Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13

ANOTHER call for bonds il is thought
will be issued this month.
THE number Of claims received at the In
/ ternal Revenue Bureau for rebate on ac-
count Of tobacco, snuff and cigars under
the new internal revenue law approximates
10000, aggregating S2,OO0,OOO.
/ THE Swedish and Norwegian Minister
has called the attention OF the Secretary of
State 70 the arrest and imprisonment of
| Swedish emigrants by manufacturing cor
porations at Sun Cook, n. II. II appears
the companies have been importing help
fromthese countries, and it is claimed by the
corporations the help owe the companies
their passage money, which the emigrants
deny. An investigation is being mace
through some Of their countrymen.
DURING the launching Of the steamer
Daphne, near Glasgow, Scotland, the other
day she fell over on her side and precipi-
tated n number of people into the water.
The Daphne, which was constructed for
the coasting trade, is a vessel of 500 tons
burden. Two hundred workmen wereon
board when she capsized. The accident
occurred in the middle of the river Clyde.
after launching. The vessel ran at a very
fast rate, and when she gained the water
she rolled from side to side. Persons on
board, fearing she would be capsized, ran
to and fro. The vessel finally reeled over
and nearly disappeared beneath the water.
Those who had maintained positions on
that portion Of the steamer not submerged
did their utmost to save those who were
cast overheard. AT the Same time boats
heavily pulled to assist in tbs work of res
cuing the unfortunate people, and sue.
ceeded in saving quite number. Sixty OF
seventy were lost, among them many
visitors.
JUDGE HAUGHN was asSassinated the
other night on the road home from Jeffer-
son, Tex, where he had been attending a
night session of Court. One ball passed
through the right breast and another pene-
trated the heart. The assassin was I'm.
known.
THE Supreme Court of Missouri on a test
case, decided the Downing High License
Liquor law to be constitutional.
THE Americans in the city of Mexico
celebrated the Fourth.
THE contract with the Lee Marble Com
pany, of Massachusetts, to furnish marble
for the construction of the Washington
monument, has been annulled because of
the inability to meet contract requirements.
Advertisement for proposals for supplying
1900 feet of marble have been issued.
THE net decrease in the cost of the Star
Mail land service during June was 1894;
net decrease i'm the Star Mail steamboat
service during the same period, 81 ,1S7.
On the 2Sth of June Deputy United States
Marshal Wilkerson while returning from
the West with n prisoner charged with
dealing in whisky, camped about two miles
from Bartlesville, in the Indian Territory,
and the next morning went to the village,
leaving the prisoner in charge of one of
his guards, named McWear The same
day McWear was brutally murdered, as
was supposed by the prisoner, who made
his escape, taking with him the mule and
pistol of the dead guard. The Indian POI
lice started in pursuit at once, but at last
accounts had hot captured the murderer.
II. II. LUDLUM, fell from the trapeze of a
balloon n distance of forty feet at Scranton,
Pa, recently and received fatal injuries.
WILLIAM s. Cleary, aged eighteen, son
Of Judge Cleary the Commonwealth At
torney of the Covington Circuit, and
brother Of Edwin Cleary, the actor, was
drowned near Cincinnati recently in the
Little Miami River while bathing.
JAMES G. Fleming, clerk of ex-Treasurer
Polk during his term of office, was taken TO
Nashville, Tenn, recently, from Hot
Springs, where he had been sojourning for
the previous two weeks, on a warrant issued
for his arrest, charging him with making
false entry in the books in the Treasurer's
office. The officer making the arrest admit.
ted to Fleming that the warrant was issued
To secure his presence as a witness in the
Polk trial.
a HORRIBLE and fatal accident occurred
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & DAYTON
Railway, at Winton Place crossing, near
Cincinnati, Ohio, the other night, whereby
six persons were instantly killed. The
Thunderbolt express, coming south on the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway,
and half an hour behind time, struck a
huckster wagon, in which there was fam.
lily of six persons and driver. Every one
except William Bertsch, the driver, was
killed, who escaped with serious though not
fatal injuries. The wagon was broken to
splinters. The family were that of Mr..
Henry Krocke, and they were going to
their farm, seven miles from Winton Place.
The names of the killed were Henry
hIoCke, MS vic anu lOur cnlluren-JOhn,
aged nineteen, Annie, sixteen, Maggie,
thirteen, and Lizzie, seven. The bodies of
the victims were thrown in fragments in
the grass by the roadside, where they were
picked up by the light of lanterns and
taken to the city.
n LATE fire at Athens, Ala, destroyed
two blocks in the central part of the city,
mostly frame storehouses. The loss was
about 100000; insurance about $4,000.
AT Norristown, Pa, recently, James
Jack, while drunk, strangled his wife to
death. He was arrested.
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