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

BY n recent collision Of two freight trains
on the Minneapolis & st. Louis Railroad,
at Shakopee, Mimi, the engineer, fireman
and Brakeman Of one Of the trains and n
cattle man were killed, also a whole car
load Of cattle.
JOHN Roach, the ship-builder, has pre-
scented bill to the Secretary of the Navy
for S2l 900 for taking care Of the United
States steamship Roanoke from 1877 to the
present time, the charges being mt the rate
Of s. per day.
The business failures for tho week ended
September 18th, numbered $50, against 1Ss
the previous week.
Fred WALsEN, Treasurer Of the Colorado
Land Company, and Charles W. Kennedy,
Of the firm Of Walsen & Kennedy, late tie
contractors Of the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
road, fled suit against the company in the
District Court at Albuquerque, ". NJ,
recently, for 100000, balance due and
damages for violation of contract. Sey-
eral others talked Of following suit, as the
company was reported to be behind with
the contractors.
The adjustment of salaries Of postmas-
ters of the Presidential classes has been
completed by the Postoffice Department,
and the salaries adjusted took effect DC
tober !. The adjustment affects the salaries
of 2,lI6 postmasters. Forty-four Offices
have been added TO the Presidential list and
twenty-five Presidential Offices have been
reduced 10 the fourth class, leaving the
number Of Presidential postofIices on De-
tOber l., 1876, with salaries amounting to
S3,IJO,OOO. Every part Of the country is i'm
cluded in the readjustment.
THE report Of failures for the third quar-
ter Of lSS;i, showed n great increase i'm the
number Of mercantile disasters rs com
pared with last year. The number Of fail.
ures in the quarter just closed is ,Ss3 with
liabilities Of So, 900, 900, while for the same
quarter Of 1881 there were only 1900, with
liabilities Of SlS,OOO,OOO. For tho first nine
months Of 1889 the failures reported num-
bcred GAO, against 1897 in the same pe-
riod last year. Liabilities for the first nine
months of the present year, $l1S,OOO,OOO as
against SEQ 100000 for 1SS2 In Canada the
failures for the nine months Of 1888 were
over 900 I'm number, as against $50 i'm 1SS2
FRANK r. SHERwIN, n millionaire, and
owner Of the largest cattle ranges in New
Mexico, was arrested in Chicago, recently,
ON a requisition from New York. In 1871
| Sherwin, then n banker I'm Albany, N. ",
refused 10 testify against Charles Phelps
cashier in the state Treasury Department
/ Phelps was afterwards convicted of lar
ceny, forgery and grand larceny, and sen
fenced 30 three terms Of five years each In
the Albany Penitentiary. For refusing
to testify six indictments were subsequent
ly found against Shsrwin for contempt
Of court. The prosecution failed at the
time and Sherwin entered the stock bust
ness in New Mexico. New evidence wa,
discovered and in 1889, when on visit East
he was rearrested and give bonds. Since
then his bondsmen have become alarmed
and put detectives on his track When ar
rested he was on his way East with hi,
family, travelling i'm princely style, not sus
pecting that he was wanted.
NASHVILLE, was recently threatened Will
n water famine owing TO the breaking dowI
OF the water works engine.
THE steamer Colorado laden with freigh
for Chicago, left Buffalo, N. ", the othe
night, and when quarter Of n mile out al
explosion occurred with terrible force, car
rying away the smoke stack, decks ant
wood work from the cabin TO stern. Tn
vessel will be total loss. The first anC
second engineer and fireman and four decl
hands were terribly scalded. One maj
died from his injuries; fifteen were miss
ing.
The steamer Newbern arrived at Sal
Francisco, recently, from Guaymas an,
Mazatlan, and brought five cases Of yellow
fever. Shewa quarantined. The city wa
much excited.
Soon after it was determined that tn
United States Navy was TO have severa
new cruisers, Hungarian navigate
named Kurnstadter appeared before tn
Naval Advisory Board and requested then
10 examine his new patent screw steering
apparatus. The Board found the apparatu
simple and valuable, and the Secretary o
the Navy has directed that il be given
trial on the United States steamer Nina.
HARRY DoNNELLY, a barkeeper, and
man named Dean were arrested ut Coolidge
Kansas, and lodged in Jail upon suspicion
Of being connected with the late attempte,
train robbery. Circumstantial evidenc
was said 10 be strong against Dean.
PUBLIC debt statement for September
Cash in Treasury, S3S5, 4J0, $40; debt, les
cash in Treasury, Sl,S21 ,slI ,565; decreas
during September, Sl4,7O7, 30; decreas
since June ~, 1883, S29, 279,61l.
SURGEON MAIN, OF the Marine Hospits
Service at Brownsville, Texas, telegraphe
! the authorities at Washington that PAM
prevailed at Tapachula, Mexico, on accour
Of the great mortality caused by blac
smallpox. The town has population {
10000, and twelve hundred died, and decou
position set in in many cases before deaf
: occurred.
PARIS was much excited over the repor
that the Spanish Cabinet will demand tbs
, the French Government shall make pull
lie apology for the insults recently offere
Alfonso, and that the German Governmeu
will make a diplomatic remonstrance q
the indignities 20 which the Spanish Kin
was subjected.
: A DIsPArcH from St. Petersburg state
that the Nihilists there have issued circI
lars demanding that the Russian Cover
ment shall put stop TO the cruel treatmer
Of prisoners, especially women, and er
joined the greatest caution on all Nihilisi
In consequence Of recent arrests.
A HEAVY rain-storm visited Kansas Cit
and adjacent country on the LIST. MUG
damage was the result from wash-outs an
flooded premises.
The Green House at osceola, Wis, wa
recently burned, together with the on
: buildings. The FIRE was supposed to hav
: been set by a gang who had been at sin
ilar work in the neighborhood for tw
, years Several have been arrested at di
ferent times, but juriss never agreed. III
farmers have determined 70 hnd the guilt
parties In this case, and threatened TO lyme
> them n discovered.
Dunno . late thunderstOrm the residsnc