Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11

/ -. AoNaAn ~ Va inc <1Q0llOL Oh the ITCUS-
ofy for the Postoface Department for the
quarter ending December 81, last, show the
gross receipts Of all Postofices to be ST.
44,1l9, OF S2.eo i.65 less than the receipts
FOR the corresponding quarter OF the pre-
eeding fiscal year. The sum realized from
the sales OF stamps for the same quarter is
$40 .66l ,sf4, against S1O,975, OCT in 1882, do
crease Of 1913 1913.
In Cincinnati, on the LIST, matters were
/ reported as having Quoted down. Toe
courts were re-established in the Public
Library. Much indignation was expressed
against the militia, and assertions were
made that IL they had not been Gale ont
there would have been no bloodsbed.
Governor Hoadly sent a tlispatch con.
graduating the troops, some of whom had
left for home. to be followed gradually by
the others.
Tue food in the Lower Mississippi con.
tinnss to play sad havoc. Vast regions are
under water, and there is some doubt of its
howing OF in time for the usual crops.
Much water is reported coming Gown from
the upper rivers
FcRr WAYNE dispatch says that the
village OF Oakville, between Muncie AMI
New Castle, Ind, was swept away by a
cyclone. Several lives were lost.
The special committee investigating Ex-
Speaker keifer's charges against General
Boynton, found that the charges were not
sustained.
Ink mails between Quebec and Toronto
have been plundered several times within
the past few weeks. There was no trace of
the robbers.
A FIRE at Sherman, Tex, the other MORN
| ing destroyed six frame dwellings and
damaged the Methodist and Cumberland
Presbyterian churches.
THE Western window glass manufac.
tUre-s met at Pittsburgh and re-afiirmed
the card rate. Trade is reported as look
ing up and selling rates well sustained.
DECREASE in the public debt during
March, Sl4. 23S, S24; decrease since June 30,
1883, $sl ,s2s. sOS.
IN the case Of Sheriff Davidson, of New
York, Judge Barrett gave n decision deny.
ing the motion to set aside the indictment,
and set an early day for the trial.
The United States officers at Key West,
Fla, know nothing of any hlibustering ex.
petition against Cuba and say none could
be fitted out secretly.
G.. VIEWERS, Of Houston, Tex, has been
ARE sted, Charged with embezzling S26. 900
while Treasurer Of st. Clair County, ILL.,,
from which place he disappeared some
time ago. leaving his wife. 1t is said he
has also wife in Houston, having married
there since he left Illinois.
THOMAS McGRArH, second steward of the
steam barge c. II. Starke, was washed
overheard on tbs trip across Lake Michi.
gan, the other night. He was twenty years
Of age and lived at Cleveland. Ths cap.
tain reports a very rough passage. He
lost his deck load i'm a snpw-squall.
JU, the Apache chief, it is said, is still
alive, and with about twenty bucks is not
over one hundred miles north of Chihua.
hua.
CUBAN filbustering expedition left Key
West, Fla, recently, AMI United States
States cruisers went in pursuit.
The trial OF Bill Jones for shooting at
Guiteau has been set for April 18th nj
Washington.
ANTHONY O'DONNELL, OF Pittsburgh, has
sued the Guion Steamship Company for
100000 damages on account of the
death Of his wife from seasickness on a
steamer OF that line. He alleges that the
officers and phys clans of the ship neg.
lscted her wien she was ILL.,
The editor Of a comic journal at Madrid
has been sentenced to eight years. impris
onment for publishing an offensive carica.
ture Of King Alfonso.s
AT New York William Reuner. a ieweler
in the Aston Houss, was robbed or $1,000
by Joseph Ros-nbaum, his clerk.
A CoLLIERY explosion occurred near
CarHiH Walag
killed and seven cen others entomhei.
A NUMBER of tradesmen and farmers.
charged with being invincibles, have teen
been arrested and taken to Jail at Sligo.
Irelind.
PARTICULARS of the terrible tornado of
tho LIST show widespread distraction.
Oakville, Ind, was completely destroyed,
five or six persons killel and twenty in.
jured. After the tornado the hous less
people were subjected to binding snow
storm. The storm was also very destruc.
tive 10 life and property in Alabama and
Tennessee. Ohio and Pennsylvania
suffered from the same storm OH the morn.
| ing following.
LYNCH O'CoNNoR, one Of the policemen
implicated in the murder Of James Camp
bill in FIELDS bar room, Lexington, KY.
few weeks ago, was dangerously and
perhaps fatally stabbed recently by his
mistress, Kate Graves. The girl was jeal.
Gus Of him.
EDMUND YATES, editor OF the London
| World, has been condemncdto four months
Imprisonment for libeling the Earl of Ions.
dale. Judgment has been respited pending
appeal.
CARRIE SWAIN, the actress, was granted
n divorce at st. Louis. Her husband failed
to appear and the divorce was granted by
default.