Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-26

tians denied that Prince Alexander had
won victory at Slivnitza. They claim ID
that he had been forced to retreat. Great
loss of life Was reported in the various en-
gagements.
CHARLES MCLEAN and Patrick Boyle;
both of whom were burned at the fire al
the works of the Philadelphia Lubric Com:
pany, died from their injuries.
The notorious Pastor Downs, of the
Bowdoin Square Church, Boston, has been
dismissed and barred out of the building.
His adherents formed new Organization.
A BOILER exploded recently in the
jeanne distlllery, on the Quai Tournelle,
Paris. Thirty persons were severely in
jured. Much damage was done.
AT New York, the other afternoon, the
front wall of Isaac's plaster mill. No. 2Ss
Hume street. destroyed by fire on the
morning of November II, was seen to tot.
ter, and a second later 1t fell outward with
a terrible crash. Five workmen were burr
led in the ruins and very seriously injured.
The Post office Department has been ad.
vised that upon the completion of the
Canadian Pacific Road all the Trans-At-
lantic mails from England will be for
warded over that road and that a new
British line of steamers will be established
from the western terminus of the Canadian
Pacific for Australia.
The authorities at Kiel were reported to
have received renewed instructions to
order German American citizens to quit
the Island of Foehr.
THE Porte has formally protested to the
powers against the invasion of Bulgaria
by Servia and declaring that Turkey re-
serves her military rights in Bulgarian
| territory.
CHARLES VoGEL, German, aged about
twenty one years, was killed at the Grimes
coal mines, two miles east of Owensburg,
KY, recently, by a caving bank.
The City Council of Nation, ILL.,, has
shut down on skating Kinks. A proposed
ordinance granting them special license
was defeated. The City Attorney says
they can now run only after paving IS a
day, the license required of all amuse-
| ments.
FRANCIS j. LEBARoN, of Jacksonville,
Fla, has received instructions from Cap
tain James B. Eads to make preliminary
survey across the peninsula of Florida for
the contemplated ship canal, beginning at
| the mouth of McGirt's Creek, two miles
| southwest of Jacksonville, thence running
| in a straight line through the Santa Fe
River Valley, and striking the Gulf OF
Mexico at Deadman's Bay, north of Cedar
Key, distance of about 12O miles.
A RECENT Butler (Pa.) special says: An
| explosion occurred ut the Pittsburgh Pro-
ducers' Wildcat oil well, near Mars Station,
| rick and rigging were destroyed and Will
liam Irvine, Oscar Marshall aud two other
workmen seriously burned.
A RECENT dispatch from Paris says: The
| Government is preparing an armed fotilla
| to protect French stations on the Congo
River. The Projects of the Pyrenees have
closed several gambling bells in Biarritz,
Bayonne, st. Jean and Hendaye.
THE Associated Cutlery Manufacturers
of the United States met at New York on
the Goth. Resolutions were adopted pro.
testing against foreign competition and
| differentiation.
The Department of State has been adj
vised of the temperance of cholera in
Gibraltar. :s--~
FIRE broke out in the Erie County CO.,
infirmary the other night and destroyed
the main building, and five of the ninety
eight inmates persisted in the flames. they
were all in the northwest wing of the
building, where the fire originated. The
fire was caused by defective flue, and the
loss amounted to about $2O,COc.
BUSINESS failures throughout the coun.
try for week ended November 10 mum.
bsred for the United States 212, Canada
Is, as against 23) the week previous. The
increase was principally in the Western
and Pacific States and Canada.
BENJAMIN H. LoNGNECKER, Director of
the Poor of Lancaster County, Pa, who
embezzlcd $1,000 and disappeared last
March, has been found dead in Los Angeles
Cal.
A CLoUD-BURsT in DEVILS Canyon, near
San Bernardino, CAL, the other night, de.
stroyed the toll road for some distance
The gatekeeper and his family barely es-
capped drowning. Damages from floods
were also reported from many other points
in California.
A SILVER CLIFF (Col.) special says
The Coroner's jury which has been inves.
eating the Bull Domingo disaster has
found Superintendent Foss guilty of Grim.
inal negligence.