Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS


j. WALLACE WALKER & Co.'s four-story
warehouse in Chicago, filled with tea, cot
| fee and sugar, collapsed the other morning
Loss, 100000.
The four masted schooner E. D. Sudbury,
of Mobile, went ashore seventy miles south
| OF Brownsville, Tex, recently. She proved
a total wreck. The crew were saved.
DISCHARGED Chinese soldiers inv AIDED one
of the leading pawnshops of Hucking
China, and looted the place, after killing
forty -sx employees and the proprietor.
TEXAS fever is reported ravaging cattle
in the vicinity of Chicago. Pleuro-pneu-
| monia, on the 2Sth was as virulent as ever.
RoAcH's mills at Haywood, Lancashire,
England, were destroyed by fire recently.
The steamer Suffolk has gone to pieces on
the Lizard point, England. The crew es-
capped.
AN explosion of an ammonia tank took
place in the Carlton Clubhouse at New
York recently, setting fire to the building.
At fourth-story window appeared a red
headed man clamoring for help from the
flames. L: was Tom Ochiltree, of Texas
He was rescued.
A SENSATIONAL report was telegraphed
from Ottawa, Can, on the Goth, of whole
sale massacre of white settlers in the Brit
ish Northwest by Crowfoot Indians. The
report was afterward denied as without
foundation.
CHOLERA still RACES throughout Japan.
There were S, 472 deaths in nine days.
THE French are preparing for the per-
manent occupation of the New Hebrides.
Mrs A. d. OWENS of Cresswell, N. c.,
hired three darkies to drown her husband
Their courage failed them, but one of them
while burglariz;ng Owens store shot and
killed him and was in turn killed by the
authorities while resisting arrest The
other two and the woman are under ar
rest.
PLEURo-pNEUMoNIA, imported from Chi
of Virginia.
THE spinners' strike at Burnley, Eng,
which caused the stoppage of 60.0OO spin
dies, has terminated, the workmen having
accepted a Reduction of five per cent. in
wages
A LARGE number OF dismissals have been
made in the Government printing Office at
Washington. Public Printer Benedict
claims that his predecessor purposeIy eat
up the appropriation so that his successor
should have the obloquy of making the dis
charges.
THERE is movement among Southern
cotton planters not to sell oil-seed this year
to the American Cotton Oil Company,
which is a monopoly. They will use tho
seed as a manure to replenish their lands,
which sadly need it.
THE Cree Indians are reported killing
cattle by the wholesale in Montana.
THOUSANDS of birds of all kinds were
killed by flying against telephone and cleo
trio light wires and towers at Danville, ILL.,,
the other night. 1t was supposed they were
in transit south and were attracted by the
electric lights.
The tide in New York harbor on the 18th
reached an unprecedented height.
Four hundred socialists ma de q demon
stration at Leipsic, Germany, on the 28th,
by marching through the streets with the
expelled socialist leader Schumann at their
head, waving red flags, denouncing the
Government, etc. The police dispersed
them after stubborn fight.
AT Houston, Tex, the other day an I'M
known man assassinated Mike Hennessey,
chief of the detective agency.
THE Southwestern Passenger Associa-
ton was in session at Chicago recently to
arrange basis of pooling, but nothing was
accomplished.
A TERRIFIC explosion Of dynamite &C
Cured in the Ditmar powder works at
Barlow on the-Sound, N. Y, on the 3Oth
Four men Were blown to atoms. The
shock was felt at extreme distances and
was at first thought to be an earthquake.
THE whisky pool met at Cincinnati on
the Both and increased the price OF whisky
to $l.l3. The Chicago and Peoria distill-
cries wanted to raise the price two cents to
sl.l4. The Cincinna tians desired it to re-
main at Sl.12 The price fixed was a COM
promise.
A. S. GAGE & Co., wholesale milliners,
OF Chicago. have confessed Judgment in
favor OF the FIRST National Bank for $97,-
600. Liabilities are estimated at $75O,OO0,
and assets at $65O,0oo.
A TREMENDOUS cavern occurred in the
Mississippi banks in front Of Turnerville,
La, recently.
IT was rumored in Berlin, on the LIST,
that a plot to blow up the train on which
the Gar was about to travel bad been I'm.
earthed in st. Petersburg.
TWENTY-FIVE OF the 100 bulls sent from
the Chicago distillery before the quaran-
tine to Tripplet ranch. Kankakse County,
ILL.,, have died, presumably of pleuro.pneu-
mouia.
WILLIAM e. GOLD, thu Portland (Me.)
bond defnulter, has been sentenced to ten
years IN the ''pen."
TIE East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia
tunnel under Miss onary Ridge. which
caved in last winter, has been entirely re
built, and trains are running through on