Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-06

| PiVmiseu 70 TOyaAy entertain ali meInDefs
and visitors.
AT late picnic near Dubuque, Iowa
several children while at play fell into Cat
Dish Greek, all of whom were rescued, ex
cept the ten-year-old son Of James Hurley
who was drowned.
SEVERAL weeks since Mike O'Laughlin, q
farmer, killed Ed. Gallagher near O'Neill
City, Neb., the latter being one of q party
who went 20 OLaughlin's premises to res
cue some cattle that he was holding foI
damages Tor trespass committed. The
other day O'Laughlin was himself shot
dead in the road by an unknown person.
de was out on bail at the time. When
Gallagher was shot his friends vowed ven
geance.
LACY, the negro guilty of an outrageous
assault upon Mrs. Rogers, near jefferson,
Texas, was taken by a mob and hanged.
The President has approved the finding
ana fuli sentence OF the court martial in
Paymaster Wasson's case. which is to be
oiSinlssed from the army, and TO be con
nned at hard labor for eighteen months in
some prison 10 be selected hereafter.
WHILE lively wake was in progress
over the body Of Captain William p. Burke,
at Milford, Mass, the other night, kero-
sene lamp upset by one Of the mourners
fired the building. The occupants had just
time to save their lives, leaving the dead
body behind them to be burned to ashes.
Inc house was destroyed, together with
three others close by. Loss $4,000.
a RECENT collision on the Havana &
Mantanzas Railroad, in Cubs., crused the
death OF eight persons and the injury OF
many others.
HoRsELING, who Is charged with
| embez2ling moneys of the Ger.
man Government while receiver of
taxes, and who was arrested at Grand
Rapids, Mich, lately, was put on board a
vessel at New York the other day, he deter.
mining to return to Europe without formal
extradition.
DISPATCHES from Alexandria, Egypt,
say that cholera has broken out at Dami.
eta and has become epidemic. A sani-
tary Gordon has been formed around the
place and railway business stopped.
A LATE cyclone blew down sixteen build.
ings at Elberton, Ca, and killed one man.
Mn. BAssETT, chief clerk in the Postoffice
Department ut Washington has been dis.
placed and Charles NJ. Walker, of Indiana,
appointed 10 the position. Mr. Bassett will
be provided for in the department.. Gen.
eral Gresham desired a personal friend in
the place, which Is a confidential position,
and selected Mr.. Walker.
DR.. ISAAC j. HATHAWAY, of PHILADELPHIA.
in the cellar of whose residence the remains
Of many infants were found buried, was
convicted of having performed a criminal
surgical operation upon a servant girl in
April, and was sentenced to pay a fine of
500 and undergo imprisonment for seven
years, the fullest extent of the law.
The ranchmen in Western Texas are re-
ported TO be lamenting the scarcity of wa.
ter and the parched condition Of the grass.
The stock Is suffering.
The editor of the Cincinnati Price Chr.
rent publishes the result of an extended in
vestigation through the producing States
OF the West concerning the corn and wheat
crops. He places the aggregate Of wheat
ut 44O,OOO.oO0 bushels, against 5O4. OOO. 900
last year. The corn crop is reported in
good stand generally, the acreage is con-
siderably increased, and the condition
averages well. Though backward in MANY
sections, it is now having a drawback from
excessive rains, which interferes with till
ing. Seventy per cent Of the returns re.
port fair to good supplies of old corn on
hand.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Office of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
shows the aggregate receipts for the month
OF May, 1883, were S3i6,S1s greater than the
same month in 1852. The amount
was increased S23l,I20 from spir-
its, $22O,52I from tobacco; S167,363
from beer; a decrease of SS4 ,049 from
banks and bankers, and decrease of $751;
112 from miscellaneous taxation. In tobacco
there was an increase of Sis, 900; on cigars
a decrease of S3l $3.50; on cigarettes an in.
crease of S17,53l; on snuff an increase of
Sl5,SOe; on chewing and smoking tobacco A
decrease of S525, 1G2; from dealers in man.
ufactured tobacco a decrease of $67, 039.
WILLIAM RAY, proprietor of a boarding
house at Pullman, a suburb of Chicago, re-
Gently shot and instantly killed two young
men, Thomas Dowdle and George Fox.
In speaking Of pauper immigration to
this country, Secretary Folger recently
| said that the act of August, 1882, provided
that the Secretary of the Treasury NAV
enter into a contract with the State Com
mission or Board to be designated by the
Governor of the State, and put upon the
body so chosen the duty of examining into
the condition of the passengers arriving by
sea. The Governor Of New York has desig-
mated the Commissioners of immigration at
the port of New York to act In that capaci-
ty for the State of New York, and arrange
ments have been made with them to exc
cute the law. They have been instructed,
in case they find an emigrant unable to take
care of himself without becoming public
charge, to report the same in writing to the
Collector of Customs, and such person will
not be permitted TO land.