Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-13
BTISCELLANEOUS,

~ iobe Speclal election IN the Mobile
Ala, district, James +. Jones was elected
TO Congress TO fill a vacancy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The receipts for postage stamps at the
fostofhce Department for the first quarter
ending March n, 1881, were S11 $50, 12l, and
for the quarter ending December 81, 1882
SlO,915,O61, an increase Of SOL, l0a. The gross
receipts OF the department for the first
quarter of 1888 were S11,Sl1,27i and fourth
quarter OF 1882, Sl1 ,I34, $50, an increase for
the first quarter of 1889 Of S7G,55i. II is
estimated at the Postofice Department that
the additional compensation 20 II 900 post.
Offices, affected by the act of March ,, 1883,
providing for the adjustment Of postmns-
ters' salaries will amount 10 al ,22l ,GGj for
the sevenmonths ending September ~, 1883.
THE Eastern banks have combined
against the trade dollar and refused TO re-
ccive il.
THERE was an accident on the Rochester
q Pittsburg Railroad early the other morn
ing at Rassclas, twenty-five miles from
Bradford, Pa. The first section of a coal
train, TO which was attached passenger
car containing fifteen persons, broke i'm two
ON a heavy grade, and seven cars, rushing
back down the grade, ran into the second
section, smashing the cars to pieces, killing
six, including the conductor and brakeman,
and wounding the remainder.
DURING n Sunday School procession the
other day at Milwaukee, Wis, a farmers
team became frightened ut the band ran
away and dashed among the children and
then 20 the crowded sidewalk and trampled
the people under their hoOfs i'm every dircc.
ton. One school girl was killed. Schmitt
owner ofthc team, received fatal injuries.
and Mrs. Engel, who saved the lives Of two
little ones 10y pushing them aside, was
severely kicked. Over a dozen were i'm.
jured.
MARTIN MORAN, aged nineteen, was struck
by lightning recently, ON his fathers farm
near Edgefeld Junction, Tenn, Will,
shocking oats, and instantly killed. Two
negro men who wer assisting him in tn,
field were knocked down but recovered.
STEPHEN =. PRICE is held at philadelphia
as an embezzler for losing through spccula
ton $4,000 of the Richardson estate
which was intrusted 10 him as executor and
trustee.
a FAMILY Of fve-father, mother and
three children-were drowned i'm the river
twenty miles below Madison, Ind, recently,
the waves from passing steamer upset.
ting the skifr.
ELLIS y. PHIPPs, ex-Superintendent OF
the Philadelphia Aims House, recently con.
victed for forgery, was sentenced 10 five
years imprisonment in the county prison
In separate and solitary confinement with
hard labor. I'm appeal to the Supreme
Court will be taken at its session in No.
vcmber.
THE steamer Bright Light was sunk al
Boonville, Mo-, few days ago. Total loss
except machinery, which will be raised
TnE annual report of the chief mail Iii
vision of the Pension Office shows the re
ceipts during the fiscal year to be 53,4Il
applications for pensions, an increase Over
the. previous year of 35,GOj. There wer,
/ 1000 letters received from Congressman
STATEMENT Of the public debt for June
| Total debt 81 ,SSl, Ill ,72S; cash in treasury
/ S3ij, }S9,9O2; debt, less cash in treasury
| Sl,1jl ,O9l,O1; decrease during June, SIS,
/ U9S,20l; decrease since June 80, 1882, Sl37,
| S23,2j3.
WHILE ON his way TO Washington, Gen
eral Crook stated i'm n conversation at Den
/ Yer that the telegraphic reports that TIN
hostiles are again on The war path are all
solutely without foundations; that the,
were glad Of an opportunity To surrender
and fully realize that further demonstra
tions by them would he most disastrous
A few squaws and children only remain
out. These were expected in hourly, an,
beyond doubt would bring Charley Nc
COmns.
ONE day last week fifty-six boats, carry
ing 23,OOO,0OO feet Of lumber, left Bay City
Mich, for Ohio and the East, being tn
largest feet that ever left that port i'm on
day.
LONDON dispatches say that panic 1
breadstuffs now threatens England. Its i'm
minence Is due chiefly 20 the choler
blockade against India. There seems TO b
no relief except from the United State.
and Americans, because of the probabilit
OF an epidemic of Asiatic cholera, whic
will practically cut of the India supply G
cereals, have before them the best graf
market ever given nation.
TELEGRANs received at Helena, NJ. T
stated that about one hundred lodges &
Crow Indians were preparing to move froI
Manitoba south, under the leadership ,
Little Pine, Ostensibly for the purpose {
hunting buffalo, but I'm reality To stes
I horses and commit other depredations /
Montana. Col. Ilges will intercept the,
and see that their soiourn on the America
side Of the line is short.
The Dauphin County, Pa, Aims Hous
burned recently.
A SEVERE storm swept over portions {
! Wisconsin few days since doing a larl
amount Of damage. In Belgium and FIR
donna alone over 200 buildings were blow
down. AT Oakfield, near Fon du Lac, ther
was great loss, and at Port Washingto
three men were drowned.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, Of Massachusetts
J sent to the House his veto Of the bill to lev
State tax 10 the amount Of S3,0O0,OO0. Z
does not believe in raising money befoi
needed and letting IL lie in bonds at thr,
per cent, while poor people who pay tax,
must borrow at not less than five per eel
to pay them with. He reviewed q
finances OF the last four years and sal
that tax Of 100000 is unnecessary an
unreasonable. He regards 100000 I
sufficient tax and 81 10000 ample.
NEW York, New Jersy and several
the New England States had a small samp
Of a Western tornado on the 2d. House
fences and trees were blown away but 4
} fatal results were reported.
The amount Of stamps imprinted {
checks and drafts received at the Intern
Revenue Bureau for cancellation and +
demption TO date is $500. 900.
WIN. II. SENAN, aged twenty-four, sh
| and killed his sister Fanny. ared twent-