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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Last wear Kansas had 81 tornadoes;
illinois, 81; Missouri, A; Iowa, 81; In
LLAMA, %, and Minnesota. 21.-Prairie
Farmer.
-Dickey County, d. T., one year
100 had a population of 200. Now it
has 5000, and more coming.-Ddkota
Journal.
New York eats S5,O0O,0O0 worth of
oysters year, Philadelphia S3, 500, 600,
Baltimore S2,000,000, Boston 81, $780,
200 and about S5.O00,000 worth of
beans. How grateful the Boston oyster
must be 10 the bcan.-N. Y. Times.
Seven tunnels, with an aggregate
lcngthN of about seven miles, will be
built on the line of the Harrisburg &
Western Railroad between that city and
the Youghioghcny River. The road is
to cost $50, 600, 900, or about $4,000
per mile, and is to be completed within
two years. Philadelphia Press.
i'm 1866 the best railroad time be-
tween New York and New Orleans was
five days, and a passenger had to make
nine changes, many of them long rides
from depot to depot. In 1869 the time
was reduced to four days; in 1873 to
three and a half days, and in 1878 to
three days and only one change. Now
the time has been reduced to ffty-eight
hours.
The Car of Russia gets So. 25O, 900
per year, or $25,000 per day. The Sui
tan of Turkey, S6,000,0O0. or $4,000 a
day. Francis Joseph, of Austria, re-
ceives Si.060.000 a year, or $4,000
day. King William. sof. Prussia is paid
100000 a year, and King Humbcrt,
of Italy, So, 200, 900. The President of
the French Republic gets $4,000 a
year, and President Arthur $4,000 a
year.
The peach-growing center is grad
ually moving south. 4 few years ago
there were great orchards in New Jer-
sey. Then Delaware was the chief pro-
Queer. Now Maryland and Virginia
are coming to the front. The largest
peach farms are in Maryland. The
Round Top farm has 125, 900 peach
trees. On the estate of Colonel Wat
kins there are 10000 trees. A peach
trees usefulness is over after ten OF
twelve years of life, and the soil in
which it grows is unfit for peach cult
ure.-N. Y. Sun.
According to figures furnished to
the American Bar Association Conven-
ton, in 1856 there. were 29,939 lawyers
in this country; in 1870, 40,S76; in
1880, Ga. 1877. The number of lawyers
in the States at the close of the Revolu-
ton was from 800 to 700. Only 1876
attorneys had been admitted in New
York by royal license prior to the
Revolution, and many of these were
dead when hostilities broke out. In
1880 there were seventy-fve female and
64,062 male lawyers; siNty-four of the
seyenty-fve female lawyers were under
sixty years of age, eleven were sixty
and upward To-day there are 10000
lawyers in the country, In another
half century there will probably be
800, 00O. ChicG1O Tribune.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

E1piosioh OK the Boiler OF the Steamer
j. 5. Robinson at Albany, N. Y.-Three
Persons Killed, Several Injured ana
Much Property Damaged-Several Mar
row Escapes.
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. IS.
Earl" this morning the boiler on the
steamer 3. Robinson, which lay at the
foot of Westerloo street, exploded with
frightful force, instantly killing the cap.
tain, George s. Warner, and fireman, VIM.
Cleary, and seriously injuriDg Fred
Tenslar, engineer, who was blown into the
water and narrowly escaped drowning,
and Willard Durand and Melville Ryen,
deck hands. Richard Van Zandt, son of
Capt. Van Zandt, of the tug Cora, from
New baltimore, lying alongside the Robin
son, was also killed. Capt Robinson of
the Hattie M. Belts, was blown from his
pilot-house onto the wharf and severely in
tured. The Belts, which lay at the stern
of the Robinson, was damaged s., 900. The
Cora, alongside, was a total wreck. The
c. Z. CIRCUIT, lying ahead Of the Robin
son, had joiner work carried away and ma
chinery damaged. The Robinson sank i'm
mediately, carrying with 1t the body of
Cleary, the fireman. One section of tho
boiler, weighing two or three tons, was
TNV lOCb uBdiuSb INC UOp SLOTY OF q
three-story building, crushing in a portion
Of the wall. Another section, weighing
nearly ton, crushed in the roof of the coal
barge Z. NJ. Downing, and still another
section was hurled to the rear grazing the
cabin of the coal boat Apollo and tearing
away the roof before it fell into the river.
Buildings were shaken, windows shattered
and general CONSERVATION prevailed in the
vicinity. The exploded boiler was built by
Robert Livingston of this city in 1882. The
explosion was probably caused by negli-
gence of the engineer in allowing water in
the boiler to get too low.
Captain McAndrew, of the canal-boat
Apollo, in the rear of the Robinson, and his
wife had narrow escape. They were
asleep when a piece of the boiler carried
away section of the roof about three and
half feet long and one and half feet
wide, together with portion of their end
OF the cabin, nearly down to the bed. The
roof was only two feet above their heads.
McAndrew says the first thing he knew he
was sitting on tho floor with his back
against the wall and things flying all
around him. His wife was senseless in bed
covered with the ruins of pictures and a
looking-glass. Captain Robinson, of the
tug Belts, was asleep in the pilot-house.
He turned complete somersault in the air
and suddenly found himself on the dock.
Ohicers in the first precinct station-house,
eight blocks distant, were thrown from their
beds on the floor and the whole building
shook violently for three seconds. They at
nrst thought 1t was an earthquake.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

