Dodge City times., 1886-09-23
bIISCELLANEOUS.

| A FEENCHMAN, lately arrested in Tennes-
see for trivial offense, confessed that he
was the murderer of ex-Mayor Bowman. of
st. Louis. The crime was committed a
year ago and was never unraveled.
A FRENCH paper stated lately that the
Sultan demands the evacuation of Egypt
by the English and Russia supports the
| Turkish demands.
ANOTHER earthquake shock was felt at
| Summcrville, S. c., on the morning of the
18th and one occurred at one O'Clock the
| same day which overthrow small brick
| building 1t is said not more than twenty
white families ere left in the town.
| TIE trial of the great three-cornered
Nickel Plate foreclosure suit was begun in
| the Common Pleas Court at Cleveland on
September Is. Millions OF dollars are in
| volved in the case.
IT was reported on September IS that
Manager Brown. of the Western Unions
st. Louis office, was short and had skip
ped.
ALL the Powers replied favorably to the
Porte's circular lately issued. They agree
that there shall be no military occupation
of Bulgaria.
SIX persons died from cholera in Trieste
on September Is, and two died in Pesth. In
the former city sixteen new cases were re-
ported, six in Pesth.
FRANCE has just given Germany satisfac-
tory assurances and the tension between
the two countries caused by the action of
General Boulanger and the French Chau-
vinsts has largely vanished. The relations
between he.PariS and Berlin Governments
are now better than they have been for a
long time.
BAD fire occurred in Kansas City on
September 16, which destroyed the Kaw
Valley Soap Works and portion of the
al" road trestle work.
THE Governments final estimates of tho
corn crop Of Missouri and Kansas is as fol.
lows: Missouri 96,SGl 900 bushels; Kan
sas, l5S, 800. 900 bushels
Mr.. RICALToN, who was sent to the Arctic
ocean in May by Outing to make jour-
ney on three-wheeled machine from
Archangle Strait through Russia, has not
| been heard from and it is feared that the
Russians have arrested him.
RECEIVER THOMPSON, of the closed-up
Provident Savings Bank, of st. Louis, says
that the depositors will get respectable
ulViuenO during OcCoDer.
w. II. ToDEY, editor of the Times, at
Greenup, ILL.,, was recently arrested and
taken to Charleston, charged with publish
| ing libel on f. A. Allison, a well-known
prohibition lecturer.
A GREAT conflagration ragged at Brook
lyn, Ia, on September Is. The entire bus
iness portion was burned. The fire con.
sumed the Downing Hotel the post office,
| the elevator and other big buildings.
TIE colored men of New England held at
| conference in Boston on September l6 to
| protest against the discrimination Of the
race in society, business and every thing
else.
| KANSAS CITY had a grand time on Sep
tember 16 it being the big day of the fair.
Twenty-liv thousand people were ut the
fair and in the evening over 100000 blocked
the sidewalks to see the parade through the
city and the fireworks.
RECENTLY at Waupun, Wis, q widow and
| two children were crossing bridge, when
q train dashed around q curve, killing
them instantly.
| TIE National Cattle Growers Associa.
| tion Of America, and the National Cattle
and Horse Growers Association Of tho
| United States, have been consolidated.
THE Haddock coroner's jury, at Sioux
City, Ia, rendered a verdict recently charg-
| ing H. L. Leavitt and others with compli-
t city in the murder of the Rev. George G.
Haddock.
the Chippewa Falls fWis.) Lumber Com
| pany's saw mill was struck by lightning
and destroyed recently, causing loss OF
500 .VO.