Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-11

/ 70 run for their lives, the flames spread SO
fast, and the entire structure was con-
sumed. The mill was recently enlarged to
three hundred barrels daily, and rebuilt for
the roller process. 1t was valued at SI5,.
600; stock on hand at $500; insured for
| $4,000.
1T was rumored en- Washington that
Judge McCrary, of the United States Su.
preme Court, had resigned to accept the
position of Solicitor of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad.
HENRY HANE, well.to-do German. OF
San Antonio, Tex, in a drunken Jealous
/ frenzy the other night attempted to kill his
wife, and after exacting promise from her
to keep the matter secret, cut his own
| throat.
| ME' CHURcH, Cashier anl Snperinten.
dent Of John Dwight & Co.'s soda factory,
i'm New York, was assailed the other dav
as he was leaving the depot at the Second
avenue elevated station, One Hundred and
/ Tenth street, by two masked men, who
knocked him down and robbed him of a
sachei containing $500 in bank notes
which be had ,rawn to pay employees. Mr..
Church was stunned, but recovered in time
TO see the men leap into n wagon and drive
of rapidly.
CONWAY BkowN, son of Henry w.
| Brown, Of Worcester, Mass, and a member
OF the freshman class of Harvard College,
/ killed himself the other day at the house of
a friend, where he was spending the holi.
days.
THE total bullion production of the Pa.
ciiic coast for lisa, il placed at So. 900 900.
| q
Territory since the opening of mines by
the Gentiles, S7O,0OO,OcO.
The total receipts of internal revenue for
the six months of the fiscal year ended De-
cernber 81, were SOL .l26.2Ol; receipts for
7 December, S0SJ5,7)G. Issue of silver dol
lars for the week ended December -, 20,
4'S, against l.Oil 900 for the same time last
year.
AT meeting of the House Committee on
Military Affairs recently, General Slocum
was authoriz ii to report TO the House
favorably the Fitz John Porter bill, which
passed the Senate last Congress.
The business failures in the United States
during 1883 numbered 9.lS9, against 6,733
in lSS2, an increase OF 2,445. The liabilities
for 1883 were Sl12 ,OOC, 900, againstSi01 600, OOO
for 1881. The failures Of last year were
greater than those of any year since 1873,
when they reached to 1913, with liabilities
S23I, 100000.
BOY named Adams, eleven years old,
was recently accidentally killed while
cunning in Ray County, Mo.
A COLLISION between a freight train aud
special containing laborers, near To-
ronto, Canada, recently, resulted in the
killing OF twenty-scven men and injuring
of many others, some of whom will die.
THE bursting of a mill dam at Houghton,
Mich, recently, resulted in the death of
Charles b. Raymond, teller of the First
National Bank Of Houghton, his son and
servant girl and Howay Raymond, wife
and son.
THE town of breckenridge, Mimi, was
nearly destroyed by fire the other evening,
including the county offices and records.
W. IRVING LANDELL, said to be from
Philadelphia, died at Lexington, KY, the
other night from hunger and exposure.
THE jury in the Emn:s. Bond case, in
which the three men, Montgomery, Gle
menti and Petus, were tried at Hillsboro,
ILL.,. for the outrageous assault on Miss
Bond ut Taylorsville, i'm June, rendered "a
verdict of acquittal.
The steamers Colorado and City of Alton
burned ut ST. Louis the other day.
THE public debt statement for December
showed: Cash in treasury, 500, 374, POO;
debt less cash in treasury, 81 ,49S, 041, 723:
decrease during December, 81, 743.3 31: de-
crease since June -, Sj3,049,4S3.
CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN, of the House
Appropriations Committee, said recently
that the committee would probably request
Commissioner Dudley to revise his pension
estimates for the reason that there was no
probability that the amount of money
asked for could be expended during the
next fiscal year.
IL late case where duty had been col
lected upon cossack imported from Cana
da into Maine, the owner, n Catholic priest,
made application to have the amount re-
funded, on the ground that the article was
used for religious purposes. The Depart
ment i'm reply stated that where a priest
imports vestmeuts or any regalia or robe
as his private property he must pay a duty,
even though the articles imported are after.
ward used in religious ceremonies; but
where such articles are imported by a
church or society for religious purposes
they will bee allowed To come in free.
BELT, the public executioner of Austria,
was found dead in his bed recently, sup.
posed To have been the victim Of revenge.
RECENT fire at Covington, Ca, de-
stroyed the courthouse and other property
to the value of $4,000. The records were
saved.
EDWARD KEYS, who died in Unity, n.
H., recently, left 10 the school district OF
the town $12,O)O-all of his property except
So, which he gave to his only daughter.
THE paint, carpentering and uphOlster-
ing shops of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railroad, at Sedalis, Mo-, burned the other
morning. Loss about $4,000; fully in.
! surcd.