Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-01
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THE wine cellars at Put-in-Bay island,
Lake Erie, were destroyed by fire the other
night, causing a loss of $4,000.
NEW York scene painter recovered a
judgment Of SAB against the National
Opera Company in the city court recently,
aud upon his application Judge Dugro in
the Supreme Court decided that a receiver
for the company should be appointed.
FRANKLIN, ROLF & Co., commission mer-
chants Of Boston, Mass, have failed with
100000 liabilities and unknown assets.
MAIL train dashed into a number Of
men clearing the track Of snow near Holy
oke, Mass, ON the 9th, killing three and
fatally wounding another.
Two persons died in Bellevue Hospital,
New York, recently having previously been
discovered suffering from starvation.
The steamer Elder and the ferrybo
Pavonia collided in the North river at New
York on the 25th, causing a panic among
the passengers. The ferryboat was badly
damaged, but the steamer escaped with
but few scratches. Nobody was hurt.
The Constitutional Prohibition resolution
has been passed by the Massachusetts
House by vote of 100 10 10.
The newly built fax mills of Barbour q
Co., Allentown, Pa, burned recently. The
loss was $225,OOO.
THE Spanish Consul General at New
York denies emphatically the truth Of the
stories Of trouble in CUBA.
The Liabilities OF Kurtz, Blanchard & Co,
bag manufacturers of New York c ty, are
stated to be 1910 600 and the assets about
100000. The assignee will continue the
business.
one man was killed and two others
fatally injured in Jersey City, n. j., re-
Gently, by a collision between coal cars in
the Lackawanna Yards
EIGHT cows, suffering from pleuro-pneu-
monia, were killed recently in Hudson
County, N. j., and others were to be sim
ilarly treated.
ONE man was killed and four badly in
lured by an explosion Of gas in "a mine near
Wilkesbarre. Pa. on the 9th.
LARGELY attended meeting Of tariff re-
formers was held at the Academy OF Music,
Philadelphia, on the eth, ito enforce and
endorse the recommendations of President
Cleveland for reform" The principal
speakers were Congressman Breckenridge,
Of Kentucky, and ex-Congressman Frank
Hurd.
REPORTS from Berks, Lebanon, Schuyl-
kill and Lehigh Counties, Pa, say the snow
had drifted so that the public roads were
abandoned. The farmers were turning out
In bands OF from fifty to one hundred to
open the roads.
The other morning fire broke out in the
brick building in Brooklyn occupied by St.
Johns Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum,
and which is occupied by four or five
hundred children. No lives were lost.
TIE Western theological Seminary's
main building, Pittsburgh, Pa, was badly
damaged by fire the other day. Twenty
two students lost their books and CLOTH
ing.
TaE Pennsylvania Grand Lodge Knights
OF Pythias, has been expelled from the
order
The Daily newspaper ONCE, York, Pa,
was burned out recently.
FIRE commencing in the Urling build
Ing, Fifth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. on the
18th destroyed property valued az S3Oo,OO
Insured.
THE Empire block, Malone, n. Y, and
other build ngs were destroyed by fire
recently, inaicting loss Of S3OQ.O00.
THE chlldrcn's hospital for ruptured and
crippled, New York, took fife the other
evening. The woman cook was subjected
TO death. The children were all rescued.
Sone OF the little unfortunates acting nobiy
in saving those more crippled than them
selves.
A PANIC without serious results. occurred
IN the Peoples Theater, New York. the
other night, owing to the bursting OF
steam DIDO.