Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-02

few days since with the crew OF the French
steamer Picsrdie, which sank at sea the week
before.
Prince Frederick Charles Alexander, brother
OF the Emperor OF Germany, died at Berlin
recently, aged 50 years. In consequence Of
the death Of Prince Charles, the festivities in
honor OF the silver wedding of Crown Prince
Frederick William have been abandoned. II
The boiler at the Ledger Paper Mills, Elk
hart, Ind, exploded with terrible force re-
Gently, wrecking half of the immense build.
ing. Patrick Mccormick was killed and John
Garrett is missing Eight others were in
iured, one OF whom will probably die.
The House Committee on Agriculture, unan-
imously agreed to a favorable report to be
made on Congressman Andersons bill, Gre
ating an Agricultural Commission Of members,
whose duty 1t will be to investigate and report
upon the actual cost to common carriers to
transport agricultural products from the
points where produced to their final market
II also confers on the Commission full power
to take the testimony of witnesses and exsm-
Inc the books ard papers of railroads and
other corporations. This bill, as accepted by
the committee, is amended by Representative
Valentine, OF Nebraska, providing that in
order that full and adequate justice shall be
had between corporations and the people, said
Commission shall investigate and report upon
all questions relating. to the establishment
and maintenance Of reasonable and just inter
State transportation. 1t is said this bill will
be vigorously antagonized by all the railroad
interests represented at Washington.
The President has approved the Agricultural
| Appropriation BILL and the act amending the
revised statutes so as to extend the limits OF
Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, in the
Territories of Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana.
According to accounts published at Berlin,
the women and children on board theill- fated
Cimbria, recently sunk, were placed first in
boats, and four got off clear, but the fifth was
| so overcrowded 1t capsized. The first officer
held burning torches while the passengers
were entering the boats. He was drowned
The steamer Sultan, that ran into the Cimbria
and caused the disaster, has been seized at
Hamburg and the officers sent to jail.
The wife OF John Zemrick, laborer of Mil
waukee, Wis, few days since killed her
three children, aged four years, twenty months
and four months, and attempted to hang her
self, but was discovered and cut down. The
commanded to sacrifice her children. -
The Southern Pacific Railroad officials are
convinced from facts developed since the
fearful accident in California, that the cslani-
fly was the result of an attempted train rob
berry, The theory is that while the train stood
at the station, the robbers boarded it and let
of the brakes with the intention. of running
the train beyond assistance and robbing the
express car, but lost control of IL. Two
bodieswere found in the wreck, supposed to
be those of the would-be robbers. -
Diphtheria of very malignant type prevails
In the country around Marine, Ills. In one
case four children belonging to one family
died in three days. -
Seth Page, Justice of the Peace at oplffr.
attempted to- cross the range without snow
shoes to Silverton, Col, one day last week.
He was found by mail carrier frozen 10
death. =
| Arrangements for the great cotton exhibit
ton at Louisville, KY, are progressing sue
cessfully. Over S275,00O have already been
subscribed, and work the buildings will be
commenced Immediately. 1t is..claimed that
indications point 10 the success of the ex-
hibition which will be second only to that at
Philadelphia
A coal train Of sixty cars, was recently
wrecked near Cumberland, Md, by being
thrown from a trestlework. Seven train men
were killed and number injured 80,
Maj. Geo. Coolbaugh, at one time connected
with Gov. Hunt and others in railroad and
other enterprises in Texas and Mexico, and a
Major on Gen. McPherson's staff during the
war, died recently in an old stable at San An
tonia, Tex, unattended by any one except q
poor woman and two little children who lived
In the howell -
The Commissioner OF the General Land, OF
fee requires that naturalization papers be
produced, or evidence OF their destruction
shown, to entitle foreign born citizens toland
patents. ra
Over $50 families residing in the Northwes,
part OF Columbus, Ohio, are said to be in destf
tute circumstances, caused by the closina
down Of the Columbus rolling mill Christmas,
throwing them out or work. ~
The Commissioner of Railroads Is preparing
papers to enable the Attorney GeneraE &c
bring suit against the Union Pacific Railroad
Company to recover a balance of about q,
0OO, 900 alleged to be due on account Of per.
centage Of net earnings. In . settlement, by
Il
was fascertained, items for "new con
struction" and "new equipment"t wer,
excluded, and for this reason the railway eorn
l Pany refuses-payment. OF the sum claimed b,
the United States, and asserts that under {
liberal construction OF the act of May z, 1878
and under decision OF the United States Su
preme Court, these items should be deduEte6
from the gross earnings, rasjbeing necessary
snfoPerating the road and. keeping the sav'
In repair. y The suit raises again the Question
what constitutes met earnings under the
hwi t'''i %
At the Queens Bench Division. Dublin
Davitt, Healey and Quinn, charged with n
citing lawlessness, werel ordered to find &c
curity for good Behavior or, go to prison To-
; six. months The Chief sJustiee, ID givins
Judgment. held TINT the language Of the. de
PENDANTS was distinctly seditious and an In