Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-13


present Warden of the Penitentiary.
The examination OF the cash In the Treasury.
is in progrvs; at Washington, ana there are
sixty persons, including the female counters,
engaged IN this work underthe supervision OF
the General Committee. 1t viii require
several weeks to complete the examination.
Lordsburg, Ariz., dispatch says: There
has been no news from CaI tain Black and his
company. 1t is generally believed that they
have been ambushed and annihilated by the
Indians.
In the celebrated case of CharlesF. Kring,
under sentence OF death at st. Lodis for a
murder committed nearly eight years ago, the
United States Supreme Court decided BY
bare majority that the law under which he was
| convicted was ex post facto in its application
to his case and the Judgment was reversed
and the case remanded. s-...
The large leather board mills and out build
| ings at Leominster, Mass, owned and man
aged by Colonel A. Harwood. burned recently.
Loss, 100000; insurance, $1,000
Miss Az VI. Church, a school teacher, disap-
peared from Norfolk, Neb., about the first of
the year, and no trace of her whereabouts
was discovered until a few days since, when
her dead body, partly eaten by wolves, was
found on the prairie three miles north of
Stanton. The supposition was that she sui
| cided, as she wrote on an envelope TO ship her
body TO Park Mills, n. Y, where her parents
lived.
The public debt statement for March was:
Cash in Treasurv, S3l5, O34 9S3. 46; debt less
cash in Treasury, 81 sat, 931, 2SS 10; decrease
of debt during the month, 1894, $50. % I;
decrease OF debt since June 80, 1882, Sill, 9S3,-
l72.56. E'a- 81
| Father Walsh, OF ewaterbury, Conn, sent
$1,000 to the people of the starving districts
in Ireland.
Professor Charles A. Heard was arrested at
Waco, Texas, the other day on requisition
| from the Governor Of Illinois on the charge
of forgery committed five years ago. at Nc,
Leansboro, in that State. -+
The Department of Agriculture viii shortly
establish near Washington City an expert
mental farm and hospital for the treatment of
domestic animals, with view Of ascertaining
BY series of careful scientific experiments
what are the causes OF such diseases as Texas
fever, pleuro-pneumonia, etc, and what are
the best methods OF preventing or curing
them.
Robert Dunn, OF Bloomington, Ills, recent
ly shot and probably fatally wounded his wife,
and fired at and missed his son, a young man,
and then attacked his daughter with knife,
but was overpowered by the son before doing
any injury to her =
When the news came of the murder OF
Judge McComas and wife by Indians in New
| Mexico, it was reported that his son. six years
old, had been carried of. Later reports,
however, say the body of the child was found
! nv tha froOno paar gHuar Cifu Tha l;ttIo
fellow had been Drained. s
The Cuban authorities issued. DEGREES or.
dering the examination by the Board Of
Health OF all American lard packed in kegs or
other wooden packages.
The steamship Weria, from Europe, brought
to New York 755, 900 francs and $3.50, 900 in
gold coin and bars.
| Fred Green and James Ingraham, who were
arrested for the assassination and robbery Of
g. NJ. illett, at Hastings, Neb., last week,
were hanged by mob few days later.
Michael Davitt has written a vigorous letter
to the young Irish Society of Glasgow, in which
he says the dynamite policy can only have the
effect of exasperating the English democracy
He says it would be far better to work and
wait for another twenty years than to
play into the hands of Ireland's enemies by
giving reign TO despair and revenge.
The war in passenger rates which was in
progress for few DAYS between the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific and the Kansas CITY,
st. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railways came
to an end by the former rates being restored
During the cut a considerable number OF st.
Paul tickets were bought by spectators.
The other day boy threw a lighted match
into the man hole of a sewer in Baltimore, and
an explosion followed. 1t damaged the street
and houses to the extent Of $4,000. While
removing the debris, the bodies OF Charles A.
\ Mccarthy and Andrew Hintenach, children,
were found in the sewer. They were playing
| in the street at the time of the explosion.
| A Santa Fe, N. NJ, special says: There 4,
some apprehension Of general outbreak at
San Carlos Agency. The Fourth Cavalry has
been ordered from Fort Stanton to Fort Sci.
don, and to scour the country between the
Rio Grande and Deming. Another company
is scouting between Silver City ana Lords.
burg. Mexican advices report a maraudinR
band had been down from Sonora into Ari.
iona, but before crossing the savages killed
6fty-tbo people south of the Mexican bound.
airy. Nothing had been heard from Captair
Blacks command.