Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-29
mISCELLANEOUS.

SEVERAL weeks since a citizen of Mime
apOlis, Mimi, named Homerling, bought
ham and took il home. All Of the family
ate Of the raw meat. Some days after, Mr..
Homerling, his wife, three children and
sister Of Mrs. Homerling were taken vio-
leutly i'll with symptoms of trichinosis.
Mrs. Homerling died in great agony and it
was thought her sister and two OF the chill
dren would die.
THE destruction caused by the Ohio
River food i'm what Is known as Pomeroy
Bend was peculiarly distressing. The bend
is narrow, with bottoms on both sides of
the river, and contains some twenty coal
mines, eighteen salt works and twelve
towns, aggregating 5000 inhabitants, of
whom eight thousand are laborers. Six of
the mines are flooded and will not be
pumped out for six or eight months. Eight
thousand people are idle, and nine thousand
homeless. IL was estimated that i've hun.
dred houses had been swept out Of the
twelve miles Of the bend. Government re-
lief boats were busy distributing supplies.
Dick CRAIG and Wallace Brockman were
found dead I'm their room at the Ashland
Hotel, Lexington, KY, the other morning,
having gone 81 bed while Intoxicated and
10 was supposed blew out the gas and suf-
located. AT the PhGnix Hotel in the same
city, w. ID. Key was found nearly dead
from the same cause, but was restored TO
life with difficulty.
THERE was a strong array Of Representa-.
tives Of the steel and iron and iron ore
interests, in tho room Of the Committee on
Ways and Means the other day, 20 reuion-
strato agni INST the proposed change in the
tariff law.
Born the German Minister at Washing
ton and the Secretary of State say they
have no information corroborntivS OF the
cable dispatch from London that Prince
Bismarck had ordered the resolution of
coincidence on Herr Lasker's death passed
by the American House Of Representatives
returned to this country.
4. LATHBURY & Co.'s box warehouse at
Philadelphia was recently burned. in
which was stored twelve or fifteen thous-
and barrels Of -four.
Mrs. john. T. wIGGINs, an elegantly
dressed and apparently refined lady, re-
Gently took lodgings at tho Osborn House
In Rochester, n. Y, and n few days after
wards shot herself in her room. Domestic
trouble and jealousy caused the act.
The French Government has called the
attention Of the English Cabinet to the
danger Of an uprising aud massacre at
Cairo II the English garrison Is weakened.
AT Nokomis, ILL.,, the other day Miss
Sophia Butikofer in jumping from n wagon
swallowed pin which lodged In her throat
and came near proving fatal.
A RECENT cyclone in the northwestern
portion Of Georgia uprooted trees, tore
down buildings. At least three hundred
small houses were reported destroyed, and
fifteen hundred people made homeless.
Two negro children were killed, and a
young man named Green fatally injured.
WILLIAM Il. Finch, Postmaster at Ellen
dale, ID. T., has been arrested charged With
robbing the mail.
Tux Committee on Expenditures in the
Department Of Justice have determined to
begin March z and continue from day to
day until they have completed the exam
ination into the manner In which the star
route prosecutions have been and are being
conducted, and into the conduct, efficiency
and good faith Of all officials or persons in
the employ Of the United States. In con-
nection with these prosecutions, the COM
mite will also investigate whether or not,
guilty parties have been duly prosecuted.
A REGULAR blizzard recently swept
Northern Dakota.
The reports Of starving Indians on the
Poplar River in Dakota are said not to be
exaggerated. Seven thousand have moth
ing but little flour, all game having dis.
appeared. Dogs and ponies have been
killed and eaten. In sixty days, without
relief, all must starve 20 death. Fear of
massacre Of agents and post traders were
expressed.
OFFICER NICHOLSON, Of San Francisco,
was recently murdered while on duty.
IN the United States Circuit Court nc
Boston, Judges Lowell and Nelson recently
aled an opinion, which Is practically in
favor Of the stockholders Of the Credit
Mobiler against the Trustees. There were
two cases, both OF Hazard, Commissioner
W.. Thomas c. Durant- The amount In
volvsd Is Sie.000,0oo.
WHILE John Beatty was attempting TO
convey his wife and three children and two
young ladies named Wetherford across the
back-water between Paducah, KY, and
Newburg. on the Tennesses River, the skin
was dashed against a tree by the current
and upset. Mrs. Beatty and all the chill.
dren and one Of the young ladies were
drowned.
TEN freight conductors were recently ar.
rested at Springfield, Mass, who were en-
ploysd on tho Boston & Albany Railroad,