Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

1
Williams United States Senator on the 3D.
to fill the place of the late Senator Miller
| Williams was the choice of the Republic
ans, the Democrats nominating Hearst, the
Senator appointed some time ago by the
Governor.
TIE House Committee on Foreign Affairs
on the Sd, adopted resolutions demanding
the surrender of A. K. Cutting from Mex
| leo.
HERBERT SPENCER, the well-known En-
glish writer, was said to be seriously sick
on the Sd.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has gone
| to Arkansas for several weeks vacation.
SAMUEL. TILDEN, the well-known Demo.
cratic standard-bearer, died at Greysrone,
| N. Y, OH the morning of the 4th. He had
been ailing for long time, the immediate
cause OF death being failure of action OF
the heart The distinguished statesman
was born in New Lebanon, Columbia Coun.
| ty, N. ", February 10, 1914.
JUDGE HoFFsTETTER, who extradited Ra-
sures recently murdered by Mexican Off
| Gals throws all the blame on Sheriff
| Oglesby.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has been unani-
mously reelected president of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform League
WILLIAM NJ. BAILEY has been nominated
for Congress by the Second Vermont dis
trict Democrats, to run against General w.
W. Grout.
HARRISON DURKEE, vice-president of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died
on the 4th.
THE President has signed tho Sundry
Civil and General Deficiency bills.
THE Democratic convention at Leaven-
worth, on the 4th, nominated Colonel
Thomas Moonlight for Governor of Kan
sas. William Whitelaw, of Kingman, was
nominated for Associate Justice. The
convention adopted the platform and ad-
iourned for the day.
DEMOCRATIC assemblies all over the coun-
try passed resolutions in reference to Til
denis death.
SOUTH CAROLINA Democrats have nomi-
mated State Treasurer J. T. Richardson for
Governor.
Two aged persons and five children were
drowned by the sinking Of pleasure yacht
in the harbor at Portland, Me-, recently.
THE new British Parliament met on the
5th.
THE President, on the 5th, signed the De-
ficiency, Sundry Civil and River and Har-
Dor bills.
SECRETARY LAMAR has received the resig-
nation of W. p. johnson, of Chicago, as
member of the Board of Indian Commits
siOnerS.
DAISY MURDOCH. the well known actress,
died at New York on the 9Th after an ill
ness of several months with consumption.
Miss Murdoch was only seventeen years of
age.
JOHN w. GRAHAM, son of the Secretary
of the Navy under President Fillmore, has
been nominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis of the Fourth district of North Caro-
lima.
THE judicial elections in Tennessee on
the 5th showed Democratic gains averag-
ing 5000 over two years ago.
LUCTEN FAIRCnrLD, of Wisconsin, was
elected Commander of the Grand Army at
San Francisco on the 9th, with s. w. Back
us, of San Francisco, Senior Vice Com
mander. st. Louis was chosen as the next
place Of meeting
The President has appointed Thomas
Cooper to be collector of internal revenue
for the Eighth district of Illinois, and N.
F. Acers to be collector of internal revenue
for the district of Kansas. The above were
among the nominations upon which the
Senate failed to act.