Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-26
Miscellaneous.

WHILE some parties were engaged in
cleaning vault in the rear Of a house on
Shawnee street at Leavenworth the other
night, the skull Of human being was
brought to light. The police were notified,
and the skull taken to the station, where
the fact was revealed that hole had been
which was otherwise in a fair state of
preservation. The finding of the first was
followed later by the discovery of the
second skull, and subsequently the thigh
bones of large man.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners re-
Gently rendered q decision on complaints
before them, in which they declared that a
reasonable concession must be made in
freight rates on wheat, and also recommend
changes in the corn tariff. With this view
the board has prepared schedules of rates
for wheat and corn on the Union Pacific
Central Branch and Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroads from Kansas City and
Leavenworth to a large number of points
west of those designated.
LATE post-offices established in Kansas:
Dermot, Stevens County, Nathan P. Allen,
postmaster; Itasca, Sherman County, Gill
bert L. Sackett, postmaster; Eustis, Sher-
man County, John A. Werner, postmaster;
Flymell, Finney County, Robert House
weart, postmaster; Valparaiso, Stevens
County, Edward Dudley, postmaster.
A CHARTER has been granted to the Kan
sas Wholesale and Retail Cooperative
Drug Store Association of Topeka. Capt..
tai, $250,0OO.
THERE are now received at the State
Historical Society rooms 693 different news
papers of Kansas publication. OF this
number POS have been started during the
past fourteen months, seventy eight of
which have died, leaving 100 new papers,
all reported doing WELL
THE mother of Senator Plumb died at
EmpOria recently, aged seventy three
years. She was the mother of eight chill
dren, six of whom are living.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road
has recently made heavy purchases of real
estate in North Topeka. It is reported to
be definitely understood that the main
yards of that line will be the west part of
North Topeka. It is also stated that the
company will invest at least $1OO, 900 before
it obtains all the ground necessary to give
proper yard facilities.
TIE other night about twelve o'clock two
men were observed to climb into a box car
of train just pulling out of Topeka for
Kansas City. Shortly after they both re-
turned and notified the police that they had
been robbed of seven dollars in money and
other valuables. They stated that after
getting into the car they found twelve
more men who had beat their way from
Denver. The latter asked the first two for
something to eat, and on receiving a re-
fusal attacked the minority party, badly
beathing them.
VoTING railroad bonds again in style.
A LEAvENwoRTH paper in discussing the
hot spell recently asserted that 1.-THE heat
was SO intense that iron fences partially
melted; that water thrown upon the side
walks boiled in less than two seconds. It
was SO hot that liars forgot.to lie and per-
jurers disgraced themselves by telling the
truth" Whereupon Topeka paper sug-
gested that the Ananias Club should immed-
lately organize a branch at Leavenworth,
where it would find q fruitful field for mis-
sionary work.
KANSAS postmasters appointed on the
14th: Charles II. Black, Dixon: A. NJ. r.
Kaffer. Kanopolis; John Sharpless, Aetz.
AT Topeka on the 18th the thermometer
recorded los in the shade.
GEoRen, the threeyear-old child of Mr..
and Mrs George T. Gilmore, fell from the
third story Of the insane asylum 1T Topeka
the other afternoon and sustained serious
injuries.
TEE twelve-year..old son Of Topeka
widow named Black, ran away from home
the other day and reached Hutchinson
where . car ran over and cut OF his feet. |
A TOPEKA youth. II his anxiety to inves |
tigate the interior of . watermelon, re-
Gently let the knife slip and sever an ar |
terry In his wrist. Prompt surgical aid pre-
vented him from bleeding to death
TIE Le Roy, Topeka y Northern Railroad |
Company recently fled it, charter with tho :
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