Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02


ments.
THE failures in the United States and
Canada, for the week, ended October 20,
were 24a, an increase OF fifty over the pro-
ceding week, mainly in the New England
States, South and West. Failures also in
creased in Canada.
JAMES MOORE, n diver in the employ Of
the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis
Railroad, was recently the victim of n sin.
gular accident at Memphis. While under
the water, through misrepresentation of
signals, nm iron spike was driven down
through one Of his feet, and he was com
PEELED TO cut his own foot of TO prevent
himself from being drowned.
The United States District Attorney OF
New York recently fled information
against number of fashionable milliners
who had been detected smuggling rich
laces and other fneries into the country
The Commissioner Of Pensions, I'm his re-
port, takes up the question Of the practices
OF claim agents with pensioners, and SAYS:
'Ihe evils Of which complaint has been
made have greatly increased, and the
present situation calls for Immediate
action by Congress-" He also said ''the
and INSCRIPTIONS persons, whose only OBJ
jet seems to be toprocure applications from
pensioners, and then assiduously dun the
claimants until the $40 fee is secured, and
thereafter practically abandon the case like
squeezed orange"
W. A. Klein, under indictment for kill.
ing Mayor Stubs, OF Polk City, Iowa, was
shot and killed recently at Clyde by his
brother-in-law, John Cools.
O'BRIEN A. CARPENTER, one of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of Lincoln,
ILL.,, has boon arrested charged with the
murder Of Fora Burns, n domestic in his
family. who was found dead near the out
skirts Of that city short time since The
murder was considered great mystery at
the time, but recently developed circum-
stances pointed so directly towards Car
penter that he was arrested. The Sheriff
appealed To the Governor for aid TO protect
the prisoner from mob violence. Carpen.
ter has wife and two daughters.
AT Tecaucus, ". j., recently, fifteen thou
sand pounds of powder exploded in the
drying room of the American Powder Com.
pany, killing one man and shaking up
things generally.
- - hNAANA NAHAooANA ~ AlouUL EleuhAnLs
Iowa, the other morning, in Ross Brothers
| Touring mill, n man named Beckwith was
instantly killed, another man badly in
jured, who was thought 90 be dying, and
four or five others were more or less bruised.
The mill was blown to atoms, with hardly
enough left to burn. Dwellings in the
vicinity shook with the explosion.
NEAR Shelby, N. c., the other night, Mr..
and Mrs. William Logan, both over seventy
years old, were attacked at their home by
n negro burglar; Mrs. Logan was killed,
and her husband choked nearly TO death.
Tho negro escaped with $40.
The assessment rolls of one hundred and
fifteen counties in Texas, showed an in
creased tax Of values in the State, over sos,
100000 above last year, with fifteen counties
TO hear from, which would Doubtless make
the total increase SlOO,OOO,OO0.
THE Kansas Railroad Commissioners re-
Gently heard the argument Of counsel for
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, asking for n
re-opening Of their late decision in the Be
lott case, and decided adversely to the petit
ton.
A BERLIN (Prussia) dispatch of the 21st
stated that the trichinosis in Saxony was in
creasing and spreading. There were FIVE
hundred officially reported cases. The
mortality had reached the unprecedented
average OF twenty per cent. Of the total
number Of infections. In many of the dis
tricts entire families were Frustrated. The
scientists who have been studying the
plague announced that the disease wonld
become epidemic II IL continued to de-
velop for the full period OF a month as II
had increased In the twenty days during
which il had already existed. Two hun
dred and sixty-six persons were suffering
from the disease at Ermsleben. Only ffty
out Of one hundred and thirty-four hous1s
were free from the disease.
Ir Is estimated that nearly a million
dollars viii be required to pay for The
mail service on subsidized roads for TIE
| fiscal years of 1882 and 1883. Serious ir-
roads into the postal revenues are a erD-
fore anticipated, for up to the pre- sent time
the cost Of mail transportation over the
branches OF the subsidized roads has never
been charged TO the postal expenses, but
has been credited to the interest account OF
the railroads, in accordance with the Thur.
man act. f.
the first through passenger train on the
Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis Rail
way left Kansas City at precisely six
O'Clock on Sunday, the 21st. The time from
Kansas City to Memphis Is twenty-threl
hours.
COLONEL CASEY has reported TO the
Secretary OF State at Washington, that the
work Of erecting a suitable monument over
the grave Of Thomas jefferson has beer
completed, tho adjacent lots repaired and
a strong and handsome fence built about
the burying ground.
A TRAIN recently-ran OF q trestle neal
Fort Edward, N. Y, between Albany anC
Glenn's Falls, killing Mrs. Mahon and Mr.
Winnegan, Of Glenn's Falls, and maj
whose name was not learned, and injurinl
about fifty.
A FIRE recently destroyed q large hard
ware store at Vaudeville, Mich. In tryinI
70 save the property Captain Smith anS
Charles Burnyard, a boy fourteen year
old. were killed by q falling wall Silal
Carr was badly hurt and was not expected
10 live. George Freeman was also badly
hurt
TIE other day the Treasury Department
received q letter postmarksd Allegheny
Pa, and signed Clergyman" which con
tanned six hundred dollars to Be credited 4
the Conscience Fund.
THE Hsarns Manufacturing establish
ment at Grand Haven, Mich, was de
stroysd by IRE recently with $500 vortl
Of lumber. Loss $4,000.
h w. oRIswoLD recently discovers
gold on bis farm near Lisbon, d. 7. He ha'
lone hundred and thirty samples sssaye'