Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-03
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GEORGE MCMILLAN was hanged at Can
ton, o., for wife murder.
AT n picnic of the German Methodist
Church five miles south Of Newport, Ohio.
Otto Hager quarreled with a boy of eigh-
teen, named George Neir, pursued him
into the river, stabbed him TO death and
then escaped.
TwENTY-FoUR coal cars on the PhiladeI-
phia q Reading Railroad were pushed off
high trestle at Elizabethport IN. ~
docks tho other morning, a distance of
thirty feet, into Staten Island, and were
totally wrecked.
QUARANTINE has been abolished through
out Egypt, except at Alexandria and in
the province Of Fayson, where il is main.
tanned at the request of Sir Edward Mnlet,
the British Consul General. The revised
list OF the deaths at Cairo the 21st gave the
number at 282. Among the victims were
four Europeans.
CANADIAN authorities have issuei a
PROCLAMATION establishing a quarantine on
vessels from Mediterranean ports.
Two Deputy ShSriffs seized the pool box
Mt the Palmer House in Chicago the other
night within few minutes after it had
been brought from the race track. The box
was in charge of William r. Armstrong and
Ira f. Bride, official pool sellers, and had
been placed under the table i'm the dining
room while its custodians were eating sup
per- Seizure was made at the suit of John
W. COnley, who had a claim of 5000
against Armstrong and Bride for alleged
breach Of contract. The box was found to
contain $4,000, and after abstracting ~. 900
and receipting for the amount, the box was
returned by the officers.
AT the second days shoot at Wimbledon
between the American and British teams,
the former won the 500 yards match, and
the latter took the prize for 900 yards.
IN New York one day last week French
pauper was sent back to England on the
steamer England, and "A Swedish pauper
was-returned on the City of Chester by the
Emigration Commission, who also shipped
a man and his wife and four children by
the steamer England because they were as.
sisted to emigrate and had no means of
support.
FIRE mt Montgomery, Pa, recently de-
stroyed the planning mill of Barber & Hen
derson and the general store of Henderson
& Scully. The loss on the planning mill
was $4,000; Henderson & Scully's loss
5000 and other buildings were damaged
to some extent, making a total loss of about
$4,000.
The latter part Of the past week a storm
OF unusual severity passed over northern
Illinois, northern Iowa, southern Mime
sofa and southern Wisconsin. The damage
to crops was very great in many places,
and many barns and farm buildings were
wrecked.
DURING dispute at Maybury, Ark, re-
Gently, between two farmers, Jas. Golden
and Chas. Posey, oyer cattle, Posey threat
ened to whip Golden, who struck him on
the head with hoe, causing instant death.
HASLAN and Courtney are expected TO
make n match at Ottawa, Canada, for
5000, 10 be rowed over the LGchine course
I'm September next.
A HOUSE at the salt mines on Avery's
Island, La, containing a thousand pounds
Of dynamite, was struck by lightning re-
Gently, causing n terrific explosion. Much
damage was done 10 buildings and cars.
No lives lost. Windows a mile distant
werc broken.
THE Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
cral reported 10 the Postmaster General
l haN AhNRNAAN III tANtNN VI ElfVNNtVNN WHICH lI
Is proposed 20 recover by suits against
various combinations Of Star Route con-
tractors. Apart from the evidence upon
which his action is based, more has been
obtained during the last six months. The
Postmaster General has requested the An
ditor Of tho Treasury for the Postoffice De-
/ pertinent % state the accounts to the Solic-
itor Of the Treasury for suit.
MEMBER OF the Commission Of Inquiry
at st. Potersburgh, Russin, has been sent
to Germany, France and England for the
purpose OF obtaining On exact report con-
corning the civil rights Of Jews in those
countries.
1T is stated that the lately published ac-
counts Of the mobbing Of the American
Consulate at Monterey, Mexico, were
greatly exaggerated. IL was but an or
binary attempt at robbery. IL was no more
worth comment than il an attempt had
been made on the house of a private citi-
zen. Shaw, Acting Consul, was not dan
gerously injured.
DURING period Of twelve days there
were reported over seventy-five deaths
/ from hux at Bybalia, Waterford and Vic
tOria, Miss, three small towns adjacent to
each other and located about twenty five
miles southeast of Memphis.
ONE day last week Chicago & North.
western passenger train was caught in a
tornado fifteen miles south of Green Bay,
Wis, and nearly wrecked. Rain poured
through and drenched the passengers. At
Cobb, Wis, the depot of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway was blown down,
also several houses, and one woman was
killed.
AT a late meeting of telegraph strikers
in Boston, the proposed establishment of a
Cooperative Telegraph Company was dis
cussed and very favorably received. The
capital stock is to be twenty millions in
untransferable shares of FIVE dollars each.
Three-quarters Of the entire capital stock
must be held by operators and members OF
labor organizations. IL was stated at the
meeting that bankers and merchants had
already agreed 20 subscribe over 5000. 900.
and a committee was appointed to arrange
details.
AT Geddes, n. V, the other afternoon
eight men entered a furnace 70 construct
new lining, when the old lining fell upon
them, killing all instantly. One hundred
tons OF brick and mortar fell on the vic.
tins, who were married and had families.
AT Garrettson's Landing on the Arkansas
River, twenty miles below Pine Bluff, the
other night, Garrettson's store was robbed,
and clerk murdered and found dead IN
the store next morning.
A TERRIBLE calamity befell picnic party
NJ the north point Of TivOli, an excursion 70
sort on the Patapsco, ten miles from Balti.
more, Nd, about 10 O'Clock ON the night OF
the cd, by which many lives were lost, the
number being estimated at near one hun.
dred. The excursion was under the
management Of the Mount Royal Bench.
cial Society OF the Catholic Church Of Corpu,
Christi. Of which Father Starr II pastor.
Between nfteen hundred and two thousand
children and parents had gone onthe excur
sion and the party had mostly returned BY
steamer, but when the last boat left, there
was rush 10 get aboard for fear Of bein1
LETT, when the wharf gave way and fell