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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
Frank James.

HUNTSVILLE, ALA, April flowing to
the absence of two of the Government
witnesses the-ease against Frank James,
which was called for trial yesterday
morning, passed till to-day The wit
nesses absent were Charles Norris and Mrs.
Sarah Hite, at whose house in AdairsvilIe,
KY, the James gang had one of their head
quarters during their prosperous days. II
seems that Mrs. Hte and Norris are try
ing TO avoid testifying against James,
as they failed to respond to a suRl-
mons, and have left home, which is now at
Nashville, Tenn, for Hendersonville An
attachment has been issued to bring them
here. All James witnesses, also Mrs. Jesse
James, Mrs. Frank James and son, are here
The witnesses for the defense are chiefly
from Nashville, and the effect of their evil
dence will be 10 show that James was at Nash
vile during all of March to the 10th, the
robbery. having been committed two hundred
miles Off in North Alabama, March II.
Jonas Taylor, BLACKSMITH, will testify and
show by his book that James was in his
shop at Nashville both OH March II and H.
The payInaster who was robbed will not say
publicly whether James was one of the rob
hQra mr. Oot
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OIL Excitement.

.TrTUsvnLE, Pa, April 16.-It has been
unusually exciting in oil circles, and it may
be said unusually perpleXing. Opening at
aG, the market rapidly advanced to 9715l, a
height despaired of recently by the bulls,
who turned out in great force and bought
heavily. Refined oil advanced to 81, and
Grandin well No. %, in the Balltown oil-field,
was reported in the sand and dry. These facts
powerfully stimulated the bull movement.
When 971& was touched however New
York and Bradford entered the ring and
commenced determined onslaught on prices.
To aid them, the Mills q Mullen well, in
the Macksburg, o., Oil-feld, was re-
ported doing seventy-five barrels day, and
Grandin No. % was said to have started pro-
ducing heavily on being drilled deeper. The
bulls, who had taken hold of the market,
believing the long expected advance was at
hand, dropped it and joined in the downward
movement Prices fell rapidly, amid great
excitement and confusion, to 941<. At the
close of the day 94Ss was bid Sales are
reported at 94s4. The latest dispatches say
the Miles q Mullen well is boarded up and
closely guarded. 1t is impossible to learn
anything as to the Grandin venture.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

DAYTON, April 14.-Michaels, who was
arrested here Friday on suspicion of being
the wrecker of the Pan Handle expresstlast
Thursday night was identified by Con-
duetor Person who had charge of
the wrecked train, as a tramp he had
put of only few days before. Measure
meut OF his feet also correspond with
the tracks in the mud about the tool house.
Michaels admits that he is tramp, and that
he was in the vicinity OF the wreck on
Thursday, but claims Innocence. There is
q strong feeling against him but so far the
evidence Is merely circumstantiai. me re-
plains OF engineer Thomas we're Inferred
here yesterday. The funeral vas one of the
largest ever seen in the city.
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DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
Portions of Georgia and dississippi Visited
by Destructive Wind Storms-Houses and
Other Property Destroyed and Many Per.
sons Seriously IDjnT ed.
COLUMBus, Ga. April l6.

