Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-07

town. The sheriff warted them as wit
neesses and organized posse. Both parties
were armed and there were fears Of col.
lision.
The ice on the Yellowstone has broken
mp. The river is higher than in the spring
OF last year. .-----
THE Red River is very high ut Shreve-
port, La.
IT is stated in railroad circles that Nc
knight, General Freight Agent of the Wa
bash Line, and J.. j. Rogers, General
Freight Agent of the Missouri Pacific, have
resigned.
The st. Louis elevator men have held q
meeting and decided to post grain the mo-
ment 1t is discovered 10 be damaged.
MAR Sun Prairie, Wis, Lena Spaight,
aged fifteen, was outraged by two young
men, brothers, named Peckham. She suf.
fered terrible injuries.
YELLOW CALF, the Canadian Indian, who
recently rev olted, has surrendered.
MEASLES have decimated the Zuni In.
dinns in New Mexico.
REC INT evidence in the Copiah County
case has been the impeachment of the
character of the witnesses examined.
ADvIcEs from Madagascar state fever is
rife among the Frenchmen at Tamatave
The detectives now claim to have
evidence which will surely convict the
murderer of Fora Burns.
The rumor Of the sale OF the Pittsburg &,
Western railroad TO the Baltimore & Ohio,
is confirmed.
FEScE-CUTTING Is on the decrease in
Texas, due, it Is said, to energetic meas
ures taken by the State authorities.
FACTS have developed showing that the
body found behind some lumber at Elev.
enth and Central streets, Kansas City, was
that of an infant thrown there alive at
night into an obscure corner 20 perish from
cold.
ROBERT LAKDERs, a noted Texas horse
thief, was arrested at Fort Smith, Ark.
He stole horses from the Stock Association
at Gainesville, Tex, and large. rewards
were offered for him. When arrested he
was liking for raid on the wealthy stock
men Of the Indian Nation. l-
1T is said the scaffold on which John
Brown was hung for the raid on Harper's
Ferry, has been found in Charlestown, JEFF
fersOn County, Va. The scaffold was spir-
tied away at the time. Recently, in tehr-
ing away the porch OF a residence he had
bought Of a widow, Colonel John NJ. Coyls
noticed numbers on the lumber, and in it
ting the boards together they formed
scaffOld. Developments show the seaffold
TO be the identical one on which John
Brown was executed.
THERE is some reason 10 think that Salmi
Morse was murdered at New York. II was
at first reported that he. had drowned him.
self.
AN agent Of lottery company was SEN
fenced to Jail for five minutes at Peters.
burg, Va, recently.
a SPANISH campaign paper, published
at Brownsville. Tex, tells the rural Next.
cans that the United States has passed a
law authorizing them to cut the pasture
fences of Captain King and other large cat
tie men.
AMANDAs BOYER, Superintendent of
Henninger's mine, Allentown, Pa, was
killed by a cave in recently.
A BUST of Longfellow, by Brock, will be
unveiled in Westminster Abbey soon. 1t
will be placed between the busts of Chaucer
and Dryden. Gladstone has been invited
TO unveil 1t.
WILSON, who killed Policeman Billiard,
at Detroit, has been sentenced TO life i'm
prisonment.
The Cunard steamship Cephalonia ran
down a tug Off Robbins Reef. N. ", re-
Gently. Two of the crew of the tug were
drowned.
THE dead body Of a man was found float
ing in the Croton Reservoir at New York,
the other day, having been in the drinking
water for two weeks.
STOCKS in New York have shrunk to
nearly their lowest points. This is be-
wildering to those who have looked upon
tho CONFERENCE.-The combination as
surety against declines.
The body of an old negro was found in
his cabin lying in the fireplace, recently,
at Cairo, Ill. There is suspicion now that
he was murdered by another negro for ST.
800, which it was supposed the old man
possessed.
AT Ozark, Mo-, William Magill was SER
fenced to fifty years imprisonment for the
murder of Milum Dunlap,
LYDIA j. RoBERrs has won her suit fer
S69.S05 against the Stuyvesant Trust Com
pany, Of New York, being the amount of
property the Trust Company allowed to be
seized and sold under a search warrant
while on deposit.
AN inlamed state Of feeling exists among
the lower class of Mexicans on both sides
of the Rio Grande against Americans, con-
sequent upon recent extradition proceed
ings. Robert Halence, of Rio Grande City,
Is the last one supposed 10 have been muir.
dered because of his unPopularity with the
aforesaid class OF Mexicans.
THE British army has left Trinkitat for
the purpose Of attacking Teb. There il
anxiety at Cairo as to the result
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