Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-01-07

maximum penalCy unQeT tne law, one yeai
in the county jail
THE guards at the tombs of Garfield ant
Grant were withdrawn at midnight on thu
31st. by order of the Secretary of War.
W. 7. WARNER and j. Henry Work, in
dicted for completely with Ferd Ward, re
Gently made a proposition to the Govern
ment to refund to the Marine Bank credit
ors the amount charged in the indictment
against them, Their offer was declined.
EUGENE ScHERRER & Co., West India
IN erchants, of London, have become bank
rupt Liabilities, $500, coo; assets said to be
''shadowy.''
THE propeller Pequot crushed into the
ferryboat Alaska at New York recently. No
lives were lost.
VALENTINE P. SNYDER, of New York, has
been appointed Deputy Comptroller of the
Currency, vice Langworthy, resigned. Mr..
Snyder went to Washington in March last
as Private Secretary to Secretary Man.
ming, and since that time has held various
positions in the Treasury Department.
THE Cork Steam Packet Company has
declared dividend of 2115 per cent, which
the directors stated was all that was war
ranted by the profits of the company dur
ing the past year. At the end of 1884 the
company paid dividend of five per cent.
The difference in the profits of the two
by the cattle dealers.
TIE shipping of New Brunswick has
fallen off the past year 10000 tons. The
tonnage of vessels registered at st. John is
the lowest since 1871. Thirty St. John YES
sells, valued at 1880, 900, have been lost dur
ing the year and only twenty vessels added.
With two or three exceptions all the ship
yards in the province are idle.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, is excited over an I'M
expected coal discovery.
FIVE Lebanon (Ky) business houses were
burned the other day.
EPHRAIM BEASLEY, well-to-dO farmer of
Wilson County, Tenn, accidentally killed
his son, aged six years. Mr.. Beasley, who
is very near-sighted, was chopping wood,
when his son came in front of him and was
struck by the ak, splitting his skull.
THE long strike of the river coal miners
was declared virtually over. The miners
of Walton, Hayes, Rusher and Munhall
have returned to work at the 2115 cent rate,
and now almost 1000 men are at work at
that place.
THERE was rumor that Stone Calf, the
Cheyenne chief who died short time ago,
was poisoned by members of his own tribe
who were offended at the part he took in
having the cattlemen removed from the
reservation.
THE Cory City Pa.) Touring mills were
destroyed by fire the other morning. The
1,,i1I 1o,u STR hricl ND
was equipped from top to bottom with the
latest improved machinery for the roller
process. The loss was 1000; insurance,
$4,000.
THE fighting recently near Mier, Mexico,
proves to have been a battle between
large band Of smugglers and customs guards
in which one smuggler was killed and sew
eral wounded. Customs officers captured
valuable lot of silks, laces and velvets
A TERRIBLE fire occurred in Detroit,
Mich, on the morning of the 1st d. NJ.
Ferry & Co.'s seed warehouse, Whites the
alter and other buildings were destroyed,
involving a loss of Si,500,000. Captain
Richard Philbert of the fire department.,
was killed by a falling cornice. The insur-
ance Amounted to about S5O0,000
IASIEtR HAS uuueftdkeu, dI Ills own
cost, to cure eleven persous, bitten by
mad wolf in village in Western Russia.
TIE annual report of the police depart
ment shows that during the year 1855 26,
S04 arrests were made in Baltimore.
THERE were $500 fires in New York in
1885, and the total loss was $780, 600, as
against 2,40O fires, with total loss of
$3,414, 647 in 1884. The cost of 1,S43 build
ings protected during the year is S54,-
100000.
The wholesale dry goods firm of Bates,
Read & Cooley, of New York, has been dis
solved.
THE Edgar Thompson blast furnaces at
Braddock, Pa, five in number, We're closed
down for an indefinite period on the 3lst,
throwing out of employment 700 men.
THE st. Petersburg Journal says that the
negative result of the Balkan conference
will prevent Russia from joining another
conference.
HERR KRUPP has united with an influen-
tial London syndicate in issuing London
loan of eS5 600, 600 to provide China with
ornaments and railways.
IT is stated in Constantinople that Rus
STA insists that Turkey shall fulfill the
article in the Berlin treaty providing for
the execution of religious reforms in Ar.
menia.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
FRED FISHER, a young man of twenty
two, is accused of embezzling $4,000 be-