Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS

brewers OF the two former cities have receded
from their resolution.
Two children, of Meriden, Conn, aged eleven
and eight years, acknowledge that they placed
an obstruction on the track recently, to wreck
the New York passenger train, and say they
did so because an employe of the road drove
them of the track.
The business failures of the country last
week were 1913, of which sixty-three were in
the Western States.
boy named Tyrrell, aged seven years while
playing with a Winchester rife at Madison.
Neb., one evening last week, accidentally
discharged the gun and was killed, the whole
top OF his head being blown off,
The Ways and Means Committee have COM
pleted the consideration Of the schedule of
wool and wooden manufactures and advanced
rates about ten per cent on the average over
that recommended by the Tariff Commission.
The report which leaves the rate as fixed by
the Committee, is reduced about ten per cent.
below the existing one. This advance was
upon wooden clothes and ready-made clothing.
California has been visited by the heaviest
snow storm the past week ever recorded in
her history.
Reports reached the Indian Bureau from the
Cherokee country, Indian Territory, to the
effect that white men are erecting buildings
and fencing off pastures in the Cherokee out
let. Commissioner Price recently addressed
letter to Agent Tufts at Muskogee to
warn white herders to remove, with their
stock, from the reservation, allowing twenty
days for the exit. IL the herders fail to get
out in that time, the agent is authorized to
call on the military and eject them.
Nelson Raymond, of Worcester, Mass, aged
sixteen years, while playing with a revolver,
killed his brother Joseph, aged ten years.
James Tibbtts was recently killed at Tip
pecanoe, Ind, by falling in front of a circular
saw.
Early on the morning of December 31st, a
fire broke out in Friend Brothers large whole
sale clothing establishment in Milwaukee, Wis
The fire originated in the basement, from
either an overheated or defective furnace, and
worked its way up the stories of the large
structure through the elevator. The interior
was completely Quilted, destroying the i'm
mense stock by water and smoke as much as
by fire. Friend Brothers loss figures up
1000, insured for about $377, 600 In addi-
ton, several other establishments suffered to
the amount of 100000.
ending November 30, 1882, was 81, 434. S35:
excess of exports of gold and silver coin and
bullion, same period, was $50, 7O1, 3O7; value
OF imports of merchandise into the United
States for twelve months ending November
30, was $3.50, 647, 295, increase OF 100, 400 eos;
value OF exports OF domestic and foreign mer-
chandise for twelve months, ending November
30, 1882, was $752, 0S2, 661, decrease of S1O3,-
2O5, 03S.
The public debt statement for December
shows total debt, 81, 800 467, 693 81; total cash
in treasury, &S12, ga, Ol60 90; debt less cash i'm
treasury January 1, 1888 81, COZ, 543. 676 90;
December /, 1882, 1892, CSC, s99OO; decrease
OF debt during the month, 1912, 233, 90; de-
crease of debt since June so, 1882, $S1, 3d.
$780,
Mrs. Stilwell, wife of Jay Stilwen, employed
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road, has made a confession on her death-bed
OF three murders. Her first victim was
Benjamin Swigart, her first husband. who, she
says, she killed at Maryville, Mo-, in March,
1871, with the aid of her mother and brother
The second was a stranger, whom the same
parties killed for money. The third was her
own daughter, whom she strangled on the
premises Of her mother at Rulo, Neb., in May.
1850. She also confessed to three attempts to
kill her present husband to obtain his life in
surance. She is diving of consumption at the
house Of relative in Knox County, Ohio.
Miss Josephine c. Meeker, daughter OF the
late N. c. Meeker, who was tortured and killed
by the Ute Indians in the massacre of 1879,
and who was herself captured, died in Wash
ington last week Of pneumonia She was
clerk In the Treasury Department at the time
| Of her death.
Dispatches from Berlin state that great dis
tress prevails along the Rhine caused by the
recent heavy floods. Seventy houses have
fallen at Badenheim. At Rexheim. Morsch
and OPhar 2l0 houses have fallen. At Dussell-
dorf the Market Square Is flooded Robstadt.
with the exception of the church and houses
OF the clergy, is deeply submerged,
the water in many houses nearly reaching the
roofs. In Friezeheim the scene beggars de-
scriPtion- Ten thousand persons are rendered
homeless by the food In the districts near
Worms. They are in danger of starvation.
Three thousand persons are homeless at Lud-
wtgshafen, two thousand at Mannheim and
two thousand at Worms. They are lodged in
school houses and churches. Weisbaden an
pears to stand On an isthmus in the middle of
ayast sea- The great Rhine dam has given
away A steamer and forty-five boats received
the people by torchlight. The village of
Triesen. elm is deserted, and q third of the
Inhabitants have abandoned the homes.
along the Danube, the floods are also disas-
trous- At Vienna the Danube has risen sud
denly. Athousand persons in the lower parts
OF th= city have been compelled to quit their
homes. Travel on the railway connecting
Vienna with Morayiais suspended. The large
railway bridge over the the Danube is demol-
ished and the Vienna terminus of the road Is
flooded The railway between Geneva and
.Bellegrade has washed away, and direct rail-
way communication with France and Italy il
interrupted.
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