Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-24
.rs: Alfred z. Chapman. Massnchusetts,

/ u. ". n. rs ~. Lander, District OF
Columbia, d. G. G.. H. p; David Day, New
York, G. G.. K; Joseph p. Horner LouisS
ana, G. @. s.; Reuben c. Leman, Ohio, g.
G., Treasurer; Christopher G. Fox, New
York, G.. G., Secretary.
AT Luling, Texas, recently, Lawrence
/ Denman met Rev. r. G.. Sewell on the streets
| and shot him dead. The causes that led TO
/ the shooting were Of a domestic nature.
| Sewell was a Methodist clergyman and
/ local agent Of the American Bible Society.
THE German Government notifies the
Austrian Government that all pig flesh i'm
ported into Germany from Austria must
/ be accompanied by q certificate that it is
not American mear.
| 1T is reported that cotton in and around
Greenville, Miss, has been attacked by
worms and whole fields eaten up. Green
/ Vile is in Washington County, which is
the largest cotton producing county in the
| United States.
BETWEEN 1900 and 5000 people met at
Bowling Green, Mo-. recently, 70 celebrate
/ the second annual -reunion of the old set
| tiers Of Pike County. The silver cup, offered
as a medal TO the oldest living resident.
was awarded to Mrs. Relief Woods, who
was born in Pike County in 1911.
The anniversary Of the establishment Of
the Federation and Society Of the Method.
ist Episcopal Church was held recently at
Ocean Grove, n. J. The receipts of the
Society for the past year were over Sl7S,.
/ 90, large increase over the previous
year.
GEORGE w. BURGESS, sixty-six years
old and partially paralyzed, recently
passed forged drafts upon bank at Lock.
port, n. Y. He was pursued to Dunkirk
and arrested. He had been swindling
number OF other banks in the State, and
had but recently been released from the
penitentiary.
/ AT Trenton, v. j., Mrs. Knoblach pitched
her husband into the canal and then leaped
in herself. The woman was drowned and
/ the husband rescued.
| AT Quebec, Canada, all the telegraphers
| who went on strike returned to work, and
at Atlanta, Ca, all strikers applied to be
/ reinstated.
NOTICE was given that on Wednesday,
/ August -, and on each Wednesday follow.
/ ing, United States bonds embraced in the
/ l2lst call will be redeemed at the Treasury
| Department in Washington to the amount
of 100000, without rebate interest.
THE Department OF State has been appraised
Of the recent action by the Government of
Spain, which places foreign blacks landing
in Cuba on an equality with all other per-
sons. Such blacks can now laid on that
island without previous consent Of the Cap
tain General on deposit Of money, and can
reside there as they do at other places.
! AT Chicago the other day the Federal
1 IA. a..
wearing apparel of Mrs. l.. N. Parish on
the ground that they had been imported in
defiance of the custom laws. The woman
has made twenty trips across the ocean.
by her own confession, to purchase second
hand dresses from the nobility, and sue.
ceeded in having her trunks passed free of
duty, Offering the explanation that the
dresses were wearing apparel.
| Mr.. HAwoRTH, who has general super
| wishing charge of Indian schools, reports to
the Department good progress in the con.
struction and equipment of new Industrial
Indian Schools. The school building at
Chilocco, Indian Territory, will be finished
by October 1, and be opened for reception
the 18th of January. The schools at Law.
renee, Kan, and Genoa, Neb., will accom-
modate $50 pupils each, and also be opened
in January. When these are completed
the Indian schools throughout the country
will accommodate TO- pupils.
THE United States Rolling Stock COM
pany's shops at Chicago, five in number,
burned recently. Loss is estimated from
10000 to $4,000. The shops were 10.
Gated in South Chicago, a western suburb
of the city.
MIDDLEFIELD, MASS, had a centennial
celebration recently.
SEVERAL recent heavy failures i'm Wall
Street, New York City, caused quitea panic
in financial circles.
A LATE storm at Pine Bluff, Ark, de-
| one woman.
AT the National Convention of the Anti.
Organ faction Of the United Presbyterian
Church at Pittsburg, Pa, Rev. James
Price of Philadelphia, presented u series
of resolutions in effect that the propriety
Of holding local conventions similar to this
one, and of forming an association for the
maintenance of the principle and especial.
ly the purity of the worship of the church.
demanded serious consideration and at.
tention.
For the six months ended August /, one
hundred and sixty persons were killed and
four hundred and one injured on the rail.
roads in the State OF New York.
A NUMBER Of st. Louis cigar makers and
dealers decided to keep their shops open or
Sunday hereafter.
ABOUT sixty shoe lasters employed by
six manufacturers ofSt. Louis, have struck
for higher wages. About three hundred
other workmen were thrown out of employ.
ment by the action Of the lasters.
An incendiary fire in Lexington, KY,
the other morning destroyed Bush & Sons
planning mills and several other buildings.
Loss about $4,000.