Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

lence offered their countrymen in America.
The Governor of the province, in dispatch
to the Chinese Minister at Washington,
stated he feared violence would be offered
to Americans if the reports of the affairs
| in America were confirmed.
THERE were reports in London that Egypt
would shortly be evacuated by the British
troops.
A BRAZILIAN loan of 100000 has been
foated by the Rothschilds.
DEBATE on the Educational bill closed in
the Senate on the 25th. The Indian Sever
atty bill was passed. The Pension Appro-
priation bill was considered in the House,
Mr.. Henderson, Of Iowa, making an attack
on the actions of Commissioner Black.
THE strike on the Dry Dock street rail-
road at New York, broke into violence on
| the 4th. Street cars we're wrecked and the
police were attacked. Many persons were
injured in the riot.
THE wall of house at Front and Norris
streets, Philadelphia, that was being torn
down, suddenly fell the other day, burying
several laborers. Daniel Quinn was killed,
and James Keegan was seriously injured,
| probably fatally.
GooDBoDY's tobacco factory in Tulla-
more, Kings County, 'Ireland, burned re-
Gently, causing loss of $4OO, ZOO.
The schooner Virginia Dare, Of Glouces-
ter, Mass, has been given up for lost She
had a crew of fourteen men.
In the Kentucky House of Representa-
tives at Frankfort, recently, dispute took
place between two members, Robert g.
Thomas and jackson, of Louisville.
Thomas drew a pistol and became very
demonstrative, but was subdued by friends
FIFTEEN Socialists have been sentenced
| in Padua, Italy, to ten months imprison-
ment for seditiOn.
A BILL has been introduced in the Mary
land Legislature to secure compensation
| for the loss of slaves by the emancipation
act.
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg, Manitoba, of
| the 5th says that Poundmaker and eleven
| other braves have been liberated from the
penitentiary at Stony Mountain. They
will go west to their homes.
THE street car strikes in New York and
Brooklyn ended on the 5th in the triumph
| of the strikers. There was a general ''tie
up" of the cars, and no prospect but sub
mission appeared open to the companies.
The strikers were reported jubilant over
their success.
The Amoskeag mill strike at Manchester,
N. H., ended in failure The strikers ac-
cepted the terms of the proprietors and
went to work, excepting a number who
were shut out.
THE English House of Commons refused
to abolish the House of Lords, on the 5th,
by vote of 2O2 to 166.
CHOLERA has been discovered on board a
Greek brigantine at Venice, which has been
ordered to quarantine.
THE trial of James T. Holland for killing
Tom Davis, the confidence man, at New
York, ended in his acquittal on the 5th.
EIGHT of the men convicted of having
| taken prominent parts in the recent Lon
don riots, have been sentenced to from one
to five years of penal servitude.
THE grand jury recently ignored the bills
against the strikers recently locked up,
charged with riot at Bradford, Pa. The
costs in the cases were assessed on B. F.
May, the representative of the syndicate of
coke manufacturers.
THE Knights of Labor have ordered
boycott against the wagons and sleighs
made by Gage, Hitchcock & Co., w. N.
Brockway and the Homer Wagon Com
pany, all of Homer, n Y. The firms are
accused of discharging men because they
were Knights of Labor.
The Knights of Labor employed in the
Missouri Pacific railroad yards at Denison,
Tex, recently refused to handle any freight
destined for points on the Texas Il Pacific
road. They claimed they had received or
ders to that effect.
A SENSATION was caused in the Paris
Bourse on the 5th by crazy man throwing
bottle of explosive liquid among the
brokers and brandishing revolver. He
was arrested, when he proved to be an An
archist named Petrovitch.
The business failures for the seven DAYS
ended March 4 numbered for the United
States, 2O7; for Canada, 80; total 246
against 24S the week previous
THE Cuyahoga Paper Company at Cuya-
hoga Falls, O., made an assignment re-
Gently. Eighty men were thrown out of
employment.
THE fire losses for February as estimated
by the Commercial Bulletin of New York
were Sc, 500 600 In the United States and
Canada. This was about the average for
February losses for the last eleven or twelve
years.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER.
PURSUANT to an order from the execu-
tive, the Knights of Labor on the Missouri
Pacific went out on strike on the morning
of the 9th. The strike was very general
and grew out of the boycott and strike on
the Texas Pacific.
AN immense conflagration broke out in
the docks of the Monarch Line Steamship
Company at Jersey City, N. j., on the
morning of the Sth. Extensive damage was
threatened
One person was killed and several in
Jured and a number of houses destroyed by
an earthquake in Cosenza, Southern Italy.
the other day.
The clearing house returns for week
ended March 6 showed an average increase
OF 1916 compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 3l.6.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has received quite an
unfavorable report on the Government tea
farm at Summerville, S. c. The severe
winter and protracted cold weather have
stripped the tea plants of their foliage The
Commissioner is of the opinion that the
experimental tea farm had better be aband-
oned.
The daily papers of the Sth were filed
with strikes, boycotts, combinations and
other labor movements more or less threat
ening.
The Paris Bourse was uneasy during the
week ended March 6. Other European
money exchanges were reported steady.
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