Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-23

IN the house lately occupied by d. J. Tob-
man, of Chicago.
THE schedule OF the condition Of 81. B.
Baird, an extensive real estate agent, Of
Minneapolis, Mimi, who recently assigned,
shows assets 81. 523, 526, direct liabilities,
$40, 3S4, contingent liabilities, $577, $50
There were a number Of heavy Eastern
creditors.
COLONEL J. H. WootFoRD, who issued
the bonds of the Confederacy during the
war, died at Madison, Ind, recently.
DIsCoURAGING reports regarding the out
look for crops have been received from all
parts of Indiana. In many counties hay
and oats have suffered severely from
drought, while in the southern half of the
State corn fields are being devastated by
the cut worm.
Twenty representatives of large export
ing -four mills from St. Louis, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland,
Terre Haute and other points met at Chi
cago recently and formed combination.
OHIO Democrats have made the following
nominations: Secretary OF State, Boston
q. Young, of Marion County; Judge Of the
Supreme Court Lyman r Critchfield, of
Holmes County; Board of Public Works,
James Emmett, of Pike County. The plat
form Endorsed the National Administrator
and the Mills Tariff bill and expressed SYM
patty for Ireland.
The Missouri Republicans have nomi-
mated State ticket headed by Ebert Err
win Kmball, of Vernon County, for Gov
ernor.
In the Labor convention at Cincinnati on
the 10Th, the joint committee laboring In
the interests OF harmony was reported as
being unable to agree upon q common plat
form. The platform adopted by the Union
Labor party practically excluded 1t from
afiliating with the United Labor party.
TIE night express on the Rio Grande
railroad from Denver to Leadville, Col,
was wrecked near Salida recently. The
wreck was a terrible crash and several
persons were more or less injured, but
marvelously to relate no one was killed.
l.. RICHARnsON's int or decorat on
works. Clveland, o., were destroyed by
/ fire the ther morning. Loss $4,000.
The United Labor party at Cincinnati on
the 18th nomina ed Robert II. Co drey of
Illinois, for President and W. II. T. " AXE
| field, of Council Grove, Kan, for Vice
President.
A BREAK occurred in the Sny levee, two
miles below the HRnniba (Mo.) bridge on
the 18th. The Territory covered by tn.
fioodswas forty five miles long,and SIX miles
wide. The damage was immense and could
not be computed
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penitentiary annex at Columbus o., on the
18th, In the presence Of q limited number
Of spectators Georges crime was the
murder Of James Scott, in Muskingum
County, on the night of July Is, 1887.
The court house Of Sydney, the county
seat OF Fremont County, Iowa, was burned tc
the ground the other night, and the records
except the treasurer's, were destroyed. An
attempt was made few years ago to blow
up this building and destroy the records to
cover up shortage Of tho officials, blu,
| failed. The fire was incendiary.
Four horse thieves were hanged recently
by vigilantes on the western border of the
Cherokee Strip. Two of them were noto
rious criminals, the other two being un
| known.
GAS escaping in the basement of the First
National Bank at st. Cloud, Mimi, ex
ploded recently. The building was a tota
wreck. Many people were hurt, the fol
lowing seriously: E. Keller, j. Kuhn, A
| Huber, F. Talman and j. Whitney
/ By an explosion OF dynamite at the Pal
mer mine, near Negaunee, Mich, the Other
morning, Fred Hamburg and Charley Sund
burg were instantly killed Sundburg':
back was terribly torn and a staple from
the door was found IN it. Every bone il
Hanburg's body was broken. The cause o.
the explosion is unknown.
THREE small children and their grand
mother were smothered to death by smoke
at Cleveland O., recently. William
Lleweliyn and wife, the parents Of the
| children, were away at the time.