COLUMBUS, GA, April l6.
A violent wind and rain storm passed
over the city Monday night. Rain fell 81
inches in three hours. Lands were badly
washed, but there is no Serious loss OF
property and no lives lost. Much damage
to property is reported from Auburn,
Alabama.
A special from Chipley, Ga, says dis.
astrous cyclone swept over Harris
County Monday night. The wind storm
struck Chipiey about 2:3O 3. IN. The
first damage done was at the residences OF
George Williams and Mrs. Babbs, three
miles southwest of Chipley, and from
there to Mr.. Culpepper's and T. J.
jenkins places, where houses were
blown down. Lee Afford was instantly
killed at the latter place and his wife anc
three children badly hurt. Affords body
was found $50 yards from the house.
Outhouses on Samuel Goodman's. anu
JnO. b. Hastey's places were demolished.
John Langford and son were badly hurt,
and wife and child killed
Mrs. Mary Davis residence was dc.
mollshed.
In the town of Chiplcy the residences
of J. NJ. Rees, +. f. MCGEE, DIR. J. L..
Thornton, A. j. Irwin, b. ID. Waylor, \.
A. Berner, A. p. Hampton and Layfield
were blown down or badly damaged.
Thomas Champion was badly wounded
and Mrs. Champion slightly.
Eff. MCGEE received severe internal
Injury and his son was fatally wounded.
Mrs. Layheld and sister were slightly
hurt.
A. J. Irwin received severe internal in
juries.
Mrs. Langford was badly hurt.
DIR. J. +. Thornton was slightly hur,.
Ben Powell and son are reported killed.
The storm passed in a northeast direc-
ton from Chipley, and outhouses and
part of Joe Dumas residence were blown
down.
r. S. Parkman's place was demolished.
Jake Powel's place was wrecked.
Outhouses aud residences on Rev. Jas.
p. jones' and Thos. L. Bowden's places
were badly damaged. The last named
places are near Warm Springs, where
Bowden and wife were slightly wounded.
The destruction of property can hardly be
estimated. The cyclone swept everything
in ito path, and many miraculous escapes
are reported.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

THE proposed lease Of the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan road excited con-
siderable interest in railway circles.
The bond and stock holders. most of
whom were Cleveland men. at first pro-
posed to lease the road to any company
who would operate and fully maintain
1t aud pay the fixed charges, They
were happily surprised at discovering
that both the Lake Shore and the
Chicago & Atlantic were anxious TO
get IL. This led the owners to hesitate.
and the Lake Shore offered n comforta-
BILE bonus over the original proposition.
The Chicago 4 Atlantic raised the Lake
Shore several points, and there the
matter rested.
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DAILY the Dynamiter.

LIVERPOOL. April Is.
Quelch, the solicitor retained TO defend
John Daily, the alleged dynzmiter arrested
It Birkenhead Friday last, interviewed hi,
.iient In jail to-day. DAILY is frm and
'esolute IN his demesnor and feels conf
lent that the Government win be unabl.
convict him Of intent TO commit o
ebony. He denied being acquainted will
fitzgerald and states that he was not an
lever had been connected with an Irisl
revolutionary Society. His acquaint
anceship with Egsn merely extended 4
The time be engaged . room Of him.
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FOREST FIRES.
Several Counties In Georgia Devastated by
Fire and Storm.

Several Counties In Georgia Devastated BY
Fire and Storm.
ATLANTA, GA, April l4.-Details from
Taylor, Webster, Sumter, jefferson, Glass
cock and other sandy counties of Georgia,
of recent forest fires, present narrowing
picture of destruction. Great tracts of these
counties were I'm preparation for truck plant
ing farmers having spent the last six weeks
ON that work. Much new ground had also
been cleared, upon which fires were burning
in brllsh-heaps The wind came from the
southwest, travelling northeast. II increased
in force until farmers in the fields, blinded
with sand and unable to see, retired to
their houses for protection. Then
they awOke to a new danger. The
winds had famed the flames of
the brush-heap fires and scattered them in
all directions. The fencing of pine - ickly
caught, and long streams of cracking flames
could be seen all along the course of the
fences. When the fences were consumed
the dry stubble and dried vegetation of the
past year caught, and the fire slowly eats Its
way closer and closer TO the houses, making
escape with even life miraculous. Women
and children were crouching with fear. Men
could only hastily clear away patches OF
earth, and by fighting back the fire from the
edges keep spot ciear upon WHICH ~ was
possible to stand until the fire had passed
over. Houses caught and were swept
away, not even an article of furni-
ture being saved. In Dooly County
eight residences were burned
and the loss IN fences, etc, des-
troyed can not be less than S12, 900. In Tay-
Ior County the loss Is about $4,000. In
Sumter County, 5000. In Webster Coun-
ty $1,000. In Jefferson County, SIC, 600.
The greatest loss, perhaps, was suffered in
Glasseeek County. The path of the fire
took in the town of Gibson, and it was only
by heroic work that two hundred men fought
the fire back. The loss is, perhaps, $40, 600.
Since the fire has passed over the fact has
been discovered that huge sapd-drifts, blown
about by the winds, have covered the ground
which had been prepared for plSntins, rem
kyring renewal of work necessary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

