Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-09-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Hog cholera has broken out at Hamburg,
Pennsylvania.
The National Association of Retail Drug
gists met at Milwaukee.
The Grand Lodge of Ohio, Ancient Order
of United Workmen met at Cincinnati.
The veteran sailors and soldiers Of the
Northwest held a reunion at Chicago.
The miners of Greenfield, O., threaten to
compel the men at work to quit unless they
come out willingly.
The hop crop of New England and the
Province OF Q1ebec is reported One-tourth
short of the average.
Owing to improvement in the trade
the coke producers have decided to carry
on operations as usual in Pennsylvania.
The secret service division is in possession
of new $40 note on the Third National
Bank of Cincinnati which is counterfeit.
Boston dispatches mention the discovery
of a counterfeit silver dollar, differing only
slightly from the genuine as to weight and
thickness.
The seventh meeting of the American
Bar Association convened at Saratoga.
L
ening address.
The watch factory at Lancaster, Pennsyl-
vania, on which S40O,0 has been expend-
ed, has made an assignment with debts ag-
gregatine $4,000.
Miss Selley, of Centraiia, Illinois, who
recently went blind in an hour, without
apparent reason, was recently made happy
by the complete restoration OF her sight
Some citizens of Trenton, New Jersey,
who favor cremation have purchased pot
tery-kiln at Pennington, and will trans
form it into aD oven for burning bodies.
The United States steamer Kearsarge,
now at Gibra tar, has received Instructions
from Washington to make cruise along
the north aud west coasts OF Africa.
The striking miners in Pennsylvania de-
termined to continue in thelrdemaDdS. The
producers claim they cannot pay any high
er wages owing to the strong cOmpeClon Ia
the Kanawha.
A meeting attended by 5000 people,
was held in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky,
protesting against wo king convict labor
in the coal mines of that county. Trouble
is feared unless the convicts are removed,
In view of the present pleuro- pneumonia
the State Veterinarian of Illinois has sent
notice to all owners of infected herds COM
pelllng them to maintain strict Quaran-
tine until notified to discontinue by the
proper authorizes.
The relatives of Edward Israel, of Kala-
mazoo, Mich, the meteorolosist OF the
Greedy expedition, will accept as true the
statement by Commander Schley that his
body was not mutilated, and will not per-
NIT disinterment.
Italians are said to be leaving New York
In droves Nearly two thousand have re-
turned to their native land by the last three
steamers. Cessation of railroad building
and inability to obtain employment are the
causes.
According to reports made to the General
Land Office, land-grabbing in the Terrific
ries by the big castle companies is on the
increase. Fraudulent entries and illegal
fencing have been on greater scale the
past year than ever before.
Kate Swolsey has lived 1877 days without
nourishment and she is apparently not
weaker. She is con scious and converses
with the family. She takes no nourish.
ment and desires none, and swallows no
drink of any kind.
Two hundred striking brickmakers in the
Northern suburbs OF Chicago assaulted their
successors with stones and clubs. They
wrecked the windows of a former employer
and wounded his wife with stone. A
squad of police restored order.
Cows. Crosby, of Montana, and Hale, OF
Wyoming, met on the Goth in the Yellow
stone park, for thepurpose of cooperating
in bringing to punishment viOiators of the
game laws and other offenders operating in
the park and within their territorial juris-
diction.
Seymour Cooper. Clerk of the Superior
Court at Baltimore, has demonstrated his
skill as pennIan by engrossing on postal
card the letters of acceptance OF both Cleve-
land anC Hendricks. He will get discour-
areed if he makes a similar attempt with
Buffers address to his constituents.
Striking miners in the Hooking valley of
Ohio became aroused against 100 Poles
brought from Toledo. The latter had to be
locked up to prevent violence. Mill own
ers called for troops, but they were refused
until it is demonstrated the Sheriff is
powerless to enforce the laws. There is
great excitement among the miners on &C.
count Of the importation of labor.