Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-16
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Bullene, of Kansas City, died suddenly the
other evening at the family residence In
that city. She lived less than half an hour
after being attacked.
CHARLES WITTENoRE, aged eleven years,
disappeared from his home at Princeton,
Wis, about two weeks since The other
day his body was found in shallow water
with his throat cut. II was evident that
the boy had been killed several days, ar d
that the body had been in the water only o
few hours when found.
HIGHwAYMEN the other morning stopped
the Milton, Colo, stage and took Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s express box, containing ST.
200.
JACOB HIP, wealthy resident of Mil;
waukee, Wis, while on his way from the
Mexican Central Railway t,rminus at
Laredo, Tex. TO Durango, Colo, was robbed
recently Of 5000 and murdered by road
agents.
A DISPATCH from General Crook con-
firmed the surrender Of the Chiricahuas to
Lieutenant Hunter, at Silver Creek, Ari.
IONA.
AT Sanford, N. c., the other night, a
negro man and wife went to church, Ieov.
ing in the house three children. Three
hours later the house and children burned.
LEE WHITE, who had been baggage
master on the Northwestern road, and who
confessed to the robbery of package of
money in the express office IT OakfieId,
Wis, six months ago, committed suicide
the other night. The robbery had long re-
NAMED a mystery.
FRANK WILKES, of GAINESVILLE, O., grand
son of Commodore Wilkes, United States
navy, herding sheep near Pleasant Valley
Station, in Utah, recently became lost and
died of starvation.
MRS. ELLEN LONG, a widow, and l.. S.
Whittomore, father of the boy found in the
river at Princeton, Wis, with his throat
cut, have been arrested for the murder of
the boy. IL is said the woman once at.
tempted to poison Mrs. Whittemore. The
theory was that the boy was killed by Mrs.
Long in her cellar, and that the father
carried the body TO the river and hid it in
the place where he pretended TO first dis.
cover it ten days later. 1t was thought the
little fellow was put out of the way to pre-
vent his telling what he knew about the
guilty pair.
The son Of Mrs. Clark Howard, of Cam.
hunting, and when about to leave the house
his mother objected and took the gun away
from him, which she threw in the corner of
the room. The gun was discharged, the
contents entering Mrs. Towards body pro-
ducing death in an hour.
The town Of Brookline, NO., was also
visited by the late cyclone. One person
was killed and a number of others injured.
Several houses were completely wrecked.
THE dwelling and barn on the farm of
Fred Wettening, five miles south of Elgin,
ILL.,, burned recently, together with thirty
five cows and four horses.
The large new barn of Andrew Hardway,
a farmer living near Martinsvill, ILL.,, was
burned TO the ground the other night, while
the family were ut church. Ten horses, a
full set of farming implements of all kinds,
thirty tons of hay, a large quantity of
grain, wagons and other implements were
destroyed making a total loss of nearly
$4,000, with no insurance. Thought to be
incendiary.
The Second Comptroller of the Currency,
in his annual report suggests a statute of
Limitation on war claims. This, he thinks,
would effectively prohibit any claim agent
or attorney from presenting claims, as has
heretofore been done, without even an at.
tempt to ascertain whether they were mer.
itorious.
AT Washington City the jury in the case
of Hallet KilbOurne against John G..
Thompson, for false imprisonment, recently
returned a verdict for 900 for plaintiff.
A motion for a new trial was made by the
defense.
SENATOR MILLER has written letter to
the Secretary of State, complaining that by
fraudulent practices of Chinese officials
hundreds OF Chinese laborers are being
landed in America, rs teachers, students,
merchants, or others desiring to travel in
the United States.
ANARCHISTS recently exploded an infer.
nal machine in front of the mansion of n
wealthy merchant, Of Lyons, France. I'M
mense damage was done the building, but
no one was hurt.
W. II. OGLEsBY, n prominent citizen of
Hot Springs, Ark, was recently found dead
in his bed, greatly decomposed, evidencing
that death had occurred at least forty-eight
hours before. His wife was absent in iii.
nois on a visit.
MRS. JONATHAN LAUD1G, Of Wells Coun.
ty, Ind, suicided recently by hanging. She
was supposed TO have lost her mind, owing
to the late death of her husband and son.
The Trnfiic Managers of the various rail-
roads in Kansas and the Kansas Railroad
Commissioners had joint meeting at To-
peka, on the 9th, to agree upon a schedule
Of rates, but the meeting resulted in no
agreement, and the Commissioners ordered
the enforcement of the Beloit decision.
subsequently the railroad managers re.
quested the committee TO meet them again
on the 18th in order to agree upon uniform
rates, which the Board finally agreed to,
until which time the Beloit decision was
held in allegiance.