Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
MIsCELLANEOUS.

SEVEN members Of Henry Kendalps
family, residing near Louisville, KY, were
recently poisoned by eating Rough on Rats,
which by mistake had been put in biscuits,
Kendall and a son fatally.
CONGRESSMAN KELLOGG, Of Louisiana,
I'm whose State Mrs. Meyer Miller made
application for a license as master of a
steamboat, argued her right before the
Solicitor Of the Treasury the other day
The solicitor acknowledged &C there is no law
to prevent her holding a license, and so de.
cided. Secretary Folger will order her
license issued.
WILLIAM II. GUIoN, lately Of the firm Of
Williams & Guion, Of New York, recently
failed for S2,OOO,OO0.
JACOB SCHAFFNER, while on the way
from New York 60 Las Vegas, n. NJ,
received intelligence at La Junta Of the
death Of his brother at Las Vegas, which
caused him 90 become insane. Before
reaching Las Vegas he escaped from the
train, and IL was feared had frozen to
death. IL was thought he had considerable
money on his person.
TUX legalrepresentatives OF nearly every
lapsed grant railroad were present at the
recent meeting Of the Senate Public Lands
Committee In opposition to any bills for.
feiting their lands.
FRIENDS OF the Mexican treaty assert it
II not dead, but will he reconsidered.
The discovery Of a secret printing Office
In St. Petersburg (Russia) was the cause Of
the arrest Of eighteen persons.
AMONG the victims of the Inflated
steamer City II Columbus, which was re.
Gently wrecked of the coast Of Massachu.
setts, were Rev. G. A. Rand, rector OF Trim.
ity Church, at Haverhill, Mass, his wife,
daughter, father and mother.
TINE St. Charles Hotel, at Paducah, Ky,
burned the other morning. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
SAN BRowN, who murdered an old man
at Lockhart, Tex, was taken from fail bv a
mob and shot.
EDWARD ID. EAsTIN was arrested at Ocean
Springs, Miss, the other day, upon the
charge of swindling the Texas Pacific Rail-
road out OF a large amount. Forty-six In
dictments were against him and his accom-
plices at Dallas, Tex, and IL was thought
he and his cOnfederates had realized nearly
one hundred thousand dollars from bankers
and cotton dealers In New York on forged
bills oflading.
EIoHT business houses were burned M
Ainsola, Tex. the other morning.
A SENSATION was created at Wheeling
w. Va, recently, by the attempt to steal
from the vault beneath the whelan Memo.
rial Chapel the remains OF the late Bishop
Whelan, last Bishop of the Catholic Church
Of that diocese. The object was thought 10
be 70 secure a reward for the return OF the
remains, and the attempt was only pre-
vented from succeeding by the accidental
discovery Of the grave robbers at work.
LERoY DONOVAN was recently hanged at
Rawlins, wyo. T., for the murder OF VIM.
Leighton. He was also known as John
Lee, and by some supposed to be SON of
John ID. Lee, the Mormon, Of Mountain
Meadow massacre notorietY.
G. H. ANDERSON, q well-known ranch
man, was recently found dead on the plains
near Watrous, N. N. Financial troubles
and the rejection Of his suit by Las Vegas
lady, it was thought, led him TO kill HIM
self.
TIE body Of Jacob Schalfner, who lately
became insane At Ia Junta upon receiving
the news Of the death Of his brother and
jumped from the train, was found frozen
on the prairie by parties whs went out
from Las Vegas In search Of him.
THE Presidential Succession bill recently
reported favorably by the Senate commits
tee provides that on the death, resignatiea
or inability Of the President and Vice
President the ONCE shall dsvolvs upon the
member Of the Cabinet the highest In rank,
beginning with the Secretary Of State, pro
vided such official Is eligible under the con-
stitution, and the person thus selected shall