Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-04-30

Benz. M. Pratt, a Cincinnati lawyer COM
mitted suicide. n. F
Aaron Jones, q negro, wss lynched at
New Roads, La.
Austin Texas was visited BY heavy and
damaging rains. 5s.&
Fire at Sullivan, Ind, destroyed $1,000
worth of property.
Thos. Killian was fatally shot in q saloon
row at Avondale, 0.
Chas. B. Stultz was killed at Chicago by
electricity while fixing light.
Louis Webster was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree at Jefferson, U.
The body of female colored child was
found floating in pond at Quincy, LII.
The Miami Savings bank at Miami, Mo-,
was entered by burglars and robbed OF S.
Thes. ssmon washanged at Laconia N.
H., for the murder of three persons in
1883.
q. Deputy Sheriff Buck of Taylor county,
Texas, was killed by desperadOes in Jones
county.
VIM. Kettia and wife, who live near Can
ton, Mo-, were almost suffocated by the gas
in Quincy hotel. They we're on their
bridal tour.
Perryville, Tennessee river town was
annihilated by an incendiary fire started
by person seeking revenge on one OF the
inhabitants.
Near Paducah, KY, Lucinda Beerdan
l. ho nd rod
and the supposition is that she has COM
mitted suicide.
Vicksburg was visited by conflagration
that destroyed $3.50, 900 worth of property.
The Herald was burned out and will have
to suspend for few days.
R. r. Foster & Co., tea merchants of st.
Louis, whose liabilities are $1,000 made
an assignment of property valued at $685.
600, including herd of Jersey cattle.
A farm hand near Plainville, N. J., muir.
dered an old lady for whom he worked, be-
cause she objected to his making love to her
daughter. He then hanged himself.
VIM. Phillips was hanged at Fort Smith
Ark, for the murder of VIM. Hill. He de-
clared his innocence to the last, and said
that Rod Hill, son of the murdered man,
committed the deed.
The Cook county grand jury returned in
dictments against Patrick Condor, John
Devnor and "Dutchy" Kiefe for the rob-
berry ofthe ballot box in the Third precinct
at the recent municipal elections,
At No.. Gold street, Chicago, early on
Sunday morning, saloon-keeper named
James Booth was stabbed and beaten in q
fatal manner by Frank Phelan and an &C
complete, both of whom escaped. Booth
died.
LIZ Letter has applied to the superior
court at Chicago for an injunction to re-
strain Marshall Field from completing the
foundation tor his massive building in the
basement of the formers building, Occu.
pied by the fire patrol.
An unknown person placed ties on the
Lake Shore d. Michigan Southern track at
to jump the track. The only injury done
was to the locomotive. DISTINCTIONS we're
also placed on the Bay City road, but dis
coveredin time to prevent injury.
"A fire occurred in the Pullman Palace
Car shops used for repairing cars at 4lst
st. and Pennsylvania Railroad street, Phil
adelphia: The building and contents, to-
gether with large frame building belong
was destroyed. Loss $4,000.
Mrs. Henrietta Morgan of Cincinnati in
herits fortune of $1,000, 900 by the death
of Baroness De Fannemberg at Gaines.
France April 18th. The Baroness was born
in Cincinnati and is the daughter of Col.
Jas. ]. Trother. Mrs. Morgan, who is her
nearest relative, is the mother Of the CON-
federate General John H. Morgan.
A fire at vicksburg recently burned For
nRnsI's dry goods store, William Brushef1's
hardware, Warren e. Sealers' clothing,
Baum & Co.'S. stationary, Robert Earnest
jewelry, A.. Westcott's hardware, Joseph
Podesta Wholesale liquors, United States
signal office, Telephone Exchange, three
residences on Mulberry street. Herald
Office, and w. U. telegraph Office. Loss
$3.50, 600.
Braclay Johnson, of Greenwich, Conn.,,
son of q prominent railroad lawyer, named
J. Augustus johnson, while walking in the
woods with his mother and sister, shot and
killed them both and then killed himself.
Mrs. johnson was shot in the back of the
head, and the sister in the mouth, after an
apparent struggle, and again in the eyes.
After the double tragedy, he placed the re-
volver to his right eye and sent q bullet
through his brain. johnson was insane.
A Chattanooga, Tenn, special says: A
bloody and sensational tragedy occurred at
Oakdale Junction near this city. Pat Cain,
an engine hostler, and Jim First q noted
desperate, went to . saloon and while there
became engaged in little quarrel. First
finally drew his pistol and shot Cain
through the breast, and as the latter was
falling he fired at First, the bullet taking
effect in his abdomen, causing fatal
wound.
FOREIGN.