Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-02-04

i4ed strike on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road between Cambridge and Bellaire, O.
Arbitration was favored as q means of set
Ting disputes.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Jackson
Vile, Fla, respecting the severe weather,
says: ION the morning of the 18th of Jam
uary the thermometer registered 1876 deg,
the lowest temperature ever recorded, ex-
cept in January, 1885, the mercury fell to
IL deg. The injury to the present crop of
probability is that it will be between
81, 600 and g, 0Co, 600"
CHINESE at Victoria, B. c., were reported
in terrible restitution. Soup kitchens were
projected for their benefit.
Two exciting speeches were delivered in
the Hungarian Parliament recently, one
charging an official with squandering one
third of the revenues of the realm, the other
stirring up the old German-Slav strife.
The striking Hungarians at Mount Pleas
ant in Pennsylvania had a conflict with
the police on the Goth. One Hungarian was
thought to be killed. Several other fights
occurred and some non-strikers were said
to be killed and injured. The situation was
serious and troops were ordered to hold
themselves in readiness.
The Edgar Thompson steel works at
Pittsburgh, which resumed recently, have
again closed down, the helpers and filters
refusing to accept the terms offered. Al
fairs are more complicated than ever and
it is impossible to say what the outcome
will be-
THE other morning terrific boiler ex-
plosion occurred at the distillery of Fair
banks & Duenwig, at Peoria, Ill. Frank
McNellis, George Otterman and two others
were killed and several wounded.
FREIGHTERs who arrived at Aspen, Col,
on the 2lst state that twenty-seven snow
slides have occurred in the neighborhood
of Maroon Pass during the past three days
A party of men and eighteen mules were
thought to have persisted.
A DISPATCH Of the 2lst from San Anto-
MO, Tex, says: Intelligence reached here
last evening from Hidalgo County that q
band consisting of eight robbers crossed
over from Mexico a few days ago and
raided the Palmos ranch Carlos Schunaor,
the proprietor, and a clerk were both shot
down. Schunaor was fatally wounded.
His clerk lies in a very critical condition.
The robbers got 1850 and . number Of
horses.
HoME-RULE for Ireland was considered
hopeless in the present British Parliament.
Neither Liberals nor Conservatives would
propose it, and Parnell would have to do
so if the question was to be discussed at all.
A SERIOUS state of affairs occurred in the
Ohio Senate on the 22d. The Democrats
withdrew on the ruling of the Chair that
the Hamilton County Senators could not
vote. The result was that two Senatcs
were formed, each declaring the other rev.
dictionary.
A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico says:
Owing to the falling off in the Government
receipts from all sources, due to depression
in trade and to the continued depreciation
of silver, the operation of the June decree
for the consolidation of the debt as far as
regards the payment of the interest, will
probably be postponed for year.
THE House Committee on Indian Affairs
favors taking action looking to the obtain
ing from the Red Lake Chippewa Indians
the REIMBURSEMENT of their title to the res
ervation.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN has called the an
nual convention of the Mississippi Valley
Sugar Growers Association for st. Louis,
February and s. and of the Dairymen's
Association for the week following.
SECRETARY LAMAR has decided that all
appropriations made by the Arizona Legis-
lature in excess of the sum granted by Con-
gress are void.
THE Cuban cigarmakers employed by
Oltenburg & Co., and by Jacoby & Co., of
New York, went out on strike on the ed.
The strike was very general, involving
thousands of men.
A PARDON was recently granted to Rev.
B. F. Jenkins, who was serving life SEN
tence for the murder of Rev j. Lane
Borden, in Mansfield, La, three years ago.
Jenkins. student, charged that Borden,
President of the College, was intimate
with one Of the lady students and shot him
for it. Jenkins is now dying of consump-
ton and for that reason was pardoned by
the Governor.
Brown BROS. & Co., of New York,
shipped $685. of gold bars to Europe on
the 23d.
MoUKHTAR PAsHA, Turkish Commissioner
in Egypt, has proposed that Turko-Egyp-
tian army be organized for the defense of
Egypt in place of the English army now in
the country, as the latter army is too costly
a burden for Egypt in view Of her limited
resources.