Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-11
THE WORLD'SDOINGS
1 Summary or the Daily News.


i =. 'aN nc attepttu lnt RESIGNATION, ne
uid so with reluctance, rs he regretted the
loss OF so valuable an officer.
! IHE severe newspaper criticisms attend.
Ing the appointment Of ID. X. b. Keene "a
Chief Examiner 10 the Civil Service Com
mission has caused the President TO DELAY
signing his commission, bot It was stated
That his appointment would mot 10 with.
drawn unless the Commission expressed a
desire 10 that effect, because il was made
upon their recommendation.
IHE Secretary Of the Interior has issued
an order disbarring Oscar G.. Treat, Of OK.
ford, Mich, from practicing before that
Department or any Of its bureaus.
IN Washington the prevailing opinion Is
that no appointment a. Commissioner of
Internal Revenue will be- made az present.
deputy Commissioner Rogers is acting
commissioner and will continue i'm that
capacity until an appointment is made.
The President has made proclamation
OF supplementary extrndition treaty he
tween the United States and Spain.
nIsCRLLANEOUS.
THE discovery Of n dynamite factory at
Northampton, England, caused great
alarm.
AT Elgin, Ills, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry A.
Green were recently found at their home
suifocated from the effects II escaping gas
/ from an uncovered coal-stove. The hus.
band was dead and the wife dying when
discovered.
The failures the past week were Isl.
/ against 2nj the previous week
/ WN. MAcDUFF, a financial broker Of
New York, Recently shot and killed his
wife, his six-year-old son aud himself.
MICHAEL FAGAN, another alleged Phoenix
Park assassin, was found guilty and SEN
fenced 20 be hanged May y.
| CAPTAIN MCGREGOR, Of the First Cav
airy, reports b. the War Department that
he has made n thorough investigation and
finds that the rumors of a contemplated
outbreak among the Indians at the vii.
lows, ON the Columbia River, are totally
unfounded.
Il STATEMENT prepared in the office of
the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
shows that the aggregate receipts for
March lsSsi were II ,42j,13 greater than for
March lNS2. The increase was distributed
as follows: On spirits, II, 13G97j; on beer,
N2,l21. There was a decrease as follows
Tn tobacco S2iS,15l; on banks and bankers,
80, 49,; miscellaneous, S76.O9i.
CHIEF BUsHYHEAD has called a special
session of the National Council Of the Cher
okee Nation, at Tahlequah, 81 consider the
difference between the Constitutional
party and the turbulent faction under
Spieche. which has caused so much trouble
of late; also what disposition shall he
made Of the 100000 appropriated by Con-
gross 10 the Cherokees for lands purchased
from than for Ina ngn Of h.
wire fence question, which is giving a good
deal of trouble, and other matters also will
receive attention. The question as to
whether negroes in the Nation are citizens
is also likely 10 come before the Council.
THE Solicitor of the Treasury has decided
that the Collector of the Customs ut
Brownsville, Tex, has authority to arrest
smugglers, as well as 10 seize contraband
goods. II is estimated that the Government
loses annually about $4,000 by the Snug.
CLING carried ON along the Rio Grande.
GOVERNOR MADERo Of Coahula, Mexico,
recently sold five hundred leagues of State
land i'm the Sabine River region to repre-.
sentative Of an English syndicate for the
nominal price of ten cents per acre. The
land will be used for ranch purposes.
LATE hail storm i'm Louisiana did much
damage to crops.
AT Florence, Ala, the other day n mob
overpowered the iailer and hung George
Ware, prisoner who murdered n boy
named Robert Bethunc ut Muscle shoals
| Before hanging Ware confessed that he
murdered the boy for - and a plug Of
tobacco, and threw tho body i'm the river.
FIRE at Wcllsburg, W. Va, recently,
destroyed the Ne,rs office, n number Of
residences and business houses and other
/ property g. the value Of $4,000.
A LATE fire i'm the Revere House i'm BufTa.
lo, n. Y, at midnight frightened about
one hundred guests out Of their rooms into
the street. The origin was in the concert
saloon on the first floor, which was entirely
destroyed. No lives were lost.
A DISPATCH frOsn Professor A. +. Banda
licr to his family at Highland, ILL.,, says he
is safe and well at Fort Jache, A. T., and
that the report Of his capture by the In
dians is untrue.
THE Secretary Of the Interior has rem
dered a decision in which he approves the
map Of the definite location Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad through the Rocky Noun
tains division, filed July 6, 1852. The line
so approved departs from the lire OF the
general route nc Gallatin City, and trnitos
with - again mt Little Blackfoot. The
change will shorten the line forty-thr,e
miles. IL will also release from the land
grant and restore 10 the public domain
more than 100000 acres Of land.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from minis for the week ending April IS
was Sl6SOOO; corresponding period last
year Sl6l 900.
| In response To n communication from
Secretary Frelinghuysen, neutrality-suspicious.
there will be any objection TO our troops
following the Apaches from Arizona over
/ the border, the Mexican Minister has re-
piled that such action cannot properly be
taken without the express consent Of the
Mexican Senate. General Crook has &C.
/ cordingly been instructed by the Secretary
Of War 10 be- careful 10 observe the conven-
ton with Mexico on this subject and TO re-
strain all the troops under his command
from passing the boundary line of the Mex.
lean territory.
THE late Irish National Convention at
Philadelphia appointed a committee to wait
upon the newspapers of that city and urge
that n representative of the press Of Phila-
delphia be sent to Ireland 70 investigate
| Viz " hN NRhohAAOn VI InNI country,
In order 10 inform TIE people Of the evils
under which the Irish people we're suffer
ing.
In a recent religious riot between Greeks
and Arabs at Porte Said (Egypt) several
persons were killed and many wounded,
including number Of the police. British
troops and sailors, with gatling guns, sur
rounded the Greek church to protect il.
The Greek Consul took refuge on n gun
boat.
THE new tobacco tax law went into oper-
alton May 1. At midnight on the 3Oth the
Collectors Offices in the principal cities
were opened for the sale Of stamps, and
business was lively. At Louisville over
$780, worth Of stamps were sold within a
few hours, end at st. Louis $4,000 worth.
Railroad freight offices were kept open all
! night receiving and forwarding tobacco.
A LATE FIRE at Newaygo, Mich, destroyed
/ n.