Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-02

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ing the various points of interest. The,
were given a banquet in the evening.
| WILLIAM ADAMS was killed and severa
other persons were Frustrated by lightning
which struck the Cohen residence a
Weatherford, Tex, recently.
The National Plumbers convention Il
session at st. Louis, were given banque
at the Southern Hotel on the 25th.
The Secretary of the Treasury has beef
informed that the recent investigation O
the condition of the sub-treasury at New
Orleans shows that the total defalcation O
the runaway clerk, Auf de Morte, amount
to little over $4,000.
The German Bundesrath has rejectct
Prince Bismarck's proposal to tax the bar
rels in which American petroleum is i'm
ported as articles of coopers' work. Tn,
proposed tax would largely increase tn,
cost of petroleum.
The Union Passenger Railway and Trans
fer Company, to continue fcr 1000 years
was incorporated at Albany, N. Y, with 6
capital of $11 ,OOO. 900. The object is to con.
struct surface roads in every part of New
York City.
THE fisheries treaty with Canada has
been extended another year, temporarily
The whole question is to come before Con.
gress in December.
The Republic, of Madrid, recently, allud-
ing to the revolution, says that few days
ago it was probable, to-day it is certain.
PRINCE BISMARCK has ordered the prep
aration of plans for a canal to connect the
Rhine and Ems Rivers.
THE boiler at the distillery of Mattingly
e. Moore at Bardstown, KY, exploded
the other morning. Three of the work
hands were killed instantly and another so
badly burned and bruised that it was
thought he would die.
IT is denied in Vienna that Austria has
declined to receive Mr.. Kelley as American
Minister. President Cleveland has not
asked whether Mr.. Kelley would be ac-
ceptable to the Austrian Government, but
it is believed the President has reconsid-
cred the nomination unprompted.
The British Admiralty has ordered a
quantity of torpedoes known as the eric
son destroyers."
THE remains of Frederick Weisman, who
died in Baltimore, were cremated in Lam
caster, Pa, recently.
The Plumbers Convention at st. Louis
ended its session on the Goth, after adopt
ing resolution requesting manufacturers
not to sell material to strikers who might
start cooperative establishments and re-
duce prices.
CAPTAIN E. L. JOHNSON, formerly of In
diana, arraigned for killing Major Edwin
Henry, in Green County, Tenn, September
%, 1884, was acquitted on the Goth. Henry
led Johnson's wife astray a year before.
Mrs. johnson committed suicide in Indian
apolis.
A WHOLESALE prison delivery was ex-
pected in Michigan, consequent upon pris-
oners being convicted and sentenced with
out Indictment by the grand jury.
JAMES D. FISH, the defaulting New York
banker, was denied a new trial.
j. w. JONES & Co., one of the heaviest
lumber firms in Racine, Wis, made an as
signment to R. R. Howell for the benefit of
their creditors. Their liabilities were esti-
mated at So, 900, their assets at from $780,
900 to $4,000.
The Harvards defeated the Yales in the
boat race at New London, Conn.,, on the
10Th.
The business failures for the week ended
June % were: In the United States, 1856;
in Canada, 10; total of 2O5, as compared
with 226 the week previous.
A VIOLENT earthquake was felt in the
Department du Nord, France, on the Goth.
The damage was slight.
GENERAL HAZEN, Chief Signal Officer,
has issued an order extending to day and
q half in advance the weather predictions
which now only cover day.
LUTHER K. BRUCE, leading druggist,
shot and killed J. C. Lentz, a prominent
merchant and Justice of the Peace at
Douglass, ILL.,, recently. The affair grew
out of an attempt to suppress the liquor
5raffic, Lentz being a strong temperance
nan and Bruce an active supporter of the
whisky cause.
JAMES ARCHIE and William Parchmeal,
'ull blood Cherokee Indians, were hanged
It Fort Smith Ark, for the murder of Henry
Feigel, an old Swede, thirteen years ago,
n the Indian Territory. Parchmeal ad-
nitted his guilt.
OLAF OLSEN, of ARENA, Norway, a |
.abin boy from the bark Nat. from Glen
uges for Philadelphia, died at the hospital
It Lewes, Del, recently from well defined |
Fellow fever.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
THE President recently made the follow