escape by
presence OF mind; others were saved by dint
OF the superhumAn efforts of the brave fire
men. Many In their alarm spranR into thu
sea Of flames; others fed to adjoining house
tops; not q few jumped from windows and
were mangled upon the stone pavements be
low; nearly hundred, il is feared, persisted
and perhaps the removal OF the debris may re
veal a still greater horror. Thousands gathered
on the sidewalks, but were so paralyzed Will
horror as to be unable to render any assist
ance TO the pleading victims who appeared a
windows and upon the roof of the hotel anc
begged for help. At a third-story window
Allen Johnson, q welLknown commission
merchant, and his wife appeared. A canva.
was stretched below the windows OF thei
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seeching them to Jump. Mr.. johnson kisseC
his wife, then leaped into the air and sho
downward into the canvas, but his weight wal
such that the canvas was pulled out Of tn,
hands OF the few who held it, and he alig1hteS
on the ground AMI was killed. His VIII,
followed Her body struck the verandal
and fell to the ground lifeless. About q dozeI
jumped from the Michigan street front. Eacl
leap meant death or shattered limbs. As earl,
as 6 O'Clock the bodies of seven unfortunat,
waiter girls were stretched upon the snow
and ice with broken limbs, writhing in agon,
until death ended their suffefings. Afte
almost superhuman efforts, ladders wer
stretched from the roof of the bank building
across the alley to the sixth story of the hotel
and the brave iremen carried ten girls acros
the frail bridge, four of them being dead
The maze OF telegraph wires encircling thu
building on the south and east sdes playe,
sad havoc with the unfortupates who mad
the frightful leap for life. Several o
the bodies were fairly cut In two b
the wires, and their torn and bleed
inR forms would drop to the ground
Others would hit the wires crossways, re