Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-18
mISCELLANEOUS.

NtINNBLLANEONS.
THE Park Theater, at Cleveland, o., sup
posed 10 be fire proof, was burned on the
wight of the 9th. 1t was valued at $500 600.
Adams Humpty Dumpty Company lost
5000 or $1,000 worth of property. The
Wick block in front of the theater was COM
pletely Quilted, and the First Presbyterian
Church damaged 70 the extent of $4,000.
THE other morning when an extra freight
tlRin on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, con-
ISting, OF eleven cars of mules, took the
side Nack at Independence, NO., TO let the
east-bound passenger train by, an exami-
nation was made of the cars, and showed
that between eighty and one hundred head
had persisted from cold and starvation.
Those that were yet alive were gnawing the
sides Of the car, and in some instances
were eating the flesh of their dead compan-
ions. II was stated that the stock had been
loaded at San Antonio, Tex, and had not
been fed or watered since leaving San An
tonic. The mules were consigned to Kan
sas City.
1T is stated that great petition for n
national constitution amendment will be
sent out by the National woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and presented TO the
Presidential Nominating Conventions OF
the different parties. IL will ask for pro-
hibition instead of the ballot for woman, as
has been stated.
ALICE MAJOR and Sarah Marsden were
drowned while recently skating near
Wilksbarre, Pa.
The Institute OF Immaculate Conception
Of the Sisters Of Notre Dame, at Belleville,
ILL.,, was burned on the night Of the 9th.
About sixty pupils were in the school,
ranging from ten years to full grown, all
girls, and several teachers. The flames
spread so rapidly that no order could be
preserved, and panic seized both children
and Sisters, and there was wild confu ion
i'm the rush 10 escape. The Mother Supe-
rior, four other Sisters and twenty-five
pupils were reported as having persisted.
The large furniture establishment Of
Burrel, Comstock & Co., on North Fourth
street, st. Louis, was destroyed by fire on
the night Of the 5th. Loss, S125, 900; in
surancc 10000. The jewelry store Of Mer-
rick, Welsh & Phelps, adjoining was also
burned. Loss, $4,000, and the queensware
store of Whitman. Gray & CO.. containing
$4,000 worth Of goods was badly scorched
and goods damaged.
A CONFERENCE OF Colorado politicians in
Washington,the other day,came to the con-
clusicn that ex-senator Chaffee should be a
candidate for the Senate i'm place OF Sena-
tor Hill. Secretary Teller, who wants the
place, IL was said would not stand in the
way Of Mr.. Chaffee.
The boilers in Hood & Parsons mill at
Merrill. Mich, exploded the other morning
wrecking the mill and killing the engineer
and another man.
| CHARLES. DELMoSIco, the great New
YORK restauranter, is mysteriously miss
ing. Foul play was suspected.
THREE hunters, Henry Shields, Edward
Shields and James Anderson, were frozen
to death on the prairie in the Chickasaw
Nation, l. T., the other night.
PRocToR& GAMBLE's extensive soap and
candle works, at Cincinnati, burned the
other night. Loss about $4,000.
TWENTY of the Presidential post-ofaces,
majority in the West, were through a
recent readjustment, thrown out of the
Presidential class because the annual re-
ceipts fell below one thousand dollars.
As there is no law providing for the reduc.
ton Of postmasters' salaries the Depart
nent finds IL difficult TO decide how the re
quired change will be made. twas thought
probable the twenty Offices will be abolished
and Immediately re-established az fourth
class oflces.
A FIRE recently started from an over
heated stove in Q passenger car In the
switching yards Of the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago Railway at New Albany
Ind, destroyed four passenger car,
and damaged one sleeper, also damaged
the Presidents car "Monon." Total loss
$4,000.
A YOUNG blood at Monroe, Ca, made ar
assault upon . Mrs. Whitley, when she
eiuded him and seiEing her husbands ride
blew the top az his heAd-o6. When thu
nsighborS, who had been alarmed by hen
outcries and firing. reached the house they
found the young man deed and the woman
frantic and loading and firing at random
:, Miss cLARA- THUhsroS, aged eighty
three, sister Of Jsdes A s. ThurstOn