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

Dy hre recently. Loss, 100000.
THE SOUTH.
The grocery store of II. p Jones al
Greenville, Tex, and other buildings were
burned recently. Loss, $1,000; insurance
$50 900.
COLONEL RAPHAEL NJ. JOHNSON, an old
settler OF Fort Smith, Ark, and a promi-
nent Mason OF Arkansas died recently.
THE wife Of Wesley Roy, farmer living
near Benton, KY, recently bore him 9
quartette of children-two boys and two
girls. This remarkable birth is the first
Of the kind that ever occurred in the State
All OF the children were reported doing
well.
CLARENDON & ALIENS rice mill at New
Orleans, together with large stock of rice
and valuable machinery, was. burned the
other day. Loss, 5000; insured.
EDITOR LITTLEToN, of Nashville, Tenn,
who was shot recently by Joseph r. Banks
as the outcome of a Repu blican quarrel
died from the effects of his wounds.
NEWS reached Burnett, Tex, the other
day that four men who were camped on the
Llama river, aud in sight of the town OF
Llama had been fired upon by parties un-
known. Two were reported dead and two
in very critical condition. The whole
affair was mystery to the citizens OF
Llama
MANY persons were knocked down and
stabbed indis crminately during race
troubles at Lawrenceville, Ga, recently.
Five men were taken home on stretchers.
FREDERICK, Nd, was visited by a severe
storm on the morning of the 29th, unroofins
many houses.
Two men recently commenced shooting
at each other in Justice Haynesworth's
court at Sumter, s. c. A stray bullet went
through the eye and brain of the Justice
COLLISION on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad occurred one mile south of Green
wood, KY, on the 3lst Six of the pas
seugers and train men were killed and
many more fatally and seriously injured.
The collision was the result of a mistake bv
Conductor Schiumm.
POLICEMAN JoHN OFFUTT, Of Lexington,
KY, while exhibiting his revolver the other
night, accidentally discharged it, shooting
himself through the body, so that he died.
A TERRIBLE catastrophe occurred al
Forgetown, Ala, in which three persons
were killed outright and between twenty
and thirty injured. The colored Baptists
had gathered in their church to watch the
Did year out and the new come 10, rs was
heir custom, ana during the festivities the
GENERAL
ADvICEs from Massowah state that King
John, of Abyssin is advancing upon that
place by rapid stages. He has under his
command three bodies of troops. The first
column is marching via Antalo and Algrab,
and the second via AdOwah, while the
route Of the third column was unknown.
The British Foreign Once has semi
of1cially announced that Lord Randolph
Churchllrs visit to Russia is outside the
knowledge of the Government
DESPERATE fight between Orang men
and Catholics occurred at the village OF
Killybearne, near Cookstown, County Ty-
rome, Ireland, recently The battle was
finally stopped by the police
SESoR LEON Torres, who was seized by
bandits an Cuba and held by them foy
ransom, has been released on payment OF
5000.
DIPHTHERIA and typhoid fever have been
causing great mortality in and about Otta.
wa, Ont, owing to the polluted condition OF
tue water. The epidemic may cause the
postponement Of Parliament's opening.
TEE Mexican Government has granted a
concession 20 . California capitalist FOR >
great railroad 10 tap the min ng regions ol
the western coast and connecting with the
Southern Pacific
FRANK FULLER, who killed Archbishop
Seghers on the Yukon river IN Alaska in
December, 1856, has been found guilty OF
manslaughter and sentenced to ten years
! Imprisonment and to pay a fine of 81 900
The losses by fire in the iron works Of
the country during the past year were
placed at Si,Ssl, 200, against SS,4IL5Oo il
iSS6 '''0 =
The presence OF English and American
men-otwar at Honolulu, Il was stated IN
private letters, was the only thing tina
prevented native uprising in Hawaii.
CAPTAIN PAINTER and his Second mate
Fischer, have been arrested in Sunderland
England, charged with gross cruelty u
their crew, causing three TO commit sui
eide and another to die from his injuries.
The vessel was the British bark Embletou
from San Francisco,
TIE Austrian railways were reported
blocked by heavy SHOWS on the 10Th.
GLADSTONE had an interview with Presi
dent Carnot, OF France, on the 29;h.
LAST years failures (Dun's reportl show
decrease OF two hundred in number. but
large increase of $54, 000, 900 in liabilities
as follows: 1887, number 96fS: liabilities
sl61, $50, "a; average, S17, 39s; 1885, number
$50 liabilities, $ll4,6I4, 1I9: average, sl1,
Dol. The returns Tor the Dominica of Can
ada show l,SS2 failures with SO. 3li.7 4s liza
Dilitiesi average, $l1.S53
THH Temps, OF Paris, publishes an inter
view with Mr.. Gladstone. In which the ex
Premier describes the Irish Land Com
mtssioners' rent reduction as "a tire
mendous SSaceDtion" and said he was
thunderstruck at the news. He also said
that the Tory Cabinet, having alienated
the fanaufa xvfstld now aiieuafa the land.
lords
MAIL advices from China state that 4
powder magazine containing 1000 kilo
grsmmes Of powder exploited at Annoy No
yem1er ?, doing immense damage. quar-
ter OF the buildings az the towp being laid
in ruins. Fifty soldiers were blown e
atoms, and several hundred inhabitants
killed.
THE Pope's jubilee was ceIebra' ed with
much pomD at Rome on the lsi Of January