Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25

San Francisco who shall perform the du-
ties Of Special Tea Examiners. These APP
pointments are vested in the President and
not in the Secretary OF the Treasury.
The President has accepted an invitation
to attend the exercises incident to the open
ing of the New York and Brooklyn bridge
on the 24tb. tf -
In the case Of Paymaster WATSON, who
recently reported himself robbed in Texas,
but who really was a defaulter, the order
| for a cOurt-martial has been suspended by
direction of the Secretary Of War, pending
further examination as TO the extent Of the
, defnlcation. An officer has been detailed
to ascertain the amount. WATSON denies
that his shortage is due to gambling. He
alleges that it was in the nature of a forced
loan from the Government for sixty days
20 float his father during temporary mer
camille embarrassment, and that he in
tended 10 make the amount good.
The Commissioner of the Freedman's
Saving and Trust Company recently de.
clarcd final dividend of seven per cent in
favor Of the creditors Of said company,
making sixty-two per cent i'm all.
" is reported from the Indian Territory
that Marshal Mershon, of Fort Smith, Ark,
pnd Constable Cutler, Of Grayson County,
Texas, recently attempted TO arrest, at
point twenty-five miles west Of Caddo, In.
dian Territory, three men named Carson.
charged with murder. The Carsons resist.
ed, fired on the officers, and after a sharp
! fight, in which Marshal Mershou was
slightly wounded, all the alleged murderers
were killed and their bodies left lying on
the prairie.
On the 18th st. Johns, N. b., was visited
J by a severe snow storm. .l, r
The Bureau of Statistics Of the Treasury
/ Department reports that during the month
/ Of April there arrived in the districts OF
Baltimore, Boston, Huron, New York, Pas
samaquody, Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco 1S,5IJ immigrants. Tho total arrivals
in these districts for the ten months ending
| April 10 were 1853; for the same period
last year, 5if,G01: decrease, 126,9l2
AT Nicksburg, Miss, Joseph 7. Hazlett
was recently shot and instantly killed by
T.. q. Cook.
AT Ashland, Mo-. recently, while n man
named Hull quarreling with his wife
about whipping the children, lady neigh
Dor interfercd in the interest of peace,
which so exasperated Hull that he struck
her on the head with a brick, killing her
instantly. The murderer fed. m
JOHN BoUGH, of Belleaire, Ohio, went TO
GAINESVILLE TO attend n circus and attempted
10 steal ride back on the railroad, but fell
off the train and was killed. His body was
found in ditch three days afterwards.
THE reunion Of the Army Of the Poto-
mac i'm Washington the other day was very
imposing in the grand procession, decora.
I'll. IL
representative gathering of the Army of
the Potomac in Washington since the war,
and as the soldiers of twenty years age
marched past the stand, many of them
gray haired and bearded and bowed with
the weight OF intervening years, it recalled
the review of 1865, when the Army of the
Potomac marched up the avenue and passed
in review before the President, 100000
strong.
BREADsTUFFs exported I'm April, 1887,
were valued Mt 81, i65 ,313; corresponding
month last year, S9,9OS, 1889; exported for
the ten months ended April 30 last, SI19..
,:a3; same period last year, S1SI ,6lg, T27.
THE Civil Service Commission will first
inspect the postotiices in Western and
Southern cities, rcserving New York, Bos.
ton and Philadelphia to the last.
1T is announced that the Pekin Govern.
mcnt has decided 10 establish a Consulate
in Chicago, to consist of two members, one
American and one Chinese, who will devote
themselves to the protection of subjects of
the Celestial Empire, of whom there are zoe
engaged in various avOcationS in that city.
Claims have been made that the police had
raided the resorts of these people indis.
rriunipafrlV md haxyo fb,,g AZ
innocent with the guilty, and certain of
the Cinnamon have requested a represen.
tative of their Government to whom they
can make an appeal.
THE other day Charles Wickland, q con.
tractor, left Monterey, Mexico, to pay of
men at the terminus of the Mexican Ma.
tional Railroad. On the way he was muir.
dered by two young Americans named
Hauston and Mudd. The murderers were
arrested and turned over to the Mexican
authorities. subsequently they were taken
from Jail by mob and hanged.
MONTANA was shaken by tornado one
day last week. Much property destroyed.
DANIEL DELANEY and Edward Caffrev
were arraigned at Dublin upon the charge
OF conspiracy to murder and pleaded
guilty. Sentence deferred.
THE business block owned by w. III.
Woods, and the building of the Hamburg
marble works Mt Hamburg, Iowa, burned
the other morning; loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
THE Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the mineral character of township is
determined by the character of the
greater portion. Where a township has
been reserved as mineral in character,
it raises the presumption that tract stu.
ated therein, which has been filed for agri
cultural, is mineral in character, and this
presumption the agricultural claimant must
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