Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-16


Sluss, in the Wichita district; Nicholson, in
the Junction City district, and Stillwell, I'm
the Humboldt district, appeared to be elected
Judges.
mISCBLLANEOUs.
WILSON'S Touring mill Mt Oxford, Iowa,
burned recently. Loss, $4,000.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, Mrs. Charlotte Fur.
long was sentenced to six and one.half
years. imprisonment Tor causing the death
Of Charley Lewis. Her old age, the Judge
said, restrained him from imposing tho full
penalty Of twenty years.
Mrs. l.. WoLFsTEIN, well known I'm jew.
ish circles, went 10 window in the fourth
story Of her residence Mt Cincinnati, the
other morning, to call tho coachman and
fell to tho ground below. She was shock.
ingly crushed and died soon after.
A BERLIN dispatch stated that n man
named Piotrowski had been arrested nj
Dirschar, charged with and confessing 20
being sent by Nihilists TO murder Bismarck.
Piotrowsk said that no was n Russian
actor; that Nihilists provided him with
money TO travel TO Dantzic via Riga, and
that his money had been stolen from him at
Dantzic. The instruments for the injection
OF morphia were found upon the prisoner.
Cook TART, an old cripple, was recently
arrested at Flesherton, Canada, on the
charge Of poisoning his young wife with
strychnine. IL is said that just previous to
marrying her, few weeks ago, he insured
her life for large amount.
INDICTMENTS were found by the Grand
Jury OF New York against ten. City Gov.
eminent employees Of the Comptroller's
Office and Bureau Of Water Registrar. They
were charged with misappropriating water
rents and other city funds.
ROBERT SCHoEN, fourteen years old, wns
accidentally killed the other day while at
tempting 10 shoot a rabbit in the fair
grsunds ut Kansas City.
SECRETARY TELLER has written letter
to the Attorney General submitting the
question whether he can legally detail an
examiner in the Pension Office to assist
Colonel Corkhill, United States District
Attorney, In investigating the frauds by
attorneys and claim agents upon pension
ers. Secretary Teller says his endeavor
will be to vigilantly carry out tho law no.
garding this matter and to assist to the
best OF his ability and authority in the
prosecution of those persons who have com.
mitted ofrenses against the pension laws.
CONTROLLER KNOX, IL is said, will de.
cline to grant authority 20 operate a Ma
tional Bank in the Indian Territory. His
declination Is based upon the ground that
the applicants are not citizens, hence not
entitled TO the privileges under the banking
act.
1T Is estimated by the Commissioner OF
Pensions that S4O.OOO,OOO will be required
for the payment OF pensions during the
next fiscal year.
AT an early hour on the morning of the
9Th, as the west-bound passenger train on
the indianapolis, Bloomington & Western
Railroad was nearing Danville, Ill, four
men, who had boarded IL some distance
over In Indiana, entered the passenger
coach, and, with drawn revolvers, ordered
the passengers to hand out their money
and valuables. About 81, 200 In money, a
check for Sl,7OO and n few articles of APP
parel were taken When the train stopped
at Danvflie the robbers boarded the east
bound passenger train on the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific Railroad, and robbed the
passengers OF about $500, and made good
their escape.
BUNDLE Of money amounting to about
$1,000, which was in the care of the Ameri-
can Express Company, was stolen the other
night at Portage, Wis. w. p. Long, night
transfer agent, had the packages for the
Chicago & So. Louis Railway and Milwau.
kee Company and In passing through the
door Of the Office the bag caught on the
staple and was torn open on the side of
Milwaukee package. Between 5000 and
5000 fell out, but Long did not miss Il till
he reached the car. Returning he found
the package gone. No clew as to the thief.
Ina recent conflict between whites and
negroes at Danville, Va, Walter Holland
and Thomas Stewart were shot fatally and
five negroes were killed.
THE Fat Stock Show ut Kansas City
proved n great success.
The Postmaster General has dismissed
from the service Postofice Inspector Amos
L. Foster, for rendering false and fictitious
accounts. He was stationed at Austin,
Tex, and was rendering accounts for per
diem services which he never performed.
The annual report Of the Director Of the
Mint showed that the gold received and
operated upon the past year was nearly
$4,000, 900; silver, nearly $4,000, 900; the
coinage for the year Is valued at S66, aOO,-
| 70l; total gold coinage, Sc, 036, 927; silver,
| 81, S30 40, OF which SIS, ,119 were stan
dard dollars. The production of gold for
tho current calendar year will be So, 1000, :
900 and the silver $40, 900 900.
AT last the mystery surrounding the dis
appearance Of Mary Churchill, daughter of
the wealthy st. Louis merchant, who left
home last August, has been solved by the
discovery OF the missing girl I'm the Insane
Asylum at indianapolis, Ind, where she
had hired out a. an ironer in the laundry
Of that institution. Her father was at
once notified, and went to indianapolis,
where he identified his daughter, who was
working under the assumed name Of Jennie
Lockwood. She left with her father 70
visit her mother, but declared she would
return 10 work.
OTTIcERs recently captured In Harrison
County, Ind, Faulkner, chief Of the gang
Of counterfeiters, whose companions q
few days previous were either killed OF
captured He was living In log house,
built like q fort While be manufactured
ooin his wife stood guard She was also
taken 10 Jail. tf
AT the late term Of the Circuit Court at
oallatin, No, Frank James was sent back
70 Jackson County, where he win Be tried
for train robbery.
The issue Of standard dollars for the
week ended November 8, was 81, leo.
1 rERRIBLK cyclone waited Springfield,
MO-, on the afternoon Of the bth, destroy
ing property vsriously estimated in value
At from 100000 70 $50. 900, killing i've
persons outright and wounding over thirty