Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-21

many points. The general average condi
ton is reduced to q.
LATER reports from the recent frosts IN
the Northwest are that the damage 10 late
corn was very great. The INJURY was
thought TO be fully twenty-fv" per cent.
The spread Of the cattle disease in nearly
every portion OF England caused the
greatest uneasiness. In some sectors only
American beef was obtainable. Reports
from Scotland stated the disease had not
appeared there.
FOREST fires I'm Dinwiddie and adjoining
counties in Virginia spread over large
area and did much damage. In some
places wheat fields were burned.
JOHN c. KYLE & Co, and j T. Mckay:
both silk manufacturers, of Paterson, \. j..
failed. Liabilities of the two firms about
$4,000.
A LATE incendiary fire in the stables OF
the Lexington, KY, Street Car company
barned fifty mules, fourteen cars, the en-
tire lot of harness stock and feed, and the
new stables.
No new cases of yellow fever were re
ported at the Pensacola Navy Yard Tor the
week ending the 18th.
the late fire in Dreman's rag and paper
warehouse in Cincinnati.
CHARLES STIMsoS, of Baltimore, Nd.
was recently crossing n high trestle rail.
road bridge, when he saw train approach
ing. In order to save his life he dropped
between the rails and.clung to the cross-ties.
After the train passed he was unable tc
draw himself up, fell seventy feet and was
fatally injured. He was taken to the house
of his sister-in-law who was told il was
her husband, when she fell dead.
THE recommendations of the Naval
COurt-martial, in the cases of Naval Cadets
Benjamin Trapnell, Archibald Campbell,
Ellsworth +. Berthoff and Franklin Noel.
Ter, tried ut Annapolis on the charge of
hazing, that they be dismissed from the
service, have been approved by the Super.
intendent of the Naval Academy, and or.
ders Diminishing them issued from the Navy
Department.
The total amount of bonds redeemed
under the l2lst call, TO noon, the 12th, was
S14, 800.
a CLERK i'm the Pension Bureau, named
Bonnell, was recently discharged for collu.
sion with dishonest pension agents i'm
swindling pensioners. By virtue of his
position he could learn when a claim was
about to be allowed and he would inform
some rascally agent who in turn would
write to the pensioner for remittance &c
push his claim through and get speedy
payment. IL is stated that these frauds
have run up into the millions.
The September returns TO the Depart.
ment of Agriculture indicated lower con.
dition of corn than in August in every sec.
tion of the country, and in nearly every
State. The only gains in the West are ir
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, where a
slight Improvement was indicated.
TIE Signal Corps stationed at Smithville,
y. c., reported heavy windstorm prevail.
ing along the coast. For seven hours the
velocity of the wind was ninety-threc
miles. Thirteen vessels and pilot boats
went ashore and sunk.
THE National Pharmaceutical Conven.
ton, recently in session in Washington
City, elected W. =. Thompson, of Washing.
ton, President; f. w. Ruyon, of San Fran.
cisco, Third Vice President; c. l.. Dieh, Re.
porter on Progress of Pharmacy, and Pro.
fessor A. +. Ebert, of Chicago, one of the
members of the Council. The Treasurer's
annual report showed that all bills had
been paid and 5000 left i'm the treasury.
THE other evening as Miss Blacock, n
highly accomplished young lady of Rock.
dale County, Ga, with her five-year-old
brother, was passing through piece of
woods between her fathers home and a
neighbor, two men suddenly stepped from
behind tree, grasped Sle young lady and
carried her some distance to where close
carriage was standing and put her in it,
To prevent an alarm being given, they tied
the little boy, hand and foot, and gagged
him. The boy was nearly dead from terror
when found, and it was some time before
he could tell his story. No trace of the alb
ductors had been discovered.
THE report that the missing st. Louis
girl, Mary Churchill, had been discovered
in Mexico with an absconding Topeka mer
chant, is denied.
SEVEN out of thirteen ice houses at NORTH
Chelmsford, Mass, belonging to the Boston
Ice Company, were burned recently. Los,
So, 900.
AT Trinity, Texas, the other day, Major
II. B. Hurlock, large mill owner, and his
son, w. III. Hurlock, twenty-five years old
were shot by a man named Roseman, one
of their employees, aged twenty-three
Young Hurlock is dead, and the father.
wounds were mortal. Roseman was re
ported to be a desperate of the dime move,
order.
NEAR Lovelady, Texas, the other night
Thomas Smith, while slightly intoxicated
went into church where religious meet
ing was in progress and stepped on the
toes of one Brown, the clergyman's son. A
few words passed, but the matter dropped
until after service, when it was again taker
up. Smith was stabbed and instantly
killed. Browns brother and Rev. b
Brown, his father, were supposed to be i'm
plicated.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.