Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-01


and no tax on capital and deposits of State
banks or private banks since the first day
Of last September.
The President issued an order closing all
the Executive Departments on Decoration
Day.
HEAVY frosts appeared generally
throughout the country on the 23d. In IL
linois, especially, was much damage re-
ported to fruit and other crops.
| The ceremonies of the coronation OF the
! Gar were inaugurated in an imposing man.
ner at Moscow on the I'D. The streets of the
\ Russian capital were crowded and the pa
/ geant was represented being the gI1nd-
est OF the present century. Nothing oc-
CURED to mar the pleasure or cast a cloud
over the inaugrrating ceremonies, and roy
atty was in its glory. Tho festivities will
continue fourteen days.
4 CHIHUAHUA dispatch states that sixty
Indians from the United States, parsed
near Carman (Mexico) on the 18th. AT
! Magnes Pass they killed and beheaded one
man and threw the head away after carry
! ing il some miles. They killed a Mexican
mt San Lorenzo, one at Buenaventura, and
two at San Rinazo.
DELANEY, one of the Phoenix Park MUIR
derers. has been reprieved.
4 THE American Sunday School Union held
its fifty-ninth anniversary at Hartford,
Conn, last week. General Hawley pre-
sided and made the opening address.
/ The other principal addresses were by Rev.
I c. l.. Goodell, of st. Louis, and Ex-Governor
A. II. Colquitt, of Atlanta, Ga.
WALTER DUNDsEx shot and killed Mrs.
Nellie Dodson the other afternoon at Jer.
sSyville, Ills, and then shot himself but
only inflicted a slight wound. He Is in
Jail.
Mrs. r. J. McMILLIE, Of Londonville,
Ohio, while in fit of temporary insanity,
recently drowned her two children, aged
six and two years, in a well and then took
poison herself.
THE house Of Alfred Cole, at Buckfield,
Me-, was entered by burglars the other
night, Mr.. and Mrs. Cole chloroformed and
5000 i'm currency stolen.
THE Trustees Of Williams College, of
North Adams, Mass, received a check for
$4,000 from A. ID. German, of Albany, to
found a Professorship of Natural Theology
i'm memory of the donors deceased son,
who was a student of Williams.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that the 100000 appropriated for the
prevention of special epidemic diseases
shall be disbursed by the Surgeon General
Of the marine hospital service.
OVER S2,OOO,OOO in United States notes
and gold and silver certificates were re-
duced to pulp i'm the Treasury Department
the other day. This is greatly in excess of
the average amounts destroyed.
Tur Denarfn.put IF ba Tnta,-;or 10. L.
cided not 10 interfere with the Creek In
dian trouble, and the entire matter has
been turned over to the War Department.
Commissioners will go to Okmulgee, the
capital of the Greek Nation, with Indian
Agent Tuft, to investigate the claims to
citizenship made by large number of per.
sons. They will visit the capitals of all
the civilized tribes for the same purpose.
There are over two thousand persons in the
entire Territory who claim to be Indians,
but who are not recognized as such by the
Indian authorities.
THE special committee appointed to in
vestigate che affairs of the office of the Su.
pervising Architect of the Treasury met in
Washington and organized by electing
Acting Secretary New Chairman and NJ. l..
McLennan Secretary. Mr. Murch was
present with counsel and said he had made
requisitiOn for additional papers in the
Architects offices, which he had Just re-
ceived and would like to examine carefully
before opening the case.
On the 2}d snow fell to the depth of one
foot on the line of the Richmond & ALE.
gheny Railroad, between Lynchburg, Va,
and Clifton Forge. The weather was ex.
ceedingly cold. Considerable damage was
done to crops.
SMALLPOX of a violent type has broken
out in the Lancaster (Pa.) County Prison,
and the institution has been placed in
quarantine.
THE brig II Sapere, from Buenos Ayres for
New York, foundered at sea recently. She
was laden with hides and ostrich feathers,
and insured for about 500, 900 on cargo and
vessel.
AT a fire i'm Greene street, New York
City the other morning, in a house in which
number of people were employed, there.
was a stampede, and il was rumored many
were burned to DEATH One woman was
taken out insensible and afterwards died.
The corpse of a child had also been recov.
cred.
NEAR Lynchburg, Va, the other day the
engineer and fireman of a freight train
quarreled about a lady, while the train was
in full motion, and the fireman fatally in.
jured the engineer with coal pick.
FORTY-FIvE veterans of the One Hundred
and Thirty-first Pennsylvania Regiment
recently visited the old battlefields near
Fredericksburg, Va. They were received
by many Confederate veterans with cor.
dial welcome, and were given hospitable
attention by citizens generally.
The recent unprecedented SHOWS, frosts
and cold weather created much uneasiness
as to crops in various sections Of the coun.
try.