RECENTLY twcnty-scvcn trunks and
packages 1T goods. valued ut about
s6O,OOO, were taken from the shin
Alaska to the Custom House seizure
room ut New York. The property be-
longcd To ut least four passengers who
came from Liverpool ON that steamer.
the names 1T two being obtained. The
capture was one Of the largest that had
been made in many months. Some of
the goods bore evidence of having been
used; others were now. The Chief of
the Custom House Secret Service Bureau
said that during the past month great
many thousands dollars worth of goods
had been Struggled to that port by
women. The persons interested in the
matter were drcssmakcrs from Balti-
more. Philadelphia, Boston, New York
and other cities. and have been dcfraud-
ing the revenue Systematically for some
time. lie added: II propose to break
mp this system. | shall put these two
women undcr arrest"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
Not Much OF a Fool, After All.

Sam Wednesday, an impecunious cit
izen of Austin, was supposed to be
crazy, and his relatives brought him be-
fore the County Court TO have Lunatico
de inguirendo jury pass on his mental
condition, his delusion being that he
was very rich. A lawyer proceeded to
ask the crazy man questions to test his
sanity.
IL hear that you are going to build a
$4,000 residence"
cit is going to cost 100000"
"You don't say sor'
E"Yes, and am going to start daily
paper, with $3.50, 900 capital. That's q
mere trifie for man of my means"
''You seem to have so much money,
perhaps you would not object to lend
ing me thousand dollars?"
I'D like to do it, Judge, but that
would be such risky investment every
body would suspect me of being crazy"
The refusal of the supposed Iunatic to
seriously entertain the idea of lending
money TO an Austin lawyer caused the
jury to decide that Sam was in full DOS
session of his reasoning faculties
TEXAS SittngS.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

TIE New York and Boston newsdcal-
crs organized against the reduction in
price Of the great New York morning
journals. and declared they would not
handle the papers, as the margin was in
sufficient. In Boston the newsdealers
signed an agreement that tho ''cut in
price Of the New York dailics is against
our interests rs business men. The
publication Of cheap newspapers is I'M
called for. and it is high time the pub
fishers should recognize the newsdcalers
rs factors necessary to the circulation Of
newspapers" They therefore declared
for maintaining former prices
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


