Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-15
CHIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Bristol tunnel, Oh the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, was burned recently.
Murphy e. Connors' slaughter house at
Kansas City burned. Loss. $4,000.
Two prominent sheep men, named Henry
Kuhleman and Joseph Stein. " ere Murdered
near Uvalde, Texas.
The Nantasket bottling works, Boston,
Mass, owned by Daniel McGrath, were de.
stroyed by fire. Loss, 5000; partly in
sured.
A boy named Devlin, telegraph mes
senger at Syracuse, has been arrested for
stealing 81 300 from New York stock
broker.
A fire at Mexico, Mo-, destroyed SIS, GOO
worth of groceries and furniture belonging
to Beattie & Younger and N. A. Robinson.
Insurance $4,000.
The Glenn Wooden Mill, North Adams,
Mass, burned recently. The engine, boiler
rooms and picker house were saved. Loss,
$500, 00G; insured.
Robert Maxwell, an express messenger on
the Ohio Southern railroad, was shot at
Jackson, O., by William Johnson, colored,
with whom he had quarrel.
At Jackson, Michigan, a hack containing
Jud Crouch, the murderer, was demolished
and the horses killed by locomotive, but
the passenger escaped uninjured.
The steamer Belle Shreveport sunk about
sixty miles above Arkansas City. Two
lives were lost. The other passengers were
rescued by the steamer Kate Adams.
The coal walls of Bristol tunnel, one
thousand feet long. near New Lexington.
Ohio, were set on fire by incendiaries, and
its speedy destruction seems quite certain.
A Mason, Mo. special says: Brooks Cava-
naugh suicided by hanging himself with q
bride rein in his smoke house. 1t was not
his first attempt. He was generally consid-
cred cranky.
The steamer Acconack, of the Old Domin-
ion Line, collided with the steamer Luray,
of the same line, off Raney Island. The
Acconack sank. There was q heavy fog.
No lives were lost.
The residence of Hon. Horatio Seymour,
Jr., at Marquette, Mich, with its contents,
was almost totally ruined by fire. A man
named James Crowley was asphyxiated in
the basement. His body was recovered
after the flames were extinguished.
A Springfield, Missouri, special says: Rev.
A. W. Conley, an itinerant who preached
at village near here recently, was arrested
a few days ago by Deputy United States
Marshal charged with operating an illicit
distillery in the vicinity of Kansas City.
At recent ball in the isolated Illinois
county of Calhoun, q young blood was SO
nearly crazed by jealousy as to fire both
barrels of his shotgun into the dancers,
wounding seven of them, two with fatal
effect.
Flames swept away the dry-goods store
of II. Kern and fifteen other buildings in
Baronne street, New Orleans, valued at $780,.
0OO the Glenn wooden mill at North Adams,
Massachusetts,, worth 100000, and the
works of the Phelix Manufacturing COM
pany at Cory, Pennsylvania.
A fire in the store of Einstein, Heroek, &
Co., New York, importers Of lace and en-
broidery, damaged their stock to the value
of 5000. Converse, Stanton e. Davis,
wooden commission merchants, occupied q
portion of the building, and lost $50, 600.
The building was damaged $4,000
Emily Weaver. . noted shopl;fter, who
recently served eight months in the House
of Correction at Milwaukee, was arrested
in Chicago in the act of stealing q watch in
q store. Her first husband was Mike
Weaver, the famous burglar; the second is
D. r. Hale, formerly manager of the Chi
cago Clearing House.
Miss Valentine Byre, aged thirty years,
living at 221 West Fourteenth street, Kan
sas City, committed suicide recently by
hanging. Her act was the result of an un-
requited attachment for young German
who became engaged to marry another
woman. Deceased Wns dressmake4. She