Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-04

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resolutions were adopted.
1T was reported the Chinese forces were
concentrated at Hung Hoa, twenty miles
above Sontay ON the Red River, and at BAG
Mini.
The east wing of the Lunatic Asylum on.
Wards Island IN. W was recently
burned. Loss $4,000. There were over
twelve hundred male patients in the build
/ ing. The fire caused great excitement
among them, but all were removed to
places Of safety.
FIVE of the "dynamiters" were recently
sentenced to life imprisonment at Edin-
burg, Scotland.
Gently consecrated Missionary Bishop OF
North Dakota. The ceremonies took place
in New York.
ADAM HILL and George Snyder, young
men, were killed the other night at a dance
six miles from Winchester, Ill. Their as.
ssilants were Charles and John Sutton,
brothers, who went TO the dance armed
with the avowed purpose of having a fight.
The Titusville, Shamokin & Shenandoah
Districts, of Pennsylvania, mined in No
vember 1,0S0,63l tons of anthracite coal, in
the production Of which fifteen miners were
killed and thirty-four severely injured,
mainly inexperienced Poles and Hunga.
/ rians.
PROF. A. ]. MANNETT, Of Marietta, Ohio,
was recently elected Chancellor OF the
Nebraska State University, which has been
without n head for two years.
LILLE SINNorT, daughter Of a wealthy
liquor dealer, of New York City, was prob
ably fatally shot recently by Sarah Clan.
cey, servant of the family. Lille went
TO the kitchen to attend to some household
duty when the shooting occurred, it was
thought, accidentally.
THE Grand Jury Of the District of Co
lumbia recently indicted a number Of pen
sion attorneys, charged with using the
mails for fraudulent purposes.
The French are reported as having cap
| tured the principal outposts of Sontay,
embracing five stroDgly-fortifed villages.
The Chinese made a stubborn resistance.
The French loss was two hundred men and
/ fifteen officers killed and wounded. The
Chinese still held the fortress of Sontay.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago, Bur.
lington & Quincy Railroad ran into the
rear end of another train at Gladstone, ILL.,,
the other morning, telescoping a Pullman
car, which ignited and was completely de-
stroyed. Richard Somers, Superintendent
Of the Dining Car Service, was instantly
killed and his body burned almost beyond
recognition. Six other passengers were
more or less injured, but none probably
fatally. Two coaches were consumed.
Loss about 5000.
sLEIGHING party, numbering fifteen
persons, went over an embankment at Mill
Village, Pa, recently, and James Krouch,
Charles Imshwaler, Mary Kutter, Caroline
Green and Mary Hessler were seriously
injured.
TIE Mexicans are making war on nickels.
Recently arefusal to accepa them in the
market at the City of Mexico caused quar-.
rels, resulting i'm firing and cries of ''Down
with the nickel" The panic spread and
all business houses were closed. A mob
passed through the streets breaking lamps
and windows. Troops fired blank car.
tridges ut the mob and cavalry charged
the crowd, and order was finally restored
without bloolshed.
/ JUDGE WYLIE discharged ex-senator
| Spencer, arraigned at Washington for con.
tempt, owing TO an informality of the sub
pPna.
A SPECIAL stated that Jack Meyer had
/
Mine in Montana, which is immensely rich.
II is located near the head waters of the
Big Horn River. This is a mine which
three old timers discovered in early Terri.
torial times, two of whom were murdered
by the Indians and the survivor became in
sane ard could never trace their trail.
! A RECENT snow-slide at the Virginius
Mine, in Ouray County, Colo, struck a
boarding house in which were eleven min.
ers, burying the men over twenty feet. Six
were killed and the five others supposed to
be fatally injured. All had families.
| IN the Federal Court at Chicago, the
other day, Judge Blodgett sentenced each
of the lottery agents tried before him to
pay fine of $500 for using the mails for
lottery business.
HENRY DEoTEN, of Philadelphia, recently
attempted to kill his wife and father.in-law
and then cut his own throat.
THE extensive broom factory and ware
house of the Samuel Cupples Woodenware
Company of st. Louis burned the night be.
fore Christmas; loss, $4,000 The Busch
Wine Company building was also burned;
loss on building, $4,000; stock, $50, 1000.
An explosion in the Busch building shat
tered the walls, and in their fall they GOV.
cred John Conway and Michael Kehoe
In the debris, killing them aud more or less
injuring Con Gallagher, Patrick Powers,
F. NJ. Williams, John Hartley, all members
Of the salvage corps who were spreading
tarpaulins when the wall fell.
a PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago Railroad recently
went through n culvert near Salem, Ind.
Three persons were killed and seven OF
eight badly injured.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.