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

Iormerly a prominent educatOr and author,
and for many years principaIo of Thurston's
Female Seminary. at Elmira, ". ", was
killed by the cars on her way TO church the
other morning. Elmira was also excited
the same day over the discovery Of the
body Of a young woman frozen solid in the
fee in n stream I'm the suburbs. Supposed
20 be n case of murder.
1T is stated that Congressman Calkins
proposes 20 introduce bills to arbitrarily
prohibit the importation of French wines
and brandies so long as the prohibition
upon the American hog is allowed 10 stand
in France He thinks that Congress will
be forced 70 take peremptory measures to
remedy the injustice done TO one of the
chief products of American export. He
believes Congress has the right to retaliate
for the benefit Of our commercial relations
with any other country in the world.
The State Prison yards at Saltwater,
Mimi, burned on the night CT the S;h. The
yards included an immense building of the
Northwestern Manufacturing Company
and car works.
SIX of the crew Of the steamer Silver
Spray, recently started from Silver Islet
tManitoba) TO Port Arthur, thirty miles
distant, and were caught in a binding
snow storm. Five reached their destina.
ton greatly exhausted by the cold. The
sixth, named Porter, persisted.
a PORTION OF a bridge on the railway be.
tween Wigan and Preston (Eng.) collapsed
recently, killing seven workmen and injur.
ing many others.
A BILL recently introduced in Congress
by General Rosecrans provides that off,
GERS OF the army below the rank of Major.
who served twenty years in any one grade,
viii be entitled after such time TO pay and
allowances of the next higher grade.
THE connecting rod of an engine on the
Long Island N. W Railroad broke the
other day and Engineer Feeney was killed.
The fireman was badly scalded.
AT Little Rock, Ark. the other day,
Mrs. Jane Chastian, John Chastian, Jor-
dan Bailey and DIR. jackson were taken into
custody by n United States Marshal upon
the charge of attempting to fraudently OBJ
tain n pension for Mrs. Chastian.
ISSUE of standard dollars for the week
ended January 3. Sl52, l9s, against $4,000
for the same time last year.
A RANGE in the residence Of Robert
Matthews, of Pittsburgh, Pa, exploded the
other day, completely demolishing the
furniture in the room where the explosion
occurred and quite seriously injuring
Matthew's two daughters, the youngest a
mere child, who was thought to be fatally
scalded.
SECRETARY FoLGER recently transmitted
10 the Senate a transcript of the expendi-
lures of the Department of Justice. In
cluded in the mass of vouchers were those
for the payment Of accounts for services of
special attorneys, detectives, ETC., engaged
in the star-routs cases.
TWENTY inches of snow fell at Wheeling,
W. Va, on the night of the Sth. All trains
were blockaded.
THE Opera House at Meadville, Pa,
burned recently. The total loss was esti-
mated at half a million.
RICHARD BLANCHE, of Aspinwall, Neb.,
fifty years old, was recently found dead in
bed at st. Joseph, Mo-, having taken on
overdose of morphine pills.
4 LATE gale and high tide on Coney
Island, y. Y, flooded the meadows and de-
stroyed property to the value of 81 ,OCO, 900.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in re-
ply to n resolution of the Senate concern
ing the sinking fund, made a statement
States, less cash in the treasury, at a maxi
mum point August 81, 1860, was 50, 756, 49,, :
5Il. June 81, 1883, it was 81 ,55l ,O9I .2O7,
showing n reduction of the debt, including
interest, less cash in the treasury, of s., :.
POS, 34), 1868.
THE snowfall at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th was the greatest on record. The roofs
of a number of houses fell from the weight
Of snow.
The scaffolding of the third story of
Cunro's block, at Milwaukee, Wis, fell the
other morning. John Dunn, a contractor,
was killed. Henry Howe and Cacimer
Klopotok, masons, were fatally injured.
IN regard to the resolution adopted re-
Gently by the House calling upon the Post
master-General to examine into the truth
Of a statement TO the effect that British
spy named O'Brien was allowed to tamper
with American mails at New York, Post.
master-General Gresham said he had abso-
lutely no knowledge of any thing of the
kind having taken place.
The steamer nlyran from Liverpool
brought TO Boston recently ten emigrants,
shipped as seamen, who present a wretched
appearance. Four, it is said, came from
the workhouse in London. One was of un.
sound mind, one partially paralyzed, none
able-bodied. The Alien Commissioner
notified the British Consul not to allow
the men to land.
A TRAIN was thrown from the track or
the Coal road at Olive Hill, near Lexington
KY, recently. and F. NJ. Cunningham
Superintendent, killed, and Charles Back.
man severely injured.
AT Abilene, Tex, Alderman Collins be
came obnoxious, owing to his attempt
to suppress gambling. The other night he
was assaulted by gambler named Hemp.
hill. Walter Collins, Deputy Marshal, at
tempted to stop the row, when fight oc
CURED and all three of the men killed.