CHICAGO. April 16.-Owing to the fact
that mepibers of the National Republican
Committee AID also of the local Commit
tee on Arrangements are constantly re-
ceiving applications for seats In the con-
ven:ion, w. X. Sullivan, local Secretary,
makes the following statement: Tickets
will be given to delegates pro rata and
only persons who can supply them will be
delegates 10 the convention. The number
of tickets In the convention after supplying
each delegate and alternate, one thousand
to the local committe, and reserving four
TO six hundred for the daily press, will be
distributed to the several States in exact
proportion to the number of their delgates.r
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

oIEkLVILLE, MO-, April Is.
On Saturday the dead body of VIM. C..
Whitehouse was found in the Meramec
bottoms, in Crawford County, riddled
with buck-shot. He was to all
appearances killed by Oliver
L. Bell, with whom he had fought few
days before. The men were partners I'm
the ownership Of Wilson's mills, on the
Salem G Little Rock Road. whitehouse
had been to Sligo Furnace. On his vav
home be was waylaid by Bell, who
concealed himself behind a larpe
tree and riddled Whitehouse with buck.
shot
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
The wyoming Chief JusticeshIp.

CHEYENNE, W. T., April 1.-THE an
nouncement of the death Of Judge John C.
Perry, in Brooklyn, recently appointed
Chief Justice, has caused much excitement
throughout the Territory, especially among
the legal fraternity, who are afraid that the
present incumbent, Judge Sener, will hold
over. A meeting of the Territorial bar has
been called to protest against Sener's re-
appointment. While Sener has followers
in the Territory, he has many enemies, who
are doing everything in their power to cause
his downfall. His decision on the fence
question has given him antagonists who rep
resent the wealth Of the Territory, aud he
is, therefore, rendered almost helpless.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
NEW ORLEANS. La, April ID.

A Times Democrats Walden (AIiss.)
special says: Blackhawk, eighteen
miles west Of here, was struck by a cy.
clone Monday. w. W. Brewers and Z.
Chlppen's dwellings and out-houses were
totally destroyed. Brewers daughter
was seriously hurt. DIR. Ben F. Kittrelrs
Office was demolished. J. b. Streator's
dwelling and saw.mili were unroofed
and his stables and out-houses de-
stroyed. j. Jones' house and
j. ID. Purcelps shops were de.
stroyed. The residence and shops OF
u. II. Jordan, the Methodist District
High School buildings and Methodist
Church were considerably damaged. Mrs.
Hutchinson's house was destroyed and
her collar-bone broken. Much other
property was destroyed, and a number
of other persons were also seriously In
iured, but names are not gwen.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
Pound Guilty.

SANTA FE, n. NJ, April 16.-During the
present term of the United States Court
AntonisA Jiron was arrsigned, and, after q
two days trial, was found guilty Of murder
IN the first degree The sentence which
under the law Is hanging has not
yet been pronounced Jiron was in
dicted April 3, 1883. for the wanton
murder OF Freeman Burla, at Donna. He
was captured on the same day. after being
shot in the hand. and placed In the Mesila
Jail. From this Jail, in company with other
desnerate characters, he escaped and fed TO
old Mexico. He was soon recaptured, and,
after much wrangling between the two
Governments about the extradition papers,
was placed I'm the new jail In Las Cruces.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
Thu yona Libra.

