Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-17

clnuati in Kentucky is to be named For
Hancock, and to be used as q resting placs
for soldiers retired on account Of age.
A CARDING machine in a wooden mill a
Paducah, KY, few to pieces recently, kill
ing two men.
By fall OF rock In a mine near st. Ass
furt, Saxony. the other day. eighteen mer
were killed and many injured
W. B. STRONG has been reelected presi
dent Of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
system.
COMMODORE KITTsoN. the noted horse
man, dropped dead while a passenger on g
train near Harvard. Ill, recently. He was
seventy-dve years old.
ALL the weavers and spinners in the
vicinity Of Breslau, Germany, have struck
Socialism was thought to be the cause
The National Printers Protective Fra.
ternity closed its convention at Cleveland
O., on the 10th. o. F. Kenny, Of Cleveland
was elected president
In the British House Of Commons re.
Gently Sir John Gorst, Under Secretary for
India, announced that the Government OF
India admitted the authenticity of the
circular OF the Commander in. Chief, direct
ing that regimental bazaars have a sufi-
cient number OF women. The statement
created a great sensation.
NATURAL gas caused the destruction of
st. Paurs Cathedral, Buffalo, n. Y, on the
morning of the 10th. The building was an
inposlng one and was valued at $3.50, 900.
A CYCLONE struck the village OF Peca-
tonica, ILL.,, on the night Of the 10th, wreck
ing several houses and innumerable out
buildings. One woman and thre, children
were injured, but not fatally, by flying
timbers.
SINCE January thirty-two corporations
of Fall River. Mass, with an aggregate
capital of sl,71S.O0O. have made dividends
of more than $40 per cent. for the frac-
ton OF the year. The dividends range
from u to 10 for the months already gone,
and indicate that the dividends for the year
will average IL per cent
AT the annual meeting Of the American
Bible Society in New York the receipts
were reported as $751;, $40 and the disburse-
ments as S5O6. 453.
THE Turkish Cabinet has approved the
Anglo French Suez canal convention, aban-
doning its claim to preside over the asso-
citation and being given the right to use the
canal
WILLIAM HOPKINS, who stoned a stranger
to death at Georgia country church be-
cause he wore 'biled'' shirt and was to
have been hanged, has been respited by
Governor Gordon.
Rev GEORGE MCDUFFIE,a negro preacher,
was hanged recently at Atlanta, Ga, for
the murder of William Cheney, another
negro. Illicit love on the part of McDuffie
led him to commit the crime.
A TORNADO proved destructive to build
ings, etc, in Northern Indiana on the night
Of the 18th.
A. j. BRYANT, a wealthy resident of San
Francisco, who was mayor from 1873 to
1879, fell from a ferry boat recently and
was drowned. He had been in ill-health
for some time, and it is supposed had an
attack Of vertigo.
NEARLY two blocks of the business part
of Hot Springs, Ark, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 18th. The fire
broke out In the Excelsior laundry and the
damage amounted to $3.50, 1000.
THE Railway Conductors Association, in
session at Toronto, Ont, recently passed
resolution condemning the strike of the en-
gineers on the 20" system.
LUMBERMEN say there is an over supply
of logs in the Mississippi this season. There
are more logs in the streams than the Min
neapalis mills can possibly saw, and there
are no storage booms and no market for
the logs A decentralization of the lumber
market IS threatened.
THE offer of $4,000 reward for the cap
ture of Tascott the murderer of millionaire
Smell, of Chicago, has expired by limita-
ton. Notwithstanding the dozens of ar
rests made all over the country the real
Tascott Is still at large.
n ic OF that ot rodo If
Russian troops cavalry Lieutenant named
Timoferef was about to fire at the Car with
a revolver when another officer seized him
by the arm and the weapon being dis
charged the bullet entered the ground.
who was at once arrested, ap.
peared to be insane.
The body Of j. b. Kiel, prominent citi-
zen of Oshkosh, Wis, was found in Cedar
river recently. He had been inspecting
bridge and it was first thought had been
drowned, but an examination revealed the
fact that he had been murdered and robbed
and his body thrown into the river.
ADvIcEs from Afghanistan say that the
Heratic regiment had fight recently with
the Demshed tribe, which had petitioned
for Russian protection. Many were killed
on each SIDE
The Southern Baptist convention met 10
annual session at Rich mond, Va, on the
18th and was called to order by Prof. Lewis
B. Ely, of Missouri, first-vice president,
Rev. DR.. P. H. Nell, the president, having
died since the last convention.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
J. LUsK & Co., leading fruit Gamers, Of
San Francisco, have failed. The liabilities
re estimated by outside parties to be $780,
10. The Lusk cannery was said to be the
argest in the world.
j. c. RUMMsL's general store at Shippens-
,urg, Pa, was blown up with dynamite the
ther night. The deed was believed to
lave been done by liquor men, as Rummel
lad been vigorous in enforcing the liquor
aw.
Six robbers attacked a train twelve
niles from Nogales, Arl., on the night of
he 18th. They killed the fireman, knocked
own the engineer and shot the messenger
md conductor, supposed fatally. They
we're driven off after getting only S139.
lot pursuit was at once instituted and two
r three of the supposed robbers were cap
ured.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
lay II showed an average increase of LIZ
ompared with the corresponding week Of
asst year. In New York there was a de-
rease of 3.5.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
even days ended May IL numbered for the
United States, 1872; Canada, IL; total. oO9.
with 234 the previous week and
az the corresnonGfnp ueeL last vear