Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-09
MISCELLANEOUS.


claims cases have been submitted for the
Claims.
AN immense bituminous coal pool is said
to exist in the East for the purpose of put.
ting prices up twenty-five to thirty per
cent
AT Mason, Neb., recently, Mackendorff's
store was destroyed by fire. The second
story was used for sleeping rooms. Mr..
Mackendorf broke his leg in jumping to
the ground. His son and J. j. Hoagland
and Malcolm Miller were burned to death.
Two hundred and sixty men were dis.
charged from the department of construc-
ton and repair in the Brooklyn navy yard
on the 30th.
THE agents of all the transportation COM
panies of Norfolk, Va, have received a cir
cular letter from Hon. Barton Myers,
mayor of Norfolk, ordering them to sus-
pend all Sunday work on their lines or
suffer the penalty of the law.
MUCH damage was done recently by a
dam bursting at Langter's cotton mills
near Columbia. s. c. The accident was
thought to be due to an earthquake which
loosened the foundations.
FIRE recently broke out among the cot
ton on the city cotton platform at Raleigh,
N. c. About 1000 bales were destroyed.
The loss was $4,000; insured.
IT was believed in Belgium that the
thieves who stole the registered mail in
that country were hiding in England.
GEORGE c. ELLIOTT & Sons, carriage
dealers, Providence, r. l., have assigned.
1t was said that from 81, 900 to 500, 900 in
paper was out.
A BLIZZARD on the LIST stopped railr Dad
traffic fer some time in the Northwest. At
Mimi, the thermometer was
degrees below zero.
FOuRnegroes were lynched near De Kalb,
Tex, the other night for the murder of
named George Taafe.
THE glass blowers in several New Jersey
have handed in their Knights of
Labor charters rather than strike against
the apprentice system.
A BILL to foreclose the first mortgage of
s $4,000 on the Chicago division of the
Central Iowa Railroad Company of Iowa
was filed in the civil court at Chicago on
New York.
THE statement to the effect that there
was to be an advance of from twenty five
TO thirty per cent. in bituminous coal was
denied by all the prominent operators in
Western Pennsylvania aud Ohio.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has directed COM
mandants at all navy yards to utilize ma.
rine guards under their commands in
and protecting Government
at their stations.
The mystery in the Moen- Wilson case
has been lifted by Wilson avowing himself
10 be the son Of Moen, born a short time
after Moen was married to his mother.
In an interview at New York P. d. Ar.
nour the pork packer, said to the reporter
hat the recent Packingtown strikes had
Unsettled confidence. He wanted to in
'rease his facilities but could secure no
me who would dare to lay brick on his
premises. He would be compelled to give
t up and extend his interests further West
THIRTY men were instantly killed by an
explosion in the Lemore colliery in Dur
lam, Eng, on the I'd.
A SPECIAL from Peru, Ind, says: "The
oss by hog cholera in this county has
cached SIS, 900 and the disease is still pre-
'ailing
Six men were killed and thirteen seri-
'usly injured by a cross sea which broke
n the deck of the steamer Western Land,
even days out from Antwerp and bound
or New York.
Patrick RILEY, William Mccarthy, Hugh
fcGinty and Henry Niehause were terri |
ly burned in the converting department |
( the Edgar Thomas steel works at Brad |
ocks. Pa, the other morning by the acct |
entail lowering of the converter.
THERE was a panic among the stock |
peculators at San Francisco on the I'd |
aused by recent heavy failures.
The President on the I'd issued . proc
lmation promulgating an extradition
reaty with Japan, which he ratified after |
Ding amended by the Senate last June.
MAYOR GUILLoTTE, of New Orleans, has
appended Chief of Police Bachemin for
charging him also with en-
excitement.
IT was rumored on the I'd that the steam
lip Chandernager, with 1900 French
oops on board, had foundered during .
clone, and that all hands were lost. The
port was denied by the French Govern
emit.
COMMISSIONER HALLET, Of tho United
;ates Court at Boston, has refused to issue
warrant against Philip L. Noon for per-
~, on the complaint Of Levi Wilson. The
cords of the town of Oxford, Mass. show
at Levi Wilson was born there on De-
mber 1, 1853. eleven months after Mra
oen died.
The house of Jesse Stockford, near East
lginaw, Mich, was burned tho other night.
,e child persisted in the flames, and an
her was burned SO badly that death en-
ed next morning. Etockford and his
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