Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

Use striking Pittsburgh (Pa.) nailers
have issued circular calling on all men,
bers of trade unions to boycott manufac-
turers employing non-union men.
ISAAC COOPER was cut to pieces by a
buzz saw recently, at Oak Hill. Tenn.
DISPATCHES of the 18th indicated Ser
Wan successes everywhere. The Bulga-
rians were reported disheartened. Servia
was aiming to capture and annex the
Widdin district, also the international
railway route to the lower Danube, Prince
Alexander of Bulgaria, has made an ur-
gent appeal to the Powers and to Turkey
for succor.
DURING the recent recount OF the city
vote for Mayor of Indianapolis it was dis
covered that all the ballots of the First
Precinct, Eighteenth Ward, had been
stolen. Mr.. Cottrel. the Democratic candi.
date for Mayor, then made an affidavit
that they had been stolen by Charles
Smith, Republican committeeman, and IT,
w. Hill, inspector of that ward. They
were both arrested and gave bail.
WHILE the night shift were at work In
the North Vernon 1.-THE Colly) mine at
Bessimer, Wis, on the Lake Shore Road
in the Gogebie iron range, an immense
volume of ore fell upon them. Herman
Huppert, Charles Wangstead, Herman
Huppert, jr., and Charles Rough were in
stantly killed and several others were in
jured.
NJ. MELITsCHKo, cashier of the Servian
State Railway, has been arrested at Zurich,
charged with having embezzled $780, OO
THE business portion of the town of Ha'
zelhurst, Miss, was destroyed by fire the
other night. The loss is estimated at $780,
600, while the insurance is small.
THE steamboat Poplar Bluffs was burned
the other evening on the Ouachita River, al
the mouth of the Black River. She was
loaded with cotton. Loss, $4,000; insur.
ance, $4,000.
The Bulgarians, on the 18th, after des.
perate figh ting, carried the Servian posi-
tions which were menacing Slivnitza
Prince Alexandria led the Bulgarian col.
umns in person.
The old Naval Retiring Board at Wash
ington has been dissolved and a new one
formed, composed of Rear Admiral John
L. Warden and Captain A. W. Weaver;
Medical Directors, Thomas ]. Turner, Viii.
liam T. Hood and Captain Richard W.
Meade.
The subscriptions received at Galveston
in aid of the sufferers by the late fire
amounted on the 18th to 5000.
The British forces in Burmah have car.
ried the forts in the vicinity of Minhala
and captured the city after three hours
firing from the floating batteries and the
armed launches and heavy guns on board
the steamers. The British lost four men
killed and twenty-seven wounded. Min.
hala was the most strongly fortified posi-
ton ON the river.
JAMES DEMPSEY, who recently arrived al
Helena, NJ. T., from Fort McGinnis, tells q
pitiable story of his two companions being
devoured by wolves while on their way
across the mountains. Their names were
John Hoag and Jacob Scheller. Dempsey
saws he climbed q tree and saw his two
companions torn to pieces and devoured
He says Hoag was q resident OF Cleveland
O., and Scheller of Lafayette, Ind.
TIE town of Minhla in Burmah caught
fire after the bombardment and was en-
tirely destroyed.
In the insane asylum investigation al
Chicago on the 18th, DR.. Herman testified
that when he took charge of the asylum q
year ago he found patients tied with ropes
and in straight jackets, other patients
were covered with sores tied up with filthy
rags infested with vermin and maggots.
Other witnesses testified to similar neglect
and abuse Of patients by attendants.
A SEVERE storm was reported raging on
the Illinois shore of Lake Michigan on the
night of the 18th, and the sea was running
very high. Several disasters were re.
ported.
GorrLIEB VARrz, aged thirty EIGHT, q
workman in the Empire Brewery in West
Tenth street, New York, fell into val
of boiling malt the other afternoon and
was scalded to death.
The relations between France ana Chins
were reported strained. The Chinese were
delaying the completion Of q commercial
treaty with France.
DISPATCHES of the 18th stated tkat the
Servian invasion of Bulgaria had beea con.
siderablv checked. Further desultory Sight.
ing had taken place.
The Governor. General of Cuba haa been
officially notified of the killing of the three
banditti, Mendex, Ramon Hernandez and
Andres Vera, by the troops.
MoRNoNs at Franklin, Idaho, recently
resisted United States Deputy Marshals,
who had arrested polygamist In the
melee one Of the Hormons was shot and
wounded and TIVE q three others arrested.
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