Dodge City times., 1888-04-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS,


license and obtaining money
under false pretenses. The women who
are young and good looking, claim to have
been in the medium business since they
were small children. A search of their
rooms brought to light muslin shrouds,
masks and the usual paraphernalia Of me-
diumlstic frauds.
WASHINGTON, April 2-Yesterday marked
the close Of the Lenten season, and through
out the city the churches were thronged
with fashionable society. The floral dis
plays in the pu pits Of the lead ng churches
were supreb. The galeties of social life at
the capital will be resumed to great
extent during the week. Mrs. CIeve-
land, it is expected, will renew her morn
ing receptions, and there is gossip of sew
eral grand affairs to occur IN the way Of
dinners and receptions before the season
IS declared at an emf.
NEW YORK, April AT meeting of the
Brewers Employees Association to-day it
was decided not to order strike now, in
spite Of the refusal Of the employing brew
ers to sign the contract decided upon, but
to put boycott on the beer Of two or three
firms, leaving the strike question undecided
for the present. 1t was not given out
which brewers Lad been selected as the
victims Of the boycott. The Beer Drivers
Association met and resolved to support
the boycott as soon as the firms are named.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 2.-Allen Angel,
patient from Nodaway County. confined
in asylum No. 2, with suicidal tendency,
went out walking this morning with an
attendant, and when within fifty yards of
the Ice pond she broke loose and plunged
into the water and was drowned. Some
hours was spent in trying to resuscitate
her, but she died at one o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
HoLBRoOK. A. T., April 2.-Last night q
slight shock of earthquake was felt here,
lasting ten seconds. The vibration was
from east to west and was quite percepti-
BILE. Houses trembled. A strong wind
from the south was blowing at the time.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-The Supreme
Court of the United S ates made an order
this morning assigning Justice Harlan to
the Fourth judicial circnit, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of Chief JUS
tice Waite.
CHICAGO, April 2-The engine of a west
bound st. Paul passenger train was de-
rallied between Western and Oakley ave-
nues shortly before twelve o'clock last
night. No one was injured. The switch
had been turned. 1t is believed to have
been done by the strikers.
LONDON, April "A dispatch from Mas
sowah says: ''King John. of Ably ssinia has
sent vague letter to the effect that he can
Eot conclude a treaty of peace upon the con-
dtions offered by Italy. 1t is probable that
further negotiations will be entered into"
The report from Nantucket, Mass, that
one of the crew landed from the wrecked
steamer Canonbury was i'll of cholera, was
denied on the 30th.
The report of the Erie railroad for Feb
ruary shows an increase Of $l2,6S5 in net
earnings, as compared with February,
1887.
THE Russian Government has decided
to spend half a million roubles in the
construction of forts and barracks at
Piczagor, Zirrienkir and Luck.
ORDERS have been issued by the Russian
Government for all artillery brigades in
Poland to send half of their reserve am
munition to Kisveheiniff, where flying
corps is to be organized to operate against
Bulgaria.
BY the overf1owing of the Monan river,
in Prussia, fifty villages were completely
submerged.
THE correctness of DR.. Mackenzie's
diagnosis and the wisdom of his treat
ment of the Emperor's case is becoming
daily more apparent.
VIM. E. SMITH, ex-Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury and ex-chairman of the
Democratic State committee, died at
Plattsburg, N. Y, on the 3Oth, aged thirty
six years. He was law partner of Smith
M. Weed and a prOtege Of the late s. J.
Tilden.
The House committee on invalid pen
sions, on the 30th, appointed sub-com-
mittee to consider the various pending
bills looking to the repeal of the limita-
ton clause of the pension act.
COUNSEL TWEED, of the Central Pacific
railroad, made an argument before the
House committee on Pacific railroads, on
the 3Oth, in favor of the bill under con-
sideration TO extend the time allowed his
company to meet it's Indebtedness to the
Government.
The Plumb bill, allowing Kansas to
swallow No Mans Land. passed the Senate
on the 29th.
GATHER REESE, of Spring Creek, N. c.,
was shot and killed while trying to escape
from a deputy sheriff and his posse on
the 30th.
On the 30th, Deputy Revenue Collector
Taylor, of Raleigh, NC. reported the capt
ure of an illicit still in Chatham County,
N. c.
FREDERICK A. MARKLEY, Of Coshocton,
O., committed suicide on the Goth so that
his five children could get possession Of
his property.
MRS. JOHN GARLICH Of Cincinnati,
was instantly killed by an elevator, on the
10Th, while trying TO step off before it had
stopped.
THE bill granting the ST. Louis & San
Francisco railroad the right of way
through the Indian Territory passed the
Senate on the 29th.
WILLIAM d. POOLE was, on the 30th, in
dicted by the grand jury at Boston for
embezzlement. Poole was at one time
chief deputy United States marshal.
"BILL INDIAN'', a full -blooded Cherokee
Indian, living at Madison, Ca, has claim
on some property there, which, if he can
get proofs, will net him - 600.
ALBERT MURRIsH, an insurance agent
living in Center Township, Neb., shot and
killed his wife and fatally wounded the
hired man, on the 30th, because he suspect
ed them of undue intimacy.
THE French Ministry, being defeated in
the Chamber of Deputies, on the 30th, re-
signed.
FIFTY THOUSAND English volunteers
participated in the Easter Monday festivi-
ties. Half that number engaged in a
sham battle, with Dover as the objective
point.
DIR. MACKENZIE having been hooted by a
mob upon the streets of Berlin on the 3Oth,
the Emperor promptly gave orders for his
protection in the future, and declared that
an indignity to the great doctor would be
taken as an insult to himself.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON of Maryland on