Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-27
mIsCELLANEOUS.

dead from appoplexy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECRETARY TELLER has issued an order
that no proposals will he received for con-
sideration by the Department of the Inte-
rior from any person, firm, or corporation i'm
default in the performance Of any contract
or agreement made with the Department,
or who has failed to perform the same to
the satisfaction Of the Department, nor will
any contract hereafter be awarded to such
persons, firm, or corporation.
GREAT preparations are being made at
Denver for the entertainment of the Grand
Army of the Republic at its reunion and
encampment, which commences the oath
instant. Thirteen hundred wall tents, each
capable Of holding fifteen persons, have
been erected. A mammoth mess house has
been completed, and cooking apparatus Of
sufficient capacity for twenty thousand men
in place. IL is expected there will be 20 900
old veterans in line on the oath. Gov. Grant
will welcome the Grand Army in behalf of
tho State, Gen. Stinson in behalf Of the De-
partment OF Colorado, and Mayor Routt in
behalf Of the city.
HALF the business part of the town of
Belleville, New, was recently burned. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, 1000.
THE two Iron Mountain train robbers who
escaped from the Coal Hill, Ark, mines.
entered the stockade the other morning and
surrendered. They had been lost, had
wandered round about the woods, and acct.
dentally approached the stockade, became
disheartened. and being nearly starved,
went i'm and surrendered.
IS a late decision the Secretary OF the
Interior holds that filing made before
clerk in the Office Of Register Of Land
Office, who may be acting de facto but not
de jure, has the same effect as IL made be-
fore the Register, is valid.
SINCE the outbreak Of cholera at Man
surah, Egypt, eleven men and officers at
tached 10 the troops forming the Gordon
around that place, died from the disease.
A Colonel and his STAFF became alarmed
and fed. The Colonel was arrested and re-
placed by British officer.
THREE-FOUETHs Of the town Of Cockato,
Mimi. was recently destroyed by fire. The
principal hotel i'm the place was burned
| Three railroad laborers were burned to
death and another guest OF the hotel fatal
ly injured by jumping from a window.
WHILE circus was lately exhibiting at
Calhoun, Mo. IL was struck by storm and
literally torn to pieces. The circus dress
ing room and horse tents were torn to
shreds. Cages, seats and poles were
crushed. Many animals escaped. Bears
and monkeys mixed with the excited mass
and made the scene exciting.
A TERRIFIC cyclone, accompanied by
hail, visited the section Of country around
Elkhart, Ind, recently, uprooting trees,
blowing down buildings, and doing inn
mense damage 10 crops.
A FIRE mt Texarkana, Ark, DESTROYED a
number Of business houses. Loss about
$4,000.
In accordance with the resolution passed
ut the last meeting Of the Western Nail
Association every nail mill in the West
closed down for period of four weeks.
The cholera continues to spread in Egypt.
panic exists at Alexandria and people
are leaving in great numbers.
THREE HUNDRED journeymen horse
shoers nc Cleveland, o., are on strike.
1T has been decided TO put second daily
mail service on the Hannibal e. st. Joe
Railroad between Quincy and Hannibal.
This will make n continuous twice daily
railway mail service from Chicago to Dem
yer via Kansas City.
A TERRIBLE explosion in the Glen Falls.
N. Y, paper mills recently injured eleven
persons, several fatally, and damaged the
property to the extent of 100000.
CHARLES W. rover, Sheriff Of Grand
County, Colo, recently committed suicide
at the Ennis House in Georgetown. His
connection with the recent troubles in
Grand County was supposed TO be the
cause.
MICHAEL PEETs, aged seventeen, while
reading the Bible the other day at Albany.
N. Y, was struck by lightning and killed.
At Nashua, N. H., the residence of George
W. Mutt was struck and Susie Marsh killed.
and at Underhill, VT, the school house was
struck by lightning and all the children
more or less injured. The floor OF the
. School room was torn up and the walls and
ceiling wrecked.
The New Haven, Conn, wire works were
damaged $4,000 by a recent fire. Three
hundred men were thrown out of employ.
ment.
THE store Of William Weaver at Mon.
louisville, Pa, was burglarized recently OF
, 5000 I'm Catawissa Railroad bonds, $40 .OOC
miscellaneous securities, 500 checks and
800 in cash.
The directors Of the Rutland, Mass.
Railroad Company announce that ex.
Treasurer Ravens cash account Is short
$4,000. His total deficit can only be deter.
mined by thorough investigation. There
has been a large over-issue Of stock-at one
time SD shares-but the actual over-issue
apparently outstanding now Is 2,so1 shares.
OvER 5000 cigars were SEIZED the other
day by the customs authorities Of Toronto,
Canada, under the new rules about not
having boxes properly labeled.
+. NJ. KERR. the defaulting clerk Of the
banking firm Of Preston, Kean & Co, OF
Chicago, who was captured In Peru, arrived
In that city recently, from San Francisco
In the custody Of = detective.
GovERSoR HAMILTON Of Illinois, has de
clined 70 pardon Charles W. Angel, con.
victed In 1873 Of embeEzlement Of larEe
sum Of money from the Pullman Palace Car
company. Angel surrendered himself to
the United States authorities while In Portu-
gal, and turned over 10 the Pullman com.
pany $4,000 Of the stolen funds.
the wheat crop in Oregon Is reported to be
thirty Fer cent short Of last years crop.
AT Reading, Pa, the other day the eight
boilers Of an anthracite furnace. owned by
the Philadelphia q Reading Railroad, ex-
lplodsds reducing the furnace 70 mass Of