Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-27

/ Santa Fe, N. M, with Muchacho-Negro, q
Mescalero Apache, who was recently cap
tured near Fort Elliott. He was arraigned
for the murder OF a white man, Gordon b.
name, near the Mescaleros' Reservation,
some three years ago, and upon the testi-
mony Of four other Mescalero Apaches he
was committed to jail to answer that
charge.
A MALIGNANT type Of measles has broken
out in st. Mary's Industrial School, occu-
pied by $50 boys, at Baltimore, Nd There
were ten deaths in twenty-four hours.
ELIJAH HAYES and Ruff Mcconnell, both
/ young men living near Paris, Tenn, quar-
relied while in swimming. In the scuffie
which ensued Mcconnell drew n pistol and
fatally shot Hayes. Mcconnell started
home, but fell dead on the way from ex.
citement and remorse
AT Omaha few days ago nine OF ten
passenger conductors on the Union Pacific
road were let out and freight conductors
advanced to I'LL the vacancies. 1t was re-
ported that the work Of decapitation had
only just begun and that it will extend gen.
orally over the entire Union Pacific system,
with only here and there an old conductor
retained.
AT a recent meeting of the Conservative
members of Parliament at which Sir Stat
ford Northcote presided. IL was decided TO
oppose the Suez canal agreement.
SWAIN, the man arrested at Nashville,
Tenn, for stealing the ledger, so important
in the Polk trial, has confessed he took it
at the instigation of ex-Treasurer Polk;
also that he received $40 for the deed.
A RECENT explosion seriously damaged
the Nonkers, Y. Y, Gaslight Works and
injured several persons.
SECRETARY TELLER says the question of
transfer of the Texas Pacific land grant to
the Southern Pacific Railroad company
will not be decided until September 1, and
that he proposes TO settle the matter him
self without referring to the Attorney
General for his opinion.
A SPECIAL says that DIR. Campbell, the
American Consul at Monterey, Mexico, re-
Gently went to Laredo, Texas, and left the
Consulate in charge of Rev. Shaw. One
night after he left the American Consups
Office was entered by a mob of Mexicans
and Rev. Shaw, acting United States Con-
sui at Monterey, was attacked and beaten
nearly TO death. The furniture and papers
belonging to the Consulate were destroyed.
The information created profound sensa-
ton at Laredo.
THE Surgeon General of the Marine Corps
recently received an official dispatch from
Vera Cruz, Mexico, that yellow fever pre-
walls with unusual severity in that city.
Ninety deaths occurred in May; 2G1 in
June; and IA up to date (the 1Sth) in July.
The number of new cases was diminishing
especially amongst the shipping, for want
of material. Surgeon General Hamilton
said no case of yellow fever had as yet ap-
peared on the shore in the United States,
and he believed the precautions taken will
prevent its ingress beyond quarantine
limits.
The quarantine officer of the Marine Hos
pital service on duty at Ship Island has
been instructed to prevent all non-infected
vessels from anchoring within two miles of
the quarantine station.
AT Cape Vincent, ". Y, recently, SEQ.
BELLS brewery burned. Hundreds of bar.
rels Of lager, ale and porter and Is 900 bush
els of malt were destroyed. Loss, $40, 900;
no insurance.
GOVERNOR FUTILE, of Arizona, says the
Apaches are committing further depreda.
tons, the responsibilities of which cannot
be fixed on any individual member. When
one commits n murder all should suffer
Crooks military control of the Territory
resulted in great Improvement.
WHILE George Starr, cashier of the Ma
tional Bank of Detroit, Mich, was recently
counting package of bills handed him by
one of two confederates, the other stepped
into the safe and stole a valuable package
of jewelry belonging to II. c. Lewis, Presi.
dent of the bank.
GENERAL CHARLES p. STONE, Chief En-
gineer of the Florida Ship Canal will per
sonally examine three routes on which his
surveyors have pronounced the construc.
ton Of the ship canal as feasible, and will
report TO the board of directors at a meet
ing in August.
TOTAL of values of exports, breadstuffs,
June, 1888, Sl1 ,545 1856; June, 1892 80 go 126;
six months ended June 80, 1883, SIS, las, O36;
same period 1882, S64, SjG,93O; twelve
months ended June 30, 1883, 500, 97G 491;
same time in 1882, SIT, ,396.
THE Philadelphia Produce Exchange
agreed to cooperate with the Commercial
Exchange in urging upon Congress the re-
demption, retirement or legalization of the
trade dollar.
THERE was frost at Davenport, Iowa,
on the 18th.
A CIRCULAR was recently issued from the
Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster
General, officially notifying postmasters
throughout the United States of the reduc.
ton in postage rates, to take effect the 1st
OF October, and directing them to make
preparations for it. Postmasters are mott.
ned 1t is desirable to have as small stock
OF the present three-cent postage stamps
and stamped envelopes as possible on hand
when the reduction rate goes into effect.