Dodge City times., 1886-03-18

An attempt was made to assassinate
Jules Verne, the French author, at Amiens
1 the other day. The assassin turned out to
be his own nephew.
THE Santa Fe reduced the second class
rate from Kansas City to the Pacific to s14
on the 10th. The Southern Pacific made
the rate from San Francisco to Kansas
City So; Chicago, $40, for limited emigrant
tickets The Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe net the cut.
THE -prohibitionists proposed to hold
a meeting at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 10th,
but the military was ordered out and the
meeting was declared Off
| FIVE HUNDRED cotton mill hands at Vic
! tory, n. Y, struck recently for an advance
in wages of 25per cent. They refused 10
per cent. raise.
The Consolidated Street Railroad Com
pany, of Toledo, O., has announced that it
will advance the wages of tie employees
and reduce the hours of work. The men
were working sixteen hours.
AN attempt is being made in the Ohio
Legislature to pass a bill to punish employ
ers who insist that their hands sign agree
ments not to belong to trade OF other or
ganizations.
ABOUT eighty inmates of the Lebanon
| Pa.) poor house were seriously poisoned
recently. Some miscreant put paris green
into the coffee pot. The overdose caused
| vomiting, otherwise many of the paupers
would have died.
| THE New York Post, after examination,
declares the financial standing of the West
| ern Union Telegraph Company to be un-
satisfactory.
| FIRE at Hot Springs, Ark, recently de-
stroyed three saloons and q drug, a shoe
and clothing store.
| THE Middle and Western States Freight
| Association met in Louisville, KY, on the
llth and made ninety tyseven changes in
| classification. What they were was not
known.
The dime savings bank of New Bruins
wick, N. j., was closed recently by order
of the Secretary of State. Arthur q.
| Oglesby, secretary and treasurer, it was
| rumored, was short in his accounts to the
| amount of $4,000.
THE March report of the Department of
| Agriculture on the consumption aud dis
tribution of the grain crops make the pro-
| portion of corn still in the hands of farm
ers 40 per cent. of the last crop. One year
| ago the proportion of the corn on hand was
$40 per cent,
THE conference of the representatives of
| the Powers which met recently at Constan-
| tinOple to consider the Turco-Bulgarian
| treaty which, among other things, creates
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, ruler of
Eastern Roumelia, has accepted that treaty
| in its entirety.
| THE Missouri Pacific succeeded in getting
| a freight train out of st. Louis on the 18th.
Ten miles south of Little Rock, Ark, a
lively shooting took place after an excit-
| ing race between strikers on stolen en-
gine and officers on another. A striker
| named Sullivan was shot in the leg.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says:
| The Catalinas custom house with all its
contents has been destroyed by fire. The
loss is S5,O00,00O.
| AN attempt was made recently to demol-
| ish a Chinese wash house with dynamite at
Portland, Ore. The front porch only was
wrecked.
PATRICK FORD and John Murphy were
hanged at New Orleans on the 18th for the
murder of Captain A. H. Murphy, the SEN
sational incidents of which have been pub
lished. Desperate efforts were made to
save the doomed men without effect Pre-
vlous to their execution the men attempted
suicide by taking belladOnna and were es-
corted to the scatfold in an almost insensi-
bic condition.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended March IL numbered: For the
United States, PA; for Canada, 25-a total
of 239 against 246 the week previous. The
failures were on the decline in every sec
tion of the country, especially in the East
ern and Middle sections.
The small stern-wheel steamer Ike Bon
ham exploded her boiler near Vicksburg,
Miss, the other day. The mate and five
deck hands were blown overheard and
drowned.
A FIRE recently started at the Brunswick
saloon and gambling house at Hot Springs,
Ark. Before it was subdued the adjoining
buildings were destroyed, the total loss
amounting to S25O,OOO.
A COMPANY filling a weeks engagement
at Jackson, Mich, produced the Mikado in
full costume at the Michigan State prison
the other afternoon. Prisoners employed
on two large contracts formed the audi
ence. The stage was erected in the chapel,
aud the scenery was taken from the opera
| house. The cOnvicts were highly pleased.