Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

if elected by the General Assembly.
WISCONSIN Republicans have renomi
mated Governor Rusk.
PRINCE ALEXANDER signed his decree o
abdication on the Sth, leaving Sofia tn,
same day.
EDWIN DELIsLE proposes to Introduce
into the British House of Commons bill
forbidding members of Parliament receiv
ing money from aliens or from foregl
countries for political purposes. The bill
is aimed at the Fafnellite members.
The Democratic Territorial convention
ct Arizona nominated Marcus A. Smith
of Tombstone, delegate to Congress, ant
Charles NJ. Strauss, of Tucson, Superin
tendent of Schools.
TIE Comptroller of the Currency re-
Gently fined five National banks $500 for
delinquency in responding to his calls fol-
monthly reports These banks, the Comp
troller SAYS will be fined 500 each for
every day they are delinquent in respond
ing to future calls
The Knights of Labor and members OF
the Central Labor Union of st. Louis, and
other labor organizations of that city have
combined under the name of the United
Labor party and will hold convention Of
delegates from the various assemblies and
| unions on October7, for the purpose OF
nominating full city, Congressional and
Legislative ticket.
WASHINGTON special says: The Secre
tary of State, Notwithstanding the release
of Cutting, will, it is said, insist upon the
abrogation Of article lS6 of the Mexican
penal code, which confers upon Mexican
courts jurisdiction, under certain circum.
stances, over foreigners for offenses com
mitted outside of Mexican territory.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS has
written to the Lord Mayor of London. on
behalf of the American Government, ex-
pressing thanks for the Mayors generous
offer of assistance to the sufferers by the
earthquake at Charleston, which he says
the people of America will never forget
NEW political society has sprung into
existence in Philadelphia, called the En-
glish-A Political Association, and
starts out its first lodge with a member
ship of 800. The organization is to extend
through the East and West during the
winter
lT was stated that Henry F. Beecher, son
of Henry Ward Beecher, and late collector
at Port Townsend, Washington Territory, is
wanted by the Treasury Department to ex-
plain deficiency. He cannot be found.
Mr.. Beecber was appointed year ago last
June, and had the Office until the Senate
rejected him the day before it adjourned.
The authorities at Washington deny the
report and say it is a canard.
ENVOY SEDGwICK left Chihuahua on the
10th for Washington.
GENERAL DRUM, Acting Secretary of
War, has given instructions that Geroni-
mo, Natchez and the other hostles who
surrendered with them must be stopped at
San Antonio and kept in prison there until
determination shall be reached as to
what course of procedure shall be taken
against them. They will probably be tried
by a military commission.
A son of President Tyler was recently
appointed chief of the private land claims
division of the General Land Office.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE potato blight is spreading in the
South of Ireland.
GEORGIA wants to list new bonds, but
Henry Clews and other holders of repudi-
ated bonds protest
HENRY Fox and Frank Hughes, of
Georgetown, KY, were recently fatally
beaten in a negro quarrel.
The first of the series of races between
the Mayfower and the English cutter Gal
atea for the America cup, which took
place on the It'll, was won by the May
flower with twelve minutes two seconds to
spare.
THE Chicago University has been closed
because of debt of $500, 900 due the I'm.
ion Mutual Insurance Company of Maine.
THE Nova Scotia crop report has been is
sued by the Department of Agriculture.
Roots promise an abundant yield. The
most important grain is oats. Hay will
yield an average crop. The apple crop is
very satisfactory.
WHITE miners attacked imported negroes
near Coshocton, o. A good many shots
were exchanged, but no one was killed.
The coroner's jury on the powder ex-
plosion near Chicago recently have GEN.
sured Latin & Rand for storing dynamite
in their magazine and recommended the
removal of all magazines from the town of
Lake.
BosToN master tanners have decided to
have nothing further to do with the
Knights of Labor A strike of IL, 900 men is
threatened.
TIE rumors of an outbreak among the
B.ackfeet Indians in Northern Montana
were not confirmed in the War Department
at Washington.
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two excited gentlemen in the Connecticut
river on the Sth.
The farmers in Upper Tusalia, Germany,
are asking for a reduction in rent. They
claim that the depression in the agricul-
tural industry is bringing them to the
verge of ruin.
A GREAT fire broke out in the town Of
Thorn, Prussia, and destroyed many
houses, rendering 200 families homeless !
THE cases of the fifteen saloonists ar
rested at Alliance, O., a short time ago for
the prohibitory ordinance, have I
been postponed. Their attorneys will ap-
ply to the United States Circuit Court in
this city for an injunction to restrain the |
from enforcing the ordinance. |
STEPS have been taken in New York for |!
the organization of trust company to |
raise the funds needed to rebuild the |
ruined portion of Charleston, S. C.
Two hundred and five out of 240 Yer.
mont towns have made returns and the re-
suit shows that Edmunds is assured of re-
election by an overwhelming majority. |
The Republican State ticket was elected |
oy 1900 to $1,000 majority. The Repub-
leans have elected all their county ticket. |
Tie State Prohibition vote will be smaller
han expected.
few days ago, loaded with
and supplies for the life saving
station at Indianola, in attempting to cross
he bar leading into the Brazos canal