Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-01
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was sentenced recently % fourteen years
In the state prison, the full penalty for the
crime.
nISCELLANEOTs.
Harry r. WATSON, twcnty.thrce wears
of age, reporter ON the Boston Herald,
shot and seriously wounded a young
woman named May Appleton nj a boarding
house i'm that city the other night. Cause.
jealousy. Watson was arrested and held
10 hail in S2O,OOO.
THE business failures throughout the
country during the past week were III
against l5i the previous week.
RECENT collision on the Maine Central
Railroad, near Augusta, killed one and IA
tally injurcdt two persons.
AofsFATCH from ~. Petersburg saws the
police Of that city have been informed Of
the existence Of "A plot To- brighten the horse
Of the Car NJ some favorable opportunity
during the procession at Moscow on corona
ton day, and in the confusion which would
no doubt follow, To kill the Emperor.
LATER reports from the cyclone nt Racine.
Wis, make It more terrible i'm its fatality
than at first reported. In aud about the
city the killed were estimated at not less
hundred. The same tornado passed through
Illinois carrying death and destruction i'm
its course. The total number of killed nj
various points IN the state aggregated fully
sixty or sixty-tivc and the injured some
where near two hundred. At Springfield five
were killed and dozen or more wounded,
some fatally. At jacksonville there were
q number Of fatalities. Alton, Jerseyville,
Shipman, Staunton, Clinton, Litchfeld,
Carlinvillc, Mason, Roodhousc, Maroa. and
various other places were visited with fatal
results. I'm Montgomery, St. Charles and
Warren Counties, No., some twenty or
more persons were killed and seriously i'm.
| Jured 10y the same storm.
An order has been issued by Postmas ter
General Gresham, which directs that after
October contractors must secure permits
sion Of the Postmaster General before max
ing sub-contracts on any route, and appli-
cations to sub-let must be filed i'm the office
of the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral, and specifying rate TO be paid per
annum under it i'm case the service shall be
changed.
The Treasury Department has decided
that the limitation of eighty-iive per cent
i'm the schedule of the new tariff act relating
to duty on leaf tobacco refers to each pack
age covered by one invoice.
1T is thought the Star.Route cases will
reach the jury the first week in June Each
lawyer occupies from three 20 six davs i'm
his speech.
THE other night train on the Indian
apolis & 81. Louis Railroad, when near
liillsboro, Ills, dashed into small stream,
the bridge across which had been blown
down by the storm. The engine and bag
gage car went into the stream. Pat Welch,
engineer, was instantly killed. Dan Har.
rington, fireman, was very seriously in
jurcd.
LARGE forest fires were raging last week
ON Mount Webster and Blue Mountains, in
New York The damage was heavy.
WILLIAM MCKEE, n wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Sturgis, Mich, was arrested at
Lima, Ind, recently, charged with attempt
ing to poison the family of his son-in-law,
Asa Ganyard, by pouring Paris green i'm
the well. He was placed under $1,000
bonds, but his bondsmen surrendered him
10 the authorities, and he was placed in
Jail ut LaGrange, Ind, where he SUISSE
quently hanged himself.
The report OF the New York Commits
sioners of Accounts shows the frauds com
mitted upon the city treasury by Carroll,
coupon clerk, 10 amount 20 $1,000.
A SEVERE Storm attended with snow
prevailed along the lakes on the 21st. A
number Of vessels were reported lost. The
snow storm was especially severe in por-
tions Of Ohio and Indiana. At Lima, Ohio,
the snow fell to the depth If twelve inches
and i'm many places was so heavy as TO
break trees down. IL was several inches
deep AZ Toledo.
/ A RECENT food ut Dcadwood, u. T., did
an immense amount Of damage. The flood
was caused by heavy rains, which melted
the snow and overhowed streams and
gulches. The portion of the city destroyed
was occupied by cheap tenement houses,
sccOnd-class hotels, laundries, small trad
ers, sporting houses, livery stables, ETC.,
the main portion Of the town being above
the danger line. All towns in the gulch
were badly damaged. Pennington was
washed away, Crook City nearly gone,
also half Of Spearfish. Several persons
were reported drowned. The loss Of prop
erty I'm Deadwood alone was estimated at
$4,000.
AT Henrietta, Texas, the other day c. NJ.
Burgess, who killed r. NJ. Donley last No
vember, was shot and killed by W. r. Cur.
It's, the cattle king, one of the largest stock
owners in Texas, at the postofice during
the delivery OF the mail. Burgess when
shot fell dead within two feet Of where his
victim fell last November. In that ARRAY
be also attempted to shot Curtis and there
had been bad blood between the two ever
since.
TIVE most disastrous forest fire that ever
occurred in Vermont started the other day
in the vicinity Of Groton. An immense
tract was burned over and large amount
Of property destroyed. The loss had
already amounted TO $4,000, and the firc
was still raging.
THE other afternoon an explosion In the
Wolverine Paper Mill at Detroit, Mich.
caused a bad wreck. William Thompson
the engineer, was killed, and Peter Frank
fireman, fatally injured. Damage to the
mill about $4,000.
HARDY CLIFFORD was lately sentenced
70 life imprisonment at Milwaukee, Wis.
for the murder Of Captain Pugh, at Racine
about q year ago.
THE forest fires in Vermont burned the
mill property owned by Alvah Baldwin, Of
Wells River, whose loss was estimated Al
over $4,000.
TEE Attorney General has given an opin
Ton to the Secretary Of the Treasury thai
under the provisions Of the act approved
March 3, lssas no tax can Be collected OF