EAGLE PASS, TEX, April Alt has
been definitely learned from official sources
that the iona Libra, or Free-Trade Belt, is a
fixed fact business men on both sides of
the river have been working with this pro-
ject for the last fifteen years and the news
is hailed with satisfaction. A telegram from
the officials Of the City of Mexico, 10 Senator
Hurtado, Collector of Customs at Eagle
Pass. Tex, u. s., says 1t goes into operation
on May 1, and is bounded by the CITY limits
of Piedras Negras. 1t win have the effect
of establishing large wholesale warehouse
at Eagle Pass Retail trade may be injured
temporary, but TO no great extent, apd the
manifest advantages of the system Will be
felt by all CAPITALISTS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
Supposed rss,. Have Struck IT Rich.

FARGO, OAK, April f7.-George Dinner,
brother of NJ. Dinner, of Dayton. o.,
reached Fargo on his return from DEVILS
Lake. He says that Little-Shell and eight
members of his band came to Mr.. Dinners
house one day, stacked their arms at the
door in military fashion, and told the in
mates they must leave. They .endeayored
with food to pacify the Indians, but seemed
to fan. Quite band of Indians from Man
itOba are said to he encalnped in the Turtle
Mountains on the banks of the Lake, where
Willow Greek rises. There are nine persons
In the Dinner party. George Dinner will
not divulge the nature of the discoveries, but
it seems apparent that valuable gold traces
have been struck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

LONDON, April Is.
The greatest CONSERVATION and ex-
element prevails throughout China, and
general levy of Chinese troops has been
ordered. The Empress has ordered the
commander of the Chinese troops at BAG
Mini, together with the officers of his
staff and leading line officers to be be.
headed for disobeying the orders of the
war Department In not fortifying their
rear so as to prevent q flank movement,
and In not communicating to the depart
ment that their force was not sufficient to
cope with the French troops.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

SEVERAL colleges al Oxford, EDgland.
have been very bard hit by tho agricul-
tural depression. WadhAm College
revenues are diminished by about City
per cent Things are so bad with st.
Johns that the President has refused TO
accept his stipend for three years past;
and Lincoln is also suffering severely.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
Two Men Killed.

e eIrTsBURG, Pa, April 12.7-Yesterday
morning at ten o'clock, while eight men en-
ployed at Blair's brick yard were digging
sand from a hillside at the head of Forty-
fourth street, the bank cayed in, burying
Samuel Reelin, aged twenty-one years,
and William Shearod, nineteen. years.
uisdef several tons OF earth. 4 Not
a large amount Of loose earth
threatened to come down, the others went
70 work with will to rescue their eompan-
IONS, but when they were reached, fully an
hour after the accident happened, both we're
dead. The bodies were badly crushed, and
" Is thought death resulted instantly. Both
men were unmarried.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

RoBsERs wearing policemen's uni
forms visited mill near Toplitz, Aus
tria, the other day, and under pre-
tended warrant accusing the proprietor
OF being a Socialist and forging State
papers compelled him TO deliver his
money and securities amounting to over
10000 horins. After locking the in
mates Of tho mill in n room the robbers
dccamnod
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
POLITICAL AND rERsoNAI..

HENRY BYROs. a well-known playwright
IL London died the other dav.
GEoRGE A. LEErs died recently at Provi-
lence, II. l., OF gangrene and pyemia, after
an illnc s'of two weeks, aged six y-eight
Since 1878 he had been President Of the
Providence g Worcester Railroad.
Tue Republican State Convention of
Illinois at Peoria nominated Richard ].
Oglesby for Governor.
a. II. VON MARTELs, Judge Of the Gin.
cinnati Police Court, died recently.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
BelIirerent Courts.

new ORLEANS, La, April 15.-In the
matter Of the war Of the pilots, in which
the State Judge has been arresting un-
licensed pilots and the Federal Judge turn
ing them loose, Judges Pardee and Billings,
sitting together, committed eleven members
of the Pilots Association to the Parisl,
Prison for three days each for contempt Of
court in making the afiidavits and causing
the arrest of tie Unlicensed pilots after tho
court had released them on a habeas corpus.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

The Buffalo Historical Society appeals
for subscriptions for the burial Of Red
Jackets bones in Forest Lawn Gene
terry. IL is also proposed to erect
monument to Indians friendly TO the
cause q America and our allies in our
second great struggle for National exis-
Nsnco ...
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

The widow Of Alexander Q. Wingate
was awarded 5000 by the United
States Court at indianapolis recently in
= suit against the Ohio q Mississippi
Railroad for tho death Of her husband.
who was shot on the cars Of that road
by n drunken passenger.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
Pacific Rains.

