Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-03

ly young ladies and children.
ESTIMATES made at the Treasury Depart
nent seemed to indicate the possibility o
q call for for three and one-half per cen
bonds to considerable amount, abou
S2O,OOO,OOO, before the close of the presen
month.
IN attempting to step from the top of on
car to another, Conductor Charles Merrill
of the Hannibal & st. Joe Railroad, wa
recently killed at Chillicothe, Mo.
HARDY, the Polk County. Iowa, muir
derer' was taken from Jail at Harlan by
mob and hanged.
The Chinese have prohibited the expor
OF bullocks for tho use Of the French troops
In Tonquin. Two cargoes Of cattle wer,
detained at Hainan. The French Admira
made strong complaint and the British
Consul also protested.
GEORGE KANE, Harry Suffer and Worth
ington Mccullough, of Cumberland, and {
young man from Frostburg, Nd, Will,
rowing on the Potomac in boat recently
were capsized and all drowned.
The barn of John Alsup, near Spring
field, Mo-, was recently burned, together
with several hundred bushels of grain, ter
sets of harness, a lot of hay and other ar
ticles. The fire was the work of iRcen
diaries, two of whom Mr.. Alsup saw and
shot at near the burning building just after
the fire was discovered.
RECENTLY the Pierce Lumber Company
of New Jersey purchased 5000 acres Of
land in Saline County, Ark.
THE Pope has donated a picture to the
Detroit, (Mich.), Art Loan Exhibition OF
September and October next, and as first
gift towards future permanent museum
The various commercial bodies of New
Orleans few days ago adopted resolu
ton that the Board of Health be requested
70 petition the Governor of Louisiana tc
have infected vessels now in the waters OF
the State removed, and that he issue his
proclamation that henceforth no vessel
from any infected port be permitted to en-,
ter the waters of the State.
THE trial of Orth H. Stein, at Kansas
City, Mo-, for the shooting of George Fred
ericks, proprietor of the Theatre Comioue
resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree with imprisonment in
the Penitentiary for twenty-five years.
Iowa coal miners and mine operators
held joint convention at Des Moines re-
Gently. About $500 miners were repre-.
scented. The object of the convention was
to consider the best means of bringing
about amicable adjustment of differences
and prevention of strikes. A committee.
composed of representatives from both
parties, was appointed with instructions to
formulate basis for work, and report to
another joint meeting to be held August 20.
THE men employed in the yard gang OF
Newcastle, Del, who have been receiving
81 week, struck for IS, and refused com.
promise on $3.50.
THE other night a boat containing eight
men and two young girls, all colored, who
were crossing the James River near Rich.
mond, Va, TO attend prayer meeting at
Sandy Point, upset and eight of the party
were drowned.
The steamship Andian, with yellow fever,
arrived at Newport News, Va, and was
ordered below quarantine station. All
foreign vessels entering the capes will be
stopped If sickness is on board.
The notorious Clay Crenshaw, who de.
fed the Sunday Law of Missouri, by keep.
ing his saloon open in Kansas City the first
Sunday after the law took effect, Withdrew
his plea of not guilty when he went to
trial and pleaded guilty. His fine and costs
amounted TO about 500.
The wsst-bOund freight train on the
wabash road, recently jumped the track
near Lawson, Mo-, and turned over There
were number of passengers in the caboose.
One was killed and several injured, two
ladies it was thought fatally.
NJ. A. DAUPHIN, of the Louisiana Lottery
Company, recently entered suit in the dis.
trict court at Washington City against
Walter .. Gresham, Postmaster General,
for 100000 damages for directing the post.
master at New Orleans not to pay money
orders drawn in his favor.
CAIRO, EGYPT, reported FIVE hundred
deaths from cholera on the 23d.
JAMES WILL telegraph operator of At.
lanta. Ca, who had withdrawn from tn
strikers and returned to work, was shot ana
seriously wounded the other dav by an un.
known person who fired through the win.
dow Of the Office. The Western Union
Company offered a reward of 81 900 for the
conviction of the man who fired the shot.
The report that the President of the
Western Union had cabled from London Ia
his manager in New York to concede the
| demand of the telegraph strikers was de.
MED by the manager.
CAPTAIN WEBB who has won a world
wide reputation as a swimmer, and who
successfully swan the British Channel in
1873, recently made the fool-hardy attempt
TO swim the Niagara River at Suspension
Bridge and was swept into the whirlpool
and lost.
THE American Rapid Company has
posted in its office In Washington and sent
to newspapers notice of its compromise
with the brotherhood of Telegraph Opera
| tors, and the news was received will
demonstrations of joy by the strikers in
various parts Of the country.
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