Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

Springfield, ILL, recently turned out to be
only slight eruption on Q mans skim.
/ HUBBARD & Co.'s axe works, Pittsburgh,
have been closed because Of q strike OF the
men against lower wages.
The second annual meeting of the United
States Law and Order League will be held
at Boston February 81 and "a
AT National League meetings throughout
ireland the reductions Of judicial rents an
nounced by the Land Commission have
been declared insufficient.
ANMI BALDWIN died suddenly at Cincin-
natl on the 5th. Baldwin was under In
dictment for completely in the Fidelity
Bank frauds. There were rumors that he
had committed suicide, but his death was
due to paralysis.
THE cut in rates started in Illinois some
time ago by the Chicago &. Alton was ex-
tended to the Missouri river on the 5th.
BIZ premature blast four Italian labor
ers were killed and seven severely injured
while at work on the new branch line Of
the Lehigh Valley railroad near Wilkes
barre, Pa, the other day.
A FREIGHT train on the New river divis-
ion Of the Norfolk & Western railroad ran
into a rock slide near Lynchburg, Va, re-
Gently and fell into the river. The engineer
was drowned at his post, the fireman was
killed and twenty five loaded cars were
demolished.
SAM FIKE, the dog catcher Of Albu-
querque, N. NJ, died in frightful agony from
hydrophobia recently.
FIRE in Vandalia, Mich, recently de-
stroyed a large portion of the business
houses, causing $50 600 loss.
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Worthier & Co.'s mills at Jonesboro, N. c.,
had exploded, instantly killing Henry Nc
liver, the colored fireman, and seriously in
juring Henry Dark and Peter McIver.
GREAT destru ction was reported by an
oil fire at Etna, Pa, on the evening OF the
5th. A bridge was said to have been
burned and much damage done.
The coroner's jury in rendering verdict
as to the cause of the recent disaster on the
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad,
near Meadville. Pa, held George McFar-
land and Conductor Murray, of the collid-
ing freight train, responsible for the dis
aster.
The commission house of D. D. Castro &,
Co., Of New York, which recently made
an assignment, has filed schedules showing
81, ,23l, ,304 liabilities, Sl,69l.4 427 nominal as
sets and 81 ,O09, ,75S actual assets.
THE employees OF the seven furnaces
owned by Carnegie, Phillips & Co., at
Braddock, Pa, have made a demand for
ten per cent. advance in wages. The firm
claim that the condition Of the steel mar
ket will not justify an advance.
BERNAL, the noted Mexican bandit, was
killed recently near Cosala, Sinaloa. He
and his band were attacked by Mexican
troops when short but desperate fight fol-
lowed. The loss was said to be heavy on
both sides.
HAMERICK Il Co., jewelers., No. So4 Chest
nut street, Philadelphia. are embarrassed,
with liabilities estimated at $4,000.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, says:
At meeting of the coal miners of the
Clearfield region, it was resolved to notify
the operators that if the Columbus scale
was not paid by the 21st general strike
would be inaugurated.
A LAD was blown from moving train on
the Lake Shore near Westtield, N. Y, re-
Gently. When picked up he was dead.
THREE men were horribly burned in
Stroh's brewery at Detroit, Mich, the
other day. They were vanishing vats
when an explosion occurred.
English sporting authority, who disap-
pcared while on his way to report the
Smith-Kilrain fight, has been found on the
beach at Boulogne, France. There were
many evidences that he had been murdered.
Mrs. j. H. AVERY, the seventh victim of
the Cincinnati Southern railway accident,
near Greenwood, KY, died on the 9Th at
Covington, XIV.
THE Union Depot at Atchison, Kan, was
destroyed by fire on the afternoon of the
9th. The building was a handsome struc-
ture. The loss, including furniture, ETC.,
to Sl25, 600; insurance, $4,000.
AT Middleton, N. W. T., recently two
freight trains on the Canadian Pacific met
in collision on bridge. Four men were
killed. The damage was great, being esti-
mated at slSo,O00.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January 5 numbered for
the United States, 256; for Canada, %; to-
tai, 279, compared with 2C3 the previous
week and 299 the corresponding week of last
year.
YoUNG Walter Phelps Dodge, who be-
came notorious by publishing an announce
ment Of marriage with his cousin, has left
Yale College, New Haven, Conn. He was
at the Christmas examination
and failed to work it off. When he re-
turned his classmates avoided him and he
preferred to leave voluntarily rather than
risk probable suspension and certain os-
tracism.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHEs.
The Chicago Times office has become
unlon u1:ce, after being filled with non
union 1ien for twenty-four years.