Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-10-15

kegon for Chicago, loaded with lumber
got waterlogged and capsized the Other
morning about five miles west Of Grand
Haven. The crew of six men were saved
by the life saving crew.
The citizens of Tombstone, Ari., ofRel
$3.50 each for Apache scalps.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN recently ad.
dressed a large meeting at Toledo, o. His
remarks were chiefly directed to q refuta.
ton of Sherman's allegation that colored
men were maltreated in the South.
THE jury at Bloomington, Ind, in the
case Of Chesley Chambers, charged with
shooting the baggage and express messen.
ger and robbing the express company, wa.
discharged. Six were for acquittal and
six for fourteen years. Imprisonment.
THE street car strikers at st. Louis, on
the 9TH, got somewhat unruly. Five of the
new drivers were dragged from cars and
assaulted, and several arrests followed.
THE United States grand jury at Tucson,
Ari., presented indictments against j. A.
Zeabriskri, United States District Attor-
ney; Royal A. johnson, United States
Surveyor General: 7. NJ. Wolfey, Deputy
United States Surveyo all under the civil
service act for political contributions in
the last campaign.
THERE was great excitement at Rock
Spings, Wyo., over the release of the al
legged rioters. The accused were met on
their return from Green River by several
hundred men, women and children, and
treated to a regular ovation.
AN attempt to wreck passenger train
was made recently between Roxbank and
Huntingburg, Ind, on the Air Line Road,
by placing ties on the track. The engineer
saw the obstruction in time and saved the
train.
AT a meeting of the Northwestern, Pa
cific Coast & Western Freight Association,
held at Chicago recently, it was decided to
abolish the rates on double decked sheep
cars. Heretofore there has been nearly a
prohibiting rate, but now the double
decked cars will be abolished altogether.
JOHN LITTLE, ex-Postmaster at Benning-
ton, VT, who absconded in March, 1884,
was arrested recently on sheep ranch
where he was working, about twenty five
miles southeast of Greeley, Colorado. His
shortage was $500.
The American Free Trade League has
issued circular inviting the attendance
of persons of all political parties who be-
lieve in tariff revision at a national con-
ference to be held in Chicago November II
and II.
The findings of the ecclesiastical court
in, fha Of ho
Jardine, of Kansas City, were made public
on the Sth. He was found guilty of indie
cent conduct and Bishop Robertson was
recommended to inhibit him from offici
ating any further in st. Mary's Church.
PHILIP SMITH, machinist and foundry
man at Sidney, O., has made an assign
ment. His liabilities are 500, 900; his as
sets unknown.
ABOUT six hundred coopers employed at
the Armour and Fowler packing houses,
Chicago, went out on strike recently for
an advance in wages from s.. IS to S, day.
THE ravages of cholera among the hogs
in the country near Yankton, d. T., are
becoming alarming. With but few excep-
tions all the farmers have lost half of their
hogs.
FIVE white men and two Indians, who
made a murderous attack upon Chinese
hop pickers in the Squack Valley near
Seattle, W. T., two weeks ago and killed
two of the number, have been indicted by
the grand jury for murder in the first de-
gree.
THE large printing establishment of
Croker & Co., San Francisco, together
with other buildings, was destroyed by
fire recently. Loss, 100000; insurance,
500, 900. Four iremen were buried in q
fall of the ruins; two were killed and two
injured.
The Chicago SAlvationists, convicted
recently of disturbing the peace, ap-
pealed to higher court, where the cases
were dismissed after the appellants had
been admonished by the Judge.