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

MISCELLANEOUS.
| THE diaries of General Gordon have been
published. They are strange mix-up OF
complaints, denunciations and expecta-
tons, characteristic of his peculiar life and
position at Khartoum.
The order for the removal of the tele-
graph wires from the roof of the Treasury
Department building at Washington not
having been complied with, the telegraph
| company has been notified that they will
be cut down. The wires on the roof of the
White House will also be summarily re-
moved.
REPORTS from all the wheat growing
counties in Colorado place the crop at
100000 bushels, which, estimating the
home consumption and seeding for next
at 100000 bushels, leaves surplus of
], 43O, 900 bushels, gain of 20 per cent over
last year.
PRIVATE advices from Berlin of the oath
state that the Emperor William is worse.
He can not talk or listen to the reading of
reports nor do the least work without fit
of somnolency, which are NEST frequent
during the day, while at night he is rest
less.
The National Bank of Mexico is slightly
embarrassed by the recent executive order,
and doubts are expressed as to whether it
can survive the shock.
Mr.. BURCHARD, Director of the Mint, was
reported to have decided to test the power
of the President to remove him from his
Office.
A COLLISION occurred between a freight
and accommodation train on the Wabash
Railroad at Woodstock, eight or ten miles
from ST. Louis, recently. Engineer Stew
art, of the freight, aud Conductor Mann, of
the accommodation, were killed. Three
passengers were wounded, but not seri-
ously.
The jury in the Hil1man insurance case
at Leavenworth, Kan; failed to agree and
were discharged. Six were for the plain
tiff holding that the body was that of Hill
man, and six for the defense that it was
not Hillman. This was the third trial of
the case.
A DISPATCH recently received in London
says that an American who recently
passed through Batoum, town of Asiatic
Russia, on the Black Sea coast, states that
there are many gun factories in full opera
ton there, and that they are being worked
secretly and under such Disgusting names
as hospitals and asylums.
The Prohibition State Convention held
at Grafton, W. Va, split on the third par
ty question, and about a third of the dele
gates favoring non-partisan action with
drew. The remainder resolved that third
party was expedient in West Virginia.
The sealed verdict in the Riddle Reiber
conspiracy case was opened at Pittsburgh
on the oath. 1t found Riddle and Reiber
not guilty, and ordered the prosecution to
pay the costs.
A SPECIAL from Rome to the Freeman's
Journal, of Dublin, states that the Rev.
DR.. Walsh, President of Maynooth Col
lege, has been appointed by the Pope as
Archbishop of Dublin, to succeed the late
Cardinal Archbishop McCabe
DURING the performance of y circus at
Lapeer, Mich, the other day, Sampson
large elephant, became Infatuated and
turned upon the eight thousand persons
under the canvas. The enraged
elephant, after clearing out the canvas, ,
made break for the woods near by and
mired himself in an adjacent swamp.
Amid the panic number of limbs were
broken and property lost and damaged.
No fatalities occurred.
A RECENT dispatch from Lucca, Italy,
says that a powder mill at that place ex-
ploded, badly shaking up the buildings for
miles around. Twelve powder hands were
instantly killed.
A TUBULAR boiler of Mountain & Sons |
grist mill at Mobile, Ala, exploded re-
Gently, demolishing the boiler house and
parts of adjacent buildings. Henry Scott,
Joe Richardson and L. Matthews, colored |
were killed, and Sally Matthews |
fatally injured.
ACCOUNTS received from Tonquin show |
that the ravages of disease among the |
French troops there are simply appalling.
Three thousand invalid soldiers have been |
sent home, and three hundred more are !
down with disease and await transporta-
ton. The deaths among troops are from
fifteen to twenty daily.
In the race at New London, Conn.,, be.
tween the Columbia and Harvard Fresh.
men crews, the latter won.
The citizens posse from Texas and In |
dian Territory, ON the Texas side of the |
Red River, in the neighborhood of Della
ware Bend, caught eight horse thieves
near Washita recently and hanged them to |
one tree. They then went few miles fur
Their and captured four others, whom they
also lynched.
In fight between Drs. Roberts and May.
field, at Middlebourn., w. Va, recently,
DR.. Mayfield's skull was cracked and DR.. /
Roberts had three ribs detached from his
backbone. Both men were prominent citi-
1ens, Mayfield being President of the
County Court.
SEVERAL slight shocks of earthquake
were felt on the 18th at Inverness shire, II
Scotland.
IT was reported in Warrington that fur.
her !utertereuce would b accessory n |,
Panama % prevent impending anarchy. 4