Dodge City times., 1888-05-03


sembly making it . misdemeauor to raise
any foreign flag upon any building owned
by the State or by any city or village
therein. The bill created heated discus
sion and was voted down-1O4 to 40.
The Atlantic engine works ut East Bos.
ton were burned recently. Loss heavy.
A DISPATCH from Nancy says a riot broke
out there on the 26th, q mob Of Boulanger.
lists attacking the students clubs with
stones and other missiles. A number OF
policemen were injured before quiet was
restored.
THE Bank Of Amigo wis was robbed
of e, 600 the other day by some unknown
person, who went into the back door while
the cashier was at dinner.
DIR. MCMAsrER, veterinary surgeon,
was fined in Washington recently for
docking two horses tails belonging 20
attaches Of the British Legation.
JUDGE GRESHAM, at Milwaukee on the
27th. decided the suit OF the heirs Of the
late s. s. MerFill, general manager of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
against C. H. Price. for an accounting in
connection with Colorado land transactions
"a Minnesota and Dakota, involv ing profits
supposed to be In the neighborhood Of ST.
OOO.OOO The decision was in favor of the
defendant.
AN explosion that pitched seventy people
into the air, throwing one man fifty feet,
wrecked seventeen large plate glass win
dowA ruined sS5, goo worth of clothing, dam
aged . building SIS, 900 and caused q stam-
pede Of hundreds Of people from the upper
stories OF tall buildings, occurred in base
ment on State and jackson streets, Chi
tho h0V irht hA inm q
caused by two workmen, who had broken
gas main without knowing it. No one
was killed.
by fire. Loss, s25O,O00.
The chemical paint factory Of Henry
Woods, Son T. Co. at Lake Crossing, near
Natick, Mass. was destroyed by fire the
other morning. The loss was over tl50, 600;
insured.
WALTER and Jane Messick, living near
Paris, Ark, were poisoned recently by
eating wild onions. The girl died.
AN immense forest fire was reported
raging at Big Nose along the line Of the
New York Central railroad, licking up trees
and shrubbery. Farmers were fighting
for their homes with doub btful success. The
fire was started by sparks from passing
locomotive.
THE cannon ball train on the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad was wrecked
near Alma, Neo, on the 9th. Two pas
sengers were killed and quite a number in.
jured. The mail aud express cars with
their contents were consumed.
TIE sawmills Of the Ft- Madison Uowa)
Lumber Company were destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss, Si5,OOO
The American flint glassworks strike
has been settled in q conference at New
York
TWENTY survivors Of the great Sultana
explosion Of April 26, 1865, in which loo
Union soldiers lost their lives, held re-
union at Hillsdale, Mich, on the 26th.
THE Pope has issued q decree condemn
ing the plan Of campaign and boycotting in
Ireland. The Nationalists declared they
would treat it with contempt
THERE was an unusually large attend
ance at the Presidents reception on the
9th. Included in the throng were dele
gates to . religious convention, the Boston
baseball team, many OF the ballet Of u
theatrical troupe and most of the chorus of
an opera company. A religious crank who
tho ushers that he was .'owned
by God and the Bible" was denied admit
tance.
Six murderers were executed on the
9th, all for separate crImes-three at Fort
Smith, Ark, one at Anderson, s. c., one at
Orangeburg, s. c., and one at Leonard.
town, Md. Five of the culprfts were ne
groes.
ANARCHIST PARSONS old paper, the
Alarm, of Chicago, has suspended publica-
ton.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended April 26 umbered for
the United States, 1893; Canada, 30; total,
923; compared with 195 the previous week
and 191 the corresponding week of last
year.
NEAR Kichmend, KY, the other day
Arch Stolta. a farmer. committed suicide
by taking Rough on Rats" His brother
seeing the corpse, took tho re-
Of the poison, leaving a note say.
ing he wished both to be buried in the
same coffin.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at JET.
Ind. were terribly burned by
molten iron recently while attending to
cupolA
WHIrELEY, q notorious desperate and
train robber, has been captured near
Tox., by officers after brief
fight.
Two cistern cleaners Of st. Louis were
found dead in cistern recently, having
been suffocated by choke damp.
ADDITIONAL. DISPATCHES.
THERE was q wreck on the Peuus ylyania