Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-14

OcpOJ on the lake shore.
THREE young men named William G.
Black, Robert black and William Brown
recently got into q difficulty while at
church in Barry County, Mo-, when Brown
fatally stabbed one of the Blacks.
GoRR's building, one of the most impor.
tant blocks In Burlington, Iowa, occupied
by clothing firm, the American Express
Company and containing large number
offices, burned recently. Loss, 1000;
insurance, $4,000.
SAMUEL WILSON who was EMPLOYED In
the City Milling Company's building, in
Kansas City, was recently cauSh. in the
machinery and so frightfully mangled that
he died in a few hours. He was twenty-six
years old and left a wife and child at Rose.
dale.
The German Foreign Office has issued
notification that the port of Foo Chow,
China, is infected with cholera.
TRAGIC affair took place In the court
room Of Chief Justice French, at Prescott,
Ariz., the other day. The case of KELSEY
vs.. McAtee, regarding a water right for
irrisating purposes, was on trial, when At.
torney General Churchill and District AT.
torney kuch became engaged in a quarrel
which led TO blows, and while the officers
were attempting TO restore order, McAtee,
defendant, drew a knife, rushed upon n
man named Moore, seventy years of age.
and inflicted fatal wound, then turning
upon c. W. Beach, late editor of the Pres.
colt Miner and son-in-law of the plaintiff.
Kelsey, stabbed him in the neck. Then
made rush for the court reporter and was
about to plunge the knife into him, when
Beach drew a revolver and sent a ball
through McAtee's spinal column, infii citing
mortal wound.
A BILL has been introduced in the Senate
providing for a Territorial form of Govern.
ment in Alaska, and establishment of
schools there under the management of the
Interior Department.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided that the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Nations
have no claim against the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas Railroad for material furnished
in its construction, as tho Indians were
paid individually.
Rev. ROBINSON, pastor of the Methodist
Church at Pepin, Wis, and c. II. Conans,
principal of the High School, broke through
the ice on Lake Pepin, recently and were
drowned.
r. II. CAMPBELL, depot agent of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Paris,
Tenn, was shot and killed by Frank VIII
liams the other day. The difficulty grew
out of the discharge of Williams, who had
been clerking for Campbell.
IN. MEYERBERG & Co., silk manufacture
ers of New York and Hoboken, y. j., have
failed. Liabilities, $4,000. The firm en-
ployed two hundred hands.
The eleventh annual session of the Ma
tional Butter, Eggs and Cheese Association
was recently held at Cincinnati. The
President, i'm his address, stated that the
annual value of the butter product of the
United States was $50, O)O, 900, the cheese
product S3G,OOO,OOO. Eggs and poultry
amounted To about the same.
GENERAL Pryor requested Jrnited States
Minister Lowell To apply for a respite for
ODonnell, with view Of obtaining time
to set on foot proceedings for n commute.
ton of the death penalty. Lowell would
refer the matter to Washington.
a MEMORIAL was presented to the Senate
by Senator Coke, setting forth that the
United States District Judges of Texas are
falling TO hold the terms Of court fixed by
law, and charging that they appoint sons,
sons-in-law and brothers-in-law To places
as District and Deputy Clerks i'm their
courts, and keep them in office, to the great
wrong Of the public.
SENATOR PLUMB has introduced bin
providing that every non-commissioned
officer, private or other person discharged
from the army during the war Of rebellion,
within two years from the. date OF enlist
ment, on account of disability incurred in
the line Of military duty, shall receive
warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of
land.
The prevalence of typhoid and malarial
fevers among the students of Yale College
puzzled the Faculty, who averred that the
sewerage and drainage was perfect. Sew.
eral deaths had occurred.
The other morning William Ham went
into a mine at Steamburgh, Pa, with an
open lamp, when there was an immediate
explosion. The conclusion was terrific.
Doors and pillars were blown out, cars
lifted from the tracks and lights for half
mile i'm the mines extinguished. Ham was
killed and ten others seriously injured.
LIZZIE LYNCH, eighteen years old, who
had separated from her husband and was
desperately smitten with another man, re-
Gently committed suicide at Springfield,
Mo-, from jealousy because she imagined
he smiled upon one fairer than she.
THE wholesale drug store of Pendleton,
Thomas & CO., at Nashville, Tenn, was
partially destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. Value of stock, $1,000; insurance
$1,000. Loss estimated at $4,000.
THREE negro children were burned to
death in Columbia County, Ca, recently.
The parents went to church and locked
them i'm the cabin.
AT Danville, Va, the other night POI
liceman attempted to arrest Green Miller,
who was beating his wife. Miller assaulted
the officer viciously and was shot and fatal
ly wounded