Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-22


In Washington, at which Senator Sherman
presided, the object being 10 press an i'm
mediate appropriation by Congress of
the Ohio Valley.
The House Committee on Commerce
voted the other day on several propositions
designed to test the sense of the members
upon the general question respecting the
advisability ofproviding by Congressional
legislation for regular or Interstate COM
merce. 1t was decided by ballot of fourteen
to one that there ought to DO remedial
legislation OF some kind, Mr.. O'Neill, OF
Pennsylvania, casting the negative vote.
Upon the proposition to deal with the mat
ter by Commissioners, there were nine az
hrmative and six negative votes.
SPENCER & Co.'s carriage and saddlery
hardware store at Oneida, n. ", was
burned recently. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
SIS, 600.
An unprecedented rise in the Arkansas
River threatened Little Rock with disaster.
THE rebels under the False Prophet sue
ceeded in capturing Sinkat. The defenders
were butchered and the town sacked. The
streets pre- resented pitiable scene.
EDWARD w. COLEMAN sc Co., grain mer.
chants of New York, failed recently with
liabilities Of S7J9,COO; assets nominal.
JAMES ii. CAss, telegraph operator for
the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad,
recently went on vacation and a spree at
Slidell, Miss, got into difficulty and was
fatally shot by man named Lermond.
A vALIsE containing 900 was stolen
from the New York Transfer Company the
other night while being taken to the Des
Brosses street ferry from the Grand Gen.
trail Depot in New York
EIGHTEEN drunken roughs recently
boarded a Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & ST.
Louis coal train at Elgeville, o., and
taking possession drove Conductor Thomas
Curtin away, after bally injuring him. T.
Collins, who went to his rescue, was so
severely beaten that it was thought he
would die. The engineer was compelled to
cut his engine from the train ami run away
to save his life.
THE Senate Public Lands Committee re.
Gently concluded TO report adversely on the
bill making an allowance Of rent for local
Government land offices.
JERRY w. ARNOLD, a railroad telegraph
operator at Milwaukee, Wis.,, recently shot
and killed Bridget Eigan and then sent
bullet through his own brain.
AGENTS OF the steamer Nottinghill, re-
Gently lost at sea by collision with an ice
borg, stated that the steamer contained
merchandise valued ut Sl5)CO). and the
vessel was valued at $780, POO.
THE families Of Charles Pitts and George
Leako at Hannibal, No., were dangerously
poisoned the other day by eating canned
tomatoes. Several had a narrow escape
from death.
The Jail at Wausau, Wis, was burned
the other morning and two desperndoes,
Ed. Carey and Mike Med onald were roasted
alive.
AT 81. Louis, the other day, the steamer
w. p. Hawdny, of the New Orleans Anchor
Line, was burned 10 the waters edge. The
private Waterman, Matt Brown, was badly
burned.
THE House Committee on Elections have
taken up the Wood-Peters contest from
Kansas. Mr.. Wood is represented by Hon.
George W. Julian, of Indiana, and Hon.
John Goode, Jr., Of Virginia, and Mr.
Peters by Hon. Eppa Hunton, of Virginia
all -CongressmeD.
Mr.. PORTER, of the House Committee on
Banking and Currency, recently Withdrew
his two per cent. bill and introduced a new
funding bill, which, among its provisions,
reduces the tax on tho circulation Of Ma
tionGl Banks one-half, and further author
ICES the Secretary to purchase auy class of
bonds payable in the future, instead of
calling bonds now payable, when by so do
ing he can make it for the advantage Of
the Government.
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and freight train at Kansas, III. demolished
passenger coach and injured number of
passengers, several IL was thought fatally
The river at Cincinnati on the 18th had
reached a stage of seventy feet and was
still rising, the highest point reached in
over fifty years.
SIMON HOWARD, wealthy merchant of
Evansville, Canada, was arrested recently
at Montreal on his bridal tour upon com
plant of Miss Ann Howard. to whom he
had been engaged since 1872.
J. l.. WILSON and his invalid wife were
recently IN ordered by unknown persons
at Winnetka, near Chicago. Robbery
is supposed to be the purpose as Will
son was quite wealthy, and usually kept
large sums of money i'm his house.
Owing to the insufficiency Of the water
supply in st. Louis the insurance com
panies have increased the rates of in
surance risks in that city from ten to two
hundred per cent.
The other night masked men visited the
houses Of non-union men i'm some of the
mining districts of Pennsylvania, and
warned them not TO go to work under pen
atty Of being cut 10 pieces. The warnings
had the desired eff.ct in nearly every in
stance, but some few continued work, and
every night since the mysterious band had
paid them visits, until the families became
20 terror-stricken that many contemplated
moving away.