Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-21

! emaciated but living form OF Louis Amer
son. The stack fell upon and burf 4 = q
November II, and he had been there for
twehty.three days through some severe
weather without food or water. He was
n mere skeleton. but able TO speak.
The steam barge, Enterprise, sunk In
Lake Huron the other morning and sever
| lives were lost.
A DISASTROUS confiagration recently Wis
tied Pine Bluff. Ark, destroying the bust
ness portion Of the town.
JONI W. HUNTER is She latest arrest
upon the charge Of being the murderer oil
/ Fora Burns ut Lincoln, Ill.
The store of Payne, Potter & Co., al
= Georgetown, n. NJ, burned recently. Loss,
I 10000; insurance, S29,OD.
! CATHARINE MARSHALL, (colored) was
I burned TO death recently at Ridge Prairie
Mo-, by falling into the fire while in fit.
SECRETARY TELLER is said To be receiv'
4 ing so many letters concerning the Texas
Pacific land grant that it is becoming an
noying, and he wishes to have it under.
stood that as Congress is now in session
the whole matter Of the grant is before
/ Congress for action, and persons feeling ar
interest i'm the determination Of the sub
/ ject should address Congress and not him
ANOTHER fearful massacre has befalleT
a detachment of the Egyptian army
While on the march from Suakim to Der
Der, on December ,, at the halting place
thirty miles from Suakin, a force of eight
hundred negroes and Bashi Bazouks were
utterly annihilated by adherents Of the
False Prophet. The fight only lasted twenty
minutes.
THE Coosa River furnace. at Gadsden
Ala, was recently destroyed by fire. Foul
hundred cars of coke were burned. Los,
nearly $50. 600; no insurance.
john MCGISNIs, sixteen years old, wa,
engaged with several companions in play
ing practical jokes upon a hagman Al
Shelby Station, o., when McGinnis ran in
front Of a freight train and was instantly
killed.
l.. c. HOLMES was found dead i'm his room
in hotel, near the Union depot, in Kansa,
City, the other morning. He was on hi,
way home Mt Kearney, No., from Ho
Springs. Heart disease was the trouble.
THE residence of Ella Martin, of Balti
more, Nd, burned recently. Carrie Mar
tin, aged thirty-two, jumped from the sec
ond story and was fatally injured. Susi,
Martin was caught on n mattress, but Sc
verely hurt. Ella Martin, artist aud owner
Of the building, and her sister Mary, aged
sixty, were rescued by means of a ladder
BIC BILL KINNEY, who was acquitted Of
murder at West Union, W. Va, recently
was taken from Jail by a mob and huns
the following night.
IN the southern part Of Madison County
Mo-, the other day, William Boyer sho
William Berry and Bart Kelley, and wa,
himself shot through the heart and instant
ly killed. Kelley died the next day anC
Berry was not expected to live. Tn,
tragedy was the result of an old feud.
IL digging the foundation for a new
court house at Las Vegas, n. NJ, recently
the laborers, old miners, saw symP,Ss''s o
''pay dirt" They Immediately gave It ,
trial, which resulted i'm striking IL rich
There was great excitement i'm town, an,
everybody was stalking out claims.
GREAT BRITAIN was torn 10y terrible
tornado on the 18th. Towns were flooded
churches and other buildings demolished
trees uproOted vessels damaged and mum
Der of persons killed.
THE Courthouse ut Butler, Pa, burne,
recently. The cupola, one hundred fee
high, which contained large bell an,
clock, fell with tremendous crash
Several persons were injured, one fatally
The Criminal Court records and larg
number of important Orphans Court docu
ments were destroyed. The building wa
erected in 1853, at a cost of so 900; in
surance $4,000.
JUDGE Noisy WATER was shot an,
killed from ambush, the other night, in tn
Indian Territory, while going home iron
Sloan Springs, it was said by Deput,
Marshal Andrews and posse, who mistoo
the Judge for a noted outlaw they wer
looking for.
| AT Moscow (Russia) recently, an i'm
mense throng of poor people gathered be
fore the house of a merchant, lately de
ceased, to receive the money usually dis
tributed at the demise of n wealthy person
The pressure was so great that severa
persons were crushed to death, and fou
severely injured.
THE wife of l.. !. johnson, of Holden
Mo-, while recently out driving, was throw
out of her carriage and killed.
Is regard To the importance of fores
culture, the Commissioner of Agricultur
says: 1.-THE total value of forest product
of the United States for the census year
estimated at S1OO,O0O,O0O. In other word.
the forest products exceed in value on
crops of hay, rye, oats, barley, bUckwheat
potatoes and tobacco taken together. The
amount to ten times the value. of gold an
silver, of which we make so much account
and TO more than three times the value {
the precious minerals and ccal and othe
minerals combined"
THE Kirkwood Hotel at Darlington, 1
T., which had been completed ouly on
month, burned recently. Loss, So, 700; il
surance, $4,000.
TwO-THIRDs of the bills introduced in N
House on the 18th were pension bills. On
of them has been introduced in every Coz
gress since 1852