Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-12-25


THE Frisco line has obtained an exten.
sion of time for building line through the
Choctaw Nation.
The Detroit papers have made large wag-
ers as to the circulation of each, the money
to 60 to city charities.
The Hooking Valley coal miners strike
is practically ended, and the old men are
Offering to resume work.
Printers or the Columbus Times had at
tacbments issued On the property OF the
paper to secure their wages.
The Farmers Convention of Connecticut
passed congratulatory resolutions respect
ing the New Orleans exposition.
The Braddock steel works have shut
down for an indefinite period. About
sixteen hundred employees are affected.
For the Garfield monument at Cleveland
the people of the United States and of five
foreign countries have contributed 1892 1863
Lawrence G. Dell and T. Knapp, trading
as Dell & Knapp, book binders, Baltimore,
have assigned. The trustees bond is $40,
600.
Methodist minister has arranged for
an interview with Abe Buzzard, the Penn
sylvanis bandit, and will try to convert
him.
The machinery Inoulders of Pittsburg
will hold a meeting to consider whether or
not they will submit to the proposed cut in
wages.
The Mexico Land and Building Com
pany have filed d certificate of incorpora-
ton in New York, with capital stock of
$4,000.
The statement of the Atcbison, Topeka
& Santa Fee company for the year enGed
June so, 1884, shows the net earnings 10 be
1927, 257.
Representatives Of the pool lines met in
New York and agreed TO advance freight
rates on dressed hogs in refrieeratos cars
from Chicago.
Included in the Dakota exhibit at New
Orleans is q miniature working elevator,
eight by ten feet, with glass sides and roof.
which cost 81 200.
A Chicago firm has been ewaderded q con-
tract amounting To IS, 297 900 in connection
with the building Of the new aqueduct for
New'Yor city.
The festivities in connection with the
silver jubilee of Archbishop Lynch conse-
Grafton commenced at Toronto.
he S1V1l OeTViCS EAaHDn1uS bOSEu u
Chicago this week tested the qualifications
of177 applicants for positions as clerks and
carriers in the pos,otiice.
The Marine Grain and Stock Exchange
have begun another suit against the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company, and the
Chicago Board of Trade.
A pastoral letter has been issued to the
clergy and lsity by the Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States, composing
the third Plenary Council.
All of the cotton factories at Columbus,
Ga, are running on full time except one.
The plaid mills are full of orders, and the
business outlook is bright.
A special meeting of the New York
Chamber of Commerce was held to con-
slider what should be done in regard to the
bankrupt bill before Congress.
The Virginia and Indianapolis Clubs
were dropped from the American Base Ball
Association. Officers elected: H. d. Nc
Knight, President; Chris Won der Abe,
Vice President, and w. c. Wycoff, Secretary
and Treasurer.
At the last days session of the National
Sugar Growers association the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: |
President, Norman J. Coleman, st. Louis; |
secretary, I. J. Gillespie, Illinois; treasurer
E. w. Deeming, Indiana.
The annual meeting OF the Western Asso-
ciated Press was held at Detroit December |
IL. Officers elected: President, Joseph Me- |
dill, of the Chicago Tribune; Vice Presi-
dent i. F. Mack, of the SanduSky Register; |
Secretary, II. Z. Baker, of Detroit.
A shoemaker at Wytheville, Virginia,
wrote to Governor Cleveland for his meas
ure for pair of boots for the Inauguration,
and received the figures with $40 bill. |
The money was returned to the President |
elect who again sent it to the anxious shoe |
maker.
General Brisbin prints letter in Mon
tana newspaper declaring free csttle-ranges |
no longer practicable, and advocating a |
Texas cattle trail. He states that one sixth |
of the herds west of the Missouri river are
controlled by Englishmen, who get free |
grass and drive citizens out of the bust |
ness.
The City Bank of Schenectady, n v, has
suspended. The bank had paid up capt.
tai OF one hundred thousand dollars. Its
statement showed q surplus OF fifteen |
thousand dollars; undivided profits twenty
seven thousand dollars. C. Y. Ellis is
the President, and e. n. Shoemaker,
Cashier.
In the Blaine-Sentinel libel suit in the
Federal Court, q few Gays ago, John G.
Shoemaker, president of the Sentinel Com
pany, filed affidavit asking that further
proceedings be stayed until the plaintiff has
answered the interroatories which were \
filed with the amen led bill of discovery.
The suit is set for trial on December ODD
The question of the legality of the pool
formed for the purpose of controlling the
market and keeping up the price of copper
and to dispose of any surplus production
in this country by selling it for export I'M.
der bonds that it should not be returned to
this market, was argued before Judge Law
renee, OF the New York Supreme Court, re-
Gently.
The National Sugar Growers association
held their annual meeting in St. Louis re-
Gently. Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, New
York, Wisconsin and Kansas were repre-
sented. President Coleman, of Missouri
in his annual address denounced the Span,
ish Treaty as the destroyer of American
sugar for the benefit of the foreign sugar
trade.
A conference of oak harness and sole lea
ther tanners was held in Cincinnati to con-
slider measures for the relief of the trade
About fifty persons were present Msior
=. w. Cunningham, of Nashville, was
chosen President, and Chas. T. Stifel, of
Allegheny City, was chosen Secretary.
The closing OF the tanneries for a definite
period il one of the plans of relief pro-
posed.