Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Westmoreland County Pa,) Goa
and Coke Company, having a capital stoci
of 100000, has failed. The liabilities were
not known, but are heavy.
WHILE unloading the hold of the burned
and sunken propeller Blanchard, at Mil.
waukee, James Porter, Michael Farmer and
Dan Sweeney were overcome by the gas
which had been gener ated in the cargo
Porter was taken OUT dead. The others
were likely to die.
THE officers and crew of the French gun
boat Renard, wrecked in the Gulf of Alden
last month, have been found on an island
near the scene of the disaster.
ANARCHIST Lieske, who murdered Herr
Rumpf, Police Counselor, in January last,
at Frankfort on the Main, was convicted
and sentenced to death.
on the 1st, several policemen were injured
and the cars thrown from the track and
overturned by a riotous mob.
AN officer committed suicide in Austria
recently by placing himself in front of the
mouth Of a cannon and firing it with a
match stick.
CONNECTICUT Oystermen were recently
greatly agitated over the report that de-
structive insect had been at work on their
of seed planted last year about $4,000 have
been destroyed.
UNDER the agreement between Lord
Salisbury and Prince Bismarck, the Ger
man naval demonstration against Zanzi-
bar has been countermanded. The German
squadron has been ordered to abstain from
all appearances of hostility.
The public debt statement for June
showed reduction of $S,5OO,OOO.
WHILE Frank Otteo, Minnie Bolton and
two others were on the bay at Toronto,
Ont, the other evening in a sail boat a
strong wind sprang up and drifted the
boat out into the lake where it upset and
the two named were drowned.
VERY cold weather was reported from
the southwestern portion of Virginia. On
the 3Oth of June snow fell in Tazewell
County and ice formed in Wythe County,
The jury at Chicago, in the case of the
SdI ucO lOuuu OudV f1ZoAl, ooidIu
and Silvestri were perpetrators of the
crime, while Bove and Mercurio, their al
legged co-conspirators, were not guilty,
TWENTY villages were ignited by light
ming and burned in the recent storms in
Austria. Six men were killed while try.
ing to extinguish the flames.
IT was reported that Lieutenant Davis
had an engagement with the Apaches, in
which he succeeded in killing sixteen and
was not reported.
The Salisbury Cabinet has decided to en-
tirely abandon coercion in Ireland and rely
upon the strict administration of the gem
eral law.
The following United States District At
torneys have been appointed: William
Dorsheimer, for the Southern District of
New York; Robert P. Shields, of Ohio, for
the Northern District of that State; Charles
H. Pearce, of Texas, for the Northern Dis
trict of that State.
The case of Adolph B. Spreckles, charged
with assault to murder NJ. II. De Young,
proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle,
ended in a verdict of not guilty.
IN fight at Stepstone, KY, the other
evening, DR.. James Carter was shot and
seriously wounded and negro killed. The
affair grew out of a local option trial.
THE South American Commission recent
ly had an interview with the President of
Chilli. The latter was free and outspoken
in his remarks, saying that he did not be-
lieve in conventions or treaties as making
any great amount of trade, nor did he want
to give or receive any special favors. The
ports of Chill were open to the vessels of
all foreign nations alike. The President
favored an international silver dollar.
THE east, west and north river districts
of Canton Province, China, were reported
inundated recently. There were many
breaches in the dykes and great loss of
life.
MRS. DUDLEY was sent to the Middle
town IN. W insane asylum.
THE total number of new cases of cholera
reported in the infected districts of Spain
on the LIST was 1,427; total number of deaths,
$50.
MACKIN, charged with perjury In the
Chicago election frauds, was found guilty
and sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
THE other night some of the militiamen
in the National encampment at Paramount
Park, Philadelphia, were enjoying them
selves, tossing in q blanket. A woman
came along and took part in the sport, and
was tossed in her turn in rough and tum-
bic fashion. The affair ended in the arrest
of Captain Curtis, of the Indianapolis
artillery.
j. 3. DAMON, keeper of a general store
in Montreal, Can., has failed with $4,000
liabilities and So, 900 assets.
STRIKERS in the Cleveland CO., rolling
mills forced the engineers to bank their
fires on the I'd. Affairs were threatening,
but no other violence was attempted.
In answer to inquiries from State OFF,
Gals the Postmaster General has ordered
that penalty envelopes can not be used to
correspondence ON State affairs,
even when enclosed with matter properly
in penalty envelopes.
VERY heavy rains and floods were re-
ported in Southeastern Kansas, extending
rs far west as Stafford County, where q
cyclone wrought some damage. Many
bridges and other property were destroyed.
Two railroad men were reported drowned
in Labette Crsek at Pazsou&