Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-03-21
THE WEST.

TIE Sagendorph Roofing Company, of
Cincinnati, has made an assignment with
$4,000 assets and $4,000 liabilities, nearly
all secured.
A. II. DANFoRTH, president of the Colo
RADIO Coal q Iron Company, and Charles
Brade, formerly purchasing agent for the
same company, have been arrested and
placed under bonds for unlawfuily cutting
timber on the public lands. The timber
was cut IN Las Animas County, Col
THE Republicans of Cincinnati have nom-
mated Judge William II. Taft for another
term on the Supreme Court bench.
JUDGE o. N. DENNY, of Portland, Ore,
for the past three years Inspector General
OF Customs for Corea and private legal ad-
visor Of the King of Corea, has resigned
and will return to America.
NEAR Cotton, Cal, on the Southern Pa
citic, the other night, a freight train was
derailed by running into some cattle and
Conductor Maguss and Brakeman Van
Mater were killed. The wreck took fire
and seventeen cars loaded with freight
were burned.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred in a large
building occupied by Atkins, Ogden & Co.
and another firm at Milwaukee, Wis, on
the 18th. The loss amounted to $3.50, 600.
During the hre a wall fell on several fire
men, killing two and injuIing several more.
The engineers and iremen on the extern
sive Atchison, Topeka a. Santa Fe system
struck on the 18th because the road was
exchanging business with the Burlington.
Travel was completely stopped, not man
returning to his post. Much public incon-
venlence resulted AMI greater was expected
as it was asserted that strikes would also
follow on the Missouri Pacific, the Union
Pacific, the Atlantic q Pacific the Gulf
and other roads.
Two Mormon Elders were tarred and
feathered near Brier Ridge, O., by a num-
Der OF angry citizens recently and chased
across the Ohio river.
WORD comes from Boulder, on the Wlckes
branch of the Northern Pacific, $50 miles
from st. Paul, Mimi, that Tascott, the
murderer OF miiliora ire Smell, was recog-
nized in that place.
A BOX OF dynamite exploded at the rolling
mill at Joliet ILL.,, recently. blowing Will
liam NJ. Green, who was in charge of the
dynamite, to pieces.
THE other morning powder mill at Gad's
Station, o., exploded with terrific force,
leaving nothing of the structure, only a
hole in the ground. Fred Therman, the
only person about the MILL was blown some
distance and burned from head to foot in
horrible manner. He died three hours
later.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cided that the recent annexation of Hyde
Park to Chicago, adding $4,000 to the lat
ter's population, is unconstitutional
In the County Court at Chicago recently
Horace P. Rounds, son of the late Public
Printer, s. p. Rounds was adjudged insane
and ordered committed to an asylum, and
g. V. Morford, a well known railroad man,
was also taken to the detention hospital
for the insane, afflicted with the belief that
he was Vice-President of the United States
Hewas formerly assistant superintendent
Of the Missouri, Kansas a. Texas road, and
for long time lived in Omaha.
AFTER conference with Governor Mar
tin and the Kansas Railroad Commission
ers and officials of the abroad, Chairman
ConrOe, of the Locomotive Brotherhood, on
the 18th, ordered the striking engineers of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to return
TO work. Various reports existed as to
what terms were made, and while some OF
the engineers regarded 1T as a victory
others thought that the strike had ended in
fizzle.