Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Inc failing or the roof killed a woman and
two children. At Leeds the roof of q
dwelling collapsed, killing and injuring
four persons. At Newry, Ireland, many
houses were unroofed. The storm was re-
ported to be the severest ever known IN
Great Britain.
The House Subcommittee on Foreign
Affairs has considered the Chinese Immi.
grafton bill, prepared by the Pacific Coast
delegation, and a majority made a favora-
BILE report upon its passage.
j. +. TIaMoSDs, twenty-five years old.
shipping-clerk OF the Anchor Milling Com.
pany, at st. Louis, was arrested recently,
charged with defrauding the company %
the amount of 5000.
Miss GILBERT, who was temporarily In.
sane, escaped from her nurse, near Bragg's
Bayou, Tex, and her body was found on the
prairie next morning, having persisted from
cold.
CHARLES NEwToS was recently killed at
Hawesville, KY, by X. l.. Bruner.
WILLIAM HATTEN, aged eighty-one, re-
Gently committed suicide in New York
City.
TILDEN G. ABBOTT, for ten years cashier
Of the Union Market National Bank al
Watertown, Mass, has absconded. lie is
over S3l 900 short.
CAPTAIN ID. l.. PAYNE has sent a lengthy
and numerously signed petition to Wash.
ington asking congressional action on the
right Of the United States troops to inter.
fere with parties going into the Oklnhoms
country.
The American Lumber Company at To.
ronto, Canada, has failed, with liabilities of
81, 10000.
1T is said that an oath bound organiza.
ton has been discovered i'm Pennsylvania
whose members swear not TO buy French
goods, and to boycott all dealers selling
them, until the embargo on pork is removed.
WHILE coastiIrg at Bloomington, Ills, the
other night, a sled containing a party of
ten boys and girls going at a speed of about
forty miles an hour ran into q farmers
team that was going up the street and all
the young people were more or less hurt.
William Loomis. aged eighteen, was killed.
JOIN O'BRIES, an agent of the Fair
banks Scales Company, while under the
influence of liquor, attempted to board an
eastbound train at Kansas City, the other
night, when he fell under the wheels and
was killed. He was supposed to be from
Cincinnati.
A FEW weeks ago a man named John
Schramm left his wife and two children at
his home in Fort Wayne, Ind, and started
West in search of employment. He could
leave them but lite 10 subsist on. For sew
eral days they had nothing to eat but raw
corn meal. Even this became exhausted,
and the other day Mrs. Schramm started
out TO beg. When she returned 10 her
cheerless home she found her three-monthsi
babe frozen TO death.
The Boston & Albany Railroad recently
made n sweeping reduction in the wages
Of its men, and also reduced the number OF
employees.
AN explosion in a burning building al
Rome, N. ", recently killed Joseph and
Samuel Alexander.
A BOULDER as large as n box-car recent
ly fell from the mountain in front Of a NOV.
ing passenger train on the Chattanooga &
ST.. Louis Railroad, about twenty miles
from Chattanooga, Tenn, wrecking the
train and killing the engineer and fireman.
The conductor and five train-men were bad.
ly hurt.
The Phoenix Glass Works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, were destroyed by fire the other night.
Loss, S125, 900; insurance, $4,000.
j. NJ. RYFoRD, a merchant of Moriab,
VT, with his wife and two daughters
started for Warder, VT, several weeks age
to visit his father. He drove a team of
horses, and as they had not been heard
from it was feared that they either broke
through the ice on Lake Champlain OF
were frozen to death in the Green Noun.
tains.
THE House Committee on Indian Affairs
agreed recently to favorably report Mr..
Ryan's bill granting the right of way
through the Indian Territory to the South.
ern Kansas Railway Company.
A YOUNG man named Carver EMPLOYED
in the post-office ut Detroit, Mich, was
recently arrested charged with stealing
letters Upon being confronted with
proofs of his crime, he confessed to having
rihed three thousand letters within the past
six months, having carried on his depre-
dations systematically. The object, he
said, was to accumulate sufficient money
TO marry a girl with whom he had fallen in
love.
RECENT explosion on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad, near Fort Arthur, Mani.
toba, caused by dynamite cartridges left
on stove, killed five men.
ANsoN LINsNEIER was recently arrested
at st. Louis and taken back to Germany,
where he, as postmaster, had forged many
post-office orders and fed 10 this country.
THREE Of the Howard County, Ark,
rioters, who were under sentence Of death,
were recently granted an appeal, and the
Judges who granted the appeal were hung
in effigy by some lawless parties. The de
cision of the Judges was generally sus-
tanned by the people.
SEVERAL Leadville (Colo.) banks have
collapsed lately, the last being the Mer.
chants and Mechanics. Only one bank is
left in the CITY