Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-19

seats were at premium. At Newark, n.
j., the celebration was also great success,
fully 10000 people being in line, and bust
ness generally was suspended
c. II. LORD, Postmaster at Tucson, Ariz-,
late Of the firm of Lord q Williams, in
dicted for cutting Government timber near
" two years ago, was recently tried and
found guilty. His punishment is one year
I'm the Penitentiary and 1000 fine.
HENRY T. WRIGHT, defaulting Assistant
Postmaster, Of Racine, Wis.,, was recently
sentenced 10 five years and one days i'm.
prisonment ut the Chester, ILL.,, peni'
tertiary and TO pay fine of 5000, which
was the amount Of the deficit.
The Irish National League of San Fran.
cisco, recently received a communication
from the Treasurer Of the National League
in Dublin, returning a sum of money sub
scribed for the families of the men who
were executed for connection with the
Phoenix Park murder. The Treasurer wrote
that IL would be impossible to give the
money 10 those TO whom il was donated, as
the League would be adjudged as sympa-
thizing with murderers and encouraging
assassinatiOns.
THRoUGH the breaking of an axle Of the
baggage car, three passenger cars of the
Canada Pacific Railway were thrown from
the track and burned near Deux RIVERS,
Canada, recently. Nearly two hundred
passengers were in the cars. A number
were severely injured, but none were re-
ported killed.
SAMUEL Mcdaniel was hanged at Fort
Wayne, Ind, for the murder Of Louis
Laurent.
a RECENT cyclone did great damage at
Arcadia, Wis.
DURING n recent severe storm lightning
struck the barn of Joseph Mo, near Her
man, Mimi, which was burned, together
with one hundred tons of hay, one horse,
two cows and a large number of agricultur-
al implements. One man was seriously
injured. The house Of c. Hare was struck,
two children killed and another rendered
totally blind, and at Donnelly the house of
a blacksmith was struck, his wife killed
and two children badly injured.
SECRETARY FoLGER has decided to accept
the terms of compromise offered by A. c.
Hesing, of Chicago, in settlement of judg-
ment against Hesing, held by the Govern
ment. The amount involved was $50 900;
amount offered in compromise and accepted,
5000. In accepting the offer the Secretary
acted I'm accordance with the recommen-
dations of Jewett, of Chicago, who was
special United States Attorney in the case,
and Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor Of the
Treasury.
Up TO the close of business on the 10th.
there had been received at the Treasury
Department for redemption S23 Us, 800
United States bonds, embraced in the I2Ist
call, leaving still outstanding SG,4lG, 100
bonds, included in that call.
YELLOW FEVER has broken ont at Brew
ton, Ala, and trains pass that place with
out stopping.
TnE report of the National Cotton Ex-
change, of New Orleans, for September.
showed the total movement of this years
crop, TO ports and overland, to bo SG2, 139
bales, an increase of 2l,0G9 bales: ship.
ments to spinners, 1860, against IL, 23l last
season.
"A COURT MARTIAL has been appointed to
meet at Fort Huachuca, A. T., October ~,
for the trial of Lieutenant Colonel A. +.
Merron of the Sixth Cavalry, on the staff
of General Sherman, on charges of drunk.
enness and conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman, preferred by Brigadier
General Crook, commanding the Depart
ment of Arizona.
JOHN SLAxwELL, from Millersburg, O,
was recently arrested in New York on a
charge of having i'm his possession several
finely finished photographs of United States
Treasury notes of from one dollar to twenty
dollars, for both sides, from which he was
cndeavOring to have plates engraved. A
large number of finely executed photo
graphs of legal tenders notes were found
in his possession, and i'm his room was an
unfinished letter TO his wife, saying he had
contracted for part of the work, and it
would cost him 81, 600.
Six children of John Stouffer were re-
Gently poisoned mt Ligonier, Pa, by eating
weeds. Four were saved with difficulty
and two were reported dying.
a FEARFUL accident recently occurred
Mt the farm of Mr.. Northrup, near More
head, Mimi, i'm which four men were killed
outright and ten more narrowly escaped
with their lives. The men were members
Of threshing crew, who had been thresh-
ing for Northrup the day previous, and
were sleeping i'm the lower story of the
granary, in the upper story of which were
1,4OO bushels of oats. During the night,
while the men were asleep, the floor sud.
denly gave way, completely burying eight
men, who were sleeping at the end of the
building where the'floor gave away. Six
men, sleeping at the other end, were par.
TALLY crowded through the side of the
house, which gave way, to the sudden pres.
sure, and they made their escape without
difficulty. After giving the alarm, they
set TO work TO remove their comrades from
underneath the oats. When the unfortu.
nate men were reached, four were dead
from suffocation, ami some of the others so
nearly so that it was a matter Of doubt for
several hours if they would not die from
the effects.