Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-02

| 1HE LONDON CITY companies VeTeSOIVcO
to sell their lands in the North of Ireland
on easy terms to tenants.
THE failure of E. L. Hudson & Co., one of
the largest commercial firms ut Brandon,
Miss, is reported No statement of assets
or liabilities has been made public.
Two children named Weisal were frozen
to death ten miles north of Mandan, D. T.,
recently while looking for lost stock. Two
young men, brothers, named Sims, were
also frozen to death while returning from
1 work.
A VERDICT has been rendered in favor of
Lord Coleridge in the libel suit brought
against him by his son.in-law, Mr. Adams
FIVE additional regiments have been Or
dered to Burmab.
JUDGE ScorT, on the 25th granted writ
of supersedeas in the case of the eight con-
demned Chicago anarchists.
| The Dominion Oil Company's works, at
Montreal, were burned tho other night.
Loss, $4,000; insured.
! THE steamer Seneca Walker, from New
York, collided with the sloop William May
at Norfolk, Va, recently. Tie sloop sunk.
No lives were lost.
THE powder mills at Platteville, Grant
County, Wis, blew up the other night.
Twenty thousand pounds of powder were
| in them at the time. No one was killed.
A HEAVY cloth curtain which, during the
daytime covers the electric light lenses on
| the Statue of Liberty, at New York. caught
| fire the other night and fell on the light
| woodwork Of the staircase in the interior
of the statue, and it was only with hard
work that bad fire was averted, and the
great statue saved from ruin.
AN explosion of fire-damp occurred in
the Conyngham coal mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the morning of the Goth. Between
| forty and fifty men were in the mine at the
time, fifteen of whom were fatally and the
rest seriously injured. The explosion was
caused by carrying a naked lamp into
| worked out chamber.
A HORRIBLE story comes from Ravens
vile, Kan. Rhodes Clements, crazed by
religious excitement, murdered his COM
panion, Samuel Gordon, on the highway,
and was aftarward found fea sting on the
remains.
REV. JOSEPH JONES, a brother of Evan
gelist Sam, has been ruled out of his pulpit
by the State conference TO-: use of vile
language while preaching.
AT Meadville, Pa, the other day, Mrs.
Mary Byllesby, aged thirty-seven years,
was burned to death while alone in her
room.
THE business failures of the week ended
November 25 numbered ZIG, as against 242
the previous week.
DURING the past season on the great
lakes thirty three vessels have been lost
and forty-one passengers drowned. The
underwriters suffered heavily.
CHARLES DRAPER & Sous two rubber
boot lining mills, situated mile apart at
Canton, Mass, were burned about the same
time the other night. 1t was believed they
were set on fire. The loss and insurance
was not stated.
THE loss of the bark Sarah Anderson
while on a voyage from Coquimbo for Eng
land has been confirmed by advices re-
ceived at Valparaiso. The captain, his wife
and the crew were all lost.
THE Great Western glass works. of St.
Louis was closed down on the 9th. All
hands were discharged.
TIE British bark Drumadoon was burned
at Galveston, Tex, recently.
EDITOR PRoHL has been sentenced by the
Supreme Court at Berlin to nine years.
imprisonment for treason. 1t was proved
that he supplied France, through Captain
Sarauws, with German military and naval
secrets
A DISPATCH of the Goth from Arcadia,
Miss, says: The destruction of the Wynn
Parish court house by fire of incendiary
origin occurred to-day. The building had
been saturated with coal oil and burned so
rapidly that no time was given to save the
records.
THE Knights Of Labor of Bristol, Pa, are
considering a proposition to buy the hosiery
mill of Louis Jones. with whom the opera
tors can not agree.
ALEX. OsToN, a negro quack, has been
arrested at Memphis, Tenn, for poisoning
Hannah Chambers and Kissy Bunch, two
colored women, who took his medicine.
AT Salt Late City on the Goth Thomas
Jenkins, formerly Norm on Bishop of the
Fourth Ward, pleaded guilty to an indict.
lnent charging him with unlawful cohabit.
alton. On his promise to hereafter obey
the law sentence was suspended.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
Miss Golden unveiled statue of her
father, the great British free trader, at
-ockport, England, recently.
ALL efforts to effect q settlement of the |
Cuban cigarmakers' strike have failed so
far.
Two postal clerks were killed at Green
wood, near Kansas City, Mo-, the other
day by the telescoping of two trains.
M
for O'Donovan Rosa and his hints at as.
sassination.
j. B. & S. B. SACHS. wholesale boot and
shoe dealers and manufacturers, Cincin-
natl, have assigned. The liabilities are es-
timated to reach 100000 and the assets
100000.
ELEVATOR Q and elevator "A, together
with other property, were destroyed by fire
at Duluth, Mimi, on the evening of the
9th. The total loss amounted to $500, 900;
insul ance, $6OO, ZOO. Three men were re-
ported killed.
HARRY GILMER, the witness against the
anarchists, was shot at recently while
standing at his doorway in Chicago. The
bullet missed the intended victim. The
would-be assassin escaped.
WILLIAM WoODCoCK, president of the
Railroad Master Mechanics Association of
the United States, died at Elizabeth, N. j.,
recently. He was native of England and
ffty-two years OF age.
The stove molders at De Ravens found
ry, Pittsburgh, Pa, struck on the 9th
against a reduction ordered several weeks
ago.
The President has appointed Thomas F.
Al - /