SAN FRAEcIsco, April 14.--Reavy rains
continue throughout the State. The South
ern Pacific through Soledad Canyon "A again
seriously damaged by washouts.s At New
halls keepe and Afajove the track was
washed away in different places. Passen-
gers who left fol. the Eastviar the Southern
route Tuesday and "Wednesday last, have re-
turned here. General Manager Towne says
II VIII take four days 30 make the necessary
repairs. At Fresno q cyclone demolished
several buildings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

WrTH the exception Of six cities In
Ohio and three in Pennsylvania all the
cities east Of the Rocky Mountains have
accepted standard time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

THE United States. Il Is said, Is now
the second copper producing country
in the world.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

The Haytian Government has put
into circulation tho dreaded additional
$1,000, 600 Of paper money. s'r'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

The Swiss Government at the request
Of Spain, has expelled Gorilla from
Switzerland.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
CloeInE on.

CINCINNATI, April 1s.-The relief com
mittee appointed in February last by the
Chamber Of Commerce to receive and dis
tribute money and supplies for the people
made destitute by the food are about TO
.Iose ther fabors. They have received
s1s4, 600. all of which has been distributed
except $1,000, which is soon to be distributed
n helping the poor to restore. their
dwellings. A large part of the money has
zen used outside Of Cincinnati -
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

Fire IN the building occupied by A. T.
sewart's estate, IN New Yurk, DAMAGE
he building aud contents TO tie sxtsut Of
kle,o00.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

G. q, Crutcher: charged with stealing eat
le in fIis Cboctaw Nation, arrived In Dali
as, Tex, IN charge Of pnited States Dep
~ Marshal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25

tlce OF the supreme Court or Kansas, ten.
dered his resignation to Governor Click OIL
the 10Th at Topeka, and was sworn in as
United States Circuit Judge of the Eighth
Judicial Circuit, the oath being admins
tered by Judge Foster of the United States
District Bench. Judge Brewer left for Lit
tie Rock, Ark, where he will hold his first
term of court
THE remains of Mrs. Annie Kirk, who
killed herself recently in Topeka, were taken
to Havensville for intement
EIGHT prisoners escaped from tire Topeka
city Jail the other morning by breaking G
hole through the wall.
A REPORT from Frankfort says the spring
wheat acreage over Northern Kansas has
been reduced about forty per cent below
last year crop. The reduction in price Is
the chief cause.
FRANK McCANx, a telegraph repalrer,
fell from a pole near Lecompton, owing 70
the pole giving way, and was severely In
-iured. He was carried to Topeka on a
stretcher.
PATENTS have been issued to Kansas In.
ventors as follows: w. A Harding. Ieav-
enworth, tongs for lifting spooTs Of fencs
wire; Daniel Read. New Salem, tongue sup
ports. isr
Work has been resumed on the Topeka,
Salina q Western near Council Grove
The House Committee ON Public Build
ings and Grounds agreed to recommend that
IubIic buildings be erected at Wichita and
Fort Scott 20 cost $50, 900 each. =
WILLIAM c. SMITH, an old and promf-
rent citizen Of Atchison, twice Mayor of
he city and member of the State Ierisla-
snre m 1875, died on the 9th, aged sixty
even.
HE kline around LarDed are reported
wo kinds-fat and lean. The lean arr,
nimals left 10 forage through the winter Ia,
themselves; the fat are those who receive,
4tention from their owners. -
+ 5. HoINEs was arrested recently (,
Vyandntte for embezzllng small sum
loney from the banking house Of Fsrnuu
8 Miller, Of olaiAA