Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE backbone of the strike among the
miners at Shawnee, o., was broken by sew
eral of the companies giving the advance
asked.
The scaffolding of the new iron bridge
at Keithsburg, ILL.,, fell into the river the
other day, and Patrick Conway, Jamas
McCanna and John Olsen were buried un-
der the debris in the bottom of the river.
All lived in the East. Two others were
seriously injured.
ADvIcEs from Melbourne say that no
credence was given there to the report that
the natives of FLY River murdered all the
members of the Sydney Geographical As
sociation's expedition to New Guinea.
THE charge of indecent assault preferred
against Editor Stead and others in the
Armstrong case in London ended in a ver-
dict of guilty and they were sentenced as
follows: Stead, three months; Rebecca
Jarrett, six months; Sampson Jacques,
one month; oil without hard labor; and
Madame Louise Morey, six months with
hard labor.
THE Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re-
ported that during the ten months ended
October 81 last, there was exported from
the United States 75,O22. 1884 gallons of
mineral oils valued at 81 ,59s, 424; the ex-
port during a similar period last year
amounted to 442,979,74 gallons valued at
$40, 467 ,025.
GEORGE J. Prayer, express agent, tele-
phone agent and postmaster at Glencoe,
Ont, has absconded, taking with him be-
tween six and seven thousand dollars. He
took a woman with him, leaving his wife
in destitute circumstances.
The court martial selected to try Lieu
tenant Colonel Sneathen, of the Eighteenth
Regiment for conduct prejudicial to mill
tary discipline in purchasing pay warrants
at discount from men during the State
encampment at Lake Conneaut, convened
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th.
FORTY-sEvEN stowaways were recently
discovered in the hold of a vessel which
was about to sail for America from Glas.
gov.
MICHAEL MYERS, one of the jurors in
the famous Walkup poisoning case at EN-
poria, Kan, dropped dead of heart dis
ease at his home near Neosho Rapids. Mr..
Myers was one of the six jurymen who
voted from first to last for Mrs. Walkup's
acquittal. He was about forty-six years
of age.
FORTY persons were affected recently at
Chattanooga, Tenn, by drinking water
from q well, which, it was thought, had
been poisoned.
FORD and Murphy, of New Orleans, who
were sentenced to be hanged ON November
10, for the murder of Captain Murphy,
have been granted respite for thirty days
by the Governor.
The committee which had been arbitrat-
ing between the Knights of Labor and the
Mallory Steamship Company at Galveston
adopted a resolution recommending that
Agent Sawyer, whenever he needs labor,
give the preference to the men who were
at worh on the wharf at the time Of the
strike.
sixty students of the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware, near Cleveland,
O., recently attended the opera house to
witness production of Richard I'LL" by
Fred Warde. They did so in violation of
students were suspended for the remainder
of the term, the other fifty zone being com.
PEELED to sign an agreement not to repeat
the offense.
THE German Americans recently ex.
PEELED from the island of Foehry Schleswig
have also been ordered to leave Prussia.
Two naturalized Americans, natives of
Tarp and Schottenburg, have also been or
dered to leave, one by the end of Novem.
md fho NJ os> hut hoa md ~
The Washington express on the !Balti
more & Ohio Railroad, going west, went
over an embankment near Collinsville, Pa,
the other morning and was badly wrecked.
Congressman Boyle, of Fayette County,
and fifteen others were seriously injured.
The clearing house returns for week
ended November showed an average in.
crease of 1876 compared with the CORE.
spending week Of last year. In New York
the increase was 62.5.
An explosion of gas occurred at the Pine
iron works village near Reading, Pa, re-
Gently. jeremiah Zimmerly, William Eagle
and William Baughber were frightfully
burned.
A DISPATCH from Washington says: The
court martial at Fort Myer, which tried
eighteen signal service men on charges of
found all guilty and sen.
fenced them to be publicly reprimanded by
the Chief Signal Officer. It is said that
the Cours was satisfied that the offense
was due to ignorance of military law.
The Japanese Postal Commission ac-
by the Japanese Minister, called
1t the Post-office Department, Washing.
'on, on the 18th. They were received by
First Assistant Postmaster General Stew
,nson. who explained the American sys.
'em and escorted them through the vari.
~ bureaus Of the department. n