Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-09

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loss in the United States and Canada al
O,O00, 900, which is an increase of one
third upon the November average since the
Boston fire of 1872. There were $50 fires
whore the reported loss was $4,000 ant
over.
TEE Opera House block at Brockton
Mass, was on fro on the night of the I'd
Loss, 500, 600; insurance not stated.
L. B. FRANKEL & Co., mining stocks
Virginia City, New, have failed. Liabilities
f90O, OO0
WILLIE HINES, nged seventeen, eloped
with Miss Newsome, ten years his senior
at West Point, Ga, the other day. To
prevent pursuit Willie smashed his father,
carriage and threw his saddle into the
well.
EARLY the other morning an armed mob
went to Brennan, Tex, overpowered the
jailer, took ont Shea Fielder, Alfred Jones
and Ephraim Jones, three negroes impli'
Gated in the killing Of Devices Bolton at
Llewellyn on the night of the election, and
lynched them.
the jeanette and also a member of the
Thetis rescue party, and was afterwards
convicted of assault with intent to kill an
other Chinaman, and sentenced to seven
years. imprisonment, has been pardoned
by the Governor of New Jersey.
AN incendiary was recently detected
firing a building at Temple, Tex. Being
halted by police officer, he responded by
drawing pistol and shooting. The officer
then fired, shooting his assallant dead. The
officer was uninjured.
The excitement on the San Francisco
Stock Exchange continued on the Sd.
Prices were somewhat improved in what
vas termed the middle class. Consolidated
Virginia and other leading stocks were
lower
THE Pension Office was recently informed
of the arrest by Special Examiner Paul E.
Williamson OF George Foster, of Knoxville,
Tenn, for making false a.fidavits. Foster
has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
one years imprisonment in Albany peni-
Tertiary.
AN influx of Chinese from British Co.
lumbia into Washington Territory is re-
ported. They walk across the line, no ono
being there to stop them.
G. W. TYLER, the lawyer who repre-
sented Miss Hill in the Sharon divorce
case, has been debarred for two years by
the Supreme Court of California for con-
verting to his own use money recovered
on judgment for one of his clients.
The st. Louis W. c. 7. U. hav passed
resolutions condemning Mrs. Secretary
Whitney and Mrs. President Cleveland for
having alcoholic liquors at recent enter
tainment.
United States reported to Bradstreet's for
week ended December was 23S against 2Ol
the week previous. The total from Janu.
airy to date was 9,40O against 1O,253 iu
1885. Canada had 1,079 failures this year
against l., 1873 last year and ,297 in 1881
THE Detroit Pipe Foundry Company's
works burned to the ground recently with
all the patterns and machinery. Loss,
500, 900; insurance, $4,000.
THE amount of Fotheringham IS bail was
fixed by Judge Normile, of st. Louis, at
$3O,OOO, which the unfortunate messenger
was unable to give.
CONFLICTING orders caused a passenger
and mail train collision at Muskado, Mimi,
recently. Both engines were wrecked.
In the case of the National Soldiers
Home against General Butler the jury at
Boston found a verdict for SIG, 537 so against
General Butler.
The schooner Rays Farr, from Muske-
gon for Chicago, loaded with slabs, went
ashore recently near Michigan, Ind. Her
crew took to the yawl and managed to
save themselves. They were all more or
less badly frozen, and suffered terribly
from exposure.
The purchase Of the Russian oil works
by the Standard Company of America is
denied.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers will not be represented
at the convention of trades unions to be
held in Columbus, O., next year.
DURING fire in Valparaiso, Chill, re-
Gently three men were burned to death.
THE Hessian Government has agreed to
negotiate with the Vatican for a revision
Of the Hessian laws.
THE Spanish Government has introduced
\ bill in the Cortes authorizing the leasing
OF the tobacco monopoly.
AN elevator and mill containing 10000
bushels Of wheat was burned at st. Cloud,
Mimi, the other day. Loss. 100000.
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