Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-02-25


deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Ch1rch,
resulted in his expulsion from the ministry
and membership of the church
A rHREE-EIGHTH inch cartridge of dyna-
mite and giant powder was found the other
night near the cigar factory of Brown &
Earl, New York, where the cigarmakers
were on q strike.
THREE masked highwaymen recently en-
tered the Office Of the station of the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe railroad at Montvale,
Tex, and at the point of a pistol, compelled
the agent to surrender $780,
The Bundesrath has voted unanimously
in favor Of Prince Bismarck's Special Mon
opoly bill.
The Polish Catholic Church at Toledo, O.,
in which 50 much trouble existed, was
burned to the ground the other evening.
There was no doubt the fire was incendiary.
One arrest was made and much excitement
existed among the factions
THOMAS BRIGHAM and James Bowen, con-
victed of unlawful cohabitation, were sem
fenced in the District Court at Salt Lake
to six months Imprisonment and to pay
fines Of $500 each.
EIGHT sheep herders on the Solomon
Luna ranch, Valencia County, N. NJ. were
recently killed in fight with Apaches.
The Bank OF England has reduced its
rate Of discount from per cent. to 2per
cent.
The cases of three more of the Polish
prisoners, on trial at Toledo, O., for com
plicity in the church riot Of last summer,
were concluded on the 18th, all being found
guilty
EARLY the other morning q body of
masked men compelled the Chinese, num-
bering forty-four, to leave Nicolaus, Cal.
They were put on board the steamer D. E.
Knight, and notwithstanding the protest
OF the captain of the vessel. he was forced
to take them as passengers to Sacramento.
THE transcontinental war opened up on
the 18th with cut on San Francisco pas
senger rates, the Union Pacific cutting the
first-class rate from Kansas City to San
Francisco from $50 to $50; first-class linn
tied, from SA to $50; second-class from S75
to $3.50 below the emigrant rate. The
Santa Fee also made a cut.
THE Portuguese ministry has resigned.
The King has summoned the Progression
lists to form a new cabinet.
SENATOR MORRILL,, from the Committee
on Finance, has reported favorably Sena-
tor Buffers bill authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to deliver upon satisfac-
tory proof Of ownership to the claimants
thereof, the silverware, jewelry and other
property deposited in the Treasury by the
Secretary of War in June, 1869, as property
l>~, ho
the late war.
The House Committee on Post-ofiices and
Post-roads has agreed to report adversely
all bills before it for the purchase or con-
struction OF telegraph lines by the Gov
eminent.
THE Ohio Legislature has passed bill
creating non-partisan boards of election in
Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland and Colum-
bus.
The United States steamer Galena has
captured the steamer City of Mexico, fitted
out at New York for a filibustering expe-
dition against Honduras.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended February 10 numbered: For the
United States, 25l; for Canada, 35; total
of 2s6 as compared with 275 the week pre-
vious
AS an outcome of the controversy be-
tween Bishop Robertson and Rev. Father
Belts, of Trinity Episcopal Church of ST.
Louis, the latter rendered his resignation
of the rectorship Of Trinity Church.
THE United States revenue cutter Rich
ard Rush, which left San Francisco Janu-
airy for the Behring sea in search of the
missing whaler Amethyst and crew 1of
forty men, returned on the 10th. The Cap
tain reports having found no trace of the
missing vessel or the crew.
BY the breaking of truck locomotive
and four cars of a freight train on the
Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago line were de-
rallied eighty-seven miles north of Mar
shall, Ill. Fireman James Summers was
crushed to death beneath the locomotive
and Brakeman Toodlow buried under car
load Of scrap iron.
SEvENTY-FIvE Mormon converts from
Georgia, Alabama, North and South Caro-
lima and East Tennessee left Chattanooga,
Tenn, the other night for Utah. They
were converted by Mormon elders who are
at work throughout the South, and these
will be followed by as many more within
the next two or three weeks Nearly 800
elders are at work in different Southern
States.