Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-26

! herman Relnkle, st. Joseph, Mo.
newspaper man. pleaded guilty Thurs
day to blackmail. Sentence was re
vised.
Joseph Foster. postmaster at Pome
roy, To-, is found to be short in his &C
counts about $1,000. His books are il
bad condition.
In drunken row Thursday night
at Valley View, Ky, Jesse Howard
shot Robert 10 mes with shotgun
killing him instantly.
Frank Lord was arrested at Du
buque, To-, and bound over in the sun
OF $1,000 for passing gilded quarters OF
the unsophist1cated tradesmen OF
Lloyd as $40 gold pieces.
Ollie Lunn and j. w. Howard were
each sentenced to two years in the
penltentiary by the district court at
Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, the
hrst for theft and the latter fo1
forgery.
George Loughton, OF Lafayette, Ind.
aged %, employed in the construction
OF the new Monon srailroad shops, was
Saturday crushed to death by the fall
of a derrick, which had IN hoist
large piece of stone.
A dispatch received in London from
Seoul, Corea, dated September 10, says
that the Japanese force moving from
Gensen has completely routed the
Chinese at Sing Chuen. Both sides
are reported to have lost heavily.
Fire Monday night destroyed the
large stables of DR.. Egloff, of Mason
City Iowa, with property valued at
5000; d. NJ. McMorrow's barn and
residence and f. NJ. Rogers barn.
Total loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The trial of Fred Rogers, on the
charge of killing Louis KernOdle, at
GAINESVILLE, Ark. several months ago
came to Il close Saturday. He was
found guilty of manslaughter, and
given five years in the penitentiary.
A forged check on the Merchants
National Bank, bearing ID. T. Tuttle's
name, payable to VIM. BALTIC, was
passed at Rooms 81 Manock last week
by forger in the guise of a farmer
boy, at Muncie, Ind. The check was
for SIS
Gov. Altgeld last week pardoned
William Cone, who was convicted at
Rockford, ILL.,, April last for burglary.
and sentenced to the penitentiary foe
one year, The Governor thinks there
were mitigating circumstances which
justify executive clemency.
Burglars broke into the residence of
Alexander Hartford a wealthy con-
tractor, at Ingram, Pa, last week.
carrying off all the silverware and
jewellery and set fire to the house.
Hartford, who was the only occupant,
narrowly escaped with his life.
Mrs. Frederick Thies, the wife of a
stockman, living n ear Elwood, Mo-.
was gorcd to death by bull last week
as she was crossing pasture to visit
nelghbor. The brute stood over her
PROSTATE form when life was gone and
was shot and killed by the husband
OF the dead woman before the BODY
could be removed.
The British cruiser Ringarooma
winch went ashore September 6 on a
reef OFF Mallicolla Island, New He
brides, and it is feared would become
total wreck, has been floated, thanks
TO the assistance rendered by the
brltish war-ships, Dart, Lizard and
Wallaroo and the French cruisers
ScorH and Louante, The Ringarooma
5 now at Port Sandwich
r. Cooper wealthy farmer living.
fourteen miles north of Tuscaloosa,
Fla, was assassinated Saturday night
two miles from his home, while re-
turning from a trip to the city. He
was found Sunday morning with his
head aud body filed with bullets.
Cooper went to town Saturday and
sold two bales of cotton. He was
shot from ambush on his way home
and robbed.
Joseph Fletcher, check weighman
at Monarch mine, owned by the Teller
Coal Company, was cut to pieces Sat
urday morning while trying to pre-
vent wreck. Fifteen fiat cars had
broken loose from the engine and
were running down grade on the mine
switch at fearful speed, and Fletch-
er tearing wreck, attempted to
Jump the train to set the brakes, when
he fell under the wheels, fifteen cars
passing over his body.
Six survivors of the persons aboard
the chinese transport Chean, which
stranded in the Che Tung Pass recent
~ with 400 troops aboard, while on
the way to the Island of Formosa
nave arrived at Shanghai. It was an.
hounced that, in spite OF the panic
that prevailed on the transport after
she went ashore. all the troops and
crew were saved in the ships boats
but the six persons who reached
Shanghai say that they estimate that
about 200 soldiers were drowned in
the Che Tung Pass.
just after noon Monday, Ada Jones.
young woman of Seymour. after 81
short interview with her lover. in
which their engagement was declared
OIL procured a revolver, went into the
BACK yard and shot herself IN the req
ion of the heart.
Black diphtheria has made it's an
pearance in Anderson, Ind, and one
death has resulted. 1t was in North
Anderson Saturday night among the
glass workers. There is much alarm
as the disease is causing many deaths
in this section of the state. 1t is al.
most invariably fatal.
Michael knoblock, a baker of Deca-
sur' III, while riding a bicycle, was
Nnockeo down by an electric street
car ana Killed Monday evening. 1t
"as oouole track, and Knoblock did
posite direction.
A T. Kennedy, of Cripple Creek, was