Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-11
TIE WEST.

CHIEF or POLICE HUBBARD, Of Chicago,
says there IL nothing in the Tascott story
from British Columbia. A similar report
reached him some weeks ago and he sent
an ofiicer TO investigate. After q hard
chase the man was found. He was not
Tascott. Officers were sti1 securing the
Northwest Chief Hubbard also received
q telegram that the man who committed
suicide near St Paul was not Tascott
DISTRICT assembly "A, Knights OF Labor,
Chicago, IL was announced recently, had
given up It's headquarters, owing to lack Of
funds. The district machinery was cap
tured by the antl-Powderly faction at the
last election, and the membership had
fallen on rapidly. There are now but little
over 1000 members, while in 1885 there
were % 600
ID. l.. JONES, Of Mulberry Grove, Ill, has
been lodged in Jail on the charge Of cruelty
whipping a seven-year-old child. Besides
beating the little one, he held It's feet on
a red-hot stove until they were literally
roasted.
RICHARD +. CAREw, clerk for the whole
sale dry goods firm Of Burnham, Aspel &
Co, OF Detroit, has been arrested for steal.
ing several thousand dollars worth Of dry
goods in the past year.
BANK Examiner STONE has found that
Bank Of Dubuque, Iowa, will get seventy.
five cents on the dollar.
THE fast express on the Michigan Gen.
trail met with an accident near Burnsides
the other night. Twelve OF the passengers
were injured, five seriously. The disaster
was caused by Wabash freight plungin9
into the express at the crossing.
THE five story building at the corner OF
Peoria and Lake streets, Chicago burned
the other night, causing a loss OF Sis, 600;
insurance on the building and contents
aggregate $50, 900. Davis & Rankin, manu-.
facturers Of creamery supplies, occupied
the structure jointly with the Zimmerman
refrigerator factory. Both establishments
were destroyed almost completely.
THE striking burlington engineers and
switchmen ditched freight train and
created a riot at Chicago on the 10Th. The
trainmen and their Pinkerton guards were
beaten. For time matters were extremely
threatening, but at nightfall acquired s
more peaceful aspect.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred In Keith
& Perry's No. mine ut Rich Hill, Mo-, on
the 10Th. Five men were taken out dead
and fifteen othors seriously injured. II
was believed that others were In the mine
whose rescue alive was despaIred OF. The
disaster was the worst Of its kind ever
known IN the w est.
THE laborers OF all kinds on the great
lakes propose to organize a marine trades
council with headquarters at Chicago.
MRS. JoHS GARLIcK met a shocking death
at the auction and storage house OF Ezekiel
& Burnham, Cincinnati recently. She
attempted 10 step on before the car stopped,
fell, and her head was caught between the
elevator car and the floor. She was hor.
ribly mangled and was instantly killed.
AUGUST HETzKE, OF Chicago, who whipped
his stopson TO death with a strap, has been
sent TO the penitentiary for life.
THE St. Paul & Milwaukee switchmen
struck again at Chicago on the morning
Of the 3Oth on being asked to repair the
damage done by ditching the freight train
the day before. The Burlington strikers
were accused OF incendiarism, the round
house al Aurora, ILL.,, having mysteriously
burned down, causing q loss OF fl75, 900,
and q car being set on fire AT Downer's
Grove.