Dodge City times., 1885-10-01


done was considerable.
THE United States steamer Juniata, which
was sent to inquire into the detention Of
certain American vessels by the Portuguese
custom officials on the east coast of Africa,
has cabled her arrival at Mozambique.
OFF the coast of Maine, near Eastport
during a fearful gale on the 22d, party OF
men, numbering ten or twelve, were
drowned on the wreck of the Spanish
steamer Humacoa, lost six weeks pre-.
viously.
CRETE, the large island in the Mediter.
ranean, belonging to Turkey, was reported
in state of revolt.
The schedules in the assignment Of Kos
suth, Adolphus and Jacob Marx, comtris.
ing the firm of Kossuth, Marx & Co., jew.
elers, of New York, show liabilities, $623,
946; nominal assets, $559, 10; actual assets
$35S, $40.
The noted trotter Goldsmith Maid died
at New York recently at the age OF
twenty EIGHT years.
THE Bulgarians were reported as in.
censed against Russia, who was reported
as having demanded the deposition OF
Prince Alexander.
The glassworkers' strike at Bellaire, O.,
ended on the oath by mutual concessions.
FURTHER rioting took place at the Cleve-
land (O.) rolling mills on the oath.
ADvICES from Peru state that the In
dians are committing fearful atrocities in
the city of Huarez.
SOME time since Dorman B. Eaton, Chair
man of the Civil Service Commission, ten.
dered his resignation to the President.
The latter, in reply, thanked Mr.. Eaton for
his services in the cause of civil service re-
form, and hoped the resignation would be
deferred until November.
The town of Sanborn, Dak., was nearly
totally destroyed the other day by fire,
which was supposed to have been started
by tramps. The hotel, five business houses
and several of the best residences were
burned. Loss $4,000, most of it covered
by insurance.
The price of wire was advanced recently
by the manufacturers, who met in New
York recently, from 10 to Is per cent.
PEACE has been officially announced in
Ecuador, the rebels having been suppressed.
THE trial Of the cavalrymen who partici-
pated in the anti German riots at Madrid
has been concluded. One sergeant was
sentenced to death, and the other offenders
prisonment. The court advised the Gov
ernment to pardon the sergeant.
JAMES c. PUsEY, the defaulting clerk of
the Kansas Penitentiary at Leavenworth,
pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was
sentenced to eight years. imprisonment.
In the Supreme Court at Boston, on the
25th, Franklin j. Moses, Ex-Governor of
dictment charging him with obtaining
money by false pretenses from ex-Mayor
Cobb and others, in February, 1884. He
had but recently served out term in the
Middlesex County Jail for similar offense.
AT Battleford, N. w. T., ON the 25th, sew
eral Indians were sentenced to be hanged
and to various terms of imprisonment for
murder and other crimes committed during
the recent troubles with Riel and his fol-
lowers.
BUSINESS failures throughout the coun-
try for week ended September "a num-
bered 1S5 against 17S the week previous.
The lumber yard of Gardner & Co., Chi
cago, was recently in flames. For time
the fire was so threatening, spreading to
adjoining yards, that many persons feared
a repetition of the disaster of 1871. Loss,
100000
THREE coaches of a passenger train con-
tanning over 100 persons were thrown
down high bank near Warm Springs, N.
C., recently. Twenty people were injured.
William Connolly, j. H. Winning and Miss
Brayles, of Ashville, received fatal in
juries.
REPORTS were received recently of cy-
clone at Calcutta, in which several ships
foundered and great many persons were
drowned.
JOHN MoRRIssEY, of Washington, d. c.,
was killed and three other workmen in
jured by dynamite explosion recently at
York Haven, near Harrisburg, Pa.
A STATEMENT prepared by Superinten-
dent Bell, of the Foreign Letter Mails
Bureau, shows that the weight of the for
eign letter mail decreased 1870 pounds
during the last fiscal year, while the weight
of the printed matter increased 33,319
pounds. The cost Of ocean mail transit
was $327, ,179, or just $3.50 less than the
cost during the preceding year.