There is no better food for chickens
than skim milk Chicago journal.
"A writer in the Prairie Farmer.
after extended experiments, is con-
WINGED that wheat is generally sown too
deep.
The advantages of having earlv-ma-
turing corn have never been so well
demonstrated as this year. Bear it in
mind in saving seed for next ycar.-EE-
change.
-Hickory-nu cream cake is made of
two teacups of sugar, half cup of but
ter, one cup of thin cream, three and
half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder mixed with the dry
flour, three eggs, the whites and yelks
heated separately, and one large cupful
of the hickory nuts chopped or broken
in small bits.-N. y. Post.
AN agricultural writer has found
salt sprinkled on manure heap an ex-
| cellent application both for summer and
winter. He says: In warm weather
it attracts moisture and keeps the ma.
nure from fire-fanging or burning from
excessive fermentation. In winter il
keeps the heap from freezing solid, and
at any season it makes the manure more
soluble.'
Jenny Lind Pudding: Peel ten or
twelve good tart apples and slice them
very thin, or chop fine; CRATE several
thick slices of dry bread, or rub them
through a colander; place in pudding
| dish, well-buttered, a layer of apple,
with plenty of sugar and grated lemon
fpeel, or powdered cassia; then laver
| of btead crumbs, with bits of butter
scattered all over it; ill up the dish in
this way, and bake for three-quarters of
an hour; serve with whipped cream
| The Household.
"A favorite way to cook potatoes
now is to boil them in their Jackets I'M
til they are tender, and then dry them
off in a hot oven. Sweet potatoes are
excellent also cooked in this way. OF
course care must be taken to remove
the potatoes from the boiling water as
soon as they are tender. There is no
vegetable that gains more by being pre-
pared with due attention than the po-
tato, and the difference between soggy,
water-soaked potato and one that is
properly cookedis greater than many
women seem to know. : Chicago
Journal.
"A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman finds coal ashes of benefit.
His unusual experience will be read
with interest. OF them he observes:
"While am slow to praise or con-
denim, can not, after long trial, refuse
to say word to their credit, at least
on my soil, which is rather tenacious
! clay; and the more readily dot, for
every one says: What good garden
you have' and another will say: You
have the best garden have SEEM and
when tell them my only manure is
coal ashes. either spread broadcast at
once or composted with weeds and tho
refuse of the house, night-soil, etc,
they will hardly believe me-"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER.

HE Commissioner OF immigration OF
Philadelphia reported TO the Secretary of
tho Treasury that 1906 immigrants ar
rived Mt Philadelphia from November l,
1852, to October 2, 1883. Ten persons were
returned TO Europe for various reasons not
specified, and the Commissioners said of
this feature of their work that it was at
tended by good results.
THE Director of the Mint has been author
lied to purchase 10000 ounces of fine
silver for the use of the Philadelphia, New
Orleans and San Francisco minis.
THE business portion Of the town of
Kirkwood, Ills, was recently burned.
1T was rumored that the German Govern
ment had addressed an energetic note to
France concerning the treatment, in Paris,
Of Alfonso.
REPORTS from eleven counties in Eastern
Arkansas and Western Mississippi, en-
bracing territory that usually produces
annually 10000 bales of cotton, were that
the crop was fully fifty per cent. short,
owing to drouth, and three-fourths of the
crop at the mercy of the frosts. The re-
ports, however, showed that the condition
Of the planter and tenant farmer is better
than last year, and in many cases excep-
tionally good.
Dr. FRANCIS c. HERR and his brother
Homer were recently arrested at Philadel-
phia, Pa, on the charge OF having commit
ted extensive frauds in Harrisburg by the
sale Of worthless mining stocks DIR. Herr,
it Is said, induced patients and friends to
take an interest in several mining COM
panies with which he and his brother were
connected, and which were bogus concerns.
JOHN A. DEcKER's paper mill at Lee,
Mass, burned the other night. Loss, S..
900; insurance, 81, 900.
JAMES McSTEEN was hanged at Pitts
burgh, Pa, for the murder Of his wife.
THE priests and prominent laymen Of
the Roman Catholic Church of Chicago
presented Archbishop Feehan with a purse
Of 5000 on the eve of his departure for
Rome. Heis expected to be absent till
May next.
CHRIST. BEeUHS, Of Menominee, Wis,
was troubled by bear in his neighborhood
and went out recently to shoot il, seeing
what he supposed to be the animal, he shot
Il and went back to get his neighbors.- A
party went to the place next morning and
found the dead body of Beguhn's brother
He had mistaken his brother for the bear.
A DESPATCH from the Indian Territory,
stated that party of four robbers, recently
broke into the cabin Of Isoma, an Indian,
eighty years old, and tortured him to make
him tell where he kept his money, large
amount OF which he was boarding. he
remained obdurate, when the fends shot
him and plundered his house, carrying on
the money, stated to be several thousand
dollars.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

