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

Tux principal street of Hot Springs,
Ark, was recently the scene Of a terrible
tragedy between two factions Of gamblers.
As Frank, Jack aud William Flynn, broth
Crs, were riding in hack, n rival faction,
seven I'm number, headed by Alexander
Doran, stepped out Of saloon and opened
fire on the Flynns from doubled bar
relied shot guns and Winchester
rifles. Jack Flynn was shot through
the forehead AMI died i'm few
minutes; William Flynn was shot through
the breast; Frank Flynn received shot
through the hand; Frank Howell, a friend
OF the Fiynns, who went to their assist
ance, was shot through the back of the
neck and died an hour afteward; Robert
IIargravc, a bystander, was shot through
the breast, probably fatally, and J. u.
Craig, n prominent lumber man, received a
charge Of buckshot through the back, and
his condition was preclrious.
THE other night j. c. Dent, of the firm Of
Wells & Dent, druggists, went into his
wholesale and retail drug store at Bridge
port, W. Va, suburb OF Wheeling, with
an alcoholic lamp. The store had been
more than twO-thirds submerged and a bar
rel of gasoline upset, the gas from which
| ignited and an explosion followed, setting
/ fire To the building. Dent jumped from the
second story window, badly burned and in
/ his fall was seriously injured internally.
The loss was about $4,000.
A LONDON paper stated that England,
although opposed to the annexation Of
/ Egypt, will be under the necessity of exer-
! cising absolute authority over the country
| for the next five or ten years. The exigen-
cies OF the present crisis demand immedi-
ate action, and further delay on the part Of
England to assume control would be moth
/ ing less than criminal"
| THE House Committee on Post-offices and
/ Post-roads has agreed 20 report favornbly
/ the bill providing that letter carriers be
employed in every city containing five
/ thousand inhabitants, and may be en-
| ploycd in places containing not less than
/ two thousand and producing a gross postal
revenue OF at least 5000 per annum.
/ DURING the late food at Wheeling, W.
/ Va, n woman fell from the second story
/ window of her house and was drowned.
| A child also fell from n house into the wa
ter aud was drowned. The house Of n man
named McCarty was swept away and he
lost $500 in gold. Tho total loss OF prop
erty would reach 100000.
DURING a late riot at San Juan, in the
Argentine Republic, the Governor was
killed and many others wounded.
The steamer Umatilla was recently
wrecked of Port Townsend, Washington
Territory. The Captain and crew had not
been heard from.
THE Ohio River on the 18th had reached
the highest stage ever before known. Gin
| ftinnnff w tuf fhpttf a. a
persons without shelter AZ Newport, Nv.
Nearly every place in the flooded district
sent appalling reports Of restitution and
distress.
THE Prosecuting Attorney Of Jack
son County, Missouri, dismissed the
charges against Frank James when
the case recently came on for
trial at Kansas City. As soon as released
he was arrested for completely in the Mus.
sci Shoals robbery, and win be taken TO
Alabama for trial.
, DURING the late great food in the Ohio
River and its tributaries, thirty Eve houses
hoated on together at Lawrenceburg. Ind.
and there we're many cases where houses
went or singly.
NEARLY five thousand bills had been In.
troduced into Congress, 10 the 18th, mostly
OF private nature, and less than two
thousand acted upon by the committees.
A FACTION fight occurred recently among
the Greek Indians, forty miles west OF For
Smith, Ark, in which Yohola was killed
: and several others wounded. IL wa,
feared that further bloodshed would re
Z suit, as very bittor feeling between tn,
factions existed.
OWING 10 the depression In trade, Il &
said the North OF England Iron Master
Z are reducing the wages OF workmen an,
placing them under twenty -four hours no
tice. The Belfast ship builders, who recent,
I struck, have resumed work.
ALPHKUs WILSON, aged sixty years, wa
I recently killed by his son, near Uniontown
: Pa. Both were intoxicated, when the fathe
ordered his son to leave. He did so, bu
soon returned TO the house and shot hi
father.
JOSH VAN PKLT, a young man VIII
. escaped Jail at Buena Vista, Col, the othe
day, in company with eleven other prison
. ers, was shot dead on the streets at Als
I mosa while resisting arrest a few day
afterwards. He fred at the officers
number Of times bu. did no damage. Dur
a ing the firing another man was badl.
wounded by . stray bullet.
Q GEORGE DAVIDSON, who was Chief Cler
Of the Subsistence Department OF th
United States army, stationed at Chicag
In 1879 aud 1880, was arrested recently q
, New York, charged with embezzling fund
: Of the Governments while in the service.
The Congressman from Ohio, Ksntuck