Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-04
THE EAST.

AT meeting of the Western Window
Glass Manufacturers Association at Pitts
burgh, Pa, trade was reported unusually
good for this season, with prospects for
spring tiattering. No changes were made
in prices.
RECEIVER has been appointed for the
BiJou Opera Company, Of New York, on
judgment Of $4,000.
THE heaviest gale and sea that has pre-
vailed in years at Coney Island visited that
desolate resort on the night Of the 2Sth.
Many small buildings were swept out to sea,
aud workmen were set to work strength
enng the foundations OF the Hotel Brighton
TIE National Rubber COmpany's factory,
at Bristol, X. l., has agai in shut down,
throwing out $50 hands recently put on.
There are now 400 persons out of employ
ment.
JUDGE RAPALLo, Of the New York State
Court OF Appeals, died IN New York re-
Gently af or long illness.
HUNGARIAN and Russian miners at Hiber-
MIA, n. j., had a desperate encounter re-
Gently. Several of the combatants were
seriously wounded.
The Sound steamer City of Richmond
struck a rockin East river, New York har-
Dor, on tue 18th, aud began to fill. Fire
also broke out but was extinguished. The
vessel was locked in time.
The freight steamship Newcastle CITY
went on the beach on the New Jersey COAT
the other night. The crew was saved The
total loss was $4,000
The Massachusetts Tariff Reform Leapue
had meeting and banquet at the Bruins
wick Hotel, Boston, on the Goth. Hon.
James Russell Lowell and other dis
tinguished persons were present The
! speeches were an endorsement OF the views
OF President Cleveland.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, ministers recently re-
fused the use OF their churches to Francis
| Murphy, the temperance apostle the rea-
son for which ACTION not being stated
SEVERAL persons were badly injured DIV
u mixed train on the Pittsburgh d. West
ern going through trestle near ST. Peters
! burg. Pa, recently.
| Four coal barges broke from their moor.
ings at Sevcntv-sixth street North river.
! New York, the other night, and three Of
them were reported floating out on the ebb
! tide, with presumably about a dozen men
on board. TIC Fourth was caught of As
toria, Long Island,
SENATOR CHASE spoke before the ". c.
| 7. u, at Providence, II. l., recently in
| favor OF the abolition of the whisky tax.
arguing that it was ineffective in restrict
ing and inconsistent with prohi0itOry doc
trnes.
THE men employed on the Realing rail-
road were again ordered 10 strike on the
1 3Oth By the executive committee. The
company refused To have any oommunica-
| ton with delegates from the knights OF
| Labor.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY MARITIME, Of New
! York reported to the grand jury on the
| 3Olh that Jay Gould and Russell Sage were
! liable to indictment for grand larceny in
I defrauding the eli boudholders OF the
I Kansas Pacific railway.
FIVE persons were killed outright and
thirteen seriously and fatally wounded by
a collision on the New York, Pennsylvania
q Ohio railroai near Meadyille, Pa, on
tho 3lst. The blame was said 70 rest with
the engineer ana conductor of the freight
train which coilIded with the Chicago ex-
! press.
FIRE the other might destroyed great
( part Of the business portion of Egg Har-
Dor Guy, n. j.. gqusing loss of $4,000.