Dodge City times., 1886-09-23

| "A fEIGHTFCL accident occurred recently
at Ladd's Mills, Arkansas. Two men,
named Osborne and Lang, started tG kill
fish in the creek and made fuse to set of
tho giant powder and touched it of. The
result was that Lang was killed and Os-
borne terribly, If not fatally injured.
A SCOUTING party belonging to Ell Coy.
ote's gang caught five rancheros near the
Palado river lately and shot one Of them
to death, who was recognized as an in.
former on the gang.
VERY great damage has been done to
property in the Rio Grande valley by re.
cent heavy rains.
REV. JESSE CooK, coIored, was hanged
recently in Butler, Ca, for the murder of
his wife last April. The crowd at the ex-
| ecution was estimated at {, 000 Cook made
| a full confession.
LATE dispatches to Bradsreet's tell Of q
| splendid business outlook.
! NEWS was lately received at Washington
of brutal outrages perpetrated by the Chi.
nese on Americans at Kwai-Ping, about
400 miles from Canton.
THREE officers belonging to the Spanish
army of Barcelona were recently arrested
and imprisoned tor leading band of SOL
dierS to join the Carlists
A RELIGIOUS crank in Chicago, named
DR.. Arthur Morton, lately proclaimed him.
self the Messiah who will establish a new
Jerusalem in Chicago and run it on the
principles of Heaven. His following COM
prises number Of refined and intelligent
ladies.
A RECENT telegram states that the c. c.
Carroll, from Kansas City to st. Louis,
struck snag and sunk a few miles below
Glasgow. She will probably BE- total
loss.
THE annual congress of German scientists
was opened in Berlin on the 18th. Two
thousand seven hundred professional scien-
fists attended the opening session of the
congress.
THE American fishing schooner Pearl
Nelson, has been seized ut Princeton, N. S.,
for landing men during the night.
A TELEGRAM from Laredo states that the
famous rebel chief, Ell Coyote, was killed
in an gagement with Mexican troops re-
Gently.
THERE were six deaths from cholera in
laramie on September II and sixteen new
cases. Ilf all the other infected districts of
Italy there were thirty seven new cases
and fifteen deaths.
Mrs. ELLA OrTARD, aged eighty years,
died recently at Galena, ILL.,, while kneel-
ing in prayer at her bedside Cause, par
alyss of the brain.
SERGEANT BRAINARD, the companion of
Lieutenant Greedy in the Arctic expedition,
has recently been discharg I'd from the Sig
,o1 l. &c |, L.
will not re-enlist, as he thinks his services
have been ignored.
AN alleged mulatto who denied that he
was colored, was lately sentenced by Vir-
ginia jury to six years in the penitentiary
for attempting to marry white girl.
SEVEN baggage cars and thirty special
sleepers passed through Kansas City on the
18th bearing Knights Templar from the
West to the ST. Louis triennial conclave.
DOUGLAS SMITH, q clerk in the Auditors
Office at the Custom House at New York,
has been accused of embezzlemsnt. His
duty was to receive all monies from duties
on books at the postoffice.
SAM STAIR, a notorious desperado of the
Indian Territory, was caught recently by
the Cherokee authorities. Large rewards
were offered for his body.
A RECENT dispatch from New York says
that it has become almost certain that the
estate of the late Samuel j. Tilden will not
he settled without an unpleasant contest.
LATE advices from Honduras to New
York state that the revolutionsts there
were met by the troops and completely
routed.
j. B. GLASS, Mount Sterling, ILL.,, bank
er, recently made all assignment. The liza
bilities are about So, ,OOo, and the assets
1000. The losses will fall almost wholly
upon people who deposited their savings
with him.
ALFRED HAHN, an insurance agent max.
ing $40 a week, was lately commanded by
a New York court to pay s. week for the
support of a woman who says that she is
his wife, but whom he swears he has never
before seen.
AT Boston recently Sylvester Fletcher,
colored, picked up a stone, walked to a
baby carriage in which a sixmOnths- old
child lay sleeping and struck the child
terrific blow on the head, inflicting a fatal
wound. The only excuse he gave was that
he was starving and wanted to be arrested
SO as to get something to eat.