Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-04
NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,

Thegener8l synod OF the Lutheran church
met in the Thirty second biennial conven-
ton at Harrisburg, Pa.
The military order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, at New York city -e-elec-
ted Gen. Grant commander.
Four miners were killed at Charleston,
w. Va, by tie swapping OF brake band on
an incline, letting the car 60 at great speed.
Damage to the extent of $500 was
caused and 500 workingmen made idle by
the burning of a New York furniture fac
tory.
Willie Prentiss killed his father at Or,
ange, Mass. The man was drunk and, pla-
cling a cup on his head, ordered the boy to
shoot at it.
Elizabeth Cleveland, the presidents Sis
ter, has written an exceedingly caustic let
ter in reply to recent utterances of Rev.
Howard Crosby on total abstinence.
About 100000 was paid out of the
United States treasury in one day for pen
sions, making the total amount paid out OF
that account during the present month
about $l0,0OO,oOo.
The President has appointed ex-senator
E. G. Ross, formerly ex- United States Sena-
tor from this State, to be Governor of New
Mexico, and II. NJ. Bickell to be receiver
of public moneys at Larned, Kansas.
Three women and six children were
drowned in q canyon near IndisnOla, Neb.,
q few days ago. The bodies Of two of the
victims were recovered. 1t was caused by
the bursting of water spout two miles
from that place.
The charge is made against Gen. Robin
son, lately appointed collector of Internal
Revenue for the Seventh Kentucky dis
trict, that he was a defsulter of $14, 900
while collector of taxes at Lexington, but
it is admitted that the shortage has lately
been paid.
The population of Kansas City, as indi-
Gated by the annual directory is 12S, 474; as
compared with that of last year it is a gain
of Ia, 738. This is exclusive of Wyandotte
and Armourdale, which added would give
143, 1903 at present, as the population Of the
city and all suburbs.
A special from Denver, Col, says that
millions of young grasshoppers are report
ed coming out on the sandy soil lon the
south side of the Arkansas river above Pu-
eblo, destroying early vegetables and ten
der shrubs Their appearance is similar to
that of 1873 when they were swept east BY
the winds, and consumed an immense
amount of growing crops in Kansas.
Detectives in New York have traced two
recent burglaries to an expert called
Frenchy, and found the missing property
in the custody of his daughter. While an
inmate of Sing Sing he invented lever
lock, by which single key would turn the
bolt of every cell at once. Governor Tilden
refused to pardon him in return for tue
invention, and he escaped by bribing the
keeper.
Professor Riley, of Washing ton, says the
seventeen year locust, whose arrival he has
pred cted, is harmless to growing crops,
ind will do no injury except to the tw gs of
the forest and fruit trees. Wherever young
orchards have been planted On land which
has been cleared during the last seventeen
years, the trees are liable to suffer some
what, but it is probable that kerosene spray
upon the trees will protect them. The
ordinary locust, which is so destructive to
growing crops, has jaws which cut, while
the seventeen year species, more properly
called cidada, has only break through
which he sucks his nourishment.
The steamship, City of Berlin, struck An
iceberg in the dense fog off the coast of New
fOundland. The engines were going very
headworks were carried away, but no DAM
age was done below the main deck line.
She proceeded quite slowly, and passed two
more icebergs. The City OF Berlin brought
143 cabin and /, 139 steerage passengers into
New York City. 1t can be better imagined
than described, the CONSERVATION on board
at the tine among the passengers, as they
were asleep in tieir berths. They ran he'll
ter SHELTER to and fro, screaming and pray
ing, not knowing but that they would 60
down with the ship in afew moments.
A Denver dispatch says that late at night
as the regular Denver and Rio Grande train
from Salt Lake was approaching the city
limits, a terrific explosion took place d.
rectly under the engine, extinguishing the
lights and breaking the windows of the
locomotive and forward coaches, and vio-
lently wrenching loose the rails. The pas
sengers, to the number of ITO, were shaken
up and badly scared, but not injured Sc
riously. No clue to the perpetrators of the
outrage has yet been discovered, but there
seems no reason to doubt that some of the
striking railway hands are responsible, and
they are being closely watched.
The Commissioner of Pensions has de-
cided adversely upon the application for
o pension of one Dawson, of Company l,
West Virginia Calvalry, who Joined the
Confederate service while Union prisoner.
1t is alleged that the enlistment was for the
purpose of escaping to the Federal lines at
q favorable opportunity. In his decision
the Commissioner says: 81 can not hold
otherwise than that the soldier in this case
did render voluntarily aid and comfort to
the late rebellion against the United States.
The claim will therefore be rejected, and in
this, and all other similar cases, Congress
alone can give relief"
A special from the Indian Territory says
that the Senate Commute on Indian Affairs
have arrived at Muskogee. The visit is
creating great interest. They began work
at the Muskogee Creek Nation. The most
important question, other than the sale of
Oklahoma and the Cherokee Strip, will be
that of citizenship. The Indians claim
that the Territory is being overrun by
whites claiming Indian blood. Many hun
dreds have been declared intruders, and
ordered to leave; but the Interior Depart
ment has interfered and prevented their
ejectment. The sale or lease of the western
portion of the Territory is being warmly
discussed. An outright sale is generally
opposed, but its advocates claim that it is
gaining ground. In the Cherokee nation
there is q great diversity of opinion A
communication signed by many leading
Cherokees has been sent to President
Cleveland asking that he defer sending a
special committee to negotiate for the pur-
chase to the Territory until after the cleo.
ton of q new legislature in August, SO that
the measure may be brought before the
people and deliberated upon during the
campaign. Although it is not a decided
stand, yet it Is the ground taken by the
leaders of five tribes who must unite on
decision. The opinion prevails that Bushy
Head, the principal chief of the Cherokees,
and J. NJ. Perrimen, chief of the Greeks,
favor q sale. NcCurtain, governor of the
Choctaws, also is said to be in sympathy