Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-05-28
NEWS SUMMARY
MISCELLANEOUS.


Jones county, Ia, is agitated over new
disease that kills people quickly and battles
the doctors.
Recent reports of destruction of cops by
cut worms in Tennessee have been greatly
exaggerated.
Hon. B. W. Hanna of Indiana, will 60
o. minister to the Argentine Republic in
stead of Persia.
The production of -four at Minneapolis
during the past week decreased twenty
thousand barrels.
Rufus Magee, the new minister Of Nor
way, was given farewell banquet by the
citizens of Logansport, Ind.
Tbs President is declining all invitations
received from various parts of the country
because of pressing business.
Socialists and Anarchists were not 81
lowed to participate in the annual parade
of the Chicago trade assembly.
The military order of the Loyal Legion of
the United states, at New Yok city -e-elec-
ted Gen. Grant commander.
Sergeant Crowley of the New York police
was sentenced to seventeen years in the
penitentiary for assauIting Maggie Morris.
Wade f. Hampton, nephew of the South
Carolina senator, postal clerk in Iowa,
was sentenced to year in JUL for r. fling
registered letters.
In st. Louis, huge gasometer, at the
corner of Second and Convent streets, ex-
ploded, killing two IN IN and severely in
juring third.
Mrs. Alice Conroy, of Logansport, In
diana, has been awarded damages of $1,000
for the accidental death of her husband, a
fireman on the Panhandle road.
Leading citizens of San Francisco pre-
sented $10, 600 to Archbishop Alemany, who
is soon to leave for Rome, and the clergy
of the diocese gave him purse Of $6 500.
Proprietors of the coal mines at Bevier,
Mo-, have imported two car loads of me-
groes, and will pat Them to work in the
mines. The strikers there are in an ugly
mood.
The lead mines at Galena, ILL.,, are more
prosperous than at any time for twenty
years. One firm has in one week sold to
smell tiers one hundred thousand pounds OF
mineral.
Commodore TrHxton has prohibited
political discussions in the navy-yards at
Norfolk, and threatens to discha rge any
employee taking a conspicuo rs part in cam
paign work.
Gussie Cottlow, 6 years OF age, residing at
Shelbyville, Illinois, could play the piano
by ear when years old, and now executes
with accuracy the works of Beethoven and
Mendelssohn by note.
The Masonic temple erected in 1880 On
the corner of fremont street and Temple
place, Boston, was sold at auction for $685.
600, and will be remodeled for a dry goods
store by the estate of William F. Weld.
Officers from Ohio arrested at Richmond,
Ind, lady who was formerly the wife Of a
wealthy citizen of Cleveland, named Cobb,
charging her with kidnapping her own son,
9years Of age, the heir of a large estate.
She has married again, and the administra-
tor of Mr.. Cobbs estate seeks to obtain
possession of the lad. The mother and
child were discharged by Judge Kibby, on
the ground of defects in the reguisition.
The papers ON which to base the demand
for the e1tradition of Maxwell, the murder
er of Preller, at the Southern HOtel, st. Louis,
who is now under arrest in Auckland, New
Zealand, were signed by Governor Marina
duke, and forwarded at once to Wishing.
ton. They will name Detective Tracy, of
the police force, and Frank R. O'Nell, of
the st. Louis Post Dispatch, as the States
agent to bring the murderer back.
Reports from various towns within fifty
miles of Gunderson which is in
the northern part of Wisconsin,
show that forest fires are becoming
wide spread and are doing great damage
Several settlements are threatened. In a
number of instances families have aban-
doned their homes leaving everything be-
stay the progress Of the fire, the destruction
of property will be very great, and loss of
life not improbable.