Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Inc prlce OF steel rails IN fennsylNdui'
has advanced to $27 so.
Galbraith McMullen died at Sand Lake
Pa, in his l05th year.
kellogg & Johnsons boot and shoe fac
tory, St. Paul, burned.
Pig.iron manufacturers have agreed Il
restrict the production.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt a
Bevely and De Soto, Mo.
The largest business block of Millican
Texas, was destroyed by fire.
The Western Bee Keepers exhibition a
Independence, Mo, has closed.
The steamer Lind Grove was burned Il
the waters edge at Monroe, Ala.
The drought in Southern Virginia is thu
seYerest experienced in many years,
The long drought in the vicinity of sar
Antonio, Texas, is broken at last.
The United States steamer Omaha has
been launched at Portsmouth, n. H.
Barbed wire manufacturers of the United
States met at Chicago and formed syndi
cate.
The Exchange Nationa! bank of Gin,
cinnati has gone into voluntary liouida'
ton.
A strange disease has broken out among
cattle in the Catawissa valley of Pennsyl
vania.
One steamer landed at Galveston bring
ing 545 German emigrants, and not pau
per among them.
Miss Jennie Van Horn. daughter of re-
spectacle parents at Memphis, has mystic
riously disappeared.
The stove moulders' strike at Pitts.
burg is virtually over, the men being
willing to accede TO the ten per cent. reduc
tion.
The portraits of all the Governors of lowe
with the exception of James Clark, of Terri.
torial times, have been placed in the Capt.
tol at Des Moines.
A party of fifty Usage children is On the
way TO the school at Carlisle. Penn, where
the tribe will pay $4,000 for one years in
struction for them.
Andrew J. Cooper and other Cbicagoans
have incorporated at Springfield a company
with a capital of 81 100000 to operate a
gold mine in Michigan.
w. B. Bartholomew, coschman en-
ployed by w. J. Simmons, a wealthy bust
ness man of Troy, New York, has married
Simmons adopted daughter.
Chicago capitalists are said to be arrang-
ing to build railroad from Monroe, Lou
isiana, to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, distance
of $50 miles, through the cotton belts
Four valuable Jersey heifars belonging to
J. Y. Farwelj, Of Chicago, were found to be
Off tod I'm of no
one of them was killed at Englewood.
The late Francis B. Hayes, of Lexington,
Massachusetts. in willing away $S, DOC, 600 or
more, left 100000 each to Harvard and
Dartmouth Colleges and Berwick Academy.
The local freight agents at st. Louis in
order to protect st. Louis from rate cutting
at other points, have reduced the tariff on
grain to the ea-board III cents per bu-
shell.
Nv. r. Bartholomew, coachman for w. j.
Simmons, a wealthy business man of Troy,
N. Y, married the lattel's adopted daugh-
ter, Emma Babcock, aged IS. 1t was Sc
cret affair.
The Glen House at Mount Washington
one of the largest hotels in the mountain
regions, has been burned. Loss, 1925, goo;
insurance, 100000. 1t will be rebuilt i'm
mediately.
Judge Horace Russell and Theodore
Houston have been appointed receivers of
the New York, West Shore & Buffalo rail-
road company, by Judge Daniels, of the Su-
preme Court of New York.
Hogs are dying by wholesale of pleuro-
pneumonia in Western Maryland, Gov
ernor Hamilton having lost over one hun
dred. The disease has been spread by the
casting of dead animals into the river.
The colored war veterans of Central New
York met at Syracuse and celebrated the
thlrty-third anniversary of Jerry" fugi.
tive slave, by street parade OF military,
civil societies and the survivors of the
rescuers.
The infected herd of Frisbie & Lake, OF
Kentucky, has been appraised at $4,000.
The cattle breeders of the State voted to at
tempt to raise $4,000 to offer for the de-
structiOn OF the animals, and to take legal
measures should the sum be refused.
There is an unusual rise in the Missis-
sippi river at Quincy at this season of the
year, the river being eleven feet above high
water mark. There is a general fear of i'm
mediate damage on the lowlands unless
there be speedy subsistence of the food.
The funeral of John w. Garrett from his
country residence near Baltimore was
attended by score of railway kings. An
engine and broken car wheel were among
the floral tributes. The remains were es-
corted to Green Mount cemetery by $50
carriages.
The Rounds Type and Press Company of
Chicago, made a voluntary assignment.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets, $50, 900. The
a nonuor hos oil ho
company was organized by S. ?. Rounds,
Government printer, but he is now con-
nected with the company.
The Writing Paper Makers Branch of
the National Paper Makers Association
met at Springfield Mass, and considered
the question of reducing the production of
fine papers, to counteract the bad influence
on the market caused by the prohibition of
the importation of foreign rags, which has
caused the increased cost of paper stock.
Jeasip, Bliss & Co., one of the best known
hardware firms in Colorado, have made an
assignment. They are at located Denver.
Liabilities estimate 500, 600; nominal assets,
$4,000. The assignee states that the firm
could not meet its matured paper, and as
no extention was given, had suspended. If
the assets are advantageously disposed OF,
the creditors will receive dollar for dollar |
Speaking of the drouth in that vicinity, a
Va, dispatch says: The weather
is very oppressive. The thermometer has
scarcely fallen below seventy degrees night
or day for a week. The drouth throughout
Piedmont is without q parallel In parts |
of Southwestern Virginia grazers are driv-
ing their stock into Tennessee for water. |
The small streams are drying up. At many
places forest trees are dying, and many |
closed with the September sales for the year |
little over p 900 900 pounds, 5000, 600 less
than the year previous. 1t is safe to say |
that the incoming crop is much larger, |
although cut short by the drouth.