Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-23

THE grand jury a. Philadelphia found
three bills against Joseph F. Cottringer,
ex-Treasurer of the Central Transportation
J Company, one charging him with the EN-.
/ bezzlement of $l47 500, and the others with
forging the stock of the company and ut
| tering the same.
ANOTHER dynamite outrage occurred on
the railroad track at Denver on the 10th.
No one was killed or injured, but the car
which exploded the dynamite was wrecked,
together with two others.
ADMIRAL CALDER and NJ. De Lesseps
have submitted to the French Minister of
Public Works a scheme for a canal from
| Havre to Marscilles, utilizing the rivers
Seine, Saone and Rhone. The canal, it
is proposed, shall be navigable by tho
largest ironciads.
BUSINESS failures for week ended July
Is number: United States, 200, Canada,
l6; total, 22j, as compared with 2S5 the
week previous.
THE Alert, which left Halifax for the re-
lief of the Hudson Bay Station, has been
compelled to put into st. Johns for re-
pairs, having been seriously damaged by
ucdNy lCc uOI I'll VI SdpC DOSS.
IT was estimated in st. Louis that go
wine and beer saloons had been closed since
July L, under the operation of the high
license law, and that some 400 more, or
about one-quarter of all the saloons in the
city, would shut up in few days.
The British House Of Commons mega
lived without division Mr.. Parnell's mo-
ton to inquire into the conduct of Earl
Spencer in Ireland.
JOSEPH j. CoTTRINGER, recently on trial
in Philadelphia for forging $l47 800 of stock
years solitary confinement.
EXECUTIONS were issued at Sharon, Pa,
against the Wheeler Iron Company,
amounting to over $4,000. Dizziness Of
trade was supposed to have caused tho
failure.
THE decree divorcing the Marquis Do
Caux from Nine. Patti, the great prims
donna, has been pronounced in Paris.
IT was stated recently in Madrid thai
every one of the forty -seven nuns who
were inoculated by DR.. Ferran had died of
cholera.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
adopted bill imposing retaliatory duties
ON Roumanian imports.
A PARTY of Cacerists were defeated at
Pisco, Peru, July 10, but they got away
with the custom house cash.
The grocery house of Thurber, Whyland
& Co., Thomas street, New York, was
burned out the other night. Loss, 500, 900.
SIX children were burned to death in a
two-story log house occupied by Joseph
Evans, near Grahamton, Clearfield County,
Pa. The father made desperate efforts to
rescue his children, but without avail.
INSPECTOR METcALF autographed re-
Gently from GAINESVILLE, Mimi, that he
had brought from Manitoba, under arr, st,
Lars Gunderson,, late postmaster at Cum
berland, Wis. About three months ago
Gunderson absconded, leaving deficit of
5000 in his money order account.
THE British steamer Willingale, Captain
Davis, which sailed from Madras May 30
for Boston, was badly wrecked June q off
Cape Gardifui. The Captain and part of
the crew were drowned.
THE ham sewing employees at Armour's
packing houses at Chicago, struck for an
increase in wages recently. Men were put to
work in the strikers places at the old prices.
When the new men were returning from
work they were attacked and three of them
badly beaten.
The Bay View Fish -plate Mills at Mil.
waukee, Wis.,, employing one hundred
men, started up the other morning.
THE people of Winnipeg celebrated the
return of the Canadian troops by grand
torchlight procession and display of fire.
works on the 18th. Many thousands, in
Guiding the military, took part in the pro-
cession. The streets were thronged with
people.
MARY KLEEMAN, on trial recently in Chi
cago for attempting to poison her sisters
family with arsenic, was found guilty and
sentenced to one years imprisonment.
The French Governor of Cochin China
telegraphed recently that the military sit
uation in Cambodia was really never dan.
gerous and that the French losses since
January amounted to but seventeen killed
and three wounded.
The naval officers who have been on the
rejected boat Dolphin have been detached
from that vessel and placed on waiting or.
ders.
H. F. GAINES, a United States Custom
House official, stated recently in Montreal
that large quantity of whisky was being
Struggled into Canada from the United
States between Rouse's Point and Detroit
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES,
The clearing house returns for week
ended July Is showed an average increase
Of III, compared with the corresponding
week of last year. The increase in New
York was 23S.
The eastbound Santa Fe passenger train
was wrecked near Wallace, Tex, recently
by striking a culvert which had been
washed out by a rain storm. Engineer
we're killed.
EXCITED crowds surrounded st. Mary's
Church, at Kansas City, NO., on the 10th,
hooting and jeering at the Rev. H. D. Jar
line, who persisted in officiating as Rec
sor. No harm was done the reverend gen.
leman, although at times the mob became
very threatening.
SMALLPOX was reported spreading in
.pidemic form at Scotland, OAK, among
;he Russians. twenty-five cases were re-
ported in one day. Several deaths had &C.
cured.
A NADMAN was recently arrested at San
bona, near Venice, on the charge of kid
mapping. He confessed that he had stolen
md eaten a number of children because he
was starving.
EIGHT hundred men left Eau Claire,
Wis.,, recently to work on the Rocky Noun
sain division of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way.
FIVE families, comprising eighteen per-
sons, who reached New York recently on
The steamer Main from Bremen, were sent