Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-11
NEWS SUMMARY

NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,
in. Dsy, confidential clerk of q New
York banking firm, is short $4,000.
The corn crop in Illinois is being injured
some by root worms, but the prospect other
wise is fair.
The farmers Review of Chicago says the
wheat outlook is the gloomiest known at
this season for ten years.
At Milford, Mass, the priest forbade the
G.. A. r. entrance to the Catholic cemetery
TO decorate the graves.
William c. Smith, postmaster at Holden,
Missouri, whose books show deficit OF
$500, killed himself with revolver.
The President has appointed Gen. VIM. 8.
Rosecrans, of Gala, to be Register of the
Treasury vice B. X. Bruce, resigned.
Charles DENLY, of Indiana, has been ap-
pointed minister to China, and Wendell A.
Anderson, of Wisconsin, consul general at
Montreal.
A disreputable waman of Gallipolis,
Ohio, named Herder, was tarred and
feathered by citizens for attempting the
fuin of an orphan girl.
The managers of the New Orleans Expo.
sition report to thesecretary OF the treasury
that they have an appropriation OF 1885,
600 with which to settle claims of 1897 ,3l8.
r. 8. Scott, paying teller of the Manhat-
tan bank, of New York, who fed with
$16O, 600 in greenbacks, bought q ticket for
Montreal on Tuesdry morning, and is
known to have crossed the border.
The secretary of the treasury called on
the board Of managers of the Worlds In
dustriGI Exposition at New Orleans, for an
itemized statement of the premiums award
ed exhibitors.
The body of Mrs. Charles Sherwood, of
Rockford. ILL.,, was conveyed to the cemete-
~ in delivery wagon, almost concealed by
flowers. She had often requested not to be
placed in hearse.
On seat in train which reached Dubu.
que Saturday evening was found q babe
with q club foot, crying loudly. The un-
fortunate infant was tenderly cared for at q
hotel near the depot.
A switch engine on the Lexington &
Southern branch of the Missouri Pacific
went through bridge near Harrison, Mo-,
and was totally wrecked. The fireman was
killed, but the engineer escaped unhurt.
The wheat crop of California as estima-
teddy the secretary of the State Agricultur-
alsOciety, will be less than half that of last
year. The increased acreage in Oregon and
Washington territory is AZ per cent.
At midnight, Saturday, $50 men rode in
To Corydon, Kentucky, and deposited in
the posoffice letters to county officials de-
manding an investigation of the treasurer's
books at once. The mob went quietly
away.
The public debt statement for May is e1-
pected to show reduction of about S., 0OO,.
been promoted to assistant treasurer OF the
United States.
Five sticks of giant powder were recently
ound on the Rio Grande railway track near
Denver. @. Z. Davis, miller on Eighth
street, has for some time been boycotted by
strikers, and yesterday morning barn near
his residece was blown up with dynmite.
The charge is made against Gen. Robin.
son, lately appointed collector of Internal
Revenue for the Seventh Kentucky dis.
trict, that he was q defaulter of $14 ,00(
while collector of taxes at Lexington, but
1t is admitted that the shortage has lately
been paid.
A $2O,OOO,OOO mortgage, given by thu
Pennsylvania Railway Co. to the Union
Trust Co., OF New York, to secure policies
of equal amount of first mortgage bonds
issued by the company named, on its 20s
miles of road, was recorded in Allegheny
county, Pa.
The commissioner of pensions has
stricken off the list of pensioners the names
of about two hundred residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who were found to b,
not entitled to pensions, either becaus,
they had recovered from their disabilities
or are not dependent upon the government
In some cases the parties were dead, ant
still more, widows had married again.
Herbert +. Beecher, who was appointed
collector of customs of Port Leans is Sol
of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and {
reident of Port Townsend, where he is en-
gagged in the steamboat business. It is sale
his father presistently refused to sapeak il
behalf of his sons appointment or to allow
any othe member of his family to do so.
A special dispatch from Washington CITY
says that the amount of the claim of tn,
Government against the Union Pacif,
Railroad Company his not been ascertaine(
by the Treasury experts, and until this il
ascertaiued, judgment cannot be entered
This is in reputation of q statement pub
Used few days ago that the amount hat
been ascertained and that the Union Pscif,
was found to be still indebted to the Gov
eminent obout $500, 900.
The treasury inquiry commissioner.
concluded its Investigation of the internal
revenue bureau and made its report to the
secretary of the treasury. The commits
sioners recommend q reduction in the pres
emit force in the several divisions and sug
gests changes in the methods of doing bust
ness, which they think will expedite and
improve the work of the bureau. The
changes recommended involve great reor'
ganization of the bureau. The commis
sioners will next devote its attention to the
Supervising architects Office.
Professor Riley, of Washington, says the
seventeen year locust, whose arrival he has
predicted, is harmless to growing crops
and will do no injury except to the twigs Of
the forest and fruit trees. Wherever young
orchards have been planted on land which
has been cleared during the last seventeen
years, the trees are liable to suffer some
what, but it is probable that kerosene spray
upon the trees will protect them. The
ordinary locust, which is 80 destructive to
growing crops, has jaws which cut, while
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