Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-21

Il INC hnotAOu- Inc STATUS OF foreign capital
loaned in Missouri will then be definitely
settled.
| PErER ScHNuTz, the Chicago contractor,
who choked his wife to death ten days ago,
committed suicide in his cell by strangling.
The Masonic fraternity of Buffalo are
agitated upon learning that the colored
men Of the city have several lodges working
under q charter issued by Henry Frederick,
Duke Of Cumberland, September %, 1854,
claimed as Grand Master of Masons at that
time, and granted to Prince Hall and
other colored men.
Ten men, who tried to strike out a new
trail to the Ceur d'Alene mines from
Rothdrum, d. T., are reported lost.
The financial condition Of Cuba II very
critical and general panic is feared.
Numerous failures have already occurred.
WALLACE Ross won the boat-race with
George Bubear, the English oarsman.
GUIsoPPI GUIDIcI was sentenced to be
hanged at New York, May 2, for the MUIR
der OF Maggiovini Daghiero.
THE Southern immigration Association
has been in session in Nashville, Tenn.
Ed. RAY and w. A. Anderson, Revenus
officers, who recently killed three men in
Mitchell County, N. c., surrendered end
are now in Jail at Asheville. Nearly $, 900
reward was offered for their capture.
BISHOP WIGGKR, of Paterson, N. j., re-
fused the use Of his church for the funeral
Of two Of his parishioners, because that
three years ago they persisted in selling
liquorUn Sunday.
EFTIE ELLsLER, the actress, has brought
suit against Joseph Brooks and James d.
Dickson, theatrical managers, of New
York, for SCI 800 damages, for forfeiture of
theatrical contract. Plaintiff was or
dered to furnish bill of particulars.
THREE colored women attacked a negro
in Cairo, ILL.,, recently. He defended him.
self with a Ratchet, inhicting frightful
wounds.
The Chicago liquor dealers have resolved
to contest the high license law of Illinois.
A BOY named Riley was found on the
streets OF New York, recently, a raving
maniac. He was shouting: al am Butts,
the Boy Detective" His head had been
turned by vicious literature.
ANOTHER bill has been passed by the
Parliament of Queensland restricting Chi
nese immigration.
AT Nashville, Tenn, William Spence
/ W, =.
Wheat, over business difficulty.
CAPTAIN HUNTER, Of the Salvation Army,
has begun action against the Chief of
Police Of Bridgeport, Conn.,, claiming S12,.
600 damages for false arrest.
AT Coshocton, o., Helen King Spangler,
wife of Hon. E. I. Spangler, and author of
"The Physicians Wife," and other well
known novels, was found dead in her bath
room from apoplexy.
The Treasury Department is informed
that foreign brokers are making heavy
purchases in the United States of the silver
trade dollar at a discount of ten per cent.
or more. They propose to dispose of the
coin TO emigrants about to sail for this
country as American coin worth face value.
THE city authorities of New Orleans have
chartered a steamboat and loaded it with
material for strengthening levees and stop
ping crevasses, ready to move to danger
points at a moments notice.
ANOTHER dynamite explosion has taken
place in London, at a Fulham hotel, killing
one man.
RED sticks, the Greek call for war, have
been found in the yards of many Spieeche
full bloods, although things are quiet at
/
THE Treasury Department is informed
that the cattle disease in Kansas was car
ried there by two Scotchmen, who came
directly from an infected herd in Scotland.
The Advance Elevator, in East st. Louis,
burned with 10000 bushels of grain, about
one hundred freight cars and a dozen frame
buildings.
The New York Board of Trade and
Transportation urges Congress to pass a
bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury TO pay 100000 annually for a
period of ten years for improvements on
the Erie Canal.
THE exports OF produce from New York
for the week amounted to s, 339, 40, against
S1,5O1 ,4l9 for the corresponding week last
year. Total exports since January 1, S6I, :.
sol ,272, against $40, BOG, 235 for the cores.
ponding time last year.
The Attorney General has issued a cir
cular to United States Marshals and At.
torneys to enforce the laws against persons
whom they find illegally manufacturing or
exporting dynamite.
JACOB p. BILLUPs & Co., cotton brokers,
New York, assigned; liabilities, $3.50, 900.
The aggregate yield of lard during
the past season at Cincinnati was 12,474..
600 pounds, showing n decrease Of 3, 296, 600
pounds from the preceding year.
A FIRE started in the west side business
quarter of the village Of AlleRan, twenty.
five miles northwest Of Kalamazoo, Mich,
recently, and under high west wind swept
through the entire district to the river.
taking every brick store building in the
place except the Chaffee Hotel and Peck's
bank building. The fire had run its course
in two hours. The aggregate loss is placed
by Allegan business men at from 500. 900
to $780, 900, probably a high estimate. The
insurance is believed TO amount to Sl5O,oO0
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
The British have again defeated Osman
Oigma, losing seventy killed and one hun.
bred wounded Osman Digma's loss was
about four thousand.
The Texas Land Board refused TO accede
20 the request of stockmen to reduce the
price OF leased lands from eight to five
cents. The stockmen threatened 10 cut the
fence of any man leasing at eight cents,
and told the Boa d so. They also init.
mate that they will organize a powerful
opposition to the retention by the Board OF
the State offices now held by the members.
a DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed near Gun.
tersville, Ala, recently. II. s. Hess and
Mrs. John TidmoTe were kill ed, and John