Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-12

ter elHnG years Tor each OF his i've VIC
Tins
JOHN W. NlEt, of Shamokin, Pa, has re-
cruited 100 men and has offered theft SER
vices to the United States Government in
the event OF war with Mexico.
The Oswego, belonging to Captain grum-
| mond, OF Detroit was seized recently by
Canadian customs officers and three dcpu-
ties placed on guard. The latter went to
sleep, when the vessel escaped.
THE election for Principal Chief of the
Choctaw Nation was held on the 4th, B. F.
Smallwood, Thompson Mckinney, j. p.
Fulson and Edward Simms being the can
didates for The position. A large vote was
polled. Several hundred negroes voted for
the first time. Unofficial returns indicated
| the election of Mckinney.
The grand jury Of New York has post
poned the investigation into the charges
against Commissioner of Public Works
Squire and Maurice B. Flynn for a few
days until Mayor Grace has concluded big
inquiry.
SPEAktSG OF the Cutting case, Represen.
tative Curtin, Pennsylvania's war Gov
ernor, recently saidi lie is AN outrage; wa
should not submit for day to such treat
ment of an American citizen as has been
dealt out to Cutting. 1t is net the imam, it
is the principle. We can not be too zeal.
cus in protecting the rights of our people
elsewhere. The attitude of Mexico is pre-.
posterous as we'll as insulting
THE lockout at the Timberlire (Mont)
mines continues. Thirty women the other
day forced 'blackleg" to quit work.
They escorted him home to his wife anc
instructed his wife to look out for him.
GREENCAsTLE, Ind, reports a case of at
tempted train robbery by one man. Bag
gageman John T. Winchester was danger
ously wounded
TWENTY-FIVE new cases of typhoid fever
and three deaths were reported on the
South Side, Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 5th.
There were over 200 cases, many fatal.
The trial of Editor Cutting took place at
PasO del Norte, Mex, on the 9Th. He re-
fused to plead placing himself in the hands
of his Government. The judge pronounced
him guilty, postponing sentence.
AsIATIC cholera is reported prevalent at
Madison, Chippewa Falls and Miladore
Wis, several deaths having occurred.
Some, however, deny that the plague is Of
the Asiatic type. claiming that it is viru-
lent cholera morbus.
NJ. DE LEsSEPs has issued a new circular
addressed to the shareholders in the Pan
anna canal, in which he says that over
As, SO2 shares in the new loan.
JOHN F. SMITH, the accomplice of Jump
in the murder of William C. Gladson, was
hanged at Gallatin, Mo-, on the 9TH. Jump
was executed couple of weeks previously,
Smith being respited.
FIRE in Phoenix, Ariz, undoubtedly start
ed by an incendiary, destroyed the finest
business blocks in the city recently, causing
a loss of 100000.
TIE appellate court of Illinois has sus-
tanned the ruling of Judge Rogers, of Chi
cago, that the will of Editor Storey, of the
Chicago Times, was valid.
Six young Canadians, two of them neph-
ews of Hon. Alexander Mckenzie, were
drowned by the upsetting of yacht near
Sarnia, Ont, a few days ago.
THE striking bricklayers of Cincinnati
propose to erect buildings without the in
tervention of contractors and have already
set to work on quite number of structures.
AS SOON as the work of completing the
maps of location is concluded the Com
missioner of the General Land Office will
issue instructions for the restoration to the
public domain of lands claimed by the At
lantie & Pacific Railway Company in New
Mexico and California, which were for
feted by an act of Congress last session.
These lands comprise some $4,000 600 of
acres.
In row at Belfast, Ireland, on the 9th,
the police fired and wounded seven per-
sons.
CAPTAIN HALL, formerly chief Of the
United States secret service in Chicago,
was recently shot dead by woman. The
tragedy occurred at 476 Wabash avenue.
Captain Hall had lately been stationed at
st. Louis, but retired few days ago and
went back to Chicago.
The Commerce. del Yale, of st. Louis,
prints letter from the City of Mexico to
the effect that tho Presidents and ex-Presi- |
dents of the Central American republics of
Nicaragua, Honduras Costa Rica
and Guatemala, now in that city, are ar
ranging plan for union of these States in |
one corporation, with the ultimate view of |
to the Mexican Republic.