Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

IT is reported that an American syndi'
cate has purchased the Real del Monte
COmpany's mines, of Mexico, for $1,000
600. These mines are located I'm Pachuaca.
and are said TO be very productive.
OS the afternoon of the 2sth the steamer
Riverdale took over one hundred passen-
gers aboard at the foot Of Harrison street,
in New York City, for Hayerstraw. Soon
after leaving her boilers exploded tearing
the vessel to fragments. Many of the pas
sengers were hurled into tho air and fell
back into the water. Others were com.
PEELED 20 jump into the river to escape the
kissing, scalding steam that had filed all
parts Of the vessel, or to avoid going down
with her. About fifty lives were reported
lost, some being blown to pieces and others
met their deaths by being drawn with tho
whirlpool caused by the sinking of the yes.
sell Those who were floating or swimming
about in the river were picked up by tugs
and row boats that went to the rescue.
A LATE hail storm did 100000 damage 10
the crops of Rock County, Wis, and So.
600 damage in the vicinity of Jerseyville,
Illinois.
JOHN J. HALL, of New Brunswick, n. j.,
has disappeared, and also a large amount
of money he borrowed. He also forged
notes to the amount of $4,000. He was q
contractor for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and it was an easy matter for him to Dor.
row from sub-contractors.
THERE was an accident on the Panhandle
road the other morning at Steubenville, o.,
near Mingo Junction, within one hundred
yards of the great disaster of 1878. An
east-bound freight, ten minutes late, col.
lided with the Cincinnati express and
passenger train, on tire. Both engines
and one postal carwere wrecked. Engineer
Chas. Woolf, of Dennison, o., and Clerks
VIM. NJ. Naoman and John b. Hoyt, both
Of indianapolis, were injured, Hoyt fatally.
DUEL was recently fought near Van
dalia, ILL.,, between Louis Phillips and
Jacob Rosenbrook, two young men of
Fayette County. Rosenbrook was
killed instantly and Phillips died soon
after, both being shot in the mouth. The
affair had its origin in grudge of long
standing, growing out of disrespectful re-
marks by Phillips concerning Rosenbrook's
sister.
ONE death and one new case Of yellow
ltNtT Ut ItnSaCpla on tue -ct0.
DURING the last fiscal year 81 900 applica.
tions for pensions were disposed of by the
Pension Bureau. Commissioner Dudley
said the Office handled every case brought
before it. All applications were passed
rejested or additional evidence required,
so no case was left untouched.
PLANS for the new silver vault at New
Orleans have been completed. 1t will have
storage capacity of 2O,OOO,OOO standard
dollars.
RECENT volcanic eruptions upon the
island of Java were attended by fright
full loss of property and destruction
of life. The towns Of Anjier, Jiringine
and Silongbelong were destroyed. All
the light houses in Sunda straits dis.
appeared, and where the mountain of
Kramatar formerly stood the sea now flows.
The quarries at Morak disappeared, and all
the people of the place persisted. Some
1900 Chinese, living on the low ground at
the entrance of the Batavia harbor were
drowned by the rising waves, and out of
$500 Europeans and Americans living in
that city, so were said TO be lost. Bantam
was entisely covered with water and 600
to 200 persons drowned. The island of
Serang was submerged and all its inhabi.
tants persisted, and several other places
shared like fate.
JACOB OLDENBARGER and Jacob Bush
had a law suit recently in a Justice court
at indianapolis, Ind, which was decided
in the latter's favor. Meeting Bush on the
street soon after Oldenbarger drew a pistol
and fired, killing Bush instantly. Turning
from Bush, he shot Samuel Campbell, who
was passing at the time, probably fatally
He then crossed the street, and putting the
pistol to his own head shot himself dead.
HARRY PACKARD, of Hartford, Conn.,, an
employee of Barnum's, was crushed at Gin
cinnati the other morning by one of the
elephants and afterward died at the City
Hospital.
NAT. NJ. SMITH, of Nashville, Tenn, re
Gently received through the post-ofice a
box of cake, accompanied by letter
signed Annie l.. Sullivan, dated New AL
bany, Ind, with Louisville postmark or
the envelope. The letter explained that
the cake was wedding cake, and announced
the marriage of the sender. Mr.. Smith ate
two pieces of the cake, and discovering a
bitter taste, suspected it contained poison
Shortly after he was quite i'll from the
effects, and was only restored after some
hours by physicians who were called in
An analysis showed that the cake con
tanned strychnine. Smith declared that h,
did not know such a woman as Sullivan
and was at loss to divine the motive fol
this attempt TO poison him.
NEAR Crockett, Texas, an entire freight
train plunged into a creek through burnt
bridge. Two brakemen were buried in the
debris.
FLY-wHEEL recently burst in the Col
lier White Lead Works of st. Louis, kill
ing one man and damaging the work.
$1,000.