Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-26
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A Summary of Tn Daily News.
POLITICAL HrDsPERsonAI.

n summary OF the Daiiy Ne"s'
POLITICAL AnDsPERsONAL.
NEARLY complete returns from thu Ohio
, election showed a total vote Of nearly 5is,Ooo
The PrOhfiitiOn amendment was defeated
by about 70,00O majority. Hoadly's ma
jority seemed 20 be between ten and twelve
thousand, With the Legislature Democratic
Tho Republican majority I'm Iowa was put
at Don LegislaturestronEl Republican
GovERNOR BCTTER, OF Massachusetts, ap
pointed EdwinG. Walker. colored. a Justice
for Charlestown, but the Executive Council
rejected him, alleging that his record wa'
bad. Walker subsequently stated that he
never was arraigned in court; that in 1873 he
was arrested through conspiracy, and in q
short time was discharged; that tho records
produced bear strong evidence Of perjury
GENERAL ROGER A. PEYoR, of New York
who was retained rs counsel for O'Donnell
the slayer Of Carey, has arrived In Eng
land. ...
ALEXANDER nAcHARA, n prominent
Philadelphia lawyer, IL mystcriously miss
ing.
"A MEETING Of Massachusetts Grecnback
crs assembled at Worcester, who, after
an address by Scion Chase and others
nominated j. Arnold for Governor; A. b
brown. Secretary Of State; W. W. wencel
Treasurer, and George w. Kimball, Audi
tor. .
NEARLY complete official returns from
The Iowa election gave Sherman 25,47:
naiority over Kinne, and about 30 over
oil. Tho exact oilirial canvass, IL wa,
thought, would not vary much from thess
figures.
The Government Of Alsacc-Lorraine has
prohibited the publication Of nine French
papers in that Province.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two drunken negroes recently murdered
a man at Russellvilic, KY, for which they
were lynched. I-f'
SrCAETNHY FOLG an has written reply
to rsepator. Garlqnd, who recently pie
sented a clqim OF the State Of Arkansas for
moneys alleged 20 be due under the deposit
act OF June r., lSiI, in which he SAYS;
"Sinco The Indebtedness Of the United
States has bssn Sufficient 60 absorb the sur
plus rpvtnuHs, Understand the uso'of Che
Department has been to look upon. the de
post act as being at least suspended, ifnoi
entirely obsolete, and until otherwise IL
rccted by Congress. i am disposed to con
cur In that usage-"a ,.fsf.ra
THE published statement that the Presi
dent had directed that the annual report.
OF all the Bureau officers az the different
Departments he withheld from p6hiica
tion until after h. shall have sent his an
in'al messages TO Congress, is officially de
MEL. Private Secretary Phillips said the
fFesident had never made such a request
nor had i he eyer intbnated that such Yni
-GrosoE Win, resident Of Tee Garden
ten miles north Of Plynionth, Ind, Will,
under the nlfinence OF liquory recently
killed his two-yehr-old child and then blew
out his brains. The husband and wife has
lived unhHpPily, Snd the latter had apple,
Tor q divorce.
AsfECIAL from white Bluff, Tenn, CAV,
an account % remarkable. attempt a
murder nenr that place, lrucently. Rev. A
A, ID. Nickuwas shot int arm, aud fur
ther up the road no was shot again. Itwa
developed that a stepson of the preacher
Rollle Nicks, aged thirteen, and ncgr,
boy, Aberit Bell, plotted the murder o
their respective fathers, and Nicks danger
ously wounded his. The negro boy con
tossed and both were jailesl. .t f- ..
IT was recently discovered that In,
Circuit Attorneys Office Mt st. Louis ha,
been entered aud the short hand records o
tho last Grand Jury, which investigate,
the gambling ring, were missing. Til
missing photographic notes cover all IN,
testimony Of some twenty witnesses 20 In,
gambling Investigation, and notes on othe
important cases. ...
| THROUGH tho Carclcssness of a youn;
man who was acting as engineer on Tn
/ Southwest road, near Uniontown, Pa, re
Gently, collision took place, resulting Il
tho wreckiug and burning of several car
aud the serious injury of a number Of pas
scnggrs.
l. AFTER the retirement Of General Sher
man and the accession Of General Sheridan
70 the command Of the army, General Han
cock, at his own request, will remain Il
command Of the Division of the Atlantic
with headquarters at New York. Genera
Schoheld will take command of the Divis
ion Of tho Missouri, with headquarters a
| Chicago, and General Pope will succee,
the last named i'm command Of the Paeii
Division, with headquarters at San Fran
cisco. Brigadier General Augur will succee
Major General Pope in command Of tn
Missouri Department, with headauarter
at Fort Leavenworth. Brigadie. General X
y. Mackenzie. will succeed General Augu
in command Of the Department. of Texas
The Department of the South has hscn con
solidated with the Department of the East
Major General Hancock in command.
The Lyc,um thrater i'm Chicago, bull
immediately following the great fire q
lSal, md then knowp as the Globe theAte
was partially burned tire other mornia,
In the second story were number c
sSeping apartments, occupied by Thoma
Grenier, lessee Of the theater, and famil
six persons in all. All escaped excep
Harry Perry, twenty-four years Of ag,
who was forgotten in the excitement an
sl.GocRted. The loss Was, placed at abou
~, 200. n. -....-t-. ...s.......
ALFRED WHITE, the youngest ofthe gan
OF horse thieves known as the White Boy,
recently attempted TO commit suicide a
Madison, Ind, by taking morphine in jai
Two Of the boys WORE recently sent TO th
penitentiary, and the others were bein
hunted down. &c.. .-,..-. .t.f.s.,,,
a YEAR ago the wife Of A, II. Herrick,
well.to-do ranchinan near Grand junction
Colo, left him Herrick afterwards OF
TIMED a divorce and married -Margare
Thompson. Mrs. Herrick returned a shor
time since, and uPon meeting Herrick an
wife, shot and Instantly killed his secon
wife. She was admitted to bail, and CON
menced proceedings 70 recover some ~ Nj
Herriek's property. The other afternoo
while the sheriff ana Mrs. Hee,4ck were a
the rnnch looking up the cattle, Herric
shot and killed Mrs. Herrick and then CAV
himself upto the Sheriff. ,-,, re -,. -.
IL five cases taken TO the Supreme Cour
OF the United States, all based on the FIR,
and second section Of the Civii Rights nc.
beiRt prosecutions under that act for M
admitting certain colored persons to equl
accommodations ann privileges in inns {
| hotels in D-atiroad1 cara aSd I'm the,tro