MEMBERS Of the Civil Service Commits
sion state that they not only have not
Disseminated against Union soldiers in
sending up the lists of qualified names
Tor appointment To Office, but that they
have been more liberal than the law of
1860 even requires. Judge Thoman,
speaking Of this subject recently. is re-
ported rs having said: Under the
statutes. to have the preference for APP
pOintmcnt to civil offices. soldiers must
have been disabled either by sickness.
guu-shot wound. or otherwise while in
she line Of duty. Now. the commission is
much more liberal than that. We do not
ask n soldier when he comes To be exam
ined whether he was disabled while in
the limo Of his duty or not. We put IL
ON broader grounds. The Commission.
he said did not appoint anybody. II
merely certified the names Of those who
passed the examination up To the heads
Of the several departments.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

In the Arkansaw Valley grows a
weed shaped like ball and varying in
SIZE from one foot or less in diameter to
nve or six feet. some specimens being
as tall as man. 1t grows upon tail
stem, which is, however, stout enough
10 bear the mass till it has ripened or
dried, when puff of wind will blow IL
over and snap the slender support,
!: linen t. Is that every gust of wind sends
u rolling over the prairie. bounding
o o,.a.. bushes and rocks with the greatest
WIND is strong and high these tumb-
ing weeds present most peculiar APP
pearance as they bound from rock to
rock' and In more than one instances
hunters have mistaken. them for bisons
ana icit considerable irritation at the
lmposslbility of bringing them within
range OF their guns = Chicago Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12


Mrs. SARAH Howard CoNRAD-who
at Baltimore early in August shot and
killed her husband. Louis Conrad. n
prominent lawyer, while asleep at her
side-was recently adiudged insane and
sent to an asylum. Her case Is n pecu-
liar one. Her maiden name was Wash
ington. one a the oldest and most re-
spected families Of Maryland. For over
hundred years, IL Is said. her people.
10 Keep their property in the family.
have been intermarrying. and to this
was attributed the cause Of her ailment.
All the present generation are queer.
Chas. Hanson, a near relative. Is IN an
insane asylum for numbering his cousin
In presence Of the family because he inn
agined spirit babe him. Miss Han
500, sister to the latter. Is in some
asylum, crazy on religion. Her two
uncles killed themselves a short time
since. and within recent period rela-
tives have taken their lives by hanging.
shooting. and, in one case, burning.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

COLONEL GEORGE KNAPr, Of the Ms
SOUR Rcpvbiican, who died on board
steamer recently. while on his return
from Europe. was the oldest journalist in
the state II Missouri, and among the
oldest In the whole country. lie entered
the Republican office, in St Louis. when
n small boy. ~ an apprentice, and grad
ually rose until he was senior proprietor
Of that journal Ills age was sixty-nine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

QUITE nm important libel suit was re-
Gently decided by the Supreme Court Of
Michigan, ut Detroit. Police Justice
Miner sued the Post and Tribune for
$4,000 damages. for structures upon his
course in trial where his ruling ap-
pcarcd 10 be arbitrary and uniustiliablc.
dcnouncing his action rs outrageous, and
contrasting his severity with his lenicncy
Ia the treatment Of liquor sellers and
gamblers. AZ n former trial Miner re-
covered verdict Of $3.50. but the SUI
Prcme Court reversed the rulings Of the
lower court, holding that comments Of n
newspaper on nm officials acts are justi-
table, II not shown to bc malicious.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

An English gentleman and his wife
who have been travelling in Sicily fell
into conversation one day with the
driver of the vehicle in which they were
riding. II was not always as you see
me-" said the coachman, sadly; II
once occupied much higher position -
The travellers pricked up their ears for
a romantic story of nobility in distress.
yes" added the driver, 81 was once a
brigand, and all the men of my family
occupied the same honorable position;
but became engaged to a girl whom
I loved to distraction, and my fiance,
1isliking the profession on account of
its risks. persuaded me to throw it up,
30 now ] am only . carriage-driver."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

Is the case IL Kcr. who was captured
In rcru and taken back to Chicago as
dcfaultcr. and sued ont writ IL habcas
corpus upon the ground that he had
been kidnapped. Judge McAllister de-
cided that his capture was regular, and
denied the writ
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

IN the Court 1T Quarter Sessions nj
Albany, N. Y, recently. lively scene
occurred when John Kcrwin, who was
tried for larceny, was found guilty.
Judge Van Alstyne sentenced him To
four years in the rcnitcntiary. and
added a few words If advice. when the
prisoner stood up, shook his list mt the
Judge and called him vile names. de-
claring hc would like Ia murder him.
The prisoner made vicious dive toward
the bench. hut being seized by officers
hc was replaced in the dock. and the
Judge added another year TO his sen
trncc. AZ this kcrwin became furious.
lie ravcd and assaulted the officers until
finally taken away. Physicians certified
that he was perfectly sane, and only
moved by bad temper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12
A Murderer who Expected to Kill Some
One.

