Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-26
THE WEST.

enne, Wyo., IS in difficulties with liabilities
Of 81, go, COO; assets, 81 000, 600.
The wholesale grocery OF Beaupre, Keogh
& Davis, ST. Paul, MIMI, was burned out
recently. Loss, heavy; fairly insured.
The post commissarv building at Fort
Mckinney, Wyo.. was destroyed by fire re-
Gently The loss was 100000. The garri-
son was put upon half rations, but little OF
the stores being saved.
A PASSENGER train on the Lake Erie &,
Western was wrecked near Button, O.,
on the 18th. One passenger was killed
and several of the Mayo Dramatic Com
pany were injured.
FIRE the other night damaged the Higley
building at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to the ex-
tent of $4,000; fully insured. Chief En-
gineer Hayes and three assistants OF the
fire department were injured by an eXplo-
sion of gas.
SIX hundred walters of San Francisco
struck recently to aid the German bakers
who had struck previously.
TRoMAs ZINCX, aged thirty-eight, a well
known politician Of Cincinnati, committed
suicide recently by shooting himself
through the head.
THE Novelty machine works of Evans
vile, Ind, have assigned with $4,000 as
sets and unknown liabilities.
THE passenger train on the Illinois Cen
tral road that left Dubuque, Iowa, for the
East at noon on the 18th was thrown from
the track at Scales Mound, twenty five
miles east, and several cars rolled down a
steep embankment. Several passengers
were reported dead or severely wounded,
among the latter being Mail Agent Com
stock.
Pork fell another dollar at Chicago on
the 18th with few buyers.
JAMES F. WILSON has been reelected
United States Senator from Iowa for the
term Of six years from March, 4, 1889.
The starch manufacturers held secret
meeting in Cincinnati the other day to
regulate production and raise prices.
The San Francisco Bridge Company has
made an assignment with 500, 600 liabilities
and 500, 900 assets. Cause, loss of money
on city contract.
A REPORT has been received in NogaIes,
Ariz, that two American prospectors were
killed and two wounded few days since
on the Yaquio river, in Mexico. by band
of eight Apaches. The party Of five pros
pectors came upon them IN a wild region Of
the Sierra Madre mountains.
NG'LN SieiLOuo VI cpi ING W., HaN e
been arrested for systematically stealing
coal from cars of the Ohio Southern road.
AN attempt to rob tho Wabash train
bound east on the night Of the 18th, near
Missouri City, was frustrated by the local
authorities, who had been appraised of the
plot. After some firing two men were ar
rested and jailed. They proved to be farm
ers living in the neighborhood.
ANOTHER cold wave swept over Dakota
on the 10Th. Trains were ordered stopped
on some OF the roads until the abatement
Of the blizzard.
The house Of Frank Smith. near Lima
O., caught fire the other night and the en-
tire family-father, mother and four chill
dren-was burned to death.
IT is reported that the stock department
of the Chicago Board of Trade will be dis
continued February l. business having
dwindlcd to almost nothing.
Ex-CoNGREssNAN WILLIAM DRUMMoSp,
Of Iowa, died recently in San Diego, Cal,
of consumption.
THE loss Of life by the blizzard Of Jan
uary IL was estimated by st. Paul, Mimi,
newspaper Of the Goth to amount to 235.
The full returns were not then believed to
have been received.