Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-05

dows and partitions were shattered, ana 0
general panic among the guests ensued.
TWENTY young women Of Wrappers sill
mill, at Allentown, Pa, recently struck
/ against reduction from four to three cents
per one hundred strings. They were max.
ing S1.66 per day.
RECENTLY the infant daughter of Mrs
Heron Goodwin, of Castleton, VT, was
killed while sleeping by the side of its
mother. The woman stated that early in
the evening some one fired at her through
the window, and that she found Der babe
dead, having been killed by a second shot
The mother was subsequently arrested foI
the crime, but charged that ON unknown
man did the shooting.
TIE postmaster at vidalia, La, has beer
arrested for robbing registered letters. He
confessed his guilt.
IT is reported that Secretary Folger will
not appoint any of the subordinates In the
Architects office to the position vacated
by Mr.. Hill, but win call to the position
some outside man. During Mr.. Hills's in.
cumbency he disbursed the vast sum OF
S23, 10000 in the erection of public buil1
ings. There was some talk of not appoint
ing an architect to the position, but some
business man who has been professional
contractor, as the duties Of the Office are
more similar TO that of q contractor thar
an architect.
THE secret service bureau of the Treas.
ury Department has been informed of the
capture at Duluth, Mimi, of plates for
printing counterfeit ten-dollar silver certih.
Gates and ten-dollar notes on the Bank OF
Montreal.
Of -,
New York, was recently arrested for COM
plicity in frauds in the Water Registers
bureau, and indicted for forgery in having
altered the book of record.
THE Steamer Centennial, from st. Louis
to New Orleans, recently strucka snag and
sunk some distance above Memphis. She
carried large cargo of freight, including
one thousand barrels of flour.
Two boys were recently sentenced to
death at Mount Vernon, Ind, for murder.
THE values of exports of breadstufrs for
August, 1888, was S1s,s16, 100, and for the
same month of 1882, S2s,951, 1920; during the
eight months ended August 81, 1888, STA.
23j,045, and same time in 1882, Sic, 90, sos.
SEVERAL heavy failures in New York
recently created financial furry in Wall
Street.
LYMAN BLAIR, of the long-established
and heavy grain commission firm Of Blair
a Blair, Chicago, was recently found lying
in his room on an upper floor of his resi-.
dence, dying from gun-Shot wound. He
had been accidentally shot while preparing
to go cunning, and only lived a few min.
utes after being found. ~
A LATE storm did much damage in the
New England States, and also upon the
lakes.
RICHARD CURRIE, of Boston, Mass, while
intoxicated, recently shot his wife. She
was twenty-six years old.
A FIRE at Buffalo, n. ", lately DESTROYED
the Stenberg elevator. The original cost of
the building was 100000. The grain it
contained was valued at 100000. The total
loss, was estimated at S175, 900.
THE other night large section of the
wharves, ferry landing and depot of the
Texas Pacific Railway, on the west bank
of the river, opposite New Orleans, was
carried into the river by the caving of the
bank. One hundred and fifty feet ola large
depot and car-house, with all the offices,
desks, furniture, records etc, with an ex.
tcnsive wharf, sunk into the water, and
where they stood there was left a depth of
seventy feet OF water. The car-house was
filed with passenger coaches, but when the
structure began to sink a locomotive,
which was Mt hand, successfully drew them
out. IL was thought the whole of the town
of Algiers would ultimately be engulfed
by the encroachments of the river.
THE exports Of dairy products in the last
four months increased ,2l5 over same
period of last year.
SEVERAL vessels were wrecked off Der.
muda during late storm, and fully fifty
| lives lost.
IT was reported i'm Boston that lately the
harbOr of st. Pierre, Martinique, was com.
/ pletcly swept by most violent cyclone
| Eighteen vessels wero wrecked and only
one in port saved.
Tue War in rates on railroads LEADING
out of Chicago eliminated the .ther day in
tickets being sold from Chicago to Indian
apolis for five cents, and Cincinnati for $3.50
Tickets to Louisville sold as low as eighty.
five cents.
JACOB II. CRoNIsE, mailing clerk at
Roanoke, Va, was recently arrested on the
| charge of robbing the mails, and confessed
person.
| Al hehuersoh, NY, recently, henry
Holloby undertook to whip his wife, when
Henry Pruitt, her step-brother, interfered.
and in the melee Pruitt shot Holloby dead.
AT Lincoln, Mo-, Thomas II. Brassfeld
was sentenced to two years in the peniten.
tiary for seduction.
A FIRE originated in Allen & Totman's
hardware store at Fairfax, Me-, recently.
and burned out several firms, causing a
loss of $4,000; partially insured. The
heaviest losers were Allen & Totman, 49,.
600, insured for $4,000; Sumner Ashborne,
$1,000; st. Louis Flour company, 5000.
i ApDTTTONAL DISPATCuKa.