DALLAS TEX, Sept. 27.
Henry Shanks who killed August Weimer
In a dispute on the Bible and religion yes
terday morning, was captured and lodged
in the county Jail this morning charged
with murder. Late yesterday evening
City Marshall Arnold got possession OF the
fact that Shanks had taken dinner at Bob
Ellis, eight miles east OF town. Getting
together posse he left town at two o'clock
this morning and found HIS man at Ellis
place. In an interview to-day the prisoner
said he did not intend to kill Weimer; that
Weimer had followe 4, abused and harassed
him all night and finally rubbed his fist in
his face. He could not think of hitting
him with his fist as he was no physical
mate for him. For that reason he stuck
his knife in him, intending to hurt him,
but not to kill him. Shanks is about
twenty -eight years of age; small of stat
ure. He was born in Louisville, KY. His
parents died some years ago, leaving him
and a crippled sister, who were brought up
by relatives residing on Broadway,
between Eighth and Ninth-streets. For the
last five years Shanks has lived in Dallas,
following the trade of carpenter. For two
or three days before he killed Weimer he
was in liquor and spending his time in
trying to raise rows. Day before yester-
day evening, while on Main street, he gave
out that he expected to kill somebody
before twenty-four hours should roll
around, and his expectations were realized,
whether he meant it or not.
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Z Bold and Shrewd Operator victimizcs
Banks and Produce Men to the Tune of
o1OO, 900.

MONTREAL, Sept q.
In August last an Englishman named C.
J. Dewey came here from Liverpool and
began business as a produce shipper to
England. He showed letters from the best
houses all over England, ordering goods,
and got all he wanted. He raised SIS, 900
from Nelson's bank on the strength of bills
Of lading. The drafts were duly honored
when presented In Liverpool. The next
shipment was on the 14th inst, and he got
advances from the same bank of 700,
also on bills Of lading. It is now discov-
cred that Dewey had passed forged bills of
lading in Boston and New York for ad-
vances there to q large amount. One bank
In Boston is taken in TO the extent Of 50 900
and the agents Of the Bristol produce house
In New York for over so 900. A produce
merchant in London, Ont, was also de-
hauded out of one thousand boxes Of
cheese, for which he holds forged securities
on New York. The total amount Of the abb
sconder's frauds viii reach at least 500, 900.
Detectives are after him, and . large re-
ward Is offered for his arrest. He IN sup
posed to be in the Eastern States.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

A CmCAGo corn-doctor is defendant
IN a suit for 1900 damages for alleged
unskilfulncss in the treatment Of fair
patient. causing the loss Of her foot.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

TIM announcement j. made that Eng
land will resume negotiations with the
Sucx Canal Company relative to the pro-
posed canal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

TuE new Queen ~ Madagascar.
whose name q, Razafndcihctz is n Chris
tian. twenty-five years Of age. and al
rrndy n widow.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

FRANCE. IL is said. will restore the
salaries IT the Catholic priests and
otherwise make peace with the Pope.
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"A superintendent of a thread man

"A superintendent of thread man.
ufactory in Massachusetts explained to
visitor the good things done by the
company for one thousand six hundred
operatives. He showed the neat cot
tages, the pretty gardens, the library,
the drawing-class the MUSHROOM and
the picnic grove. Having done this he
gave the reason why the company took
so much trouble to promote the happi-
ness and sef-respect of one ehousand
six hundred human beings. He said:
They feel pride in their belongings,
an interest in us, and make better
thread. ~ Chicdoo Inter Ocean.
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KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Another railroad Dcci.iop

The Railroad Commissioners have rem.
dered their decision in the case of the
Mayor and Council of Beloit against the
Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific Rail-
roads, adverse to the Railroad Companies
in that their charges were too high. The
following table gives the former charges
and the tariff as fixed by the Board: