Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-21
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nAaA'h Nit tVhNltb system was very
detrimental to the interests of the working
classes. People would not object to it, how
ever, IL competition was placed upon a fair
basis, and prison laborcrs were not allowed
Ia work for lower price than is current
in the market. The labor Of convicts might
be properly employed i'm constructing bet
ter roads throughout the country. The only
hope for the laboring man was to educate
him and improve his morals and he would
soon be- able 10 look out for himself.
CADET RUMsEY, Of the third class, was
sentenced by the court martial at Annapolis
90 seven days solitary confinement for at
tempting Co haze Cadet Thomas G. Morgan
of the fourth class.
The official statement If the cotton crop
~ the United States for the year ending
August 20, 1883, issued 10y the National
Cotton Exchange Of New Orleans, shows a
total crop Of G,0i4,76 bales; including the
receipts at shipping ports, COOS, Gl2; ship
mcnts by rail routes overland to northern
spinners, direct from producers, gu, sol
bales. The report shows that the southern
mills consumed 3l3,Sl3 bales, an increase
over last season Of 2G,lSg bales. Increase
in total crop compared with the previous
year, ,iu3, 1OS bales.
THE exports Of breadstuffs for the seven
months ended July 81 were 5,S9S ,ja2,
against ISL ~ ,jIS same time, 1882.
HEAVY rains and high water recently did
great damage I'm Western Texas. All the
creeks which hal been dry the entire sum
mer, suddenly became raging streams
twenty to forty feet deep and spreading
across the country, washing everything
before them. Horses, cattle and sheep
were seen floating by hundreds down the
current. Windmills and outhouses were
swept away. The loss 10 stock could not be
estimated as nearly the entire country was
flooded. The Texas Mexican Railway lost
eleven bridges and Culverts and several
miles Of track within width Of sixty miles.
At one place 100 sheep were drowned
About thirty miles from Laredo a shepherd
was found killed by lightning. The body
was in sitting posture, holding piece Of
meat in its mouth.
A HEAVY frost on the night of the eth i'm
Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin dam
| aged the corn in all parts Of the State, es-
pecially near the Manitoba road and Sioux
City division of the st. Paul & Omaha
road. There was also a frost i'm Iowa.
AT Usage City, Mo-, n colored mob at
tackled Constable Krantz and his deputy,
who had charge of the colorcd man, Mings,
who stabbed Written, and getting Mings
away from them stabbed him six times and
| left him for dead.
| The boiler in portable saw mill near
Manila, Ohio, exploded recently, killing
Charles Palmer and Martin Ellison and
severely injuring two others.
RECENTLY the cottage of Robert Adair,
Of Houston, Texas, was struck by light
ming and burned, and the same bolt killed
Louis Sickness.
| JAMES BRYCE was recently arrested in
New York on the charge Of embezzling
| $4,000 from Henry Ferris & Sons, brewers.
a NOTORIOUS character named Jack
Griffin was recently convicted nj Spring.
field, Mo-, for the murder of John z. Henry
and given fifty years in the Penitentiary.
| THE President has issued proclamation
announcing that the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Centennial Exhibition will be-
opened on the first Monday of December
1884, at New Orleans, and 10 continue until
the 3lst OF May, 1885.
a TABLE prepared i'm the Treasury De
partment of the business i'm the several Gus
toms districts of the United States, for the
fiscal year ending June %, 1883, showed
S2l6, ISO,St9 collected at an expense o
! &,22l ,l27, the average cost of collecting
one dollar i'm all districts being twenty
nine mills.
THE Chinese Government continues wal
preparations, and il was reported that n
Hong Kong the question was not "wIs
there be WARP but "when and where will
the war beginT
THE late frost prevailed generally in tn,
Northern and Northwestern States, and in
the extreme Northwest corn was reported
badly damaged.
THE confession of Clarence Mite, one o.
the James gang who was sentenced TO tn,
Missouri Penitentiary for twenty-five
years, Is published. The confession wa,
made three days before his death and is IN
detail substantially the same as Dick Lid
dill's. IL reveals Frank and Jesse Jane,
rs members Of the Winston, Blue Cut anC
other late train robberies.
A mon of citizens recently entered tn,
Yell County, Ark, Jail and took out DIR
Flood and John Coker and hanged them
Flood and Coker had harbored hand o
outlaws and led the sheriff aud posse int
an ambuscade, whereby the Sheriff wal
killed.
ALEXANDER woRNLEY, Of Bonham, Tex
rs, got drunk and attacked his father-in
Law with a club, when the latter shot hin
dead.
WHILE n rehearsal was taking place a
COlville's Fourteenth street theater, New
York receatly, In the play Of 'othello."
bridge ON which Frederick Price and
number Of supernumeraries were standing
gave way, precipitating the entire party
distance Of thirteen feet, and injuring abou
a dozen persons, several quite seriously.
r. l.. HALRRooK a. CO., dry goods, O
New York, failed. Liabilities nearly 500,
600, assets about half that amount.
AS the steamer Rob Roy was returnin,
from Parkville 60 Kansas City with a re
cent Sunday excursion party, Michae
Goggin, who was described as being 'hilar
iously drunk" fell overheard and was lost
He was twenty-three years old and wa
from Plattsburg, No.
AT a recent party near Blackspear, La.
two young women named Wilson an,
Smith were the favorites with the youni
men present, when the Wilson girl becom
ing frenzicd with her rival. rushed upoi
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was spirited away by her friends.
THE English Governments has obtaine,
from detectives Just returned from Ant
werp important information respecting
large supply OF materials for making nitro
glycerine, shipped from that city. 1t 1
probable that witnesses will arrive iron
Antwerp TO testify in the trials at Liver
pool and Glasgow against dynamite con
spirators.
The September cotton returns Of the De
partmsnt of Agriculture at Washington
are less favorable than those OF August
The principal cause Of injury is drought
which has reduced the prospect in ever.
State except Florida aud Tennessee. III