Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-02

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PARSELL recently received a verdict
against tenant whom he had sued to TO
cover arrears in rent.
Two colored girls were drowned the
other day in Lake Edwards. near Cairo,
ILL.,, by a boat upsetting.
The retirement Of X. T. Merrick from
the Star Route cases leaves Mr.. Ker the
only special counsel now employed by the
Government. IL was through Merrick that
an indictment was found in the Kellogg
case.
Mr.. AND MRS. II. c. FILLMORE, Of Fayett
vile, N. V, guests at the Palmer House.
Chicago, who blew out the gas on retiring
few nights ago, have since died.
NEW stock yards are to be established
near Pittsburgh, Pa, TO compete with the
East Liberty stock yards.
THE rainfall in Arkansas recently wa.
excessive. Many streams overlooked and
considerable damage was done to planta
tions.
A LARGE number Of refugees, owing tc
the shortness Of provisions, left Shendy
Egypt, a few days ago in a steamer foI
Berber, and the steamer ran aground near
III Baala and was soon surrounded by
swarms Of rebels, who attacked the steamer
on all sides and massacred everybody or
board. The refugees numbered four hun.
dred and fifty, including portion of the
Shendy garrison and many women and
children.
THE eastern counties of England expe.
rienced an earthquake on the I'D. Several
chimney stacks were shaken down, church
and other buildings were destroyed, and
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existed.
HUGO ScHENcK and Karl Schlossarck,
the notorious murderers of servant girls,
were hanged at Vienna on the 22d. Karl
Schenck, a brother of Hugo, who was also
implicated to a certain extent with Hugo
and Scblossarck in the murder league, has
been incarcerated for life.
The steamship Alert, Of the Greedy re-
lief expedition, arrived at New York.
COLLISION occurred between two pas
senger trains on the Cincinnati, Washing
ton & Baltimore Railroad near Athens,
o. Conductor John Dillon was fatally, and
several passengers slightly injured.
NEAR Irving, KY, recently, Joe Finn
and Bill Hale, two desperadoes, engaged in
shooting ARRAY. Finn shot Hale
through the heart, hut before Hale fell he
shot Finn twice, from the effects of which
he died i'm a few hours.
THE FrdHcdiS Of Paris says the Emperor
Of Germany shows continued signs of SOM
Violence and other grave symptoms which
cause serious alarm.
J. DOUGLAS and II. B. Spencer, managers
Of the Henry College Lottery, were ar.
rested at Covington, KY, by General Ed.
carton Herrick aud Hanna, Post-ofice In.
spectors, on the charge of using the mails
for lottery purposes.
BELMONT Castle, near Dundee, Scotland,
burned the other night with valuable col
lection Of paintings.
The Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany have secured wire along the line OF
the Texas & st. Louis Railroad from st
Louis to Texarkana.
THE Alabama State Mineral Exposition
opened the other day at Birmingham, in
that State, with ten thousand people pres
ent. Governor O'Neal delivered an ad
dress.
Ex-CTTY TREASURER FRANCIS /. SMITH
of Bayonne, n. ", was short in his ac
counts $4,000.
THE London Truth says Archbishop Glib
bons, of Baltimore, will be the next Cardi
nal.
AGGREGATE receipts at the auction sal,
Of seats for the May musical festival a
Cincinnati amounted to $1,000.
CONSIDERABLE scandal has been stirred
up at Washington in consequence of q
divorce suit against Ma or-G General Carroll
THIRTY-FIvE cane fields, four huts and
many head of cattle belonging to Congress
of Plantations in the province of Puerto
Principe, Cuba, were recently destroyed
by fire.
THOMAS A. WILLIAMS, of Washington
Ind, was arrested at Decatur, ILL.,, the
other night, and Sheriff Ward of Davie.
County, Ind, took him East. Williams was
wanted at Washington for the embezzle
ment of large sum of money from differ
ent firms by whom he was employed
Officers have been searching for him foi
several months. He was placed in irons.
THE British Government has decided Il
send an expedition for the relief of Berber
THE Washington Flannel Mill at Soutl
Coventry, Conn, burned the other morn
ing. Insurance, Sl3j,OO0. Two hundred
hands were deprived of employment.
The Western Nail Association met n
Pittsburgh, Pa, recently, and completed
arrangements for the proposed nail pool
By unanimous vote the Ass ociation en-
dorsed the action OF the iron manufactur
ers in demanding a redu ction of employees
| wages.
DISCONTINUED printers marched in pro
cession to Cooper Union the other night
and denounced certain Objectionable EN-
ployers. John Swinton was the principa
speaker.
The remains Of Julien Martinetti, IN,
well-known clown, who fell dead in tn,
ring recently, at Dayton, o., were taken L
Baltimore.