Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-02
THE WEST

THE WEST.
A TwELvE-YEAR OLD son OF Hiram Car.
son, living near Vandalia, Ill, was kicked
by a horse the other day and killed
MILE. DECO Miss Annie Wilson) had a
terrible fall from slack wire at Steuben-
vile, o., recently, during performance
the apparatus giving way. She was fatally
injured.
The conservation OF Bishop Jannssen
took place in St. Peters Church, Belleville,
Ill, on the 18th.
PRIVATE JAMES WHITE, stationed at Fort
Gibson, l. T., was sent to picket out one of
the officers horses the other morning, and
held the end of the rope halter, with an
iron picket stake attached, in his hand,
when the horse, becoming frightened,
jumped suddenly and jerked the iron stake
almost through his body. He died in
stantly.
IN a quarrel at Dickinson, Oak. the
other day over a game of poker, Jasper
Holtz was shot and killed by Frank Chase.
CENTRAL CITY, Oak, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss S25O,O 600
JOHN THoRNwALD, a prosperous farmer
living near Bismarck, Oak, claims to have
found very rich ore near the surface at a
point within twenty miles of Bismarck,
Oak.
Two deputy sheriffs Of Socorro County,
n. NJ, who had been on the trail of Joe
Atkins and Frank Porter for two DAYS,
came up with them near San Jose on the
oath. when regular pitched battle ensued,
In which Porter was killed and Atkins
captured.
The Calumet and Hecla mine at Calumet,
Mich, has been opened at shaft No. l. No
fire could be discovered and 1t is supposed
that the fire is entirely out.
AN explosion that pitched seventy peo-
pie into the air, throwing one man fifty
feet, wrecked seventeen large plate glass
windows, ruined $35, 900 worth of clothing
damaged q building SIS, 900 and caused a
stampede Of hundreds of people form the
upper stories of tall buildings, occurred in
basement on State and Jackson street,
Chicago, the other night. The explosion
was caused by two workmen, who had
broken gas main without knowing it. No
one was killed.
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Milwaukee on the
9th, decided the suit of the heirs of the
late S. s. Merrill general manager of the
Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul road,
against c. H. Price, for an accounting in
connection with Colorado land transactions
in Minnesota and Dakota, involving profits
supposed TO be in the neig hborhood of 81,
OOO,OOO The decision was in favor of the
defendant.
THE Bank of Amigo (Wis.) was robbed
OF 5000 tho other day by some unknown
person, who went into the back door while
the cashier was at dinner.
BENJAMIN S. ROBBINS, the assistant
United States district attorney at Denver,
Col, recently attempted suicide by jabbing
a knife in his neck. He was in fit Of de-
hrium at the time. He was from Kentucky,
where he had been State Senator.
TIE prison shoe shop at Chester, ILL.,,
was burned recently. Loss, $4,000
BIZ collision between freight and
construction train near Rirnam Wood,
Wis, the other morning, ten laborers were
badly hurt.
A TORNADO, the second one this year,
struck Pratt, Kan, on the evening of the
10Th. Mrs. William Fisher was killed and
many others seriously wounded.
The Indiana Democrats have nominated
CORTLAND NJ. Matson for Governor. Gray
was endorsed for the Vice-Presidency.
Two cistern cleaners of st. LOUIS were
found dead in cistern recently, having
been suffocated by choke damp.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at JEFF
fersonville, Ind, were terribly burned BY
molten iron recently while attending to 9
cupola-
ANARCHIST PARSONS old paper, the
Alarm, OF Chicago, has suspended publica-
ton.
| TWENTY survivors OF the great SuItaua
/ explosion of April 26, 1865. in which !, zoe
! Union soldiers lost their lives, held a re-
ception at Hillsdale, Mich, on the 26th.
/ THE sawmlls OF the Fl Madison Qowa)
! Lumber Company were destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss, $45, 900.
/ THE cannon ball train on the Burlington
! q Missouri River railroad was wrecked
near Alma, Neb., on the 9th Two passea.
1 gers were killed and quite a number in.
/ Iured. The mail and express cars with
their contents were consumed.
The crops Of Minnesota and the North
west generally are reported to be in a very
backward and doubtful condition.
OVER 1000 feet OF the snow sheds near
Mullan tunnel on the Northern Pacific
railroad, in Montana have been destroyed
by fire.
A PETITION to Governor Oglesby, asking
for the pardon of Anarchists Fielden
Schwab and Neebe, now imprisoned in the
Joliet pententiary, is to be circulated BY
certain labor organizations of Chicago.
THE South Fad Bank at Columbus, o.,
has suspended, supposed temporarily.
THE floor OF a building at Rushylvauia
o.. gave way during school exhibition re-
/ Gently and 400 persons were precipitated K
the basement Two persons were killed
and ten seriously injured.
THREE men, names unknown, were upset
in boat at Detroit, Mich, recently and
/ drowned.
THREE women and a man were drown 4
by the upsctting Of canoe in the StiIlagns
marsh, Washington Territory.