Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-04-29


with stones on the gendarmes. A fight en-.
sued, resulting ia the rout of the rioters.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Land Development Association Qim'
ited) Of London, has failed with $500, 0OG
liabilities.
TIE City National Bank, Of Williams
port, Pa, closed its doors on the Goth. The
cause of the collapse was due to defalca-
ton Of over a year ago, which the directors
had endeavored to keep secret, but which,
leaking out, affected the banks stability.
The assets were sufficient to pay the depos-
itOrs in full
A DISPATCH from Manda1ay of the 21st
states there has been more fighting and q
serious defeat of the British troops near the
Burmese capital.
TIE French cable was reported broken
200 miles out from Duxbury, Mass
THE bill repeating the Broadway surface
railroad franchise passed the New York
Assembly by vote of 100 to IL.
A NUMBER Of workmen were buried last
fall by land slide at the quarries near
Boulogne, France. 1t was thought all per-
ished at the time, but recent investigations
show that the unfortunate men were en-.
tombcd alive and that they lived upon the
bodies of one another until all finally died
of starvation.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has
purchased the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
railroad running from Galveston to Fort
Worth, Tex.
Two Hungarian miners were killed and
two others seriously injured recently by
the premature explosion Of blast in a
mine near Shenandoah, Pa.
AN ultimatum was dispatched to Greece
on the 21st intimating that the Powers
were in perfect accord in fixing limit to
the time within which Greece must dis
arm, and that otherwise serious steps would
be taken to enforce their demands.
One Of the three tenements composing
the building known as Libby prison. at
Richmond, Va, used during the late war
for keeping Federal prisoners, collapsed
the other evening from overburdened
floors. The building was occupied by the
Southern Fertilizing Company, and the
collapsed tenement was used for the stor-
age of fertilizers.
THE Liverpool court of inquiry into the
loss Of the steamship Oregon has decided
in favor of the owners and officers of the
vessel in all questions submitted.
JOHN F. AUF DE MoRTE and Erasmus
Sheppard have been convicted of robbing
the United States sub-treasury at New Or
leans.
RESOLUTIONS protesting against the act
of Congress granting lands of the Cherokee
Nation for railroad purposes have passed
both houses of the Cherokee Legislature.
THE United States District Attorney Of
California has been instructed to bring
suit against the Sierra Lumber Company
and recover s2,21S, 900 arising from the
conversion of timber into lumber on public
lands.
j. j. SALES, of Rome, N. Y, has been
elected department commander of the
Grand Army of New York State.
A FIRE at the corner of Broadway and
Crosbie street, New York, recently, burned
six-story building, occupied by half q
dozen firms. Loss, s75O,OO0.
THE American Consul General at Breslau,
Germany, reports that hereafter rigid in
spection of all emigrants to the United
States will be made in Silesia, to prevent
the emigration of paupers to America.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended April % numbered for United States,
1863; Canada, IS; total, 1914, compared with
a total of 1S2 the week previous.
On the night of the 22d the levee at Old
Town, sixteen miles south of Helena, Ark,
broke on the Arkansas side and in a short
time channel forty feet wide had been
worn away by the escaping water. Thou
sands of acres of fertile cotton lands were
reported overlooked.
AN epidemic of scarlet fever was reported
raging at Franklin, Ind.
FREDERICK HILLERMAN, aged thirty, went
out in boat with his wife and two little
children to fish in Anglaise river, near
Defiance, O., recently. The boat capsized
about thirty feet from the shore and all the
occupants were drowned before help could
reach them. The bodies were recovered.
DYNAMITE was exploded on the altar OF
the San Luis Church at Madrid, Spain, on
Good Friday, being concealed in one of the
enormous candles. The explosion occurred
before the congregation arrived and there
fore no lives were lost but the edifce was
much damaged.