Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23

France and England on the Egyptian ques-
ton.
AT the church extension meeting Of the
Methodist Church AZ Philadelphia recently
$1,000 were raised to build churches on
the frontier.
FULLY r WISE, q prominent attorney,
and brother of George ID. Wise, q member
Of Congress from Virginia, died at San
Francisco recently.
ALDERMAN GAYLoR, of the Ninth Ward
Chicago, was fatally shot by James Davies,
ward politician, in a saloon recently.
The facts were not definitely known, bus it
was stated the only cause was the Alder
mans refusal to drink With his assailant.
The hurraysville riot cases came TO
close at Greensburg, Pa, by Judge John
ston ordering q change Of venue to ALE
gheny County for Milton Weston, of Chi.
cago; Colonel Blakely, OF Pittsburgh; A.
NJ. Bower Of Irwin Station, and Johnston,
Mcfarland, Remaley and Miller, Of Greens.
burg. The remaining sixteen persons, who
prefer to be tried in Westmoreland County.
cannot have their trials until after the All.
legheny trials.
IHE House Committee on Elections in
the contested election case OF English W..
Peele, Of Indiana, decided by a vote OF five
TO three 10 report in favor Of English.
Those voting in favor OF English were ]. J.
Adams, Lowery, Robinson, Converse and
Bennett. Those in favor Of Peelle, Hart.
PettIbone and Hesburn.
TIE Gladstone ministry was sustained
by BOB To 21J in q recent motion to censure
the foreign policy OF the English Govern
ment.
The Paris newspapers were jubilant over
the signing OF the Frauco-Chinese treaty.
Three regiments were recalled from Ton
quin.
A HIGH-PREssURE boiler exploded in the
Pennsylvania Railway machine shops at
Altoona, Pa, recently. The two firemen
were blown to atoms, one of them not be-
ing found at all. A sick man lying i'm bed
in an adjoining tenement house was struck
by piece OF the flying wreck and fatally
injured. Two little girls were also in.
jured.
DAVID Z. HARBAUGH, for many years
Revenue Collector and Police Justice at
Detroit, Mich, died recently inf the insane
asylum at Pontiac, aged seventy-six years.
WITHIN few days a woman and child
at Pittsburg, Pa, have lost their lives by
the blunders Ct drug clerks. One of the
latter has been held for murdC1
A CONSTRUCTION train and a freight train
collided on the Baltimore & Ohio on the
morning of the 14th near ConneIlsville, Pa.
The construction train was conveying some
fifty laborers to work when the accident
occurred. Immediately after the accident
the wreck caught fire, and when the debris
was cleared away the charred and mangled
bodies of fourteen or fifteen persons killed
were discovered. Twelve others were in
jured, some badly.
CABLEGRANs report that Woolwich ar.
senal narrowly escaped destruction by
dynamite recently, as detonators and explo-
sives were found under the walls.
CoLoRED porter in Chicago went to a
gambling-house the other evening to get
change for a fifty dollar bill, and was given
ten notes of five hundred dollars each.
When he returned to have the mistake
corrected, he was not even thanked.
Two swindlcrs have beer canvassing for
insurance in Fountain and Warren Conn.
ties, Ind, securing bankable note at the
bottom Of each application. Recently
they sold 500 of these notes to a bank at
Attira, stole horse and buggy, and dis
appeared.
AN exciting scene occurred in the Senate
the other day. Van Wyck severely criti
cised Blair for something he had done in
committee. He was repeatedly called to
order by the President OF the Senate. Blair
said that Van Wyck was either grossly
mistaken or an intentional falsifier.
RECENT railroad accident near Paris
caused the death Of the engineer and the
injury Of thirty-oDe passengers.
HoYT SHERMAN, OF Des Moines, in receiv.
ing his discharge as assignee Of B. F. AL
len, reported having collected $473,O62.
The British House of Commons rejected
the motion for n second reading of the
Channel Tunnel bill by vote of DID to 81.
In an attack upon friendly tribes near
Tamanieb, recently, Osman Digna and his
men killed twenty-one of the friendly
Arabs, took forty women prisoners and
captured many cattle. OF the rebels only
five were killed. The tribes attacked ar,
able to muster 5000 men. They are deter
mined to avenge the death of their comrades
and recover their women.
On the formal ballot at the Anti-Mouopol>
convention in Chicago, on the 14th, Butler
received l24; Thurman, Z; Scion Chase, of
Maine, /. Butler was declared the nominee
Of the convention.
Mrs. Ro0ER NJ. SHERMAN, eldest daugh.
ter of the late Governor Bagley, obtained
decree of divorce from her husband in
the courts of Detroit, Mich, recently, and
was awarded the custody of her two
children.
A GOOD deal Of excitement was raised in
Denver the other day. A new City Clerk
had been elected by the Council and the
Office was refused to him by the old Clerk,
who thought the election was a fraud. The
new Clerk, aided by his friends, forcibly
took possession of the Office and stood tbs
old Clerk in the street. :,