Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-28

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HENRY RIcKERD, of Mount Carmel, Ind,
aged seventy-one years, a shoemaker by
trade, committed suicide by hanging. He
was about to lose his eyesight and was
tired of living.
THE wheat crop in the vicinity Of Van.
dalia, Ill, is reported by the farmers ai
almost totally ruined by the recent cold
weather.
Mrs. ARTHUR READ, the giantess, wa,
buried I'm Evergreen Cemetery, New York.
Eight men were required to carry the coflr
into the vault.
A REPORTER Of the Philadelphia Press
recently arrested Henry c. Gordon, q
prominent spiritualist, while in the act Of
materializing persons" at his rooms. Cor.
don was caught enrobed in all his parapher.
MALTA.
The bill abolishing the convict contract
labor system in Ohio, as contracts expire,
has become law.
A CONVENTION Of farmers of Minnesota,
with one hundred and fifty delegates pres
ent, opened at the State House, St Paul,
recently. Governor Hubbard delivered the
address Of welcome. The object OF the
convention was stated to be TO decide upon
the best means Of bringing the railroads
and the Millers' Association TO grant relief
TO farmers in the matter Of grading weights
and railroad transportation. DR.. Collins,
OF Grand Forks County, stated that in that
county alone the farmers have been swim.
died out Of 10000 upon the crop Of last
year
A FIRE ut Moberly, NO., destroyed q
dozen stores and buildings, including the
postofflce. The total loss is $4,000; insur
ance Sc, 80. A. J. Dunlap while removing
goods from the fire was hurt by falling
wall and is reported dead.
MISS BLANCA TILToS, young lady of
Philadelphia, who died recently, by her
will, ordered her remains to be ere
mated,
THE strike ut the Joliet, Ills, steel works
has ended.
IL the United States Court, at Pittsburgh,
Pa, John Fowler was appointed receiver
Of the Shenango & Allegheny Railroad.
Two little colored children were brutality
murdered recently, and two others NOR
tally wounded on the place of o. E. Usher,
near Augusta, ga. The father and mother
were in field at work when the crimes
were committed.
The House Committee on Agriculture
authorized n favorable report to be made
on the bill to allow any person to manufac.
ture wine or brandy out of apples, peaches,
grapes and other perishable fruits raised
by himself or his tenants free from any in
ternal revenue tax or restrictions.
SPEAKING of the new fast mail, Post.
master General Gresham said. awe are
simply using the means at our command &c
give the public the best possible service.
The new fast service has not cost the pub.
lie dollar more than the old service did.
The people will get the improved facilities
without additional cost"
THE people of Mahoney City, Pa, are
protesting against the New York emigra.
TILLER's accomplice in the St. Louis Elk.
press robbery, McFadden, attempted sui.
eide in Jail recently by swallowing broken
glass.
The exports, exclusive of specie, from
| New York, for the week amount to 80, 1O7,.
2O6, against $685., 400 for the previous
week, and $s,419,S5O for the corresponding
week last year. Total exports since Janu
airy l, 1905, 4Ts against S1s, 725, 5SS for the
same period last year.
1T was reported that the coal operators
of the Monongahela and Youghioghehy
Rivers have combined to reduce wages
one-fourth OF a cent at each pool.
| THE still at Merriam & Morgan's oil
works, Cleveland, o., exploded recently
The escaping oil instantly submerged Au
gust Fisher and August Guenther, EN-
ployes, and taking fire they were quickly
burned to death in sight of the terrified
crowd, unable to assist them. The rushins
stream Of oil overlook William Stolhman
another employee, as he fled and he too wa,
burned to death.
Hon. f. p. CALDWELL, an attorney o
Council Bluffs, was SHIELD up" by a mar
named Healy at the muzzle of a cooked re
volver and forced to sign a check for eigh
hundred dollars.
Two negro boys at Atlanta, ga, agec
sixteen and eighteen years, John Gordon
and William Hartman, were Joking on
another about some girls. Gordon said
"Tm tired Of this" and whipping out
pistol, fired a ball into Hardman's RICH
eye, from. which he died.
THE heaviest lot of hogs ever slaughtere,
in New Jersey was slaughtered recently a
Wrightstown, amid the awful clangor of
brass band, the salvos of artillery and Tn
shouts Of a thousand people, Tho twenty
three hogs when hung up averaged 81
pounds, the lightest weighing eco pounds
and the heaviest 1859 pounds.
A CAIRO dispatch says teiegraphlc com
munication Beyond Berber is still cut of
The Bedouins are massing at points on tn
Nile. They have already occupied the re
gion about Sabooka Cataract and block
AIDED the river at that place. The Batak
heer tribes are preparing to attack Shendy
AT Erie, Pa, a sensational elopefnen
was frustrated; recently, the lady bein
Mrs. Bifiin, a young married woman o
good family, and the man an illiterate col
ored youth employed as bod carrier.