Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
East bound freight rates are being badl
cut at Columbus, 0.
The annual meeting of the United Pres
byterian synod was held in New York.
The annual meeting of the Nationa
Telephone Exchange was held in Phila
delphia.
Breeders of fine cattle in the blue Gras
region of Kentucky are alarmed over pleu
ro-pneumonla.
The Chinese Government has applied 70
5000 square feet of space at the New Or
leans exposition.
The will of the late Chas. w. West, o
Cincinnati, bequeathes large amounts Il
charitable institutions.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fee give
notice that it will withdraw from the Colo
RADIO and Utah pools.
Richard 8. Newcombe and Jas. G. Smith
have been appointed receivers OF the Bank
ers' & Merchants Telegraph Company.
Adyices from Wisconsin are to the effec
that the cranberry crop is nearly failure
but "a, 600 acres of fine tobacco were raised
The receivers of the Wabash road re
port for the Summer months an excess Of
$37, 1888 in the receipts above the expendi.
lures.
The potato crop of New England, New
York and Canada, according to one thou.
sana reports received, is considerably be.
low the average.
g. cd hr-
John Rogers, who, he claims, circulated
false reports concerning pleuro-pneumonia
among his cattle.
About one hundred members of the 2lst
Illinois infantry held reunion at ArcOla,
and were cheered by coDgratulatory tele-
gram from U. S. Grant, their first Colonel.
When three miles out of st. Augustine,
Florida, the steamship Cienfuegos picked
I'D the captain and four men of a water
logged schooner, which was kept from sink
ing by her lumber cargo.
3 The farmers of Green county, Illinois,
have organized to reclaim 4, 200 acres Of
rich bottom lands by the erection of levee.
Other large tracts will be similarly made
valuable at cost of $12 per acre.
> The twenty-second anniversary of the
was celebrated by the colored citizens of
Springfield, ILL.,, who marched in body to
the old home of Abraham Lincoln.
A Police Justice in the District Of Column
bia informed a married woman that her
husband could desert her and their chill
dren with impunity, while the law would
compel him to support them if they were
illegitimate.
The white and colored laborers of Wash
ington are generally excited over the news
that the sewer contractors have brought
from New York FIVE hundred Italian, Ger
man and Swiss excavatOrs who will work
tor rs cents per day.
Nearly all the grading for the Baltimore
and Philadelphia road has been completed,
and freight trains are to be run by New
Years day. The Susquehanna bridge is TO
have span of $40 feet, and will be 80 feet
above high-water mark.
So stagnant is the lumber trade at East
Saginaw that the Board of Trade resolved
to ask the boom companies to suspend
rafting for the season, and the mills to
shut down as rapidly as possible, thus
closing business six weeks earlier than u.s.
ual.
Mrs. Joseph Stevens, of Hollisterville, Pa,
who was for years in the habit of eating
raw ham, suffers SO terribly from trichinia-
sis that she constantly pleads with her
friends to kill her. The worms keep her
flesh in perpetual motion, and frequently
twist out from the muscles in wriggling
masses.
The largest land sale. in the history Of
North America has ust been consummated
in Mexico, where tract of chihuahua and
Durango larger than some of the New Eng
land States was conveyed to British syn
dictate for $1,O0O,O0O cash. The property
had not hitherto been transferred for two
centuries.
The Board OF Managers of the National
Temperance Society unanimously adopted
q resolution congratulating the citizens of
Maine upon the adoption by their magni-
fcent popular majority of A, 2S3 of the pro- |
hibitory constitutional amendment, for |
ever prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating beverages, and hailed this
important victory as forshadowing the as
sured ultimate prohibition OF the liquor
traffic throughout the National domain.