Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02

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and fifty dollars per ton. Much excitement
prevailed, and people were hocking to the
locality.
UP to the close of business, the I'D, the
total amount Of Government bonds re-
deemed under tina various calls amounted
TO $115,210,6OO.
AT Flemingsburg, KY, recently, Charles
Mccartney, an editor, was attacked by
| James T. Tenwell and Frank L. Thompson.
who felt aggrieved at publication, when
/ Mccartney drew a revolver and shot both,
killing Tenwell and mortally wounding
Thompson.
REV. NJ. I. ROGERS, a colored Baptist
clergyman, having occasion to perform
some ministerial functions at the upper
end of his parish, boarded a freight train
at New Iberia, La, before daylight, the
other morning, intending to take free
ride, and made himself fast to the end of
the car with a rope. He lost his grip,
however, and fell and was dragged long
distance before his dead body was found.
MRS. LOUISA DoHERTY, twenty-five years
of age, attempted 20 kill herself in New
York, the other night, also her ive-yeaI
old child, by cutting the throat Of the lat
ter and severing the arteries of her own
wrists. II was thought both would die.
A YOUNG man reported himself at Port.
land, Me-, recently, who claimed to be the
missing Charlie Ross. He said he was kept
I'm a dark room four years, and subsequent.
ly taken to Brazil.
G.. CLARK and Charles w. Stone were
recently arrested at Jamaica, VT, on the
charge Of counterfeiting. They belonged
to an organization Of twenty-three young
persons who had a complete counterfeitinG
outfit, which was seized with quantity of
spurious coins.
AN explosion in the Excelsior Squib Fac.
tory at Kingston, Pa, recently tore the
establishment To pieces, and eight children
employed there were blown out with the
flying timbers in every direction. Eight of
the children were probably fatally injured.
TIE most prominent citizens of st. Louis,
irrespective Of party, met In secret council
the other night and organized Law-and.
Order League. The object fthe League is
To secure good local government, fight cor
ruption and political rings, especially the
gambling ring.
ANDREW ID. BENNETT, a prominent farmer
Of Crawford County, Pa, while cunning
the other afternoon near his home at Espy.
Vile, shot himself accidently. His cloth
ing caught fire from the discharge, and the
body was almost completely cremated.
AT the request of the Postmaster General,
Attorney General Brewster has addressed
a circular to all District Attorneys, direct
ing them TO cordially cooperate with the
officers Of the Postoffice Department in en-
forcing the section of the revised statutes
which forbids any letter or circular con.
corning lotteries being carried by mail.
THE annual report of the Second Assis.
! tant Postmaster General showed that the
total cost of transportation by all methods
was SIS, 234 $50, an increase over the pre-
ceding year of S3j3,s47. The increase in
the railway mail service was 81 ,034, 616; in
steamboat service, $33,GO9. The increase
in the cost of star-route service was 1914, 371.
KILOGRAMS from General Crook to the
War Department confirmed the report that
the Chiricahaus Indians left in Mexico are
making their way to San Carlos.
THE steamer Rio Janeiro sailed from San
Francisco recently with one thousand
Chinese and about $50, 900, which they took
with them out of the country. Over eight
hundred of them were provided with return
certificates.
BY the breaking of a wheel of coal train
on the Hooking Valley Railroad, near Car
roll, o., the other evening, the caboose was
precipitated down n twenty-foot embank.
ment, the conductor, Ed. Saeger, killed, and
Brakeman Kennedy fatally injured. The
loss Of the caboOse was not known on the
engine for some time, and it was then found
in the darkness with difficulty.
A FIRE at Annapolis, Nd, recently de.
stroyed several stores and dwellings. Loss,
about $4,000. After leaving his house
Charles Legg rushed back to save his aunt,
Miss Lizzie Walters, who was about eighty
years old, and the floor gave way and both
| persisted.
a FARMER named Albert FINER, resid-
ing near Newcomerstown, o., recently
murdered his wife and three children while
they were asleep, and then killed himself.
BrOoding over ill-health and inability to
work was supposed to have unbalanced his
mind and led to the tragedy.
THREE children, the oldest a girl of
/ twelve years, were drowned in a pond at
Elkhorn, Manitoba, recently. The girl was
on the pond skating, when the ice broke
and she fell into the water. Two younger
brothers tried to save her, but all persisted
before the eyes of their mother, who was
on the bank.
DENVER was the scene of another double
tragedy on the 22d. o. ]. Halter, barber,
upon returning home found another barber.
named Morris, in company with his wife
at their home, and without any words
shot and instantly killed his wife, the ball
passing through her heart. He then put
two balls into Morris. Halter had been
jealous of his wife for some time, and had
threatened to kill her on previous occa.
| sions.
l.. l.. DARING, Of Oliver, No., was killed
by his aunt, Mrs. William Straub, recently.
She struck him on the head with hammer.