Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-25
FOREIGN.

iork, England, was visited by an earth
quake.
Agitation and protests of the people &C
com piished reduction Of the extra duty
Oh spirits in England.
According to the statement OF a reliable
sugar house in Havanna, the crop this year
I'D to June LIST amounted to 5000 tons
against $50, COO tons to the same date last
year.
Three of the four commissioners appoint
ed at Madrid, Spain, to investigate the
effects Of the cholera report that inOcula-
ton with cholera virus is so harmless that
they advise it be permitted, on the ground
that it will tend to prevent panic.
A panel in the Jesuit church in Dublin,
recording the fact that Earl Spencer, lord
lieutenant of Ireland, had presented me-
mortal window to the church in token OF
his high appreciation of the character anu
worth of Secretary Thomas Henry Burke,
who with Lord Frederick Cavendish was
murdered in Phoenix park on May 6, 1882
has been stolen. There is no clue to the
perpetrators of the outrage.
In the French chamber of deputies the
minister of Marine, announced the death
OF Admiral Courbet, the commander of the
French squadron in the recent brush with
China. The admiral died on board his
ship. his death being caused by prostration
brought on by overwork and menta
anxiety. Immediately after the announce
ment of the death of the admiral the cham
Der of deputies adjourned as mark of re
spect.
The inhabitants of the populous quarters
of Madrid strenuously oppose all measures
taken by the municipal authoritiestO dlsin-
feet their dwellings. The resistance of the
people became so passionate and persistent
that the authorities finally felt constrained
to abandon the enforcement of all sanitary
regulations which had been adopted to pre-
vent the entry of the cholera into Madrid,
or to limit its ravages should the dreaded
disease find Judgment there.
| The great business house Of VIM.
Whitny, London, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $3.50, Goo The business of this great
establishment is of the most diversified
character. There is a counting house, ex-
change and Insurance. departments Of mill
linery, dress making and dry goods in gen.
eral, and gentleman's furnishing depart
ment in all its ramifcations, departments
for poultry, fish, game, etc, and so on
along the line apparently of everything
| merChantaDle.
A terrible explosion took place in Pen.
dleburg colliery near Manchester, England.
The latest dispatch states that 204 miners
have been recovered alive from the Pendle-
burg co,liery, that % bodies nave been
taken out, and that 12z men are unaccount
ed for. The work of exploring is impeded
by bad ventilation and air. The cages in
which the volunteers were proceeding
down to the bottom of the pit got stuck in
the shaft and it was two hours before the
party could get to work in the exploded
mine for the missing men. Those who
were rescued when the explosion occurred
fed to the bottom of the shaft and they az,
ignorant OF the fate of their companions
Another accoOnt of the explosion says i
occurred in the Clifton colliery. Tha
there we're 100 taken out, but 23O are still il
the prison, and that it is feared most o
them will perish. Later dispatches say
that the explosion was caused by fire damp
There were working in the mine 349 miners
l60 Of these were at work in the level il
which the explosion occurred. They ar
still in the mine and can't be reached, ow
ing to masses of coal thrown down by tn,
explosion. One hundred and twenty mel
before reported rescued, were taken out be
fore noon. Great excitement has beer
caused by the disaster.