Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-27

with steel rails from Victoria to Port
Moody. A fine 81 si0O was paid under pro-
tcst.
AN unusually severe wind storm struck
sherman, Texas, the other day, doing con-
siderable damage. The storm lasted two
and "a half hours. all the time blowing a
terrific gale. Houses were blown down,
others unrOofed and signs and awnings
scattered i'm all directions. There was no
rain.
The business failures FOR the past week
numbered In rs against 'i95 the week pre-
viots.
The issue Of standard silver dollars from
the mints Tor tho week ending April IA was
SOL ,fsO. The issue for the corresponding
period last year was I19.5OO.
COMMISSIONERS Pace has directed the
Agent az Swan Siletz Indian Agency, Ore
gon, To refuse to release tho Indians now
held for murder committed ON the reserva-
hon. and to file complaint against them
before a magistrate.
"A NEGRO who, at Windsor, n. G., grossly
assaulted n daughter ~ James Freeman.
was captured there and taken from Jail by
mob and hanged.
DURING the first months of the current
fiscal year the internal revenue receipts
amounted TO SlOSyS25 as, an increase of
s2rijl ,;DS over the corresponding period of
the last fiscal year. From the list to the
18th OF April, lSa2, the receipts aggregated
SIGH ,91i, and from the LIST 90 the 18th of
April, 1881, Si,lG9, iG1, a decrease Of SiissI7,
making an actual increase for 1883 of y, :
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DIR. VI. R.PALMER's international Normal
Musiu School begins July 2 at Meadville,
Pa, and continues -four weeks. ... -..-
CHARLES y. HEwETT, Secretary of the
Minnesota State Board of Health, teIe-
graphed Secretary Teller that the Indians
IN northern Minnesota exposed to smallpox
and wearing infected clothing were wan
dering around the country. Indian Com
missioner Price replied that the Agent had
been authorized to purchase clothing for
these Indians. ...s .t.t
REFORMS ara that 1000 persons have been
! arrested i'm Moscow on suspicion of being
Engaged in plotting against the life of the
/ Gar.
The seven Americans imprisoned ut PAN
anna on suspicion Of the robbery Of 80 900
from. the Panama Railway, were set free,
as there was no evidence against them.
| DALLAS special states that about a. m.
Saturday, the 18th, n monster meteor fell
neRr williams Rancho, Tex. A Mexican
herder's dwelling was destroyed and the
entire family of seven persons crushed be-
meath the ruins. The meteor covered a
space Of nearly one acre, and was still hot.
The conclusion was fearful, nearly all the
windows IN the town being broken. Several
adjacent buildings fell. Great consterna-
ton prevailed in that ucighborhood.
a DISASTROUS tornado swept over that
portion of Arkansas near White Oak sta
ton ON the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railway, on the 1ith. The wind blow from
/ the Southwest, and with force beyond the
/ powers of description. Tho sides of the
mountains, which before the storm were
/ covered with trees, were left bare, even
oaks being snapped in twain like pipe
stems. Afterwards came hail which lasted
till the ground was covered with ice. Many
Of the stones were nearly as large as hens
eggs. The track Of the storm was about
three miles in width, inside Of which every
, house was wrecked. Several persons were
killed and n number injured.
Pun MAY, noted desperate and es-
capped convict, was shot and killed while
resisting arrest. near Huntsville, Ala. The
notorious Dick Liddill was one OF the posse
that did the shooting.
| IN the United States Circuit Court at At
lanta, Ga, the jury found J. VI. Robinson
| guilty on nineteen counts Of the indict-
ments charging the presentation Of false
accounts as United States Deputy Marshal.
This was one of n series of prosecutions be-
gun for the Department of Justice. The
trial excited great interest and the convic-
ton made sensation.
1 Tue steamer HISTORIAN arrived at Boston
The other day with Nix hundred and fifty
4 passengers, most OF them impoverished
I Irish poople,scnt over at the expense of the
English Government. The greater part
had families, some Of which numbered eight
or ten, while the average was about five
Many of the emigrants were evicted Irish
tenants. The same day sixty-nine eyicted
farmers from Mayo and Galway, Ireland
arrived nc Philadelphia, in the steamship
Indiana. ird D. r.fift.f.
r. n DISPATCH from a reliable gentleman al
Fort Worth, Tex, to the associated pres.
Correspondent az st. Louis, says '.the story
Of the falling Of an immense meteor al
Williams Ranch. Tex, is one of Joe Null
hattan's lies. Mulhattan Is the man whC
sold the Mammoth Cave TO be shipped t
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.J4NNrEs MARSHALL e. Co. iron pipe man
ufacturers, Of Pittsburg, Pa, and one o
the largest firms in the country, made al
assignment recently for the benefit Of theil
creditors. Liabilities 81 ,5OO, 900 and asset,
about ~ go 900. ilr ufii- o. r. BOAR 81
OLNEY BuRuEsss, of Foster, r. l., Will
recently making frie IDLY call upon Dan
iel and Henry iBurling ne, at Killingly
Conn-,- suddealy-shot Daniel, slightly in
jurins him. In the struggle for tlepisto
Henry was dangerously wounded. Burgess
returned 20 Rhode Island, and was arrested
While in jail he killed himself. -
THE Atlantic House, in Alma, Iowa. wa
burned the other morning. Three guests
William McGill, Charles Quillan and Car
Spiegel, were burned TO death, and Mr.
} Reams, the proprietor, very narrowly es
capped with his life.
AT Fort Worth. Texas, two children crep
into dry goods box partly filed with straw
which they SCI fire 90. The children wer
smothercd to death. 1897 eli it.....
y THR Mosls1 Touring mill at Minneapolis
Mimi, was lately destroyed by fire; ais
the Dakota Mills adjoining. The value o
the Model was $4,000, and the Dakota
$4,000. The capacity Of each was 80 bar
rels OF -four per day.
! The trail Of the Indians who murdere,
Judge McCOmas and wife has been trace,
into the Sierra Madre mountains of Chi
!. huahua. Two scouts got in sight of Their
in a deep canon and counted sixty-tw
warriors, and observed large amount o
: plumber and great many animals, but IN
pursuing party being only twenty feared
attack tho hostiles.
A A LATE special states that United State
Deputy Marshal Layman, Of the Westerl
. Arkansas District, was killed by John
Lennox, Texas desperado, for whom tn
! deputy had n writ for the murder Of tw
J men. Lennox attacked the Marshall
camp In the southern part Of the Cherokee
Natfor, Indian TorrffOrVl with n hand n