Dodge City times., 1888-04-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

V6nSSbN~e S%tNS
THE Union League Club of New York
City was represented at the funeral OF
Chief Justice Waite by Elwood E. Thorne,
an old and intimate friend of the illustri-
Gus dead.
THE passenger committee of the trunk
lines agreed, on the 2Sth, on rates of one
fare for the round trip to excursionists to
the National political conventions and
the Knights of Pythias National conven-
ton.
GENERAL SANMARsANo telegraphs from
Massowah, that at three O'Clock on the
morning Of the 2Sth the Italians had a
half hour skirmish with the advancing
Abyssinians and checked their advance.
Large bodies Of Abyssinians were in
sight, but at 5 p. m. the situation re-
manned unchanged, and it was then
thought the enemy did not contemplate an
immediate attack.
The Pail Mall Gazette Of the 2Sth de-
c1ares that the Cover election was the most
important victory the Tories have had
since Doncaster. The result dismays the
Liberals.
The bill passed by the Nova Scotian
House of Assembly, providing for the
abolition of the Legislative Council, was
defeated by the latter body by vote Of
II to s, on the 2Sth.
The Dominion Government has declined
to interfere with the prohibitory liquor
law in the Northwest Territory, beyond
giving permission for the licensing Of
the brewing and sale Of malt bever-
ages.
GREAT floods, caused by ice gorges at
several points in the Upper Missouri, are
driving settlers in the bottom lands from
their homes.
A UNIFORM system of returns to be an
nually made to the Inter State Commerce
Commission was adopted by convention
of railroad auditors and comptrolers held
in Washington on the 2Sth.
CLAUS SPRECKELs, the sacharine king
of the Pacific coast, arrived in Baltimore
on the 2Sth, to inspect the advantages Of
fered by that city for his proposed sugar
refinery.
A RUMoR was current at engineer head
quarters, in Chicago on the 2Sth, that Chief
Arthur was seriously considering the
matter of resigning his Office, and that a
thorough reorganization of the Brother
hood would be the result.
More than two hundred houses were de-
stroyed by fire in Kikinda, Austria, on the
29th.
The Maryland House of Represent
atives, on the 2Sth, passed bill prepared
by the Knights of Labor to pro-
hibit the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany from compelling its employees to
join the relief association.
The jury in the famous Patterson MUIR
der case at Cheyenne, Wyo., was dis
charged on the 29th, after being out eighty
one hours without coming to an agree
ment.
THE funeral services over the remains
Of x-Lieutenant- Governor Dorsheimer
were held in Grace Church, New York
City, on the 31st.
DISPATCHES from all parts of the State
of Alabama, on the Doth, reported floods
and washouts, with much damage. All
railroad travel was suspended.
THE State central committee of the Pro-
hibition party of Connecticut voted on the
29th to call a convention at Hartford,
about August 1, to nominate State ticket.
MALCOLM w. FORD has been restored as
an amateur athlete by the National Asso-
citation. He had been pronounced ineligi-
BILE for alleged participation in profess
sional games IN 1856.
SIMON O'NEILL, an old soldier, who en-
tered the army in 1857. and served through
the civil and three Indian wars, suicided
by hanging at Detroit Mich, on the 29th.
NJ. H. SIDEBoTToM, of Somerset, KY,
was arrested on the 10Th and confessed to
the murder and robbery, on the 2Sth. of
Thomas Wilson, an old soldier who had
gone to that place to collect proof to aid
him in getting pension.
THE New York jury in the case of Law
yer Sewell, who was charged by his cook,
Ellen Foye, with assault, rendered ver-
dict, on the 29th, in favor of the defendant,
and awarded him $500 for counsel fees.
THos. H. SKILLMAN, of Plainville, N. j..
cut his throat in the presence Of his pa.
rents and other relatives on the 29th, and
instantly expired. He had been driven
insane by the report that he was suspect.
ed Of murder.
The Crosby High License bill passed
the New York Assembly by q vote Of 66 to
81 on the 10Th.
GOOD FRIDAY was generally observed by
business men throughout the country by
the closing Of boards Of trade and com.
mercial chambers.
A MONTREAL Can detective was, on the
18th sentenced to fourteen years. impris-
onment in the penitentiary for robbing
Grand Trunk railroad offices.
JAS. T. WALKER, an aristocratic young
counterfeiter of New York City, was on
the 29th, sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary with hard labor.
AN Eastern combination of manufactur.
ers of doors, sash and blinds, to advance
prices and control production, was formed
af Rosf0n on fho 0Sfh
THE military barracks at Posen, Prussia,
have been thrown open for the shelter Of
people rendered homeless by the floods.
The marble workers strike at Boston
was declared off on the 3Oth, by the State
Board Knights of Labor.
HARRY LovErr, of Philadelphia, was
killed on the 3Oth at Lynn, Mass, by an
electric shock while experimenting in an
electric company's works.
O.J. CouoHL1N, publisher Of the Bing-
hamton IN. " Dispatch, was arrested on
the 80th on q charge of criminal libel in
alleging that Police-O Ofacer Donely had
I'D Giyls astray.