Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-09
THE WORLDS DOINGS.
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ing out into surrounding towns, some OF
which established a quarantine.
The leYee broke a few days since at Panther
Forest, fifteen miles below Arkansas City, on
the Arkansas side, making acrevasse $50 yards
wide, and water rushed through three to four
feet deep Much apprehension Is felt on the
lower Mississippi on account Of the heavy rise.
Another attempt was made on the 18th to
IRE the Missouri Penitentiary by a convict. A
prisoner who reported himself sick, threw a
ball saturated with coal oil into some rubbish
In the hospital. Timely discovery defeated
the attempt
It is stated that a critical point in the i'm
pending trouble between the Interior Depart
ment aud the cattle men located in the Indian
Territory has been reached, and It looks now
as IL the cattle men ultimately will be forced
10 leave the Territory.
special from Hull, England, saws the
steamship Bywell Castle, from the Black Sea,
with a cargo OF cotton seeds aud beans, bound
Tor Boston, Is thought to have foundered and
all on board lost.
Chas. storey, employed in the bank ofNel-
son Storey at Boseman, Montana, obtained
$4,000 from the FIRST National Bank of that
place BY forging, aud left for the East. lie
was arrested on his way and most Of che money
recovered l.ltt-
The project TO erect 4 large exposition
building at 81. Louis is reported to be so far
advanced that its success is assured A fund
OF nearly $500 700 has already been subscribed,
which, it is thought, viii be increased to
$4,000. If.
A number OF prominent Lutheran clergymen
Of Washington CITY, Network City and Balti-
more, have issued an appeal to the people Of
their denomination throughout the country,
for funds 10 erect I'm Washington colossal
bronze statue Of Martin, Luther.
The recent wholesale indictment by the
Washington Grand Jury of Thieves and de-
tectives aud their attorneys has struck terror
to the fraternity in the city. Among those
Indicted was A. Il. Williams, one Of the Star
Route counsel, specially employed by Dorsey.
The formal charge is that of receiving stolen
In the Court of Claims, recently, judgment
was rendered I'm favor of the Hannibal and st.
Joseph Railroad company for $3.50, $40, in the
claim against the United States under con-
tract for carrying mails. uut-as--r
a fire at Washington, Iowa, destroyed prop
erty vAlned at $4,000, with insurance of
SOS, 600.
Forty students were imprisoned at st. Pc
tersburg for expressing doubts as to the adj
administrative ability Of the Minister of Public
Instruction.
Gilbert l.. Crowell, President OF the Empire
Mining Company, Of Summit County, Utah,
with offices in New York, is reported AIDE
fainter for nearly $4,000. The parties de-
frauded are three ladies. heirs Of the Talmon
estate. r.t
Prince Jerome Napoleon has sent his vaiua-
BILE property TO England anticipating fight
from France.
The residence OF Peter Deunen, at Montague,
Mich, burned recently. The hired girl. named
Mary Murray, and five children persisted in the
flames. Mrs. Dennen barely escaped from sick
bed in her bare feet.
At Sandersville, Miss, Ella Lindsay was late
ly frightened TO death by big dog She had
just gone home from school, and went a short
distance from the house 10 get wood, when a
strange dog pursued by another ran towards
her. Her mother heard her scream, and run
ming out found lef dead.
A large party recently took supper at hotel
in Charleston, Mo-, aud soon after sixteen OF
them were suddenly taken i'll, with unmistaka-
bic signs Of poisoning. Investigation showed
that the poisoning resulted from eating "head-
cheese" that had been cooked in a copper YES
sell The timely administering of Antidotes
prevented any fatal result.
The house occupied by Dennis Tennessee, a
butcher, at Quarantine, Dakota, was recently
burned, and his wife and two children per
ished.
A statement just issued at the Postoflice
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last year PostofIice Inspectors arrested forty
nine persons for violating the postal laws OF
the United States. OF that number nine were
discharged, as no cases could be made against
/ them.
! A sister OF ex-senator VIM. Sharon attempt.
ed suicide in bath room at the Palace Hotel
San Francisco, recently, by cutting herself in
tie breast with penknife. The smallness OF
the weapon prevented deep wounds, but tho
cuts were so numerous and the loss OF blood
SO great that the lady was said to be in a pre-
carious condition. Her action is attributed
10 insanity.
Henry c. Parr, formerly OF Ottawa, Kansas
lately shot and killed himself at his residence
in Kansas Cry. No cause was known for the
act, as ne was reputed well-to-do financially
and his domestic relations. were pleasant.
Schiller, former lessee of the -Newhall
House, at Milwaukee, Wis, has been indicted
by the Grand Jury for arson, the charge being
setting fire 10 the hotel and causing the late
terrible loss of life in that city. His bail wa,
fixed at $4,000. 0btUHp.f
Norwich, Conn, vas lately shaken up by
heavy earthquake, causing great alarm among
the people. About the same time brilliant
meteor shot across the sky from northeast tC
northwest, emitting a dazzling white light
and the flames giving an apparent diameter o.
eight feet. ka
Mary Daniels, claiming $1,000 from tn,
Il Central Hudson Railroad for injuries receiveC
IN the Spuyton Duyyil disaster, settled TO
$4,000, the largest sum ever paid by the Cen
tral Hudson for personal injuries A. B
Valentine, OF Bennington, VT, received
5000 for the death Of his son and $1,000 70
the death OF the latter's bride.
bridget Bunen, aged seventy years, cut tn,
throat OF her husband, eyed ninety, at Por
Hope, Canada, and set hre to their dwelling
The woman was arrested.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railroad recently secured a verdict OF 500
Against the Board Of SUPERVISORS of Fri
County, n. " for he burning OF a Passenge
car by a mob during the riots of 1877.
"A late IRE at Paris, KY, destroyed on
whole block with the exception of the Pres
byterian church. Loss, from $4,000 to sio9
900.
The fonr,year-old daughter of Alfred Z
Daniel, jeweler OF St Joseph, Mo-, was re
Gently drowned in a tub OF water -,
Mrs. B. Calvert, Of Palmyra, No, while re
Gently attending 10 cross North River o.
horseback, was droYnsd.