Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-12

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TIE Commissioner of Pensions, il is
stated, will ask Congress for an appropria'
ton Of 50, 900 for the payment of pen
sions during the fiscal year, ending June 30,
lSS5. OF the 800 ,OO0,0OO appropriated last
session il has been estimated that about
So, 600, 900 will remain in the Treasury &c
the credit of pensions at the close of u"
present fiscal year. Since January 1, 1885,
fully $1,000 names have been added to the
pension list, but even this increase, the
Commissioner thinks, can be taken care of.
In New York, the other night, Christie
pher Farley and his wife quarreled in their
apartments. As n result the man was
taken 10 the hospital and the woman &c
Jail.
The National Cotton Planters Associa.
ton Of America will hold it's annual Con.
vention in Vicksburg, Miss, on the 21st of
November, instead of the 18th.
AT three O'Clock on tue morning of the
III, the Exposition building at Pittsburgh,
Pa, caught fire, and in twenty minutes the
entire buildings, with the machinery and
floral halls, were in ashes. The reflection
from the fire lit up the country for miles
around, and in the furthest end Of the city
~ DAItE NUulh Us tdSllN AS IN 0aN-
light. The loss was estimated at s., SOC, 900.
ANNA HELMS. eighteen years old, recently
committed suicide at her mothers residence.
in indianapolis, Ind, by taking arsenic.
and the mother, upon discovering that she
had taken the drug, attempted suicide by
swallowing the froth as it poured from her
dying daughters mouth. A quarrel be
tween the mother and daughter was the
cause of the trouble.
BURGLARS recently entered the postofIice
at Gloucester, Mass, broke open the safe
and stole the entire contents. The property
stolen consisted of 81 $50 in money, 1892 in
postage stamps, book of postal notes, and
other notes and securities, aggregating in
value about $4,000.
AS a contractor named Henry McNichols
was working on a store at the village of
Rogers Park, suburb of Chicago, the
other morning, the roof fell ia, instantly
killing McNichols, a man named Patrick
Mcdonald and another workman whose
name was unknown.
1T is stated at the Postofice Department
that the reduction of letter postage rates
from three to two cents will involve a de.
fciency of about $1,000, 900 from October 1
1883, until the end of the fiscal year, ending
June 30, 1884.
RECENTLY in school-boy quarrel at
Dorchester, N. H., Eugene Cleburn fatally
shot John W. Brooks.
| SURGEoN GENERAL HAMILTON, of the
marine hospital service, telegraphed the
Collector at Yuma, Arizona, to appoint
sanitary inspectors at that place and at
Benson, TO inspect trains arriving from the
South, where yellow fever exists.
| THE Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided green plums to he free of duty under
the new Tariff act. Quite large trade in
this fruit is carried on over the Canadian
border, and the question arose whether
| they were dutiable under the provision
which imposes n duty of one cent per
pound on prunes, dates and plums.
THE value of imports of merchandise for
the twelve months ended August 81, was
500, sO4 ,j6i, and for the previous twelve
months S742, OOS, 9l3, decrease this year of
$40 $40. The value of exports of mer.
chandise for the same period was $3.50, no..
90, and for the previous twelve months,
S7:i7 ,326, as, an increase for this year of
SS3, $50, 1O1.
MRS. BAILEY, forty-five years of age,
wife of a commercial traveller, and her
daughter, sixteen years of age, were found
| dead in n cornfield, near Monmouth, Ills,
recently. From n note found on hep person
it was evident that she had killed the child
with a razor, and then took her own life
with the same weapon. The daughter had
been demented since her birth, and the
mother had of late given herself up to
brooding over her daughters condition,
which impelled her to the awful deed.
THERE were three hundred and eighty
deaths from yellow fever at Mazatlan,
Mexico, from August Is to September To-
THE other morning the body of a tramp
was found in a side-tracked box-car, al
Hampton Station, Ills, where he, having
been sick, had died of starvation and neg
lect.
A Pupil. in the Grammar School on Chris
tie street, New York, was recently taker
with n shrieking fit. Her screams alarmed
the children, and some one shouted fire
The children became panic-stricken and q
calamity was only prevented by the many
exits which enabled the children to gain
the street.
ExHIBrToRs lost $4,000 by fhe Pitts
burgh Exposition fire.
| lHE Other nlgnJ as Deputy Marsha
Young entered Lee County Jail, at For
Madison, Iowa, one of the prisoners threw
pepper in his eyes and another knocked
him senseless with stick of wood. Al
the prisoners escaped.
L. B. HITCHCOCK, formerly of Hitchcock
McCreery & Co., grain merchants, and on,
of the most prominent and wealthy citizens
of Pittsburgh, Pa, disappeared my sterious
ly from his home, recently. His health haC
not been good of late, and it was feare,
that while laboring under alteration of tn,
mind he committed suicide, or else had me
with foul play.