Dodge City times., 1885-05-14

rhe steamer was stopped. but the body was
not recovered.
! MISCELLANEOUS.
There were 225 failures in the United
States last week.
Gen. Sheridan will inspect the military
posts of the West.
A fine slate mine has been discovered
near Little Rock, Ark.
The old board of directors of the c., B. &
| @. road were reelected.
The Ohio Legislature refuses to investi.
gate the alleged bribery cases.
The area sown in Spring wheat is les:
than it was last year.
Philip Schloss, Terre Haute clothier
assigned with liabilities of $1OO,OOO
Confederate memorial day was observed
in many parts of the South.
Russia has purchased five steamers in
the United States to be used as cruisers.
Gen. Grant has been smoking cigart
occasionally within the last two weeks.
Stonemasons are on strike at Dayton
| o. Men at work were compelled to quit.
Seventy strikers who offered resistance
were captured by the militia at Joliet, ILL.,
One of the principal business blocks in
the town of Lawson, Ray county, No.,
burned.
Seventy-three head of horses were sold at
Lexington. KY, for SAC, ,125, an average Of
$3.50.
A child in Gregg county, Texas, found a
pile of old Spanish coin, some of them
bearing the date of 14O3.
The Ohio legislature passed bill requir-
| ing Cincinnati saloons to remain closed
from midnight until a. m.
The 117th annual report of the New York
Chamber of Commerce says the business
year has begun favorably.
According to Prof. Sanborn's forthcom-
ing report the prospect is for little over
half an average crop in Missouri.
Sixty. four head of shorthorn cattle were
sold by the Clay County. Missouri, Associa-
ton for an average of $s7.75 per head.
In the New York Senate bill was pass
ed fixing stamp-tax on speculative deal
ings in stocks, grain, oil, provisions, etc.
The president of the Chicago Roard of
Trade says the bill to abolish that institu-
ton had its origin among the bucket-shop
interests.
The governor of Georgia sold to New
ming thirty years at 4! per cent, getting Q
premium of 5-l6
The Illinois board of agriculture has
passed resolutions heartily approving of
Governor Oglesby's action against Missouri
cattle exposed to pleuro-pneumonia.
The war-ship Niagara, which was sold
at auction in Boston, yesterday, for $12, 300,
aided in laying the first Atlantic cable and
took home the earliest Japanese embassy
visiting the United States.
The striking miners at Collinsville ILL.,,
have given up their strike and gone back to
work. 1t is stated that some owners, after
their men had returned to work raised
wages to the scale demanded by the former
strikers.
A published statement is made that
a watchman has been stationed ut the grave
of Cyrus H. Mccormick at Milwaukee,
Wis.,, every night since the dead millionaire
was buried. at Graceland cemetery, q year
ago. Mindful of the Stewart affair, it was
decided by the relatives of the inventor
miilionaire to keep q vigilant watch over
his grave. Though large salary was offer.
in finding man who would accept the nm
congenial task. No violence has yet been
offered the sacred spot.
Between four hundred and five hundred
shop hands of the Denver & Rio Grsnde
Railway in Denver ani Salida went out on
strike. They demanded the discharge of
two objectional Denver foremen and the
installment of about dozen men recently
discharged to reduce the force. Inquiry
among the strikers and officers fails to un-
earth any other grievance. The strikers
threaten to stop all trains except the mail
if their demands are not acceded to within
three or four days. It is reported that the
men at Gunnison, Grand Junction and Salt
Lake pledge the strikers their support and
will 90 out if necessary to carry their point.
The Farmers Review in summing up the
reports of 1900 correspondents says that
very little can be said in favor of the Win
ter wheat crop. That the abundance of rain
which has fallen has revived the life of the
plant, but has altogether confirmed the re-
port that large proportion of the crop is
killed. There will probably be the same
acreage of Spring wheat a. in 1884. That
the oet crop bids fair to be very large, and
that the corn acreage promises to be very
large, owing to the fact that the condition
of the wheat crop caused many acres of
winter wheat to have been piowed up and
put into corn.
Meetings were held throughout Utah.
Idaho and Arizona few days ago at all the
Mormon tabernacles ct which : ''declara-
ton of grievance and protest" which had
been formulated at . general conference of
the Mormon church April 5th, was read.
The declaration il addressed to the presi- |
dent and people of the United ststes. It i
sets forth that their rights - American cit |