Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-12-04
KANSAS
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.

"Cbsf, q weekly dramatic aper OF ~
troit, suspended.
The Flint Glass Works of Pittsburg hav'
all order ed a reduction in wages.
Carr & Horson, agricultural implements
Bergen Point, \. J made az assignment
There is much sickness reported in New
Hampshire as the result of the long drought
A fire at Whitehall, III consumed si1
business houses. Loss, $2i $780, insuranc :,
$4,000.
Albert Manning wholesale boot and shoe
manufacturer, Boston, is reported gone into
insolvency.
Football at Harvard is in ba odor, and
the a hietic committee declare that il mus.
be abolished.
Allen Schiveler, wealthy iron Ore
operator and farmer, made an assignment
PittsbuIg.
Visible supply of wheat, Nov. %, Al ,420,
600 bushels; corn, 1922 coo bushels; oats,
3,l72 600 bushels.
A lostbsome disease known as 'black-
leg" has broken out among young cattle III
Pennsylvania.
The total assessed valuation of property
100000 over last year.
Workmen boring for natural gas at Find
lay, Ohio, struck vein of crude petroleum
at depth of 7l8 feet.
Preliminary measures for the incorpOra-
ton of a school for Christian workers were
taken at Springfield, Mass.
A cold snap is reported to have visited
nearly all sections OF the country, the first
general one of the season.
The exten sive viaduct at Chicago avenue
and Halstead street, Chicago, has been
thrown open to the public.
The reduction OF wages of ingram carpet
weavers, employed by Philadelphia con-
cerns, will affect nearly 10000 people.
The General Passenger Agents of the
Colorado pool met recently and fixed the
price on round trip tickets to New Orleans.
The cornerstone of q cremartory temple
was recently laid by Professor Felix Adler
in cemetery at Greenpoiut, Long Island.
The Barnes Norton hard-glove fight
which WAS to have taken place in st. Paul
few days ago, was stopped by the police.
Miss Becky Jones, for refusing to answer
questions as witness III will case before
the Supreme Court Of New York, was cent
to Jail.
In some parts of Minnesota snow has al
ready fallen foot deep, and the wind has
caused it to drift SO that travel is greatly
impeded.
The National Base Ball League in its ses-
sion at New York made changes in the
playing rules. n. E. Young was elected
president.
All of the property of the Pittsburg
Soutbern road was sold at Sheriff's sale to
Thomas NJ. King, representing the Balti-
more d. Ohio road.
The Mexican Commission to the Worlds
Exposition, accompanied by the E ghth
Mexican cavalry Militay Band, have AZ
rived in New Orleans.
1t is stated by Louisville paper that
the reported scOurge in Kentucky and
West Virginia is a myth, and that Joe
MulhatEon started the rumor.
The machinery moulders of Pittsburg,
rather than be Idle, will accept the reduc-
ton in wages. TIE men in the nut works,
however, will go on a strike.
The Railway Employees Mutual Benefit
Association OF Chicago has dissolved. 1t
had been in existence fifteen years and had
ceOursed *4UO,OUU IN Dement'S.
The Boston B 'se Ball Association has
been compelled 10 purchase the South End
grounds at 800, coo, TO prevent them from
being cut up into building lots.
Fresh troubles have br, ken out in Chica-
60, concerning the quotations of the Board
of Trade, the bucket shops being the
main source from whence they spring.
Commissioner Cregier hes always found
the wator consun' ption a sure indication
of the population of Chicago, and on the
average of the past he cunts upon 700 1000
Inhabitants.
The superintendent of the Cana dian Pa
cific road promises to keep twenty thou
sand men at work all the winter on con-
struction, and to complete the road by Oc-
tober next.
raised among The delegates to the Cattle
mems Convention, in ST Louis on the 2lst.
and forwarded to the Virginia drouth and
plague sufferers.
The latest advices concerning the cpl.
demic in the extreme counties in Virginia
are to the effect that many additional
deaths have occurred. Some of the scenes
presented are heartrending.
w. w. Beckett, hardware merchant of
Sherorooke, Province of Quebec, whose
liabilities are over S100, Co., has made an
assignment He is heavy ldorser for the
New Brunswick bobbin factory.
Proposals are solicited for the grading of
fifty miles on the extension Of the Wander
bilt line in northwestern Nebraska, which
will bring the road-bed TO a point ninety
miles south of Deadwood by July Is.
The Frankstown Rolling Mill, at Pitts
burg, which has been idle for four months,
has resumed operations. and it is thought
will he kept running all winter. The new
pipe mill recently built by the same firm
will start up soon, giving employment t.
6,00O men.
The farmers Congress of the United
States met at Nashville and was called to
order by Col. Robert Beverly, one of the
most successful and prominent farmers of
Virginia. The Governor of Tennessee de-
livered an address of welcome.
Richard K. Fox, editor and proprietor of
the Police Gazette, VIM. Harding, sporting
editor, and Chas. johnson, proprietor of
Brooklyn sporting house, were arrested on
bench warrants, having been indicted for
abetting in the Sullivan-Greeniield boxing
match.
A citizen of kershaw county, South Caro-
lima, has sent to Federal Marshal at Cam
den q steel plate for printing 2-cent postage
stamps of the old issue, with vignet,e of
President Jackson. 1t was found among
the effects of q dead planter, and was well
worn from use.
A refining firm at Cleveland has sued the
Lake Shore Road for $lO0, 900 damages, sus-
tanned through discrimination in favor of
the Standard Oil Company. The General
Ereioht AGENT admitted on the witness.