Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-29

charged with the wholesale theft Of goods
from the Company. The wife of one who
had been dressing extensively told q
neighbor how she could afford such finery
and thus led to the exposure Of the ROD
berry.
A LATK fire in Jevne's grocery house at
Chicago destroyed property to the value of
$50, zoo; fully covered by insurance.
The Episcopal Mission mt Santee
Agency ID. I. including the Church and
schools ard the residence of the Rev. W.
Fowler, were recently entirely des>-r we'd
by fire. A panic was created among the
children, but all were gotten out safely.
The police have seized a quantity Of
Revolutionary prints in several of the sub
urbs Of Vienna.
REUBEN HART, colored, and wife, resid-
ing near Crockett, Tex, recently went to
church leaving their six children locked
In the house. Before their return the house
burned aud the children all persisted.
The break which took place in the EN-
bankment at Memphis which forced the
road-bed Of the Kansas City, Springfield &
Memphis Railroad, il was thought would
cause inundation OF the whole country bet
tween Memphis and Madison, Ark. and will
give the Mississippi River at that point
width of forty miles, but will check the
rise Of the water below that CITY.
HARRY MCCULLOUGH was killed and Ed,
Jones seriously IL not fatally injured by a
train at Trenton, o., recently. Both were
young men Of Wheeling engaged In strike
at the Crescent Sheet Iron Mills, and left
for Cleveland TO hunt work, and met with
the accident while en- route TO that city.
a PASSENGER train on the Cleveland &
Pittsburg Railway near Bridgeport, o., re.
Gently ran into hand-car load OF track.
men. The following were seriously hurt:
John Marion, probably fatally injured;
Patrick McDonOush. John Mcdonald, all
residents Of West Wheeling.
Mrs. ELIZABETH Carpenter, aged forty.
four years, sufferer from the food, while re-
Gently returning from Bridgeport, o. where
she got supplies, was struck by passenger
train and fatally injured.
SENATOR HILL, Chairman OF the Com.
mittee on Post-ofIices and Post-roads. ex.
poets that the subcommittee, which has in
charge the subject Of postal telegraphy
will report a bill within short time. This
will be promptly reported to the Senate,
and will, he believes, be taken from the
calendar at an early day and passed.
II. c. TURPIN and John Burnett, rival
sewing machine agents at Macon, Ca,
quarrelled recently, and Turpin was
stabbed TO death.
The Senate Committee on Claims agreed
to make an adverse report ON the bill to
authorize the Court Of Claims to hear and
determine the claims OF the State of Geor-
gia for cotton seized by the United States
during the late war. The claims amount
to 5000
CLEAR, cold weather has succeeded the
recent blizzard in the Northwest.
The wire bridge at Apollo, Pa, parted
its cables the other day and fell into the
river with crash. A man and two horses
were drowned.
THE reports from the Ohio and Missis.
sippi show much restitution and contin-
uous damage. Heavy storms have added
to the sufferings of the unfortunate people.
REPRESENTATIVE BRoADHEAD appeared
before the House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures recently in support
of bill to establish a mint at st. Louis.
No action was reached.
HENRY MCCULLoUGH and Edward Jones
were killed by the cars at Trenton, O., re.
Gently.
The little town of West Lesenriag, near
Uniontown, Pa, was recently the scene of
n shocking mine explosion from fire-damp.
About one hundred men were employed, of
whom about twenty were killed.
THERE were two destructive cyclones In
Tennessee, two hours apart, on the 10Th.
TaoaAs WILSON, colored, was lynched in
Arkansas, about thirty miles north of
Little Rock recently, for committing an
assault on the wife of n planter named
Gritty.
PARTY Of fifteen raftsmen, returning
from the Licking river to their home in
Magoifin County, KY, became involved in
a drunken fight. Elijah Lee was shot
dead and six others more or less seriously
wounded by stabbing.
Hon. COLUMBUS DELANo, of Ohio, and
others made arguments the other day be-
fore the Committee on Ways and Means
in favor of tho restoration of the duties on
wool imposed in the tariff 1867.
TRooPs are arriving at Suakim, Egypt.
so rapidly that an advance will be made
on Tokar probably Saturday. Two thous.
and men have mustered at Trinkitat. The
Military Council has decided to leave
1,5OO English soldiers at Suakim, sending
1850 TO Trinkitat.
FAYETTE COUNTY, Pa, has been infested
with highway robbers. The other day
number Of the desperadoes were sur.
rounded, and in the fight which ensued
Sheridan Monruth was fatally shot; the
others escaped.
MANLY Rowe, a prominent citizen, rode
mp to the depot at Wharton, Tex, the other
morning, dismounted, stepped within three
feet Of n young fellow named Lewis Charl.
ton, leveled his gun and discharged load
Of buckshot into Charlton's right side, kill.
Ing him instantly. Rowe Immediately
surrendered. He said Charlton insalted
Mrs. Rowe.