Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-09-24

employees for recovery OF money deducted
from their wages in the settlement of bills
contracted at the company's store, the
second trial resulted in the jury returning
a verdict in favor of the company in each
case.
QUITE a large female vote was cast at
the Binghampton IN. W election for
School Commissioners on the 18th.
THROUGH the long strike of the Pitts
burgh, (Pa.) nailers the stock of nails has
been almost exhausted. Dealers report the
supply smaller than for twenty years, and
say that an order for 100 kegs could not be
filled.
THE recent elections to the Saxon Land
ing resulted in an increase of the Social
istic representation. ,~
FIRES were reported raging in the coun-
try twenty miles west Of st. Paul, Mimi.
One woman was thought to be fatally
burned while fighting theflames.
The American Paper Manufacturers
Association has written the Quarantine
that the process of disinfection now in use
Injuries the rags that are imported.
The five story cooperage building of s.
Ellis Briggs, at the corner end of Rutgers
and Monroe streets, New York, was burned
the other night. Loss, $4,000; partially
J insured.
A RECENT Vicksburg (Miss.) special
says: Cotton seed has advanced from $40
to SIG per ton.
A PARIS correspondent telegrapbed re.
Gently that Palermo (Sicily) was illumi-
mated in honor Of the appearance of the
vision of saint carrying with it the as
surance that the cholera epidemic would
soon become extinct.
THE sanguine hopes regarding the con-
dition of the Egyptian cotton crop have
been somewhat lessened by recent reports.
1t is now said that rainy weather, fogs
and cold have reduced the expected crop SO
per cent.
The Smith American organ works were
destroyed by fire at Boston the other
evening. Loss, 100000. Insured.
| Two ACCIDENTS, resulting in three
deaths, occurred on the new aqueduct at
New York one day recently.
A NEGRO rapist of Elicot City, Nd, was
recently lynched by men of his own color.
His victim was a girl seven years old.
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18th numbered for the United States and
Canada, us, against 2O3 the week previous.
WHAT appeared to be Asiatic' cholera or
a disease almost identical with it, was re-
ported prevalent at Hampton, in Nova
Scotia, village of about 1000 inhabitants.
THE steamships brenda and Dolphin COL
lided in the Downs, in the English Channel,
recently. Seven of the latter'S crew were
| drowned.
THE Denver police recently arrested a
man named G. W. Smith while in the act
of placing a dynamite cartridge ON the
Denver & Rio Grande track.
THREE hunters were recently trampled to
death by a herd of buffaloes, 800 miles
northwest of Bismarck, on the Missouri
River. They were hemmed in by the river
and high bluffs when the stampede of the
animals took place, caused by sudden
storm.
THE barge Orient was wrecked at Gal
weston recently. A life boat which went
out to her assistance was capsized, and
two of her crew drowned. The total loss
| of life vas thought to be seven.
BISHOP JOHN SHARP, Utah director of
the Union Pacific, pleaded guilty to unlaw-
full cohabitation recently. He was fined
$500 and discharged on payment thereof.
He pledged himself to observe the laws.
| The secession" resolution, as it was
called, was carried in the Dakota Consti-
tutional Convention at Sioux Falls by 45
to II. Energetic protests were made
against it by Judge Edgerton (the Presi-
dent) and other speakers.
The regatta given by the New York
Yacht Club came off at Sandy Hook on
the 18th. There were eleven entries and
the race was won by the English yacht
| Genesta.
! The Public Prosecutor in the case of
Jeanne Lorette, on trial in Holland for the
murder of the Japanese Consul, Sakurrada,
demanded sentence Of ten years. servi-
tude for the prisoner.
The Apaches of New Mexico have re-
Gently murdered six citizens in Grant
County, one rancher named Brady Pol
lack, near Elmacho; Alberta, Mexican,
near San Lorenzo; two sons of John Nc
| Kennon, on a ranch near Gallno Creek;
George Horn, a woodchopper, near George
town; and Mexican sheep herder nea;s
Lake Valley, name unknown.