Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-01-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Football has been prohibited at Harvard
college.
A business revival is reported from
Chicago.
The Fort Scott and Denver road is to b
extended.
Latham's Store, a village in Monitear
county, Missouri, is water bound.
Lynchburg, Va, tobacco manufacturer
prophesy an active revival within q few
weeks.
On January 6. the A., T. & s. F. rsilroat
declared quarterly dividend of so cent?
per share.
A New York court decided that q female
notary was eligible. the question having
been raised.
d.. Murrell & Co., dry goods dealers o.
Jackson, Tenn, made an assignment. Liza
bilites, $4,000.
The Illinois Railroad Commissioner
have ordered the roads to reduce rates on
building material.
Mayor Low in his annual reports de-
clares that the Brooklyn bridge in not
paying institution.
The total value of imports received al
New York for the week was 81 ,4S6, 600
The total imports since January 1, 1884
were$424, 496, 600.
An Arab tramp was arrested and lodged
in Jail at White Plains, N. Y. On his per.
son was found a money belt containing
&C, 900 in English gold.
The United States Supreme Court rem.
dered an opinion in Chinese laundry case
Also, in q case in which the town OF La
Grange, No., is interested.
The Board of Pardons of Pennsylvania
has refused the application for commute.
ton of the death sentence in the case OF
Or. Albert G. f. Golerson, of Philadelphia.
Two hundred and eighty seven million
feet of logs " ere scaled at Saltwater. Mimi,
last year; and 169, OOO, 600 feet manufactured
into lumber; leaving lis. 100000 feet in the
booms.
A disastrous food exists at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, and another foot of water will
overflow the north end of the city on the
west side. The cause is an ice jam near
Grand Haven.
The Governor of Ohio has respited Pat
rick Hartnet, wife murderer, under sentence
to hang January 81, at Cincinnati, to Feb
ruary 10, SO the Supreme court may con.
slider his case.
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the Brush Electric Light Company and the
New England and Western Electric Light
Company of Boston. are considering the adj
visibility of consolidating.
William J. Mack, merchant tailor, of Gin.
cinnati, assigned to ID. NJ. Lyman. Assets
$1,000, liabilities estimated ~, 500. Prefer
ences, Charles Mendel 81 800, James Morre-
sey $500, Seasongood Sons Co. s., 500.
The New York Commercial Bulletin es-
Inmates the fire loss for December in the
United States and Canada at Sill ,OG0, 900;
and for the year SIP OO0, goo; or $l5, 500, 600
more than the annual average for nine
years.
A committee of engineers of the Gould
system, after q secret session OF q week at
St. Louis, has sent for Chief Engineer
Arthur, of the Locomotive Brotherhood,
and makes the declaration that cut will
be followed by strike.
The thermometer at Helena, Mont, has
been very low for the past three weeks and
stock has suffered much from exposure.
This is the longest spell of such severe
weather experienced in that section for
years.
The drivers on the Bellefontaine street
car line, st. Louis, were reduced % cents
Dor day, and struck. Later the manage
ment compromised by only cutting them
down 10 cents per day, thus ending the
strike.
The Dry Goods Clerks Association of
New York demands that the employers
keep the employees that they have
had since the middle of November,
through the dull season, until March,
without reduction of wages. The mer-
chants firmly resist the dictates of the As
ISOLATION.
Judge Stone, of the Court of Common
Heas, has filed an opinion holding that
the Penn Bank of Pi,tsbug, was operated
under private and special charter, and
not under the State banking act of 1850.
This relieves the directors of the bank OF
their individual liability for sums due de-
positors. 1t will be fought in the Supreme
Court.
The output of the Leadville district of
silver, gold aid lead for the year 1884 was
az, 392, 400, an increase of S2,l34, 4OO over
1885, with number of mines that produced
largely in 1883 closed down q greater part of
the year on account of the low price OF
lead. The chief of these was the Silver
Cord. one of the heaviest producers in the
district.
The corporation counsel of Chicago,
thinks an ordinance for heating street-cars
can be sustained by the city charter. Su-
perintendents Holmes and Lake, of the
South and West roads, made statements be-
fore committee OF the council, that they
had tried several devices, but failed to find
Q practical one Each declared that his
company was anxious to heat cars.
Cyrus w. Field, of New York, said in re-
gard to Gen. Grants refusal to receive the
fund being raised for his benfit, he had no
knowledge of Grants reasons, he could only
imagine that some friend of the General
had taken up Vanderbilt's claim. Field
said that he returned every cent subscribed,
but refused to state the amount raised. He
said that there would have been no difficult
ty in raising the sum and Vanderbilt told
him the property of the General is intrin-
sically worth $4,000.
The National Committee of the Prohibi-
ton party met in New York q few daysago,
with John b. French, of Nebraska, in the
chair Resolutions were adopted congratu-
lating the friends of the cause on the
marked advance in prohibition made dur
ing the recent campaign, and acknowledge
their gratitude to Hon. John P. st. John
and William Daniel for able service rem
dered without compensation, and their
courageous loyalty to the white banner of
prohibition; that the gross attacks on st.
Johns character, life and work by the OPP
position party press are inexcusably and
manifestly malicious and without particle