Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-06
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JAMES ID. FISH, the President Of the de-
funct Marine Bank, of New York, was
jailed on the 18th on the charge of misap-
propriating the funds of The bank in col.
fusion with the firm Of Grant & Ward.
The Penn Bank, OF Pittsburg, Pa, closed
its doors again. after two or three days re
sumption. Ii transpired that President
Riddle took heavy dose Of chloroform in
an attack Of sickness, and was rendered
unconscious. Under the circumstances
the directors decided to close the bank. II
was thought the matter would end in liqui-
/ dation.
TILDEN G.. ABBOTT, late cashier of the
Union Market National Bank, at Water.
town, Mass, was recently indicted for
forgery and embezzlement.
A MLEs CITY special says: Jack Nor
ris, the cowboy who shot Iron Heart, a
Cheyenne chief, surrendered. He claimed
self-defense. The Indians threatened to
take the war path. Women and children
were coming in from tho ranches in great
alarm.
l. Miss ARABELLA HAZARD bad been miss.
ing from Cincinnati for several DAYS, when
her body was found drowned at Hastings,
n. Y. She formerly lived at Hobbs Kerry,
near Hastings. No information was given
as to the circumstances under which she
left her home and lost her life
A DENIsoN, Ia, special says the Craw-
ford County Bank, which had been consid-
cred one OF the strongest in the Western
part Of ths State, closed its doors on the
och. The assets and liabilities were not
made known.
A SPECIAL commission will be organized
at St. Petersburg to inquire into the cause
| OF the spreading OF Nihilism in the Rus
sian army and navy. Political arrests
continue.
KATE MEDINGER, n handsome school
girl in Baltimore, after too close applica-
ton to her books disappeared last week,
and was being searched for by a large
force Of police and detectives.
INGE & MALONE, large tobacconists of
Petersburg, Va, have made deed of trust
for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities and
assets unknown. The junior member of
hone.
FILLER, the st. Louis express robber,
pleaded guilty on the 9th, and was sem
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
JOSEPH MCDoLE, prominent carpenter
Of Princeton, Ind, was fatally injured by
falling timbers while engaged in erecting
a barn at Owensville. He was frightfully
crushed, and suffered the greatest agony
until bis death.
The skeleton remains of an unknown
man were found on the shores of West Bay,
near Galveston. At the inquest held moth
ing was found 10 establish his identity.
His remains were evidently those of some
poor unfortunate who lost bis life at sea.
a PASSENGER train on the Wabash Road
jumped the track near Grand Chain, ILL.,,
recently. Engineer Fisher was seriously
scalded and several passengers were hurt.
LONDON newspapers appeal to the public
for El 900 with which TO send British artil-
lery TO Quebec to compete in practice.
A FALSE Tumor was circulated at WASH
ington on the 27tb that Secretary Lincoln
had been killed. The Secretary was at
his desk in the War Department in his
usual health.
The Wabash system of railroads has
passed into the hands of Scion Humphreys,
Of New York, and Thomas Z. Tut, of St.
Louis, as receivers.
SPECIAL BAILIFF W. h. KILLIoN was
killed in Laurel County, KY, recently by
rest them. Four moonshiners entrenched
themselves in house which was attacked
by the officers. Eight or ten volleys were
fred before the men surrendered, and Xii.
lion was shot four times, dying almost in.
stantly.
PLACARDs were posted throughout Mos.
COW reminding the Gar Of the Nihilistsi
proposals OF 1891, that in order to avert
his fathers fate lie should grant constitu.
tional amnesty 20 political offenders.
AT the N W York Clearing House on the
2Stl i, was stated large number of new
certificates were cane lled and no demand
existed for them. Brokers and banks re.
ported brokers' balances very large. Banks
reported money as again flowing that wav.
FIFTEEN hundred coal miners of the third
pool at Pittsburgh, Pa, refused TO accent
the reduction of quarter of a cent and
| threatened To strike unless the district price
was raid. A delegate meeting was to be
held at MonoGgehala City to consider the
advisability of ordering general strike OF
the fourth pool.
AT the New York horse show on the 18th,
| Cyrus W. Field received the first prize for
matched pairs. Frederick Gebhardt's Lee
received the first prize for hunters mare
or gelding; also a special prize.
ANDREW BRUoN, the defaulting Hot
Springs, Ark, banker, was arrested at st.
Louis in company with Mrs. Steele, q
woman with whom he fed.
NEIL MCKEAGUE, charged with murder
of the aged Wilson couple at Winnetka two
months ago, was acquitted at Chicago on
the indic'ment charging him with the muir.
der of the husband. The indictment charg.
ing him with the murder of the wife wa
still pending, but the evidence was the
same in both cases. The trial occupied
three weeks.