Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
II. NJ. HoxIE, first vice president and gen
oral manager of the Gould Southwestern
railroad system, died at New York ON tn
23d from disease of the bladder.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, wife of Prince Henry
of Battenberg, and youngest daughter o
Queen Victoria, has given birth to a son.
The remains of Charles Francis Adam
were inferred at Quincy, Mass, on tn
3d.
Ii. MuNKAczY, the celebrated Austrian
painter, was banqueted in New York OF
the 23d.
DR. c. r. MONTGOMERY, of st. Louis, ha
brought suit against the Ohio State Jomrna
Company, at Columbus, O., claiming dam
ages in $50, 600 for alleged libelous publica
tons. The case grew out of the recen,
prosecution and exposures at the Ohio
penitentiary, where, it was claimed, thu
election forgeries were committed one yea
ago.
GOVERNOR CURRIER, of New Hampshire
appointed Ex-Governor Chancey, of Man
chester, United States Senator to fill thu
vacancy cccasioned by the death of AustiI
F. Pike, of Franklin.
In his annual report to the Secretary Of
War General Merely, Commissioner Gen
eral of Subsistence, says his bureau ex
pended 50, go during the last fisca
year, leaving a balance on hand of S6U9,
PSI.
SECRETARY LAMAR has received the report
of the Indian commission in which the
Umatilla Indians agree to the allotment OF
their reservation in Oregon in severalty
A large surplus will remain and this will
be sold and the receipts paid to the Indians
throwing upon the market some of the best
farming land in Oregon.
ERAsTUs BROOKE, a we'll known New
York editor and politician, died on the
25th.
A SCHEME is said to be on foot to give the
Democrats the control of the next Senate
by passing through the House the pending
Senate bill admitting Washington Terri
tory as State, while leaving on the cal
endar the bill admitting Dakota.
The German Reichstag was opened on
the 25th.
AT a general convention of the Fenian
brotherhood held in New York recently all
official connection with O'Donovan Rosa
was dissolved.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has issued an order
for the discharge of all the employees in the
civil establishments of the navy yard at
Washington with the exception of fore
man and clerk for each department.
Hon. j. B. BALFoUR, Secretary of State
for Scotland. has been ele. ted Rector of
st. Andrews University.
The British Government has summoned
John Dillon, the Irish agitator, to answer
for his alleged incendiary utterances.
The English Post-office Department hav-
ing decided that United States postal cards
addressed by label machine can not be
delivered in that country, the Postmaster
General will request the British postal
authorities to reconsider their decision.
The postal treaty provides that nothing
shall be attached to postal cards except q
stamp.
NINE. PAULINE LUCIA, the prima donna,
is seriously ill at Vienna.
MCGEE, a member of the Georgia Legis-
lature, has introduced a bill, which stands
some show of passing prohibiting dealers
from making more than fifteen per cent.
profit on the necessaries of life.
MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLES of incorporation were recently
filed in Keokuk. Iowa, for the Chicago,
Kansas Il Western. The capital stock is
S3l, 5OO,0OO. The road is part of the pro-
posed extension of the Atchson, Topeka &
Santa Fee road to Chicago.
In ~ %1a r ;1,o-
statue were again lighted on the 22d and
will henceforth be kept burning by the
Lighthouse Board.
COMMANDER SAMPSON, Superintendent
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in his
annual report recommends change in the
academic course for naval cadets by a re-
duction from six to four years in the course
of study. He proposes to abolish the two
years. course at sea.
CAPTAIN HAYES has returned to Red Fort,
L T., after ousting the Oklahoma boomers.
CHERRY, LEACH & Co., dealers in agricul-
tural implements, Aberdeen, Oak, made
an assignment. The assets are $4,000; Ii
$4,000.
Two freight trains collided near Lacey
on the Iowa Central, five miles north of
Oskaloosa, the other morning, instantly
killing Fireman Martin, seriously injuring
the engineer and brakeman. The engineer
of the train going south disobeyed orders
to sidetrack the train at Lacey. The loss
to the company is $4,000.
AT Amsterdam, N. Y, recently there
were wholesale arrests of the Knights of
Labor pickets. male and female, around
the mills.
THE Shans of Burmah are organizing to
offer desperate resistance to the British if
they attempt to seize the ruby mines in the
Shan country.
AUSTRIA has commenced to issue money
orders to England and the British colonies
in sums of 200 forms and under.
The jury disagreed in the case of the
New York ex-Alderman McQu aid, charged
with accepting doodle"
WILLIAM HAYDEN, furniture and desk
of Chicago, has assigned.
The amount of liabilities and assets are I'M
known. The firm has done an extensive
business.
Two drovers were killed, together with
large number of cattle, by a collision be-
tween cattle trains on the Northwestern
at haywood, near Chicago, re-
Gently.
SMALL Pox is spreading rapidly in Upper
Austria. A dozen villages are already in
tccted and five or six deaths are reported
1aily.
JERRY CALLAHAN, his wife and son, aged
Twelve years, and Mrs. Foley, of Lafayette,
Y, were struck by train at Syracuse,
Y, recently on the Oswego & Syracuse
-ailroad. Mrs. Callahan and her son were
killed and Mr.. Callahan and Mrs.
Foley fatally injured.