Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-09-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS,

MISCELLANEOUS.
The third annual meeting of the NatiOna
Association of Stationary Engineers wa
held at Baltimore.
The Erie, Grand Trunk and Wabash Pa
cific roads have declared war and are sell
ing tickets very cheap.
Indian Commissioner Price has take1
measures for the immediate reilef OF the
starving Piegan Indians.
Hog cholera is reported to be carrying of
many animals in the vicinity of Hillsboro
ILL.,, and Reading, Penn.
The wheat harvest in the Red river val
lev is practically over, the average yield
being better than last year.
During August the public debt was low
cred So, 542, S52 26, and since June 80, the
reduction has been $l2, 536, l4.0
The California board of equalization re-
ports the Central Pacific road at $24 OOO, DOC
and the Southern Pacific at $17 100000.
The secret service division is in possession
of a new $40 note on the Third National
Bank of Cincinnati which is counterfeit.
Mrs. Hannah Akers, residing at Nottawa,
Mich, has entered upon her 10lst year, and
retains her mental faculties to fair degree.
One of the latest rumors is that several of
the Greeley survivors have been secured by
an owner of dime museums and will be ex-
hibited.
On account of AN improved demand, the
coke furnaces of the Connellsville, Penn,
region will run six days instead OF hive IN
the week.
A deaf mute of Centralia, H., named
Christopher Boehm, has been officially ad-
vised that the sum Of $4,000 awaits him ID
Germany.
In celebrating his 18th birthday DR.. Oil
yer Wendell Holmes received cOngratula-
tory kilograms from numerous friends IN
Europe and America.
Poor wheat crops for the past three sea-
sons have caused one hundred families IN
the region of Vandalia H., to prepare for
emigration to the Territories.
In an accident to freight train on the
Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling railroad,
two men were killed and Others wounded,
in addition to wrecking IA cars.
The Board of Trade of Kansas City COM
plains that the Southwestern Railway AS
sociation has Disseminated against that
CIV III IhNOT vi EOt lOulo anu ShiSotoO'
Mrs. Washington Kuler, of Reading, Pa,
who tasted for forty eight days, is dead.
When she began the last she weighed 257
pounds, and when she died, l0Opounds.
The Pittsburgh Council has instructed the
Chief of Police to make ample apology to
the Austrian Consul tor tearing down his
flag. He refuses to make the apology, but
may do so.
Governor Hamilton, without making
known his official position, spent fully an
hour in the Jail at Chicago, in conversation
with Isaac Jacobson. under sentence OF ex-
ecution September 10 for the murder of
George Bedell.
On reports of the State Veterinarian, the
Governor of Illinois has declared pleurO-
pneumonia epidemic among cattle in nine
herds, and enioined their owners from
Transporting them without a certificate OF
good health.
John Murray, private IN the Marine
Corps at Boston, fired at river pirate en-
gagged in collecting wood from dismantled
naval vessels. The bullet travelled nearly a
mile, and killed woman engaged in house
hold duties in East Boston.
Since January /, the Lynchburg Tobacco
Association has sold 2O,00O00O pounds OIL
tobacco, and during August the sales
reached ]. 225 600 pounds. The leaves of
the plant are unusually small this year,
thus changing the type of Virginia tobacco.
The Chicago bankers are unable to secure
small bills from the Treasurer of the
United States, because the Chief of the Bu-
reau of Prir ting and Engraving fears that
in meeting the demand he would prema-
turely exhaust his appropriation.
The earnings of the Mexican Central
road tor August are said to have been nearly
$250OOO. There is some gossip in Boston
over the inability of the former President,
Thos. Nickerson, to pay personal loan
which had matured in a banking house in
State street.
The Governor of Montana sent a special
agent to investigate the reports of starva-
ton among the Piegans. 1t was found that
in a band of two thousand the deaths for
lack of food averaged one per day. The
Governor has urged the Secretary of the In
terror to issue full rations to the suffers I'M
til Congress can take action.
General McKeever, of the Adjutant- Gen
erals Department, who has been studying |
the diaries brought from the Arctic regions, |
finds evidence that Lieutenant Greedy was
seriously lacking as a commander. Cen |
eral Sheridan strongly objects to his promo
ton to q vacant Quartermastership. There |
is deepening mystery in regard to the
death of Surgeon Pavy.
At meeting of the Joint Committee OF
the New York Produce Exchange, to pro-
pose grades of wheat to be established for
the ensuing crop year, held on the 10Th
inst, it was resolved that the grade of No. 2
red Winter, shall conform to the following
description: No. 2 red Winter wheat shall
be sound, dry and reasonably clean, weigh
ing not less than 5S4 pounds, Winchester
standard, and shall not contain over 10 per
cent. of white wheat. The adjustment of
the type sample heretofore known as the
bottom of the grade" was recommended,
and also that the inspectors grade wheat in
accordance with the above description. At
a regular meeting of the grain trade in the
Produce exchange recently the rec
concentrations of the committee were
adopted.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Chas Tabor q burylar escaned from Jail