Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-14
mISCELLANEOuS.

LEONARD WEINDEL, President Of the
Weindel and Wirthelin Manufacturing
Company, 81. Louis, shot, and probably
fatally wounded, his wife, while under the
influence of liquor.
PRENTIss FILLER, n clerk in the st. Louis
office Of the Pacific Express Company, re-
Gently carried of money packages amount
ing 90 $4,000. IL is supposed he was aided
by n confederate. The Express Company
offers 5000 reward for his apprehension.
GOVERNOR CRTTTENDEN, Of Missouri, re-
fused 20 issue a requisition on the authori-
ties of Wyoming Territory for the return Of
Jim Cummings, a member Of the James
gang, 70 the authorities OF Clay County,
Mo-, where he stands indicted for horse
stealing. Cummings was recently arrested
in Wyoming, aud the Missouri authorities
notified at once, and he is prisoner there
now.
MONTREAL is complaining Of half starved,
naked immigrants who are arriving there,
and suffering greatly.
1T is reported that the Atchisou, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad has declared war
against the Western Trunk Line Associa.
tion by putting Coloradorates at one dollar
and seventy-ive cents, on first-cla<s
freight, which is ninety cents below the
Trunk Line scale.
Tue corporation OF Cork has decided to
give the remains of Jerome Collins, Of the
Jeanette expedition, public funeral.
The repor. OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
for 1883 shows, that after meeting all its
obligations, the company was able to pay
dividend OF four per cent. and carry to
hn %
plus Of ST2 SO.
The Boston Board Of Trade passed reso-
buttons protesting against tho excessive
coming Of silver money, and the use of sill
yer certificates.
PETER SCHMIDT, Of Chicago, recently
ehoked his pregnant wife to death.
! A FIRE in Utica, ". Y, recently burned
down the Observer office and other build
ings, involving n los Of $4,000.
A HELENA, Ark, special says the river
Is stationary at that point.
THE treasury OF Carrollton, o., has been
robbedof $4,000, wost OF which has been
recovered aud the felony compromised.
AT Martinsville, Ind, James Babbinson
beat his stepson TO death. The child's
body was covered with bruises.
HENRY OBERBEcK, the base ball player,
discharged by the 81. Louis club, obtained
a verdict for wages to the end Of the con
tract time.
The Senate Committee on Public Land,
decided by nearly unanimous vote In
favor Of the forfeiture OK tho Texas Pacific
Territorial land grant assigned to tn,
Southern Pacific Railway Company.
HOMO KoxG advices TO this date repor
that a collision has occurred between Chi
nese soldiers and Europeans ct Shanghai
A small body Of the former assaulted sew
eral Of the latter and wounded two Wit
bayonets-
The anniversary Of the coronation o
Pope Leo XIII. was celebrated the ID
with great pomp and splendor.
TEE American Consul at Dundee ha
asked the captains Of the whaling vessel
to keep lookout for Lieutenant Greedy 4
Bafin's Bay, in view OF the possibility o
bis drifting from Smiths Sound on an ic
Zoe.
AT New York, Frank Tousey, publisher
was arrested for publishing ''The Memoir
Of George w." an. alleged immoral wori
A. J. McDEvrrr, Of Corning. o., who ha
his priest. Rev. Father o'Boylan, arrests
for running wheel Of fortune, was ssiss