Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-01-26
mIS(ELLANEOUS.

| Shaw, the cashier of the suspended City
| Bank OF Jersey City, y. j., was hell ia $4,000
hail, charge with perjury in swearing to
false statement as to the banks condition.
Charles W. Cook. committed TO the New
| III mpshire State Prison in 1879, for the muir
der OF Susan Hanson, died on the 9th. On
the confession of Cook, JOSEF h Boswell was
hanged Tor hiring Cook to shoot Miss Han
son, after a noted contest before the Supreme
Court and the Legislature. Cook left con-
sion which adm Is that lie did the shoot ng,
and also that he testified falsely concerning
Boswell being present when the deed was COM
mitted.
Edwin Booths second appearance at Berlin,
was another brilliant success. Crown Prince
Frederick William was aga n present, and
joined in frequent and tumultuous applause
bestowed upon the actor.
State Treasurer Polk, who was taken back
to Nashville, Tenn, was indicted BY the G. and
Jury for EN- excitement and larceny of $780,
90.
The brig Finlee Kirschschlag arrived at
Brooklyn recently, having on board six sea-
men so badly frozen as to nee estate Their re-
moval to the hospital. The feet of two or
three will DC amputated.
man, woman aud three children were
found few days since between Kingston and
Atlanta, Ga frozen to death.
During the per ormance lately ut a circus in
Berdidscheff, Russian Poland, fire broke out,
and before the spectators could esca the
whole structure was ablaze. Three hundred
persons erisheJ.
X. s. Monroe, who has just completed a
term I'm the Wisconsin Penitentiary for
swindling the Appleton Bank on a bogus
check, was recently taken to Chicago for tr al
on the charge of defrauding the First Ma
tioual Bank of that city out of sc, S0J on a
forged accordance by Beckett g. Co., Leeds,
England Monroe is one of the most sue
cessful confidence operators in the country
with as many aliases as days in the year. He
has carried on operations in all parts of the
country, but chiefly i'm New York, where he
was known as Edwin G. Serviss, and has
many other names under which he carried on
fraudulent brokerage commission, iewelry and
other lines Of business.
The shipment OF 40 900 was made bv the
sub-trC asury in New York, through Wells,
Fargo IL Co., to the United States feet on the
Pacific, by the ST amer City of Para, which
arrived at Aspinwall on the ooh ult. The
money was all in American gold coin, and was
packed In two small kegs weighing in the
Deighborhood o. 20O rounds each. They were
rece we'd In Panama the same evening and
stored In the Panama Railroad Company's
vault. The delivery was not made until Mon
day, the LIST inst, and on opendg the vault it
was discovered that one keg was missing but
no clew is had as to who took it,
The Illinois Legislature i'm Joint convention
elected Cullom United States Senator by
vote 107 To 70 for Palmer, Democrat. The
North Carolina Legislature rejected Senator
| Ransom.
A bill has been introduced into the Penn.
sylvanil Legislature, maiingita misdemeanor
Tor the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
members of tie Legislature to accept passes
from ra lroad companies.
Miss Zerelda Garrison, whose reported
abduction recently created such a SEN
| sation in st. Louis, has been taken
| East by her uncle, D. l.. Garrison, by
the advice of the family physicians, to be
placed in an asylum for treatment for nervous
diseases. Doctors G.. s. Walker and c. W.
Stevens published card in which they state
| that a iull examination of her ment ccndi-
ton showed the young lady to be deficient in
the development of her mental faculties to
such an extent as to make her irresponsible at
times for her actions
The House Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds has authorized the expenditure
of $4,000 for the purchase of the house in
which Lincoln died.
The Smithsonian Institution received last
year Sc, 1000, and expended $4,000. The
Board of Regents recommend that Congress
vote $500, 900 for new building in which to
4 Al.
other collections already on hand and increas
ing every year.
The President will probably send messa~e
to Congress suggesting Gle ical amendments
I'm the Civil Service Reform bill In reference to
the employment of the Chief Examiner
Peter Behi OF Fon du Lac, Wis, whose
daughter died on account OF her fathers i'll
treatment, has been arrested on the charge OF
manslaughter. The complaint is g. orn out
by Mrs. Behl, who witnessed the scuffie be-
tween father an daughter. The prisoner went
TO Jail in default OF 5000 bail.
A Caro- Egypt Dispatch states that fight
occurred between a body of five hundred
Egyptian troops and the forces of the False
Prophet Two hundred and forty of the
former were killed aud the remainder laken
prisoners.
Scheler, who was arrested at Milwaukee
upon suspicion of burning the Newhall House
was recently removed from the Jail in that city,
It being feared that the high exc tement of the
people might lead To mob violence. When
the safe OF the hotel was orened the failure to
find the register or a2y other books which
would show who were in the hotel the night
of the fre caused considerable surprise, and
many theories were put forward as "a
what became of the books. 1t had been
reported and expected that the reg
lister aud transfer book had been put in tie
"a when tie fire was discovered, and hun
dreis OF persons all over the country were
waiting for the register to be recovered 50
that II might be known who were the guest:
of the hotel on the atal night When the
! safe was opened, no books or papers to show