Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

is, General Crook is keeping his movements
quiet, and il will be impossible to get any
news from him until he has driven the
| Apaches from their stronghold and the In
dian question of Arizona is settled.
| The riotous miners at Belleville, Ills,
when called upon by the Sheriff to surren-
der answered the demand by a pistol
shot, when the militia fired a volley, kill
4 ing one man. The others then fed.
| Eighteen strikers were captured and held
| for trial. The riotOus women were escorted
/ from the ground, and quiet for the time re-
| stored.
/ THE Globe Tobacco Warehouse, said to
be the largest in the world, was opened
with great ceremony at Cincinnati recent
! ly. Ii is seven stories i'm height, with an
area i'm the center, lighted by a glass roof,
and affords, with old warehouse adjoining,
four and three-quarter acres of floor space.
NELSON JORDAN, a negro, while drunk
and riotous, resisted arrest at Archer,
Fla, and shot the Marshal in the bowels.
Other negroes then Joined Jordan,
and the Mayor summoned n posse, who
were fired into by the negroes. The posse
then returned the fire, killing Jordan.
A GANG of railroad laborers were buried
by cavern on the Philadelphia, Norris
town a. PhPnixville Railroad at COnshO-
hockton recently. Three men were fatally
injured.
Mrs. LENA RAPP, an aged lady, was
killed 10y lightning during storm at
Louisville, KY, the other night.
SOME amusement was recently caused in
departmental circles at Washington by the
discovery that the rules submitted for the
Government of the civil service in the Post
office Department by the Civil Service
Commission contained upwards of score
of grammatical errors. Upon a cursory
examination 10y Postofiice officials, seven
teen errors were detected.
1T is promulgated that Comptroller Law
renee has finally decided not to override
the Attorney General and Secretary of the
Treasury, and that the money due the sub
sidized railroads from the Government
must be paid when the account is for SER
vice over lines not fully built by subsidies.
This decision will result i'm the settlement
monthly of the accounts of these branch
roads for current service, and an estimate
in the next deficiency bill for an appropria-
ton by Congress To pay the hack dues to the
railroads. Some of these claims date back
tn 1865. This decision yields every point
claimed by the roads in their suit and will
largely increase their earnings.
The Brooklyn bridge, so recently opened
To the public, was the scene of a fearful
catastrophe on the Goth. About four O'Clock
rs thousands of people were on the bridge
there was temporary jam of the crowd
on the New York side and the cry, "the
bridge is falling" passed along the line.
There was an instant panic and the lam
became frightful. Men, women and chill.
dren were crowded over the approach to
the bridge and trampled upon in the desper-
alton Of the moment. From the heap of
human beings nineteen were taken out
dead and thirty-five injured. The scene
was one of the utmost confusion and terror.
The superintendent attributed the catas-
trophe TO pickpockets who commenced the
blockade in order to ply their vocation dur
ing the confusion.
1T is now positively stated that the Cana
dian Government has at last so far
amended its import law as to admit into
their customs warehouse packages of
American whisky containing less than one
hundred gallons.
SOME time about the latter part of
April Miss Anna Bauerlein, aged twenty
six years, left her fathers house i'm Kansas
City, Mo-, ostensibly To visit a lady friend
few blocks off. That was the last seen of
her 10y parents and friends-who used
every means to find the young lady-until
n few days since when her body was found
floating i'm the Missouri River at BoonvilIe,
about ono hundred miles below Kansas
City. 1t was supposed that in n fit of tenn
porary mental arrangement she committed
suicide.
a LATE fire at Lynchburg, Va, destroyed
the Duly TiTgiRidR Office, loss So, 900;
Peters u Floods tobacco warehouse, loss
$4,000; Jones, Watts g. Co.'s tobacco fac.
tory, loss $4,000, and other property, ag-
gregating total of nearly 100000. Five
men were buried under the walls of the
J'irgiHidR office and killed.
a STORM in the Little Miami Valley of
Ohio recently did a great amount of dam
age.
The main gas meter of the Fort Wayne,
Ind, gas works recently exploded, killing
the foreman, John NJ. West.
AUGUST f. BERNARD, aged thirty, was
found recently ut his boarding house in
Memphis, Tenn, with n pistol firmly
graspcd in his right hand, a discharge from
which had entered his mouth, causing i'm.
slant death. a letter was found showing
the suicide had been deliberate A note
written by the deceased accompanied the
letter, which read: "Let my sister, Mrs.
Duane, $50 East Thirteenth street, New
York, be communicated with. She will de-
fray the necessary expenses"
a FIRE at Montgomery, Pa, the other
morning burned the saw mill of John John
son, with ninety tons of bark, store and
dwelling of j. +. Derr, the saddler shop of
Edward Fitsberg and the shoe shop of j.
Lloyd; losses unascertained.
DECORATION DAY was generally observed
throughout the country.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.