Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-10
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nISCELLANEoCS.
The Hanlan- Hosmer-Lee race near SYRIA
cuse, y. Y, recently, was witnessed by
nearly 5000 people. Tho course. of three
quarters Of mile, was rowed over twice,
and Hanlan easily won the race.
THE next National Encampment Of the
Grand Army of the Republic will he held
at Minneapolis. At the Denver meeting
William Warner, Of Iowa, was elected
Senior Vice Commander-in-C Chief, and
Walter II. Holmes, Of California, Junior
Vice. The Surgeon General and Chaplain
were reelected.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany denies the rumor that that company
was negotiating n compromise with the
Brotherhood of Operators, and declared
that no conferences were pending with that
view or any other, and none was contem-
plated.
a RECENT concert az tho Grand Opera
House in Baltimore for the benefit OF the
Brotherhood OF Photographers of that city,
realized u 900.
ON the night of the 9th there was a ter
rible disaster on the Rome, Watcrtown &
Ogdensburg Railroad near Carlton y. "
As the Thousand Islands train, which was
running at n high rate Of speed on the main
line, neared Carlton the engineer noticed a
single car standing on the track ahead of
him. He nt once put ON the air brakes and
reversed the levers Of his engine, but before
the speed of the train could be slackened
the engine dashed into the obstruction and
i'm an instant all was q scene Of wreck and CON
fusion and the air was filed with the groans
Of the dying and injured. The engineer,
who hcroically remained ut his post, was
fatally injured when the crash came, and
the fireman, who stood by him till
the last, was instantly killed.
Nineteen were killed and some thirty
wounded. Among the killed were Thomas
Hyne, Chicago; Jane Card, Lansing, Mich /;
Professor e. w. Stone, Battle Creek. Mich /:
Luke j. Frances, Oswego, y. "; Billie
Lafever and Mrs. Lafever, Bay City. Mich /:
Ashley Tyler, Camden, ~. v: Thomas
Stalls, Watcrtown, ". V; O. Is. Troop and
granddaughter, Schoharie, ". V: j. G..
Schenck, Cleveland. O.. Thomas
Sex0n, Cleveland, o.: two ladies
with rings marked "Cornclia to
Louis" and al. /. b. TO e. VI. b. thought
/ To he Mrs. Booth, Of Bay City, Mich, aud
Airs. J. &. Wertley, Of Saline. Mich: Hen.
~ Mccormick, Benton, Mich; DIR. Booth,
Of Bay City, Mich. The fireman was in
stantly killed. The engineer. James Nc.
Carthy, of the second engine, was terribly
scalded. He died after being put aboard a
train FOR Oswego.
Ar Nashville, Tenn, Judge Allen over.
L Inlf Nfs.r. e -. 4.
Of cx-Statc Treasurer Polk, and sentenced
the prisoner according 10 the verdict. The
case was appealed to the Supreme Court
and the bond raised to $500, which was
given.
Tux New Orleans, Texas & Pacific Rail-
way subscribed $4,000 for the New Orleans
exposition Of December next year.
MAN supposed 90 be Carey. the in
former. arrived i'm Montreal, Canada, the
other night.
JUDGE O'kEY OF the Supreme Court of
Ohio, recently announced his dissenting
opinion on the Scott Liquor Tax Law,
holding IL 10 DC license, and therefore uu-
constitutional. The law was sustained by
the other four Judges of the bench.
The town Of Casnmiciolo, ON the island
OF lschia, near Naples, was almost entirely
destroyed 10y an earthquake recently, and
the neighboring towns Of Lacco and Terrio
/ badly WRECKED. The number Of killed was
stated 10 be 5000, and shiploads Of wounded
continually arrived at Naples.
In the criminal court mt Washington CITY
Judge Wylie overruled the motion 10
| quash the indictment i'm the Kellogg Star
Route case. Kellogg pleaded not guilty,
and the court adjourned to October g
INTELLIGENCE was received at London
that Carey, the informer, was shot on the
steamer Melrose while she was between
Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, by man
named O'Donnell, who logged him as he
attempted to escape from England. Carey
was travelling under the name of Power
His family were with him.
LATER details of the recent earthouak,
ON the island of Ischia, Italy, are more
sickening IL possible than the first. Al
least 1000 are reported to have persisted
and the number Of injured reached into tn,
thousands, the greater portion Of whom viii
be crippled for life. Two thousand troop.
were busily digging for those bsaeath tn,
ruins, whose cries for relief could be plain
ly heard.
ton, near Milwaukee, keeper Of the Farm
ers' Cooperative Store and postmaste
OF the village, was attacked at his hom
the other night by three masked men, VIII,
rushed into the sitting room while he wa
laying on the sofa talking to his wife, an,
with presented rcvolvers ordered him Z
hold up his hands. Throwing himself Of
the floor he whipped out his pistol and fire,
NJ Nha Al. -
right breast. One Of the assassins fred 4
return, the ball slightly wounding Crandall
The light was extinguished and n numbe
Of other shots fred when the robbers RI
treated. Crandall and few friends fol
lowed and captured the wounded thief VIII
died as he was taken.
THE coinage Of the United States mint
for the month Of July aggI egated 3,0J6,OO
pieces. valued at 81 ,2sS.SO0. The amour
includes I 30. 900 silver dollars.
BosToN had two heavy failures recently
One was the heavy shoe manufacturer
Charles W. Copeland & Co., n house estat
lished i'm 1855, and the other +. Shaw
Bros, said 10 be the largest tanners in tn
world. Shaw & Bros. were creditors o
Copeland & Co. fully $4,000. Shaw
Bros. employed in their various establish
ments from ten 70 fifteen thousand persons
AN order has been issued at Bremen {
all captains ofvessels arriving from Amer
ca with picked pork as part Of their cargo
to notify the custom authorities of tn
quantity they have on board, under pail
Of three hundred marks fine for neglect.
AN officer and posse recently attempte
20 surprise the Montgomery, Yell and Gar
land County, Ark, outlaws, when the.
came up with the Daniels brothers. an