Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-06-27
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The champion grain drill works of Jere
Platt and Johnston at Oswego, n. Y, were
burned the other night. Loss, 100000.
THREE laborers in New York City were
killed recently by the cavlng in of the
earth while they were laying gas pipes.
The PinkertOn detective force has ar
rested Express Agent Huber for stealing
$4,000 from the Adams Express Company
August 90 1856. The money was shipped
from Philadelphia to Shamokin, to paw
employees of the Mineral Mining Company.
Huber was arrested in Philadelphia Huber
was an old employee of the company and
was highly respected.
THERE was terrific explosion of gas at
the Nelson colliery, Shamokin, Pa, on the
SOth, by which George Schmack received
probably fatal injuries. Michael Kelly, of
Slope Ill., was badly burned and other
wise injured. Martin Karins, of Scoth
Hill, was also frightfully burned
MRS. JOSEPHINE MARICK, living on Syca-
more street. Allegheny City, Pa, recently
administered strychnine to her three chill
dren, Mary, Helena and Ellen, aged seven.
three and four years respectively, and
then swallowed a large draught Of the
deadly poison herself. In less than three
hours Mary and Helena and the mother
were dead aud little Ella was in convul-
tive for the deed was supposed to have
been anger because her husband had or
dered boarder from the house whom be
suspected Of criminal intimacy with his
wife.
FIRE in Johnstown, Fulton County, NY,
the other morning, destroyed William
Loops skin mill. Loss, $1,000; fully in
sured.
DIVIDENDS were declared in New York
City recently as follows: Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern, per cent; Michigan
Central, per cent. Canada Southern, II
per cent
A FIRST mortgage bond was recorded at
Erie, Pa, recently against the Pittsburgh,
Shenango q Lake Erie railroad for 81, 5O0,-
500 from the Central Trust Company of
New York. The bonds will run fifty years
at five per cent and the proceeds will be
used for the extension of the system north
OF Pittsburgh to compete with the Penn
sylvania Company's lines.
AT the boat race at New London on the
22d, Yale won by ten lengths in 81 :19JS.
The University OF Pennsylvania crews
time was q :59lS.
The Prohibition party held mass ratifi-
cation meeting at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, on the 22d. Clinton b.
Fiske, the Prohibition candidate for Presi-
0Cht3 was Suc Cuicl SpthhcF JOun n.
Brooks, of Missouri, also spoke.
TIE s3,DO0,OOO debt Of Elizabeth, N. j.,
has been compromised at 81 per cent
WHOLESALE grocers met at New York
recently for the purpose of forsning pool.
TIE Buffalo On. W canal boat trade is
reported extremely dull this season.
NICHOLAS GERKIN was siezed with cramps
while bathing at Greeuville, near New
York, recently. ID. b. CLAIM went to his
assistance and both were drowned.
Tony HART has been comm tied to the
State Lanatic Asylum hospital at Worces-
ter, Mass. The superintendent OF the
hospital says the affection is incurable.
Hart has not been on the stage for over a
year.
THERE were thirty prostrations from
heat at New York on the 23i, six of the
cases proving fatal. In Brooklyn there
were ten cases and one death.
MRs- TRIP and little girl were drowned
at Bost n on the night Of the 23d by the
capsizing OF small yacht during storm.
Six girs were drowned at Newark, N j.,
on the 81 by the upsetting of yacht
while some OF the passengers were jump
ing ashore.