Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-16
mISCELLANEOUS.


thought the lease Of so large a tract by one
company will result in driving the small deal
ers In cattle from that section of the Terri
tory.
A late FIRE at Albany, N. Y, destroyed Dun
laps elevator and other property. The loss
by the FIRE was about 100000. A falling
building killed three men and severely injured
a number of others.
Robert Magee, OF Buffalo, N. Y, aged
twenty-eight, the other day fatally shot his
wife, aged twenty-five, the ball entering the
right eye. He then shot himself in the fore
head Magee win recover. Cause, jealousy.
At Arkansas City, Ark, the river rose so
suddenly that great food was thought to be
inevitable. The people took their property to
places Of safety and left on every train. The
negroes fed panic-stricken.
The total receipts from five concerts Of
Nilsson at Cincinnati was $4,000.
w. II. Pratt. President of the Bank OF Mo-
bile and Vice President of the Mobile and
MONTGOMERY Railroad, while attempting to
pass between the cars Of freight train at the
l.. & n. depot at Birmingham. Ala, recently,
fell and was run over aud killed instantly, be-
ing terribly mangled.
The Tax and Tariff bill Immediately after
passing the House was enrolled and taken TO
the President who affixed his signature and Il
became a law. number Of members voted
for IL under protest.
The bill to pay Joseph c. Irwin. formerly OF
Leavenworth, now OF Independence, Mo-,
some 5000 for cavalry horses furnished at
Fort Leavenworth in 1871, passed both branches
of Congress.
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twenty miles above New Orleans. Nine
persons were drowned.
Harvey n. Follansbee, Clerk Of the Superin-
tendent OF the Boston Police Department
and Treasurer Of the Police Relief Association,
lately embezzled some $50, $50 Of the invested
funds Of the latter organization. He had been
speculating in stocks and made a full confes-
sion. He was held for trial in $40, 900 bail.
All the regular appropriation bills obtained
passage in both Houses, and became laws.
The Sundry Civil bill, the last upon which an
agreement was reached in conference, re-
ceived the Presidents signature at ten O'Clock
on the morning Of the 4th.
During the Forty. Seventh Congress 1860
bills and joint resolutions were introduced in
the two Houses (S,6lS in the House and 2, 652
in the Senate), and OF these $50 were intro
duced in the House and $50 in the Senate dur
ing the session just closed.
Dublin dispatch states that the letters
seized at Walsh's lodgings at Rochdale, reveal
the fact that 5000 men are enrolled in the Sc
cret society he had been organizing in the
north OF England, and that they are amply
provided with funds and revolvers.
The River and Harbor bill appropriating S.
1000 was strangled in the Senate by a mo-
ton to lay on the table upon the last day of
the session.
The aggregate amount Of all appropriation
bills passed by the late Congress was 1928, 327,
511.
While the provisions OF the act to reduce
the revenue go into affect generally on and
after July /, 1883, an exception is made in re-
spect to the tariff duties on sugar, which take
effect June 1, and the internal revenue pro-
visions relating to the reduction of taxes on
tobacco, snuff and cigars and the reduction of
special license taxes, which go into effect May
l, with the provision that all claims for draw
back and cigarettes held by manufacturers or
dealers at date mast be presented before Julyl.
Now comes the report that Pittsburg iron
masters interviewed on the tariff have been
unanimous in their declarations that under
classes Of workmen will be necessary. II this
Is persisted in 1t will very probably result in a
general strike. Chicago makes a similar re-
port.
DIR. VI. A. Randall, prominent physician OF
Roseville, Ohio, was called from home one
night recently, and has not since been seen.
His horse and hat we're found, the latter with
a bullet hole through it, and foul play was
feared.
Alargely attended meeting Of Irish Citizens
was recently held I'm Washington, at which
resolutions were adopted charging the British
Government with endeavoring to exterminate
Irish people by compelling them to choose be-
tween famine, graves and emigration, and
calling upon the Executive Department OF
this Government TO employ fits power to de-
feat the purpose Of England. also protesting
against the delivery OF Sheridan TO the British
authorities.
Jesse Williams, OF Orange County, New
/ York, was robbed of a satchel containing
5000 In gold and a gold watch and chain al
q station on the Pennsylvania Railroad one
evening recently.
The high water at Helena, Ark, has caused
much damage and great fright from fear OF q
disastrous food
Statistics show that the great -four mills Of
Minneapolis and the State Of Minnesota gen
orally are not producing one third their capac
fly. A number viii shut down soon becaus,
Of the scarcity and high price of wheat
Judge Allen. the new Judge OF the Crimina
Court Of Nashville, Tenn, reduced ex-Treas
urer Folks bail bond to $4,000. The bono
previously required by Judge Aliens predeces
sor had been SO, Zoo. The grounds for reduc
ton was Folks inability to give so high bont
on account Of his exhausted condition from
confinement. Polk then gave bond in the sun
OF So, 600 and was released
Very cold stormy weather prevailed In New
England, Canada and on the North Atlantic
coast the 9th accompanied with snow. Al
some points In Maine the thermometer wa
forty degrees below zero.
The Bluff and the Diamond mills, at Rel
Wing, Mimi, two Of the most improved and
complete Touring minis in the Northwest, wer,
recently burned. Loss $2O0,0 The fire wa
supposed TO be incendiary.
The trades unions in Albany, Trohand anc
Cohoes, N. Y, united In demonstration
against the contract labor in the State prisons
Three thousand men paraded.
Five Of the buildings OF the ST. Augustine
Normal School for ColOred Students, a