Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The French Government is vigorously
protesting against the Vatican's appoint
ing a nuncio at Pekin rs tending to inter
fere with Frances secular rights in China
IT is reported in Winnipeg that the Yank
| ton Sioux and other American indians are
| threatening, and have invited Sitting Bull
to join them.
IT is positively denied from Chicago that
the artesian well water used to wash down
beef at the stockyards is impure, a. charged
by the New York board of health.
PUBLIC trials will be given at Champaign,
ILL.,, June 10 and II, under the auspices OF
the State Board of Agriculture, OF ma
chimes for opening bitches for drain tile
and of machines for the excavations OF
canals. Two gold medals are offered Is
prizes.
WHITE men married to Grow Indian
squaws have been cutting wood on the
Grow Reservation in Montana. The wood
has been confiscated and several of the
men arrested.
JUDGE T. FAuNTLERoY, of the Supreme
Court of Virginia, has sustained the judg-
ment of the lower court in the Cluverius
| case. Nothing can now save the condemned
man but executive clemency.
Two men were burned to death in fire
at st. Johns, New Brunswick, recently.
IT is officially announced that cholera has
appeared in Venice and Vicenza. Several
cases aud some deaths are reported in these
places daily.
The Scottish Amicable Life Assurance
Company has ceased to lend money on
Irish land, the future tenure of which is
now in suspense.
The officials of the French New Hebrides
Company on Espiritu Santo island, in the
South Pacific, have been massacred by ma
tives from Port Stanley.
THE Pioneer Cooperage Company, Gin
cinnati, O., has made an assignment As
sets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
The business failures during the seven
days ended May numbered for the United
States, 167; for Canada, 25, total of 1872,
as compared with total of 207 the week
previous.
NEWS has been received of the MUIR
der of number of Hungarian peasants by
gang of gypsies. who afterward robbed
the persons and premises of their victims.
have appeared in the basin at Digby, N. S.,
within the past day or two for the purpose
of buying bait. Another American fishing
vessel has been captured for violating the
Canadian fishing laws.
By a collision between the British steam
er Martello and the cutter Ida, off the Liz
ard Point lighthouse, England, the sailing
vessel was sunk and one person drowned.
In the trial of Captain Jeffrey Gerrior
for barratry, and scuttling and casting
away the schooner Racer, the court at Bos-
ton charged favorably for the defendant.
The jury rendered a verdict of acquittal.
A TORNADO which ravaged the country
near Woodstock, ILL.,, on the 9th, killed three
persons and injured number quite seri-
ously.
The rigging of the Thayer Oil Well,
Washington, Pa, was struck by lightning
the other morning and destroyed. The
Thayer we'll was the largest in the district,
the average daily flow being sixty barrels.
THE thermometer at Abilene, Tex, sud-
denly rose to 101 degrees on the eth. This
was the highest heat at that time of the
year known to the Oldest inhabitants, and
rarely reached at any season.
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