Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-29

ana lrust Company, OF Boston, has CON
fessed TO embezzling $4,000 Of the com
pany's funds, owing TO mining and other
stock speculations.
OK the morning of the 18th there was q
frost at Sioux Falls, Dakota, and on the fol-
lowing day the Thermometer ranged at 80.
AT Albany, N. Y, the steamboat express
train, owing to a misplaced switch, ran
into siding and struck n box car under
which John Wallace, master mechanic, and
William Hayner, yardmaster of the Della
ware & Hudson Canal Company, were re-
pairing truck. The two men were killed
and the engine wrecked.
WHILE Philip Bandeau and NJ. Odenn
were standing under the shade of a small
pine tree at Bay st. Louis, La, recently,
disputing over a small account both were
killed by lightning.
PETER McGEocH's real estate in Wiscon-
sin was attached recently to the extent of
nearly $4,000 to satisfy the claim of James
Ellis and Milton Lightner for $4,000
against McGeoch, Everingham & Co., of
chicago. The property lies in Milwaukee,
Wauwotsa and Greenfield. His homestead
also was taken, as the Wisconsin act of last
winters Legislature allows only 5000
homestead exemption.
HE Criminal Court of the District of
Columbia is in a bad fix, owing to the fact
that Colonel George Bliss scooped in the
last Sl,1OO in the Treasury available for ex-
penses of the courts the present fiscal year.
Colonel Corkhill ascertained this fact in an
annoying way. He had settled his accounts
for the month and sent them to the Treas
ury. Meantime he gave checks to the
/ arnpunt of Sf.l0 Il.
account and as Bliss had got all the money,
will have to await a deficiency appropria-
ton by the next Congress.
G. j. SYNoLD, who had not seen his
brother Ernest for twenty years, since they
were boys together in Germany, recently
visited him at Menominee, Mich, persuaded
his brother to sell his place, and then get
ing possession Of the money, 5000, eloped
with his wife.
THE st. Louis School Board made an
order abolishing corporal punishment in
the public schools.
The eighth annual convention of the
American Association of Nurserymen,
Florists and Seedsmen met at st. Louis
last week, the President, ex-Lieutenant
Governor NormaG j. Coleman, presiding.
About 80 delegates from various States
attended. The Treasurer's report showed
a balance Of S2O6,674.
The other day Professor +. J. Stewart,
an itinerant aeronaut, made an ascension
i'm balloon at Fayette, Mo-, but alighting
in a stream that was swollen, drowned.
SAMUEL CARTER, an alleged pension
agent, was arrested at Louisville, KY, on
the charge of conspiracy to defraud the
Government. He secured $500 pension
for Emily Johnson and good rich fee for
himself by swearing Emily was her own
mother.
WHILE John Parney was repairing n
break in the electric light wires at Kansas
City recently, the current was turned on
and the electric shock caused his death i'm a
few minutes.
THE monument erected by the women of
Kershaw County, S. c., in memory of the
Confederate dead, was dedicated recently
by a grand military demonstration, in
which twenty companies participated.
Senators Hampton and Butler and other
distinguished men were present. The cere-
monies on the unwilling consisted of an
artillery salute, dedicatory prayers and an
ode by the ladies and memorial Grafton
by Senator Hampton.
THE Chicago express on the Omaha line.
when near East Minneapolis, Mimi, the
other day, ran off the track, owing to a
misplaced switch, and the entire train, con.
sisting of the engine, baggage and three
passenger coaches and sleeper were de-
rallied. Engineer VIM. Harrington and
Baggage Master Roberts were instantly
killed and brakeman named Vanderhart
was badly hurt. 1t was the first trip of the
engineer over the road. The train was
running at the high rate of forty miles an
hour when the accident occurred. A few
OF the passengers were slightly injured.
CHARLES WINTERS, editor of the Xenia
Qnd.) Times, was probably fatally shot
the other night. Winters had been arrested
on the charge of receiving stolen goods,
and threatened to punish the persons caus-
ing his arrest. He met some of them on
the street and a general fight followed,
during which he received a shot in the
side.
ASSISTANT ADJUTANTG GENERAL RUGGLEs,
telegraphed General Crook that the Secre-
tary of the Interior cannot consent to re-
ceive the Indian prisoners at San Carlos
agency. The Secretary says he will en-
deavor TO take care of the children, but in
his opinion the adults should be held as
prisoners of war, and kept from contact
with the peaceable Indians of Arizona.
The Secretary directs that the prisoners be
kept apart, and fed out of the appropria
ton for subsisting Indian prisoners of war
until he shall receive full reports from Cen
cral Crook, with any recommendation he
may have to make upon the subject. Gen.
eral Crook, in reply opposed keeping the
captive Apaches apart from the other In
dams.
The Williamson & Stewart Paper Com
pany of st. Louis has failed. Liabilities
about 500 900.