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

mISCELLANROUs.
HE Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral has annulled the contract with John
X Miner TO carry the mail upon the Mo
brara, Nebraska, star route, This action
Is based upon the fact that the award of
the contract was made upon proposal re-
cetvcd in May, while the advertisement
was published in April, which the Depart
ment, after elaboration, has decided to be
contrary to statutory requirements.
The Governor Of sonora, Mexico, in a
recent conversation regarding General
Crook, said that IL the captive Indians were
put ON a reservation now and escaped into
Mexico, that country will hold the Ameri-
can Government responsible for all depre.
dations committed by them ON Mexican
soil.
CHARLES II. GOODWIN. Cashier Of the
Lake Shore freight department at Cleve-
land' o., has been mysteriously missing
Tor some time. Auditor Leland said Good
wins accounts with the railway company
are oil straight, and friends could not nc
count for his disappearance unless he had
become insane. Later reports say the body
e..
ne having committed suicide.
OVER one thousand deaths, Il Is reported.
have occurred at Vera Cruz within the past
two months from yellow fever.
a SPECIAL from Matamoras, Mexico. saws
10 Rcvolutionists attacked Chiautta.
Mexico, and carried Off two officials. Cav.
airy pursued and the Revolutionists. being
pressed, assassinated their prisoners. They
were overtaken by the cavalry, cut TO
pieces and thirty killed,
RECENTLY fireworks exploded In the
store Of l.. A. Mcdonald, ut jacksonville.
Ills, blowing out the front Of the building
and enveloping the structure In n sheet of
flame. a. y. Mcdonald and Leonard Lott
attempted TO escape through second story
window, Mcdonald received severe in
Juries, and Lott was overpowered by
smoke and persisted.
The President has issued an executive
order promulgating the changes made In
the internal revenue collection districts
The order is 20 take effect July I, or as soon
thereafter az practicable. The number of
districts IL reduced from one hundred and
twenty-six to eighty-two, a reduction of
forty.four.
The issue OF standard silver dollars from
the minis for the week ending June 20, was
s2l3,M0; corresponding week last year.
S20J, 400.
"A LONDON, ENG, dispatch reports a seri-
Gus hre aud loss of life at Dervio on Lake
Como. A fire broke out i'm theatre dur
ing the performance, and though the alarm
was given, the audience thought IL reals.
tic effect of the performance, Before the
danger was realized forty-seven were hur-
ried to death, and ninety-five severely in
jured.
FROM information laid before him the
Postmaster General is convinced that there
has been much looseness in the transmits.
sion Of newspapers through the mails.
Numerous complaints have been received
by him 10 the effect that postal employees
break wrappers containing newspapers,
and are Indifferent as TO whether newspa.
pers reach their destination, The Postmas-
ter General says he proposes to remedy the
evil IL possible, and that he will adopt
methods TO detect and punish cases of neg
ligence and violations Of the law and regn.
lations in this regard. He says newspa.
pers must be treated as sacred as any other
packages going through the mails.
GENERAL Crook has been ordered to
Washington by the Secretary of War for
consultation as 10 the final disposition of
the captured Apaches. The War Depart
ment has received no official information
Of the arrival Of the captives at San Carlos
and no instructions TO send them there viii
be sent to General Crook.
The Planters Cot.0n-Seed Oil Works n,
New Orleans we're struck by lightning dur.
ing a recent thunder storm and entirely
destroyed. This was the largest cotton
seed oil mill i'm existence. The loss IL
roughly estimated at one million dollars,
including building, stock aud machinery.
Several cottages adjoining the oil works
were destroyed and Eve fremen were
slightly scalded by an explosion OF a tank.
The municipality Of Paris voted 10000
francs TO defray the expenses of delegates
to the forthcoming Boston exhibition.
QuARANTINE regulations are enforced
ut New Orleans against vessels from Aspin.
wall, end are effectually killing trade he
tween the two places, which was rrp,div
assuming large and promising proportions
JoHN i. SrRrKER, the well known New
York millionaire, was drowned In sara.
toga Lake while bathing recently. He
leaves a bride Of two months. His age was
twenty-four.
TIE President and Cabinet recently had
consultation In regard 20 the shipment
by England Of pauper immigrants 70 this
country, and as result the Secretary of
the Treasury telegraphed instructions 70
tho Collector Of Customs at New York 10
cooperate with the Commissioners of Inn.
migration Of that port to prevent the land.
ing Of all immigrants found TO be paupers
within the meaning of the law. In the
event such paupcr immigration may have
already landed, as Is reported TO be the
case with a large number shipped on the
steamships furnished. the Collector Is i'm.
structed to take all practical measures to
have them reshiPped to the port from which
they came.
IT Is stated that by the reduction of rev.
enue collection districts recently made
there will be an annual saying Of $500 900.
RECENTLY q Northern Pacific gravel
train, with about 40 Cinnamon on board.
ran into a wond train at Heron Siding,
Montana, instantly killing eighteen China.
men and wounding twenty-five others.
The engineer OF the gravel train was killed
and the fireman badly hurt.
The Meridian Lumber Company's mills,
situated sixteen miles below Eau Claire,
Wis, on the Chippewa River, were de-
stroyed by fire recently. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000.
The officers ofthe Department Of Tennes-
see and Georgia, Grand Army Of the Re
public, are endeavoring to have the next
annual meeting Of the National Encamp-
ment Of the Grand Army Of the Republic