Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

on the Foster farm near jefferson, Wis.,
the other day, killing five persons instantly
Anthony Klein, the engineer, and his son
Joseph Lester, and his ten-year old boy
and Joseph Haas. Another of Testers
sons aged eight years and a man named
Fisher were fatally scalded. Several
others received scalds
ZIsEMER, HERMAN & Co. s brewery, near
Woodstock, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
RETURNS from twenty-six Of the larger
pOst-offices of the country show an increase
of 8 per cent. in the stamp sales during the
month of July, as compared with the same
month last year.
RUMoRs of naval and military move.
ments against Mexico on the 10th were nu.
merous and sensational. Orders were re-
ported issued to several vessels to prepare
for sea. Troops were also ordered to hold
themselves in readiness.
STOCKMEN arriving from Mexico state
the news of the trouble with the United
States has just reached remote towns in
the interior, causing great excitement and
making it dangerous for stock buyers to
stay in their midst.
THIRTY ONE buildings were burned at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, recently. Esti-
mated loss ST., 0c0; small insurance.
The Progressive Union of Cigarmakers
of America have decided to amalgamate
with the Internationals and thus end the
long strife.
SQUIRE and Flynn, charged with official
corruption have been indicted by the New
York grand jury.
THE board of guardians of Longford,
Ireland, has adopted resolutions denounc
ing five landlords for heartless evlctions as
tending to crime and pauperism.
One man was killed and two freight
trains wrecked by a collision near Falls
creek, Pa, on the 18th.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado passed through
Aberdeen, Oak, on the 10th. No correct
estimate could be given of the damage.
THE three daughters of Henry Wyman, a
fisherman of Far Rockaway, Nellie, aged
twelve; Lizzie, aged ten, and Sadie, aged
eight, went to a point only short distance
from their cottage bathing recently, when
they got into deep water and all three were
drowned.
THERE was a report in Tombstone, Ariz.,
on the 18th that Mexican soldiers had dis
armed Captain Lawton's command in Son.
ora aud taken them prisoners.
SIX men were killed recently by the col
lapse of the walls of a tunnel being con-
structed at New Ross, Ireland.
DANIEL HAGGERrY, of Baltimore, Nd,
has been appointed assistant superinten-
dent of the railway mail service.
NATIONAL bankers met in convention at
Boston on the 18th.
The inhabitants Of Juneau City and
Douglas Island, Alaska, expelled seventy.
six Cinnamon from those places recently.
They were put on board two small schoon-
ers and shipped to Fort Wrangell.
SARAH JANE ROBINSON and Thomas R.
Smith were arrested recently at Somer-
vile, Mass, charged with poisoning They
were credited with ths murder of eleven
persons for the purpose of obtaining insur-
ance money.
A HURRICANE swept over Nancy, France,
on the 18th, doing immense damage. The
wind stripped the vines. uprooted trees
and leveled houses One soldier was killed
and many persons injured.
The schooner Oregon capsized in Boston
harbor the other night, and four of the five
men composing the crew were drowned.
LOUISE MICHEL has been sentenced to
four months imprisonment and a fine of
100 francs for seditious language and incit-
ing TO murder during the rioting at De-
coxeville, France, last May.