Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-01-28

destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss,
$3.50, 600; insurance, 100000.
A BILL incorporating the Grant Mon
UNI ent Association and empowering 1t to
hold 5000, GOO worth of property passed the
New York House of Delegates on the 18th.
A LETTER from Greenbaum, the Ameri-
can Consul at Samoa, says he has con.
stantly warned the United States Govern
ment Of his fears that Germany intends
taking possession of the islands. The
American Consul, in his letter, gave his
opinion that the annexation of the Samoan
Islands by Germany would be a death blow
to ali other foreign interests there.
H. R. HUBBARD, the advertising agent OF
New Haven, Conn, has asked an extension
of time from his creditors.
GREAT suffering is reported among min
ers in Pennsylvania. Natural gas ha ring
supplanted coal in so many districts, many
mines are compelled to entirely close or
work but one or two days a week.
THE values of the exports of mineral oils
for the twelve months ended December 81,
1885, were SIS, PA, 2S1 against $40, 10S,5 81 the
year before.
NJ BARREME, a Project Of the Department
of the Eure, France was found foully MUIR
dered between the rails on bridge near
Paris the other morning. Robbery was the
motive Of the murderers.
THE schooner Mabel Dillaway, Of Glouces-
ter, Mass, has been given up for lost. She
had crew of sixteen men.
THE total value of the exports Of domestic
cattle and hogs, and of beef. pork and dairy
products for the twelve months ended De-
cember 81, 1856, were sG3, $4,000, against
sec. 494 JAP the previous year.
In the ore mines at RittenhOuse Gap,
near Alburtus, Pa, on the 18th, twelve
miners were entombed by caving earth.
Three were recovered dead, and it was
thought the others had persisted.
THE London Daily Telegraph says the Gov
eminent will introduce bill in Parliament
abolishing the office of Viceroy of Ireland.
1t was knowledge of this fact that induced
the Earl of Carnarvon to resign the Lord
Lieutenancy.
The White Star Line steamer Germanic,
which stranded in the harbor at Liverpool
during the gale, has been floated.
| IT is said that Mr.. Barpum after negotia-
| ting for some time with the directors Of the
London Royal Geological Gardens for tho
| purchase of Alice, the late Jumbo's associ-
| ate, or ''wife," as the English people seemed
| to consider her, has finally succeeded. Alice
was the constant companion of Jumbo for
many years, and showed much distress
| when separated from her big spouse. She
| is exceptionally large, and is docile, affec'
tionate and playful, and particularly at
| tracted toward children. Her arrival is
expected early in March, in time for the
| opening of the Barnum and London shows.
| BUSINESS failures for seven days ended
the Nth were: In the United States, 307;
in Canada, %; total, 332, as against 336 the
previous week. The casualties were ex.
ceptionally numerous in the Western, Pa
cilic and Southern States.
Brown & ANDERToN, bankers and brok-
ers, No. Broad street, New York, assigned
on the 18th to Timothy Brown, giving pref
erences of $7S,45O to Alexander Nichol.
| The other liabilities of the firm will foot up
about $4,000
TIE Opera House at Lexington, KY, has
been destroyed by fire.
The Direct Cable Company's report
shows that the receipts have decreased
$4,000 during the past six months, and at
| bu0 ueCTedSo W Guc IcOuCClOu IL
the tariff and to competition.
COKE workers at Connellsville, Pa, re-
Gently quit work. A general strike wa.
feared.
| CONSIDERABLE feeling was manifested in
the meeting of the House Naval Affair:
Committee, on the 18th, when considering
the Boutelle resolution of inquiry into thu
alleged DETACHMENT Of Union inscription:
and discharge Of Union men in the Norfoll
(Va.) Navy Yard.
THOMAS w. HUNTER, a wealthy cattle
man and mine owner of Colorado, who hat
been visiting Dir. g. W. Bassett, Of Van
dalia, ILL.,, was founu dead in his room the
other morning. It was supposed that heart
disease was the cause Of his death.
On Friday, the 18th, Henry Stair wa
hanged at Nevada, Mo-; Noah Merriman
at Belleville, Ill; Charles Wilson, at st
Louis, Mo-, and William George, at Lake
Providence, La. With the exception o
Stair all the parties were colored.
The Commissioners appointed by tn
Canadian Government to investigate TIL
cause of the wrecking of the steamer Algo
ma in Lake Superior, last fall, have re
ported, censuring Captain Moore and Chic
Officer Hastings Captain Moore's certifi
cate is to be Cancelled for nine months ant
Hastings certificate for six months.
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