Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-12-11

Key West cigar-makers are Agitated over
the provisions of the treaty with Spain, ad-
hitting Cuban cigars free of duty.
At Boston, the Bell Telephone stock
jumped from 203 to go on the rumor of q
favorable decision in the Drawbough suit.
The jury on the Melville bieamy case at
Toledo, o., were only out fifteen minutes
when they returned with q verdict Of
guilty.
The passenger rate war is over, and an
agreement for the restoration of rates has
been signed by the East-bound Trunk
| Lines.
The lease of the Jersey Central road to
the Reading railroad company has been
declared void by the Circuit court at Phila-
delphia.
Ohio will present to Congress statue OF
the late President Garfield as q part of the
| Ouio contribution to the National gallery
at Washington.
Hog cholera is raging 80 violently at
| Vine cling, West Virginia, that quarantine
has b. en- established. The disease has al
SO appeared at Philto, Illinois.
The Bigelow Carpet Company, at Can
ton, Mass, which employs nearly 1000
hands, will on December 10th reduce the
wages of operatives per cent
The secretary of the Clydesdale Horse
Society, of Great Britain, has arrived ir
Chicago to procure the extradition of Jo-
seph Raeside, for using false pedigrees.
The American. Bell Telephone Company,
Of Boston, has declared its usual dividend
of s. per share, payable January 18th, to
the stockholders of record OF December 81.
A mortgage for $40. OOO, 900 has been re-
cor Ted at Freeport, Illinois, by railway
company which proposes to construct
An airline track from Chicago to Mime
apolis.
Work has been resumed on the line OF
he proposed st. Louis, Kansas City and
Western Rsilroad, and the people of the
town of Walnut, in Bates county, are
hopeful.
In 1867, the Fort Wayne road persisted
in taking gravel from pit in Allen county,
Indiana, claimed by T. W. Swinney. After
prolonged litigation the Railway Company
mas paid judgment for $4,000 for tres
pass.
Alexander Smith & Sons, extensive car
pet mills at Yonkers, N. Y, have shut
down for an indefinite time. The mill en-
ploys between 5000 and 1000 hands
rheir suspension is due to the depression
ftrade.
An application has been made to the
Federal Court at Chicago for the removal
from the Criminal Court of Cook county OF
the case of "Black Jack" Yattaw, who was
indicted for killing a special constable
named William Curran.
The United States steamer Boston was
successfully launched at Chester, Pa, re-
Gently. The Boston is 2S6 feet over all, go
on the water line, AZ foot beam, % foot
depth of hold, and her displacement is
$500 tons.
Roland Kane, customs officer at Mon
treal is to receive from the United States
Government sec, 900 for information furn.
ished as to diamond smuggling on the bor-
der, by which goods valus at $3.50, 900 were
seized by American customs officers.
In the United States Court at Columbus,
O., decision was rendered in the case OF
the Central Trust Company against the
Ohio Central Coal and Railroad Company,
ordering them to pay into court, within
thirty days, $33 600 for the benefit ofholders
of coupon bonds; also, commanding the
coal company to pay into court, within the
same time $4,000 for the benefit of bond
holders. In default, 1000 acres of coal
land in Hooking and Perry counties will be
sold at auction in that city.