Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-04-22

OF Minneapolis, Mlnn., Tor SoU,VU.
The employees Of ths Kittaning Iron Conn
pany and the Rebecca Furnace Company,
Of Kittahing. Pa, struck recently for an
advance Of 10 per cent. in wages.
REPORTS from the recent tornado in West
ern Iowa show that the storms ranged from
Taylor County north to Pocahontas Coun-
ty. Four persons were reported
killed and about twenty-five seriously in
jured. From fifty to seventy-fve dwellings
were demolished and large damage was
done to barns and trees.
Two boycotteys were held recently in
New York City to the criminal court on
the charge of conspiracy. 1t will be test
case. @
THE number of unemployed in New York
CITY is estimated at 50, 900, or less than ono
half the usual number. The estimated num-
Der of idle wageworkers in the United
States is 100000.
THE Arkansas grangers, it is stated, will
put ticket in the field in the fall
The deficit in the English budget amounts
to e., Gii22, 943, little less than at first re-
ported. The taxes on spirits showed a
large falling off. There were increased re-
ceipts from the taxes on tea, tobacco and
fruits.
EFF. OusLASD, agent for the Mississippi
Valley railroad at Hollandale, Miss, alb
seconded recently with the company S
money, but was captured.
JOHN RYAN, a Dubuque Qowa) tailor,
was choked to death recently by piece OF
meat.
MRS. MERCER, of Philadelphia, has be-
queathed the bulk of her property to es-
tablish home for superannuated Presby-
terrain ministers who do not use tobacco.
THE jury holding an inquest on the body
of ]. D. Thompson, killed on the bridge at
st. Louis, during the recent riots, returned
verdict of homicide against the deputy
sheriffs.
An outbreak of smallpox at Carmi ILL.,,
recently resulted in three deaths, and it is
feared there are many cases in the sur
rounding country. A supply of vaccine
was furnished by the State Board OF
Health.
IT was thought that over fifty lives were
lost and more than two hundred persons
seriously injured by the tornado which de-
stroyed Sank Rapids and ST. Cloud, MIMI,
on the evening of the 14th.
SIX persons were killed and several were
seriously injured by tornado on the
evening of the 14th, which went through
the country near Skidmore, Nodaway
County, Mo. At Lenox, forty-five miles
north of Maryville, many persons were in
jured by the storm.
ALL of the strikers who resumed work
in the shops at Palestine, Tex, have been
expelled from the Knights of Labor order
| TIE business failures for the seven days
ended the 18th numbered: For the United
States, 165; for Canada, %; total, 1872. The
failures were 2l5 the previous week.
THE pg-iron manufacturers of Great
Britain have agreed to restrict the output
in order to maintain prices.
The French garrison ut Bakel, Senegal
made successful sortie lately, killing 40
rebels and losing only seven privates.
THE First National Bank of Angelica, N
V, closed its doors on the 10th. j. E
Robinson, the cashier, was defaulter tt
the amount of $4,000. He fled to Canada
H. NJ HoXIE, vice-president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Company, refused to accedt
to the request of ST. Louis citizens to arbi
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Labor.
THE mills of the Waycross Lumber Com
pany at Waltcrtown, Ga, burned the Other
day. The loss was estimated at S150,OO
insurance, $4,000. Four hundred persons
were thrown out of employment.
The pupils in all the public school build
ings at Columbus, o., struck recently fol
less time in the school room, and the police
were called upon to enforce the orders o
the teachers. Thirteen boys were suspend
ed and the strSle was reported over.
THE yardmen employed in the Baltimor'
& Ohio yards at the stock yards, Chicago
went out on the 10TH Four hundred mel
welAe on strike.
ALL the drivers and conductors on tn
Third avenue street car lines at New Yorl
cited up" their cars on the 10th. The mel
demanded higher wages and shorter hours
The company refused their demands.
TIE cholera was reported raging a
Brindisi, Italy. Sixty-eight cases and tel
deaths occurred in one day.
Owing to split in the ranks of the col
ored leaders of Washington, two process
sions were out on the 10th celebrating
emancipation day. The President refuses
to review either, as he did not wish to TAX
part in the personal quarrel.