Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-08
TEE SOUTH.

THk SOUTH.
DURING the last seven years eighty-five
new cotton mills, with 654, 026 spindles and
Is, 734 looms, have been established in the
South.
A COLLISION of freight trains on the Gal
weston, Harrisburg & San Antonio railway,
200 miles east Of FL Paso, Tex, recently,
caused the death of three men and serious
injury Of two others. The damage done
was extensive.
GOVERNOR GORDON, of Georgia, has COM
muted the sentence of Eliza Randall, OF
Clay County, to Imprisonment for life.
She murdered her father, killing him with
an axe. Public sentiment against capital
punishment alone saved her life
FRANCIS MILLER, leading lawyer and
Republican politician Of Maryland, died at
Sandy Spr4ng, that State, on the I'd.
TIE Union cotton compress at Charles
ton, s. c., was burned recently together
with ], 800 bales Of cotton. Loss, 100000;
insured.
The Arkansas Republican State Conven-
ton to select National delegates will be
held April 10 at Little Rock.
A PASSENGER train on the Texas & Pacific
railroad was derailed by a defective switch
six miles from Longview, Tex, recently.
The engine and express and baggage cars
were demolished. Michael Kaine, en-
gineer, of Marshall, Texas, was killed. T.
r. Johnson. engineer; Matt Jordan, and
Peter Bagler, laborers, were injured IA
tally.
The Montgomery & Florida narrow
gauge railroad running southwark forty
miles from Montgomery, Ala, has been
put into the hands of a receiver on petition
Of the contractors who had claim of S12,-
500 against the company.
HUBBARD HARRELL, q colored boy ten
years old, was made drunk recently at
Eastman, Ga, and, going to the home of
his brother-in-law, James Pope, killed three
children. Two OF them he threw In scald-
ing water. The young fiend then escaped.
The annual conference Of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church was in session
in Grenada, Miss, on the 1st, with ex-Sen.
ator Revels presiding as Bishop pro tenn.
CYRUS o. OBERLY, noted Texas Jour-
nalist, died recently at Houston, aged forty
| eight.
KENTUCKY tobacco interests were re-
ported greatly excited because of shortages
in last years requirements. Available
land for new crops was rented at high
prices.
A NEGRO boy, aged fourteen, was hanged
legally In Webster Parish, La, recently
for the murder of child OF his employer a
year ago.
AMOS GRANT, a colored farmer OF Baker
County, Ga, was recently found dead, hang
ing TO rafter. His wife, sister in-law and
son were also found dead. The theory was
that Grant hal murdered them and then
suicided.
GENERAL.
THE Somalis have murdered an English
| officer and twenty-three natives Of Berber.
CANADIAN PACIFIC officials state that the
reports Of the loss of life and interruption
Of traffic on that road, in the mountains,
were exaggerated. The heavy rains which
prevailed for four or five days brought
| down large quantities of soft snow in places
and traffic was interrupted for about sixty
hours. Two Chinese section hands were
| killed by one OF the snow slides.
FIVE mysterious arrests were made by
the London police recently, and it was be-
heved they were made in connection with
| gigantic forged bonds frauds, in which
Ringgold Cooper, the American who was
arrested in Paris for forgery upon the
London and Westminster Bank, was the
| principal.
THE irish Catholic clergy and laity have
been much exercised over remark made
| by the Pope that it was possible to settle
the Irish difficulties upon lines identical
with the settlement Of the difficulties be-
| tween the Vatican and Prussia.
The Chicago q Alton railroad has de-
clared a quarterly dividend of two per cent.
on both preferred and common stocks.
THE Swedish Government has declared
against the importation of pork from the
United States unless it is well salted.
False rumors Of hog pestilence caused the
action.
NOLAN, an Irish member of Parliament
has been arrested as an accessory Of Cal
L..
on trial in London.
LORD RIPoN and John Morley, English
Home Rulers met with a cordial reception
in ireland.
The British feet in the Pacific, so it is
reported from Ottawa, Can, is to be
strongly reinforced and efforts are to be
made to let British sealers work their will
on Alaskan waters.
FIVE arrests were made in London re-
Gently Of fashionably dressed men who had
attempted TO swindle the Bank Of England
out Of 10000 upon forged or stolen bonds
Of the Hamilton & Northwestern railroad,
Of Canada
SEVERAL crofters of the island OF Lewis,
Scotland, on trial for rioting, have been
conyicteo. Some OF them were sentenced
to q years imprisonment, some to nine
months and others 20 six months.
BUSINESS failures iDun's report) for the
aeven days ended February enumbered for
the United States, s4T; Canada, 81; total,
er9. compared with Sl7 the previous week,
and 261 the corresponding week of last
year.
CAILAN and HsrkIns, the alleged dyna-
miters, were convicted in London on the
Sd and sentenced to fifteen years impris-
| onment
IT is claimed that the action OF the Ma
t.onal dispatch. q fast freight line, in
making 81 q rate from New York to Chi
Cage WHICH is cut Of five cents under the
differential. will lead 10 further war among
Eastern roads.
A CHEMIST. his wife and six children were
found dead in their dwelling house at
Manchester. Eng, recently, having been
poisoned. The superstition was that the
chemist, in despair. had ncis.:s,soei himself
and family.
The National Zeifaag, Of Berlin, has tele-
grams from St Petersburg and Vienna
stating, under reserve, that Count Scbouva-
J len. the Russian Ambassador 70 Germany,