Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-11

Enterprise ran on the Mole, of Droebak,
to-day. colhding with great crush. There
was no pilot on board at the time. The
vessel is not leaking. One hundred tons
Of coal have been discharged, and the guns
have been shifted aft to tighten her stem.
WRIT Of error has been granted by the
United States Supreme Court in the case
of James Albert Newsome, who was con-
victed in the Federal Court at Waco, Tex,
for the San Angelo stage robberies It
was generally believed that the wrong man
was convicted, and a petition for pardon
was signed by several of the Jurors.
TIE war on dressed beef and packing
house products still continues with una
bated vigor and there is no immediate
prospect of settlement. 1t is generally
conceded by freight men that the rates
will yet 60 lower and that the rates on
other commodities will be cut before very
long.
THE O'Donnell libel suit against the Lon
don Times ended in favor of the newspaper
Egan declared the letters connecting him
with the murder conspiracies were svil-
famous concoctions.n
The locust plague in Algeria is becoming
worse. Sixty thousand laborers and 2 600
soldiers are powerless. The whole country
/ is devastated and it IS feared that famine
! and pestilence will result.
THE session of the Spanish Cortes was
suspended on the 4th.
THE disorders at Seoul, Corea, have been
ended. They were caused by stories that
foreign cannibais had abducted native
! children.
THE monument to Francis Scott Key, the
| gift OF the late James Lick to the city of
San Francisco, was unvailed on the 4th
| Eleven of Keys descendants were present
THE City of Rome, which sailed from
Liverpool June q, arrived at New York
July Q. 1t was reported by her officers
| that on July l, at noon at latitude IL 80,
! longitude IS degrees % minutes, during q
heavy head sea, the vessel shipped huge
wave, which carried away her bowspr1t
and stove the forward bridge, and the sea-
men on duty there were seriously injured.
The Canadian police have arrested in
| Toronto the notorious counterfeiter John
son, who escaped from the United States
authorities in Detroit three weeks ago.
TIE Russian Government has signed the
convention for the abolition Of sugar boun-
| ties.
THE report that King Milan had been
divorced is denied
A BUSH tre was reported raging near
South Indian, Ont, on the Canadian IL
Atlantic railway, below Ottawa, Ont.
Wade's saw mill, 5000 cords of wood, five
freight cars, five houses and thousands Of
cords OF tanbark were destroyed. The
country on each side for some days was
utterly impossible.
THE Paris corporation has voted 60, 900
for the erection of the reduced copy of
Bartholdrs statue of Liberty" in New
York harbor, which was presented by Hon.
Levi p. Morton.
The steamer Vile de Brest, belonging to
the General TRANSATLANTIC Company, col
lided with and sunk the steamer Charles
Quint, belonging 10 the same company,
near Havre, France, recently. The captain
of the Quint and four OF the crew were
drowned.
A MOVEMENT is reported to have assumed
extensive proportions in India for reform
in child marriages. In Rajpootana no male
is to be married before eighteen nor female
| before fourteen.
MANY shops in the market place OF
Athens, Greece, were destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss, $3.50 600.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
July showed an increase of IL In New
York there was "a decrease of "a.
THE May statement of the Burlington
railroad showed decrease of $500, 900
compared with last year.