Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-31
mIsCELLANEOUs.

duCtor Michel was fatally and several other
persons badly injured. The explosion was
said 10 be perhaps the heaviest ever heard
In America. The debris was thrown so
high that Il did not come down for fully ten
minutes, and people from five miles in the
country rushed i'm To see ~ Winchester had
suddenly been destroyed by an earthquake
IL was regarded as the worst railroad acct
dent that ever occurred in Kentucky.
A DECISION was rendered by Judge Mills
In tho Police Court OF Washington City
recently in the civil rights case Of Rev.
George II. Smith, colored, Of Norwich,
Conn, against James w. Bell, proprietor
Of a restaurant. The ground Of complaint
was that Bell had denied the accommoda-
tions Of his restaurant TO the plaintiff on
account Of the latter's color, and suit was
brought % enforce the criminal provision
Of the net known as the Civil Rights net.
The decision was in favor Of the plaintiff,
and the defendant was found guilty Of a
misdemeanor.
A LETTER received in San Francisco from
Alaska announced large gold discovery
near Yukon River, Alaska. Owing to the
extreme cold weather, twenty.eight degrees
below zero, il was impossible 20 do much
prospecting. The miners who made the
discovery were partly fitted out by n man
who made discoveries in Arizona, and who
cleared over Si,OOO,OOO in that section.
A HALIFAX ~. 81 dispatch states that
in December, 1872, the brig New Dominion
sailed from Cowbay, Cape Breton, for Var
mouth with n cargo of coal, and nothing
was ever heard of her. diver working
at the wreck ut Cedar Grove, near
Torbay Grove, recently discovered her
hull on the bottom, making out easily her
name on the stern. She is supposed to
have run on some reef at Cedar Grove, slid
of and sunk with all hands.
WHILE Richard and William Hams, two
young men Of Williamsburg, ". ", were
recently out in a boat fishing, William fell
overheard and was drowned. Richard was
so overcome at his brothers death, that he
made an attempt 10 strange himself with
the anchor rope, hut was prevented by a
fisherman who made his appearance.
THE saw mill of the Heater Lumber Com
pany in Moline, Ills, was recently burned.
The flames spread 20 the yards where there
were piles Of lumber thirty feet high, the
main portion Of which was seasoned, and
they were soon a mass OF flames. The fire
spread 90 houses across the street The
mill cost 10000 and there was about 500
900 worth Of lumber in the yard most OF
which was burned.
The Secretary Of the Interior has been
informed that the Northern Pacific Rail
way, in uniting the two ends near MillanC
tunncll, has been completed. The company
has requested the appointment Of n com
mission 20 examine and report upon thi,
section Of the road.
j. VI. ARMSTRONG, alias II. G.. Bechtele
was arrested at Chicago for using the mail,
To effect the sale Of packages Of counter
felt money. His circulars were dirccte,
mainly 90 points in Colorado.
In San Francisco, Sunday afternoon, tn,
18th, the preliminaTies to the meeting o
the Triennial Conclave were inaugurate,
by religious services in the grand pavilion
which 10 many we'll nigh proved fatal
Eight thousand persons were i'm the build
ing aud four thousand were left outside
who continued 10 put forth every effort Il
obtain an entrance. While the scene in
side was imposing, the floor Of the pavilion
being a mass Of handsome uniforms an,
flowing plumes, a large police force wa
inadequate TO preserve order in the crush
ing multitude seeking admission, tn
greater number Of officers being emplove,
carrying OF fainting women and children
SO hot was Il that before the services wer
half over the people commenced streaming
out, only TO make room for others 10 get In
An expression Of thanks was repeated,
heard from those who managed TO get out
being nearly crushed to death.
AT Nebraska City the other day, Err
Douglass, printer, was shot and instantl,
killed by his wife, who afterwards con-
mitted suicide by shooting herself throug
the temple. This was her third attempt Z
do that which she finally so successfully &C
complished.
THE other day q man and woman reRi,
tered a. man and wife at the Commercia
Hotel In Chicago. Not having reported 10
breakfast OF dinner next day the propieto
ordered the door OF the room 10 be opened
when the man and woman were found lvin
on tho floor unconscious, dressed in nigh
clothes. The window and transom wer
closed and the gas escaping in the room
The man soon died and the woman r,
manned unconscious.
AT Cincinnati, Ohio, Burt Scheibel she
and killed Josie Stubb, n sporting woman
J in her room, and then shot himself in n
: face, dying instantly. Scheibel was froi
I Dayton, where his father is proprietor of
. hotel. He was charged with embezzlemer
Of the funds Of an insurance company then
The Eclipse Oil Refinery at Franklin, Pa
r the largest refinery in the world was pa
I. TALLY destroyed by fire a few days ago.
4 Ma. EAToS, President ofthe Civil Servi,
Commission, had conference with the Ac
ing Secretary Of the Treasury recently
regard 10 the right Of the latter to NAL
certain promotions In the Treasury Depar
ment, under the Civil Service Law. A
! suitable regulations had not been complete
r IL was decided that the Department coul
make all necessary promotions at once.
The Eve story stone building, corner
LaSalle and Washington streets, Chicag
! occupied by the Western Union TelegraT
I Company, Union National Bank. Intern
: tional Bank, Associated Press and humble
? less commission Offices, was PARTIAL
t. burned on the evening Of the 21st, and wi
made completely uninhabitable by q
streams Of water thrown In the buildin
, The IRE originated on the fifth floor, use
) as the operating department. by the WEBSTER
B Union Telegraph Company. The Telegram
company estimates lis loss at 81, 900 to SO
900. No insurance. The loss on the bull
ing was SSO.OOo. The loss TO other tenant
$4,000. The building was insured q
{ $4,000.
e TEE procession Of knights Templar
9 San Francisco was reported 20 Be q
r gJnndost affair IN the history Of the Pacil
Slope. Ssventy-fvo thousand strange
joined the people Of the city I'm wiinsssir
ne parade. During the march thr'
standard bearers tainted IRON exhaustion