Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-06-14

General Horace Capron is selecting
sheep in Western New York for the
Japanese Government.
The entire watch trade of Switzer-
land is being revolutionized in order to
compete with the American watches.
-Phosphorescent paper is reported
to be one of the latest novelties. Writ
ing done upon it can be read in the
dark.
The condensirg factory at Elgin,
ILL.,, uses 16 barrels of graduated sugar
daily to sweeten the milk canned.
Floating apiaries are not unknown
in France, and many hives are also
moved overland from place to place as
bee-forage invites.
Jacksonville, Fla, has sugar re-
finery in prospect by which strip is to
be transformed in three-quarters of an
hour into the finest loaf-sugar.
Fall River, Mass, is said to have
received a number of emigrants from
the English cotton manufacturing dis
tricts of late, and the same is reported
of other New England cities.
Denmark used to monopOlize the
trade of butter in air-tight tin cans for
export to the tropics, but latterly
Schleswig- Holstein and Prussia have
appeared as competitors.
Over two hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars worth Of cotton goods
were shipped from New York to foreign
ports in q single week. The extension
Of the American trade in cotton goods
is steadily increasing.
The Galveston Journal of Commerce
saws the Texas farmers lost about $40 q
bale by selling their cotton too soon
and that had they held on to it longer,
the State crop would have Melted five
or six million dollars more than it did.
Haps and Mishaps.
William Suiffin, farmer living
near Somerset, o., was killed by the &C.
cidental discharge of his own gum.
Frank Williams was killed and his
son badly injured, by the explosion of a
boiler in q saw-mill near Delphos, D.
Low water was the cause.
AT Little Rock, Ark, five colored
persons were seriously poisoned by eat
ing beans, supposed to have been i'm
pregnated with Paris green, used to
destroy insects. Joe Sledge, one ct the
number, died.
Stephen Allgeir, a farmer living
four miles east of Fort Wayne, Ind,
got drunk and fell asleep on the Wabash
Railroad track. He was run over and
both his legs were cut off. His injuries
were fatal.
"A little son of Mr.. Arnold, at
Lac .qui- Parle, Mimi, while taking his
horse to water tied the halter around his
waist. The horse took fright, ran away,
and broke the boys neck.
AT Clyde, o., Fannie, 5-year old
daughter of A. B. Davenport, slipped
from q table, on which she was sitting.
into kettle of boiling water, scalding
the entire lower half Of her body. Her
injuries were fatal.
Carlos Belts, the son of farmer
living near Mount Clemens, Mich, took
q loaded revolver to show friend how
another man killed himself. His Illus
tration led to funeral, as he shot him
self through the head.
During heavy storm near Vim.
cennes, Ind, Della. 5-year old child
Of Joseph Carrie, of johnson Township,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. Two other children were in the
same room, but suffered only severe
shock.
I While Samuel Hodge of Union
Township, near Urbana. o., was she'll
ing seed corn, his son, 3 years OF age,
said: pa, corn in my throst." Hodge
picked the boy up, shook him. and
started for the house, but the child died
before he reached there.