Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-16
WORLDS DOINGS.
A Summary or the Daily News.



on which he was restored.
The steamer Tacoma was recently wrecked
between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
Nine lives were lost
A young man named Bradin, residing near
Brushy Knob, In Texas, was cleaning his re-
volver recently, when the weapon was acct
dentany discharged, and he was almost In
stantly killed.
John Kenny, New York bill poster, under
sentence for life for murder, recently shot and
killed himself in the Raymond Street jail, in
Brooklyn. He preferred death to imprison-
ment.
Senator Dawes VIII offer an amendment 10
the sundry Civil Appropriation bill to provide
for paying the Cherokee Nation $4,000 out
OF the funds due under the appraisement of
Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River.
on condition that the Cherokees shall first
execute conveyances satisfactory to the Score
tary OF the Interior for the tracts now occupied
by the Pawnees, Poncas, Nezperces, Otoes,
Missouris and Osages to whom, in their tribal
capacities, these lands are thereupon to be
patented.
At Cleveland, Ohio, on the Sd, food and fire
caused widespread damage. The rain that
fell in torrents the previous twenty-four hours
caused the Cuyahoga River and tributaries to
overflow. Houses, barns, factories, etc, IN
tie valleys were damaged or washed away
Early in the morning q small creek, known as
Kingsbury Run, rose and spread over hun
dreds OF acres OF land. From lealxy still OF
the Standard Oil Works, the food carried the
escaping oil under the boilers Of the Great
Western OIL Works, where IL ignited, aud
communicated TO tanks containing in the az
gregate $1,000 barrels Of oil, which soon were
on fire. Eight large oil tanks exploded. The
Standard Oil Company's loss was placed at
$250,0O0, and other losses 1t was thought,
would swell the total to over a million dollars.
On the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, near
Lexington, n.y., a construction train ran into
a hand car, killing Scott Webb, and seriously
wounding Randall Anderson, Harry Kenny,
Eugene johnson and Frank Burgess.
A disastrous railroad accident took place on
the st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad near
Springfield, Mo-, on the 4th. John Burns, a
brakeman, and a tramp were killed.
The annual report OF the Commissioner OF
Patents shows the total receipts to be 81, OO9,-
2l9; expenditures, $633,S67; balance in the
treasury to the account of the patent fund.
g., 2O5, All; total number Of applications re-
questing action, SO, ia; total patents granted,
20,5lS.
The Pension Appropriation bin appropriates
$S6, 900 and reappropriates SIS, SOC, 900 of
unexpended balances.
J. II. Clay, farmer OF Pittsylvania County,
Va, was killed In a quarrel with man named
Kennedy.
The Mercantile Exchange, OF New York,
has petitioned Congress either TO retire trade
dollars or make them on par with gold dollars.
The widow and children of B. A. Selling
hyda, who was killed in the TehachaDi, Cal,
disaster, have brought suit for $50, 900 against
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company
The Eagle Hotel, at Grand Rapids, Mich,
was lately burned. The guests and attaches
Of the house escaped in their night clothes,
losing everything else.
A Delaware, Ohio, special states that the
freshet at that point was the worst ever
known. The suspension bridge was swept
away, and two other bridges were expected to
20. Families living near the river were res
cued in boats. Acres of meadow land were
inundated, and houses and thousands OF trees
ahoat. Dispatches from various points in
Ohio and Pennsylvania give fearful accounts
Of the destruction by the floods. At Mead
merged and over three hundred families were
rescued in boats. The lower part OF Brad
ford, Pa, was ten feet under water, and Eve
hundred houses inundated. Eighty-one fam
lilies living on the fats between Bradford and
rapport had to fee for their lives when the
fee gorge broke, leaving all their effects, and
many Of the houses were swept away. At
Titusville the damage was great, and num-
Der Of persons were drowned The destruc-
ton OF property will reach into the millions in
the track OF these floods.
The House Committee on Coinage, by a vote
Of six to two, adopted resolution that It is
ineIpedient to discontinue the coinage OF sill
yer under existing laws.
The Governor of Alabama has offered q re-
ward OF Is, 600 for the capture Of Vincent, the
defaulting State Treasurer.
A recent fire at Nashville, Tenn, which
originated I'm a stable on Front street, spread
to adjoining buildings until nearly the entire
block bounded by Front, Broad, Market and
Wharf streets was I'm ruins. A falling wall
seriously injured two hremen. Over forty
horses were burned In the livery stable. The
Capital Warehouse, stored full of cotton and
tobacco, was destroyed. The losses amounted
to about $4,000.
John c. Parker, the murderer of Mike Pay
ton, whose case was docketed for trial in the
criminal court at st. Louis, shot his wife
through the head about noon on the 5th, in
the jury room of the court, and afterwards
sent bullet into his own brain. Its thought
that Mrs. Parker furnished the weapon. She
was instantly killed, and at last accounts Par
ker was dying.
The Senate Sub Committee on Education
and Labor has begun. taking testimony con-
corning the relations between lab0D and capt.
tai, aud the condition of the laboring classes
The House Committee on Military Affairs
has practically agreed upon the terms of the
bill to place General Grant upon the retired
list of the army with the rank Of General.
Stockmen report that the late storm has
been somewhat disastrous to sheep, cattle and
other stock In Southern Kansas and the In
dian Territory range. The storm began with
driving sleet, which chilled the stock. There
is considerable loss on sheep, which crowd
badly in such storms, and in consequence
many were smothered to death. Cattle on the
range drifted with the storm, and were many
miles from where they were overtaken by the
polar wave.
John W. Veneer, who was recently fatally
injured at Muncie, Indiana, by the explosion
of can OF gunpowder, stated before he died
that large sums Of money, aggregating about
10000, were hid indifferent places. On in.
vestigation at one of the places named the
money was found as stated, and other places
win be searched.
One afternoon recently the south bound
passenger train on the Dayton and Michigan
Railway and n local freight, both running Al