Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-11
THE WORLDS DOINGS
A Summary or the Daily News.
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ing earth. One was fatally aud tine others
seriously injured.
Two negroes were recently lynchcd n:
Brooksville, La, for murder.
LAST July Gretchen Rummel, I'm her
eighteenth year. daughter Of n barber liv.
Ing in Munich, Bavaria, took afteen hun.
dyed marks her father had saved ip and
ran away % America, She went TO CIcve-
land, %, where a woman friend lives, and
found work rs domestic IN n farmers
family NJ Collamer Recently she wrote a
penitcut letter houic and by means Of the
postmark her father traced her. and The
other day the father AMI daughter set out
on their return 20 Europe.
The Free Thinkers Con, eution met at
Salamanca, y. y, the other evening. There
was large attendance. Amors The
speakers present were 60 I,bv, Burnbam.
Of = higan, ani Juiu Y. Rensburr, Of
Kansas.
Two BROTHERS, Jeif aud Thomas Hobl-,
puaFreled ON Christmas eve at Fairfield.
Mo-, when Jen. Iursued Thomas with a
knife, cutting Lia Cn the left shoulder.
Thomas th'u turned aud picking up a stick
hit ut Brother over the head, iun citing IN.
j0ri"s from which be- lied daring the nigat.
JeH. was twenty il'rcs years 81 age and
Thom1s thirty. Both we're stock traders
an" "ri o. do. The trouble X sal 10 have
grown out 81 business relations.
a RECENT dispatch from Hanover. Ger.
many stated that Colonel Henry X. Rath.
bone killed bis vic aud committed suicide.
They W~fv connected with the most prom.
inrnt famii of Albany. y. y. She was
daughter of cx-Unitcd $ ates Senator
Harris.
IT was reported thai the French Govern
ment had tcicgraphed 90 Admiral Courbet,
urging lin Ito follow up his victory at
Sontay with the utmost promptness and
energy compatible with prudence. IL was
expected that Admired Courbctwould make
an attack upon Hong Hoa before marching
against Bacniuh,
Snow slid IS continue To annihilate min
csr m Colorado.
THE sanitary condition of Havana (Cuba)
is reported 20 lie improving Only ten
deaths from yellow fever Tor the week ended
December 20. Tue cases were scattered
among the population and not confined to
shipping aud military hospitals as they
usually nrc.
Miss HIT, OF Hill-Shnrun fame. recently
had Frederick &. Burchard arrested at San
Fran cisco for tcsiifying in court that on
April Is, 1881, he was engaged to be mar
ried Co her.
lN late interview with Mr.. Morrison,
Chairman Of the Ways and Means Com
mtttcc, lee is quoted as saying that the com.
mittcc will report q bill making a pretty
general reduction in existing duties: that
In ~ e..
committee will look 10 the possibility Of
preparing measure that can pass Con.
grcss, but whether pr not the bill can get
through the House without being amended
so ns TO destroy its usefulISss, is Il matter
of mere conjecture.
THE dead body of Penn Girt, a negro
preacher, was found the other day six
miles from Brinkley, Ark. beside hog he
had killed. 1t is believed he was shot i'm
mediately after killing the hog.
THE Trades Congress at Toronto (Ont.),
unanimously resolved that the future well
fare of the working people of the Dominion
required the prohibition of the importation
of Chinese labor.
THE French Government has decided to
prohibit the importation of American
salted meats until the Chambers have pro-
nounced upon the bill which the Minister
Of Commerce will introduce at the begin
ming of next session. The prohibition does
not apply to the ports of Havre, Nantes
and Bordeaux, whore, however, arrivals
are subjected 20 rigii scrutiny.
UPoN evidence showing fraud in making
entry, the Commissioner of the General
Land Office recently cancelled twenty-one
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in Dakota and seventeen in New Mexico.
JOHN II. DoDGr, Of Grand Island, Neb.,
recently suicidcd by shooting himself, at
Omaha, whore lac had gone TO see his wife,
who hai separated from him.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has issued an
order TO suspend work i'm the Boston Navy
Yard January II and the dismissal Of half
Of tho force. The breaking up of con-
demncd vessels will be continued and the
yard be converted into a ropewalk.
ELLEN BRos.' furniture store, NJ Eau
Claire, Wis, burned recently. Loss, 49,
600; Insurance., SO 600
A LATE wind storm destroyed a number
Of houses in Brooklyn, ". ", and did much
damage along the coast. At Pittsfield,
Mass, 70 was also quite destructive.
Tue business failures Of the country for
the week ended December 2S,h were PA,
large decline from the previous week.
The handsome residence OF Charles
Styles, agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road, at Atchison, Kansas, burned ON the
night Of the 18th, and his wife and little
girl persisted I'm the flames. Mr.. Styles
saved two Of his children but in his efforts
20 save his wife and other child was badly
burned AMI the hired girl was also badly
burned. The house had just been COM
pleted at n cost Of $4,000.
TIE Secretary OF the Treasury has de-
cidcd the case Of the Chinaman brought 10
New York on the ship Resolute. He can
not be landed in the United States, but may
be transferred to any other vessel that may
be going 10 a foreign country.
AS Sheriff Thompson and Jailor Will
Jams were visiting the cells at Walla
walla, Washington Ter, the other night,
for the last time, they were attacked by
Elfus and Owen, two condemned murder
ers, who Knocked them senseless with
bricks they had secrcted. Williams show
ing signs of recovery they took knife from
his pocket and hacked him to pieces and
then fed.
THE Abilene tTex.) stage was halted the
other night near the Colorado River by
two masked men with drawn revolvers
and nine passengers, comprising a variety
troupe, were robbed Of 500.
a GAMBLER named Burns killed the night
Waterman at the end OF the track on the
Mexican Central Road the other night, and
was hanged TO n box car by n mob.
A FIRE az Jamestown, ID. T., recently de-
stroyed SlO0,O0O worth Of property, includ-
ing two hotels.
THE excess in value of exports over i'm
ports OF merchandise for the month ended
November - was $3.50, 5j3. For the
twelve months ended November %, Sl2O,-
| O00,0O0. Value OF imports of merchandise
for the twelve months ended November %,
1851, S692, 455,j62. Decrease SJS,l6s 600,
compared with the same time last year.
Values Of exports OF merchandise for the
twelve months ended November 20, 1889,
| SSIa 4Q5,Ojl. Increase SG0,4fS,OS9 over the