Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09


THE total receipts from the postal ser
vice for the fiscal year ended June 30, were
So, JOS, G92; expenditures, SO 700; sur
plus, Se,Go1,992-
THE appointments of the New Commits
sioner of Patents it is stated made 1t neces
sary to print about sixty new kinds OF
blanks, with the fac smile of the name Of
the new Commissioner. The aggregate viii
probably reach 100000.
THE board OF Utah Commissioners have
submitted their second annual report to the
Secretary of the Interior. After making 6
statement Of the former legislation of Con.
gress, in relation TO bigamy or polygamy
they say the duties of the Commission ap
pertain only TO matters of registration, cleo
ton and eligibility TO Office, while the punish
ment of the crime of polygamy is left, as
| under the former law, to courts of justice.
The recommendation formerly made is re-
newed regarding the enactment Of a mar.
riage law that all future marriages i'm the
Territory shall be null and void, unless con.
tracted and evidenced in the manner pro
vided by act Of Congress. .-..
| w. II. McCLENINGHAS, agent of the
Northern Pacific Express Company, al
Dawson, ID. T., was recently arrested fol
the embezzlement Of 5000.
On the evening of the 10Th there was
terrible explosion at the underground sta,
ton Of the Metropolitan Railway in Lon.
don, by which the cars were shattered and
n great amount of damage done. A large
number Of passengers were injured.
AT Allegheny City, Pa, recently, Chris.
Dickson was overcome by foul air in q
well. Ferdinand Schraeder and Charles
Schultz. who were working near by, went
down TO rescue him and the three were
/ Suff0cated.
A REPORT comes from New Mexico that
Charlie McComns was killed by the Indians
/ during their retreat last March.
The reported uprising of negroes In
Texas Is thought TO be another Joe Mulhar
ton story. ''-.
THOMAS MIcHENER, section boss Of the
Fort Scott 81 Gulf road, stepped off train
at Kansas City, the other evening, and was
run over by another train, and had his leg
cut of.
THE story that a man had been arrested
at Hampton, Iowa, who confessed to thu
murder Of Fora Burns is denied.
On and after the 18th the new system Of
time adopted by the railroads of the United
States and Canada will go into effect. Sec.
| rotary Teller, in response to an inquiry OF
Secretary Chandler, said he was willing ia
adopt the new time for Washington, q
change Of eight minutes and twelve seconds
in the present system of time. This change
is recommended by the Naval Observatory.
and is in pursuance of plan for uniform
time as correlated by hour meridians
throughout the civilized world.
THE superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, in his report, asks an increase of
S3lS,OOO in the appropriation for railway
postal clerks and $4,000 increase for postal
cars. He also recommends that the Post,
master General DO authorized to pay the
widow or guardian of the minor children of
the railway postal clerks killed in service
sum equal to one years salary of the
grade held at the time of death. .4s
THE amount disbursed by army pension
agents for the last fiscal year was So, 9O6,.
sol. OF this there was disburseI at Wash.
ington, ID. c., S3,44O,6lO. indianapolis, So.
! l5i,S 9j; Chicago, S5,SJ6,17?, Columbus, o..
1,6S4 $40 The total amount Of arrears OF
pensions disbursed by agents during the
year was S79,sl1. l....
The steamer Hoiyhead recently came ir
! collision with the German steamer Alham
bra, bound from Liverpool to New York.
when twenty-five miles off Holyhead, in ths
| Irish Channel. Both vessels sank. A
number were drowned, including the Cap
tain of the Alhambra and his daughter.
WHILE the family of William Fox, o
farmer, three miles from indianapolis, Ind.
were eating supper the other evening three
Nrnnu oil Eel,
the house. Two Of them kept watch willis
the third man robbed the house. Fox had
sold real estate the day previous, but had
deposited the money in bank.
a DISASTROUS conflagration at Savannah
| Ca, the other day, destroyed rice mills,
warehouses, stores and other property tc
the value Of 81 100000.
A RECENT fire in the Old Dominion Creo
sote Works, at Norfolk, Va, destroyed the
entire establishment, besides six thousand
barrels of creosoting oil. Loss, 100000.
A LATE fire at the South Carolina Rail
road yards, at Charleston, destroyed fifteer
hundred bales Of cotton.
AT n recent Sunday game of croquet near
Woodbury., ". j., Randolph Hines became
angry because his wife beat him, and kicked
her with heavy cowhide boot. She died
soon after.
THE report was recently published, and
currently believed in Paris, that De Brazza
the French explorer, had been killed in
fight in the Congo country, Africa.
THE War Department has issued n special
order appointing Court of Inquiry to in
vestigate the cause Of the failure of the
Greeley relief expedition, and to report
whether the conduct of any officer in the
premises calls for future proceedings be-
fore General COurt-martial, and the req.
sons for the conclusions they may reach.