Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

TUE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com.
pany has reduced rates from Chicago and
50. Louis 20 New York, Philadelphia.
Baltimore and Washington 10 forty cents
a message.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
authorized tie Union National Bank OF
CT vrland, o., TO begin business with a
capital Of Sl,OOO.0O. H has also extended
n corporate existence Of the Merchants'
National Bank OF Boston, Mass, TO June
10, 1914.
TWENTY deaths occurred at Havana from
yellow fever during the past week.
The Natioualists para led the streets Of
Newry, Ireland. on the Ssh, with bands and
banners. A meeting was held outside the
town, and on the return Of the Nationalist
from the meeting they threw stones. and
when they reached the Protestant quarter
Of the town the Protestants retaliated. Sew
eral shots were fired The police and troops
inicrfered. -Four Nationalists and several
Orangemen were arrested. Many persons
were injured.
FRANCE and England have agreed upon
basis OF conference upon Egyptian az.
fairs. The terms OF the agreement havp
been impaired TO the powers. They affirm
the principle Of temporary occupation IT
Egypt by England, TO which no limit Is
Fixed, propose an international control "
the POWERS TO audit the whole system Cf
revenue and expense in Egypt. England
recognizes the suz srian rights of the Porte
throughout Egypt, inelud ng the Soudan,
and France formally abando9s all claim Of
dual control.
]. II. SoUrER & Co., bankers and brokers
OF Washington, closed their doors and made
an assignment recently. They dealt prin.
cipally In army and navy accounts, and
were unable to realize on them in time to
meet unexpected demands from outside
creditors.
The corner stone Of the new Catholic
Church Of 81. Francis Xavier, corner of
Grand and Lindell avenues, 81. Louis. was
laid on the Sth with imposing ceremonies
and in the presence Of an immense throng
Of people.
, The other evening the large round house
and repair shops OF the Wabash, st, Louis
a Pacific and the st. Louis, Des Moines a
Northwestern Railroad, at Des Moines. Ia.
burned to the ground. 1t was supposed 10
be the work OF an incendiary. Nine en-.
gines were destroyed, also all the ma.
chinery stalls in the repair shops, together
with one passenger coach. The approxi.
mate loss was $3.50 The two latter
roads were left with no engines ~
send out trains. The st. Louis, Dies Moines
} & Northern had only two engines left ON
the entire road, and tho St. Louis, Des
Moines & Northern only one.
A SUIT has been fled against the direc
tors Of the Penn Bank, Of Pittsburgh. b,
over two hundred depositors. The,
charge negligence and dishonesty, and ash
} the court TO make the directors and officer,
personally liable for the deposits.
GENERAL ABR BUFoRD, OF KENTUCKY
committed suicide at Danville, Ind, on "a,
Oh, at the residence OF his nepbew, Benja
min +. Buford. General Buford went I.
7 Danvills 20 visit relatives and attend tn,
, races. He seemed mpch depressed, whicl
, visihly increased otter reading an articI
: in a newspaper giving an account Of III,
decadence OF the Buford family, written Il
connection with the return Of Tom Bufof,
10 the Anchorage Asylum, physical an,
financial wreck. The Generals forum
} bad also been swept away. He shot him
self with a revolver through the head.
A DISPATCH was received at 81. Loui
recently from Philadelphia stating cable
; gram bad reached that city from Rome
announcing The appointments Of ArchbishoI