Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-14

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refrigerator. Stab locked him in and |
notified the police. 1t was hot day, !
and after the man had been in small |
cell for an hour he asked to be put back |
in the ice box.
JOSEPH WEIssHAUER was arrested the |
other day at New York charged with
bringing home food, cooking and eat
ing it himself and leaving his wife and
two-year-old child to starve.
PHILLIP TAsHLEY, Dane convicted
by the United States court of killing
John Sanders, United States soldier,
at Huachita, year ago, was hanged
at Tucson, Ariz., on the 9th. He made
jocular remarks, danced jig and then
said, Let 'er go, Gallagher"
WHILE a gang of workmen were eX-
cavating on the line of street railway
at Lexington, KY, one of them struck
what appeared to be a piece of pipe,
but which proved to be a 64-pound
dynamite cartridge. A fearful explo-
sion followed, and five of the six ne
groes in the gang were blown to atoms.
THERE were five deaths and 20 or
more prostrations in the two Kansas
Citys on the 9th. In st. Louis the
death list reached ten; Chicago re-
ported 16 deaths and ten cases critical.
Six died from the heat at Cincinnati;
three at Lafayette, Ind; seven at n ew
York; two at Indianapolis, Ind, be-
sides three more cases of prostration
considered fatal. Fatal cases were
also reported from other cities.
SOME time ago Atticus Thompson, a
negro, attempted to outrage a white
woman at Forest, Miss, but was frus-
trated in his designs. He eluded ar
rest until the 9th, when he was cap
tured by a mob of unknown men and
shot to death.
JOHN LEWIS, farmer living near
Langston, Ok, was killed while dig
ging a we'll. The windlasS which he
was working broke and he fell into the
we'll head first.
Two daughters, aged six and eight,
of David Harmon, a farmer near Spring
field, O., were burned to death by an
explosion of coal oil while starting a
fire.
The bodies of man and woman, ap-
parently dying, lying side by side on
a raft of logs moored to the shore near
the village of California. was found a
few miles above Cincinnati. Near the
raft the dead body of an infant was
taken from the water. The man and
woman were alive but unable to speak
Both their wrists were cut and bleed
ing and other wounds indicated an at
) tempt at suicide.
AT Cincinnati on the Sth there were
two fatal cases of sunstroke and Louis
vile, KY, reported one death anC
many prostrations. Niue children
: died suddenly at New York through
the heat. Two deaths also occurred a
Indianapolis.
AT Darlington, Ok, the seat of th'
D agency of the Cheyenne and Arapaho
: Indians, over 5000 red men and womel
d were reported in secret council AM
D people near them fear trouble. o.
G July law was passed by the lat
legislature prohibiting polygam
n among the Indians and an outbreal
/ may occur over the enforcement of tn
new law.
I FRED ROYAL, the professional hig
5 diver, dived from car on the Ferri
!. wheel at Chicago the other night afte
II it had reached a height of 125 feet
He miScalculated the distance and i
g turning into the net used in breakin
t. the fall struck on his hips. Physician
lie summoned stated that he had receive
k a severe concussion of the spine and
X was feared he might not recover.
A DISPATCH from Cleveland, o.. o
l. the 7th stated that the railroads ha
y begun to seize coal on account of til
rs miners strike, no matter to whom
was consigned. Many manufacturin
fl establishments in that city were sal
~ t be seriously embarrassed by tt
rt proceeding and would probably hay
Id to close down for want of coal.
ut THE sanitarium of DIR. johnson. {
IN Missionary Ridge, Tenn. was struC
IT. by lightning during a storm and t
I'd tally destroyed. The inmates were r
a moved with some difficulty.
On his Goth birthday Martin w
he Buren, Gendes laid his head on Blu
"a lington track at Denver, Col. on ii
us 5th before a train and found deaf
n He had made and lost large sums as
sc ranchman in Mitchell county. Kan.
to MRS. JANE GEORGE, of Hot Spring
Ark, became partially demente
,st caused by the extreme hot weather
81. the eth. and jumped into well 80 fe
hn deep, but was rescued by neighbol
Il The reason she gave for the act w
lid that she wanted to keep cool.
he A FREIGHT train on the Pittsburgh
RS. Lake Erie railway was derailed
"a Falston, Pa, and ten cars were preci
is itated into the Erie river. For
tramps were on the train and one de
OF and three injured were taken out a
ers six others were reported missing.
bv AT St IouiS on the Sth the thermO
rd eter showed 100 degrees on the sire
! a and seven people died from the he;
OF one man attempted suicide and the
Die were at least four out of the ma
er. prostrations which will prove fatal.
ice Two aeronauts, named Prof. Geor
Weston and II. ScottOn, were fearful
The injured while attempting an ascensi
at Eureka, Cal When the balloon w
ra- inflated it shot up 90 feet with Scott
ins entangled in the ropes. He was dropp
,ad to the earth and sustained fractul
en-. from which he will die. Prof. West
)ne clung to the parachute and the wi
en-. carried him against the tops of sol
VIC trees and he, too, dropped to the ear
and was mangled in terrible mann
IND LOUIS REINICKE and Edward Lo1
n hurst had their hands badly torn
it's cannon hrecrackers at Dubuque,
on the 9Th, and lad named Pc
4 Miller looked into his toy cannon
A. see why it did not go off and had
ine eye blown out.
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