Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-07-16

old, of New Albany, Ind, procured bot.
tie of laudanum and each drank part OF its
contents. They agreed to the suicide b.
cause Miss Hotledge's mother refused to
let that young lady go to picnic. The
Hotledge girl took fatal dose.
The stone cutters of st. Paul and Mime
apolis struck recently for an advance from
45 to 80 cents per hour, and eight hours
work instead of ten.
A LONG standing feud between two fac
tions known as the "Owls" and "Vlgi
lantes" in Estrella Plains, CAL, eliminated
the other day in a conflict, in which rifles
were freely used. A report states that f.
d. Brooks and E. Sewell were killed and
Steve Moody, H. Hustler, John McAdams
and William Pepper MORALLY wounded.
The iron mill strikers of Newburg, near
Cleveland, O., to the number OF twelve
hundred, marched into the Chisholm
! shovel works and the Union screw works
recently, and compelled both establish
ments to shut down.
GEORGE WATTS, standing near an empty
whisky barrel at Ionia, Mich, recently, at
tempted to light a match on the barrel
"hSA Az CAPAouCu WIFI d oouiAA S.~S $3.50
heard blocks away. Watts was severely
injured, and two men standing in the open
door were blown out in the street. The
barrel was scattered through the saloon in
blazing fragments, setting the building on
fire.
AN outbreak was reported imminent in
the City of Mexico, and the city was under
martial law.
THE Chicago street car strike ended on
the eth, after a consultation between the
strikers and the President of the Company.
A compromise was arrived at, the exact
nature of which was not known.
A MRS. HARDESTY was poisoned fatally
in Scott County, Iowa, recently, by drink
ing wine from a bottle which had formerly
contained jimson liniment. Many other
persons were also seriously poisoned at the
same time.
CAPTAIN Couch, the Oklahoma leader.
stabbed a man named Bush at Douglass,
Kan, recently, supposed fatally, in dis
pute over the collection OF an attorneys
fee
The rumors respecting an invasion OF
Southwestern Kansas by Cheyenne In
dams turned out to be an unfounded scare.
Hundreds of families flocked into the
towns, but investigation failed to find any
Indians who had crossed the borders.
HARRIET MOORE, a middle aged widow,
has commenced breach of promise suit
for $225, 900 at San Francisco against Moses
Hopkins, aged seventy. The defendant is
O brother of the late Mark Hopkins, the
railroad magnate, from whom he inherited
an estate estimated at 100000.
The red flag was waved by the riotous
iron strikers ut Cleveland, o., on the Sth.
The military and police were under arms
and were prepared to attack the rioters
should any further demonstration be made.
RECENT specials to the Sioux City Jour
nal from fifty points in Northwestern
Iowa, Northeastern Nebraska, Southwest
ern Dakota and Southeastern Dakota in
dictated great Improvement in the condi-
ton of the corn crop, owing to the warm
weather. Small grain in every section was
in good condition. The rye harvest was
in progress. Barley was nearly ready for
the sickle.
THE Governor of Idaho, William M.
Duuus udS oChO ulo w WIN
President.
The Indiana Farmer recently estimated
the wheat crop in Indiana at sixty-four
per cent. of an average; in Illinois at forty
per cent, and in Ohio at fifty EIGHT per
cent. The prospects for corn, oats and hay
in the three States reported were excellent.
FOURTEEN cars at the st. Paul depot
were blown from the track and derailed 10y
a recent storm at Sparta, Wis. Reports of
great destruction by the storm also came
from points in Iowa and Illinois.
The Cherokee Strip embargo on Texas
cattle was reported getting still more seri.
GUS. Texas cattlemen, in a recent COM
munication. to Commissioner Colman, asked
his aid in getting through the Strip.
GENERAL c. c. AUGUR, Commander OF
the Department of the Missouri, was re-
tired on the 10th. 1t was thought Colonel
John A. Gibbon would be appointed to the
vacancy.
The Vulcan Steel Works at st. Louis
have been leased to a syndicate of capital
lists for six years at an annual rental OF
$4,000.
THE Apaches were reported raiding
Northwestern Sonora. Strong express
sions were made in military circles
against the United States troops for
crossing the border.
A MAN named Otto Swink was caught in
the betting of saw mill at Wapakoneta,
O., the other day and literally torn to
pieces.
A RECENT special from Hubbard, o.,
stated that Thomas Hugh, aged sixty two,
started in a buggy for Greenville, Pa. to
get 5000 in bank. His horse returned at
night with the empty buggy, covered with
blood. No clue to the murderers.
REGARDING the recent fight on the Opur.
to River, a dispatch from Tombstone,
Ari., says: Captain Chaffee, on July 3
came upon band of Apaches near Guasa.
spirited fight ensued in which forty In.
dams were killed and three bucks and
eleven squaws captured. The loss to Chat
fee was one soldier and one or two scouts
hurt.
The east bound traffic committee met at
Chicago on the 10th and agreed to the rates
ON live hogs from Chicago to New York, %
cents, and on dressed hogs in refrigerator
cars, 43h cents.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company
mas secured the practical control of the
American Rapid Company, which had
been since September, 1883, part of the
Bankers and Merchants system.
THE SOUTH.
JOSEPH HARRISON and two children
were burned to death in a dwelling house
on fire at Woodbridge, Va, the other
night.
Gently on q warrant charging her with
selling poisoned food to the proprietor of
the Cottage Hotel, Morehead, XIV, where