Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-04-23
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mapp G. Co.'S stove works, Norfolk, Va.
were destroyed by fire.
55S. NJ. Chapman's residence at Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, Was destroyed by fire.
The Excelsior Knitting mills. at Bethle-
men, Pa, were destroyed by fire.
A number of business houses at Lees
Summit, Mo-, were destroyed by fire.
Another murder, this time double one,
is reported in fancy county, Missouri.
The body of female colored child was
found floating in pond at Quincy, Ill.
The Miami Savings bank at Miami, No,
was entered by burglars and robbed OF Sc,
600.
The baby carriage factory of Wagner &
Bently at Cincinnati was damaged $4,000
by fire.
Three Mexican horse thieves were killed
in q fight with rangers near Eagle Pass,
Texas.
Several business houses were destroyed
$4,000.
James C. Anderson, principal of the pub
lie school at Noroorne, Mo-, committed sui
eide.
Smith Dixon, 65 years of age, was arrest
ed at Chatham, ILL.,, charged with beastly
crime.
The Stillman, the finest hotel in Cleve-
land, Ohio, was badly damaged by fire. No
lives lost.
A body supposed to be that of s. s. Con-
ant, the missing editor of Harper's Weekly,
was found in Coney Island creek.
Henry Daurn, a hide and leather dealer
of Cincinnati, disappeared, leaving debts
amounting to $4,000.
Wives of two police constables publicly
horsewhipped the editor of the Independent
Advertiser at Nyac, N. Y.
VIM. Kettia and wife, who live near Can
ton, Mo-, were almost suffocated by the gas
in Quincy hotel. They were on their
bridal tour.
While robbing store at san Vego, Tex,
a gun was accidentally discharged by one of
twelve Mexican bandits, causing the instant
death of the robber the ball struck. Citizens
pursued the robbers.
Ex.Mayor B. E. Pullen, of Paris, Ky.,
was found dead in bis room at hotel in
Lexington, KY, having committed suicide
by taking laudanum. He was formerly a
wholesale liquor dealer but lost his fortune.
He had recently shown depression of spir-
its.
The Grand July at Newburg, N. Y, in
dicted Hugh McConn who is blind and over
80 years old. for the murder of his wife aged
70, in February last. The couple had fire.
quent Quarrels. The final quarrel was not
witnessed, but it issupposed McConn knock
ed his wife down and stamped her, go that
she died two days later from her injuries
The indictment is for murder in the first
degree.
As porter was lighting the lamps in the
news room of the Buffalo Morning Express
Office one of the oil tanks above the print
ers' case took fire, and in short time the
room was in flames. G. H. Dreneton and
Ed. Hoffman both photographers in the
building were heavy losers. The O'Neil
Wagon Company on the first floor and the
job department of the Express Office on the
fourth floor was all consumed. Four hun
dred hands were thrown out of employ.
ment.
A special from the City of Mexico April
II, says the troops of the Columbian govern
ment finally entered Colon. after it had
been burned by the rebels under the leader
ship of Preston. They captured several
squads of rebels. During the past ten days
a number of these prisoners have been
considerably augmented by the receipt of
struggling rebels captured in the surround
ing districts. 1t is not known just how
many rebels we're held prisoners 1T Colon,
but good authority place. the number at
1000. Information reached this city last
night that on Wednesday officers OF the Co.
lumbar government selected one hundred
men and ordered them to be shot.