Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

/ q Ohc ulRnJ last week man named Freeman,
OF Roxana, Mich, attempted to elope with
the daughter of John Day. Day followed the
couple and shot Freeman with . rife, infict-
ing mortal wound
Burglars recently raided the savings bank
OF Wyandotte, eighteen miles below Detroit,
Mich. They blew open the safe, obtained ST.
500 in cash and seventy-fve Erie bonds.
| The Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific train en-
countered broken rail and jumped the track
near Fort Wayne, Ind, recently, overturning
day coach and a chair car. Four passen.
gers were injured, one, j. W. Bowers, of To-
ledo, seriously.
Charles ID. Seebach, New York bartender,
one day last week fired upon a party of boys
| Dowballing him, and killed John Noonan,
aged nine years.
The amendment to the Tariff bill introduced
by Senator Plumb imposing an internal reve.
nue. tar on the dividends of all corporations,
including interest on bonds, is in effect an in.
come tax on fixed capital. While the amend
ment will receive the approval Of the masses,
1t wiz doubtless be vigorously sntagonised by
monopolies.
The changes made In the Tariff bills as they
| progress In Congress IL Is stated have alarmed
those whose business is specially effected by
the action taken, and representatives of va.
rious Industries Of the country focked to
Washington in great numbers for the purpose
OF securing. II possible, legislation favorable
to each interest threatened.
The river at Cincinnati on the morning OF
the 18th, had reached sixty-three feet five
inches, aud was still rising. Barges were be-
ing run along Second street, to relieve
the wants of the people living there.
The current on the front Of the street was
so rapid as TO make navigation dangerous.
Suffering among the people in the flooded dis.
triet was unavoidable. The suspension bridge
could not be reached at all except by boats.
The Newport bridge was also inaccessible ex-
cept by boats or wagons.
The dry goods imported at New York the
past week we're valued at s3,4l1,O 900.
| The proposition of the fanatics, Leo Hart
mann and Herr Most, to blow the Car up with
dynamite when he attempts to don the crown
OF Russia in May is creating some excitement
In New York and other Eastern cities. Rus
sian representatives in this country, it is said,
VIII bring the matter to the attention OF the
State Department and their arrest probably
demanded.
! A number OF horses and cattle have recent
| ly died In the neighborhood OF Springfield,
Mo-, Of hydrophobia, and the people of the
vicinity are seriously alarmed for fear the dis.
ease may develop in other animals, as It is not
known how many animals were bitten by the
rabid dog that produced the above result.
Reuben Corwin and James Hamlin, farmer:
and brothers-in-law, living south Of Pana,
Ills, settled an old grudge in the presence OF
their wives I'm a desperate fight with knives.
Corwin was stabbed in the neck and Hamlr
in the left breast. Corwin fired two Intellectual
ST OTIS from revolver. Both were alive, but
the wounds we're possibly mortal
Annie Dorena Granger and Catherine Voor
bees, daughter and wife Of John r. Voorhees,
were lodged in jail at Pattison, N. j., on com
plant Of Voorhees, for, attempting to murder
Both OF the accused are members OF the saliva
ton army, and took their books to Jail with
them to convert the inmates.
Cincinnati was thrown into great excitement
the 18th, by the report that both the freight
aud passenger depots of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad were undermined and fel
into the surrounding water, carrying down
large number OF people into the food
Both sides of the fill were covered with water
from thirty 20 fifty feet deep. The earth haC
become so soaked as to melt, and the catas
trophe was further FASTENED by the breaking o.
the sewer, which sent the current along tn,
bank. A great crowd of people were lookins
at the food, and when a small building
near by, went down, the crowd rushed over OF
the platform of the depot TO see what was thl
matter, when suddenly the depot collapsed
and sank I'm the water. The track was at tn,
same time depressed, and cars standing clos,
ran into the depression, covering the peopl,
who had gone down with the fallen building
The number drowned was not defnitel,
known, but three boys, two freight handlers
and four members OF CouP's circus persisted
Reports from the Indian Territory state tina
General Pleasant Porter, commander of tn,
Government party of the Creek Indians, lef
Okmulgee on the 9th with 400 men, bound TO
the camp Of the rebel faction under Spieche
Efforts were being made by the Indian agen
TO effect a compromise and settlement of tn,
trouble between the two factions, but littl,
hope was entertained of success as there wal
bad blood on both sides and a disposition u
fight the matter out. 1900 .I.'N
A Chicago smdbag thief the other nigh
attacked August Gerhardy in the streets o
that city for the purpose of robbery. Ger
hardy drew a pistol and shot his assailan
dead.
Daniel McKever, a farmer OF johnson
County, Mo-, while recently hauling logs TO
saw mill had one Of his legs caught under
heavy log by the overturning Of his wagon
He was held in this position for over an hou
with no one near TO extricate him. In nj,
desperation he took out his pocket knife anC
attempted TO cut his leg of and by this meant
o.. II
afterwards with the limb fearfully lacersted
and exhausted from pain and loss OF blood
His recovery was improbable 1850
BY the explosion of gasoline in Blaisdell 4
Co.'S. knitting mills near Amsterdam, ". Y.
lately the building was wrecked and fired
Keegan, the Waterman, crawled out with ter
rible burns about his head AMI arms. Foul
sets OF machinery and large amount Of stool
were destroyed. Loss estimated at $50, 90
insured for $50, 5O0i ZIot 3 loU
The Drum Eummonr mine, near Helena
-MoutanA, was recently sold to an English
syndicate for $4,000 down and 81, $50, 900 L
be paid in April and June.
The issue OF standard silver dollars last weel
was S455, 900 against S162,O 600 the same weel
last year.
A collision recently occurred on the Cincin
natl Northern Railroad a few miles from Gin
cinuAti, betwesniAvondale Junction and Idle
Wild, I'm which John Roberts, colored, wal
instantly killed, and Isaac NJ. knight. Russell
H. Manning and Daniel Andrews seriously, 4
not fatally Injured The latter is wei
known merchant.
The Ohio River food continued with in
creased fury the 14th. At Cincinnati the
/ river had reached a hight Of over sixtv-fve
J feet and was sim rising. The damage Al