Dodge City times., 1888-03-29
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

THE passage of tie Conversion bill by
/ the British Parliament is said to have been
assured by the adoption,o ,on the 20th, of the
provision for the paymentof Is 6 on each
el00 of stock converted by bankers.
The Milan LOmbdrdj learns that ar
rangementS have been completed for the
marriage of the Prince of Naples, son Of
King Humbert and heir to the throne of
Italy, to Princess Sophia Dorothy, third
daughter of Emperor Frederick Of Ger
many.
E. N. SHAW, formerly managing editor
of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Dispatch, with a
proprietary' interest, ed, after pro-
longed illness, on the Goth.
JAY GOULD and his party arrived at
Jacksonville, Fla, on the Goth.
1t was stated on the Goth that the EN-
peror of Germany would proclaim exten.
sive amnesty to political and other Of
tenders.
IT is claimed that Otto Hegener, the
ten-year-old musical prodigy of London,
is the equa', if not the superior, of the
German wonder, young Hofmann.
The ward meetings of the Liberal As
sociatons held in Birmingham, Eng, on
the Goth, indicate an astonishing increase
of Mr.. Gladstone's strength.
The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, by vote of 100 to 92 on tn
Goth, passed a bill granting women tn
right to vote on the question of granting
liquor licenses.
A COKE train on the Pittsburgh, Vir.
ginia & Charleston railroad, ran into
rock near Green Springs, ten miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 21st and the en-
tire train was precipitated over an EN-.
bankment into tn rive, distance of fif-
l.
verely injured.
DETECTIVE HUME, Of Wells Fargo &
Co., San Francisco, was advised on
the 21st that after the STEMS Pass train
robbers had been killed by the Mexican
troops, recently, all the stolen diamonds,
jewelry and money except one hundred
dollars We're recovered from the bodies.
A REJECTED lover named Andrew Rob.
erts, living near Henry's Crossroads,
Tenn, shot himself in the head with
pistol on the Goth.
THE annual report of the New York Board
of immigration shows the total number
of migrants landed at that port during
the past year to have been 40, ,S45.
A STORM of great severity prevailed on
the Atlantic coast on the 2lst.
OVER one hundred of the striking weav-
ers of the "a mon Fails On. H.) Cotton
Mills returned to work on the 2lst.
THE water in the Delaware river is
frozen to the bottom, and any sudden
rise will force the water into new chan
nels.
New JERSEY CENTRAL an | Morris &
Essex trains were submerged at various
points a ong the roads by heavy rains on
the 21st.
THE argument in the contest of the will
of, Samuel J. Tilden was begun on the
21st in the Supreme Court of New York,
before Judge Lawrence Mr. McCurdy
opened the argument for George Tilden,
the conteS tant.
The steamer Pomona, which was
spoken at sea on the 13 inst, under sail,
with her propeller gone, had not yet ar
rived on the 21st. Fears are entertained
for her safety.
GENERAL GEORGE w. CASS died at his
residence in New York on the 21st.
A DEVASTATING cyclone passed over
portions of the State of Georgia on the
Goth, spreading death and destruction in
al drec ions.
THE cigar manufacturers of Boston,
representing capital of 100000 and en-
ploying five thousand men, threaten to
remove their business to New York be.
cause of the strike of their hands.
The Ontario branch of the Dominion
Temperance Alliance, in session at To.
ronto, on the 21St, IN ndorsed the PROPOSE.
tion for a national conven tion to form q
Prohibition or third party.
THE annual meeting of the Holstein-
Freisian Cattle-Breeders' As 'ociation oc-
Cured at Buffa o, y. ". on the 2lst.
IT transpired ON the 2lst that general
tie-up Of the Northwestern roads was
only prevented by Chief Arthur's coun-
sci. The men had been on the point Of
striking for some time but were unwill.
ing to take the respons blIty of doing so
without the approval of the grand off,
GERS and the support of the whole Broth
erhood.
''MIsS. GRUNDY'-3Iiss Austine Sneed-
died in Washington, of pneumonia, on
the 22d.
INTELLIGENCE was received on the 21st
that Lieutenant Colonel Gonzales, with
force under his command, had battle
with band of Yaqui Indians in the
Latin jo mountains, on the 10th. Two In
dians were killed and several wounded.
On the same day, at a point called
Aguajo de Los Burras, the same officer
encountered another band of Indians,
and had fight, in which be succeeded in
routing them.
JAY GOULD and family left Jackson
vile, Fla, for New York on the 22d
THE performance at the New York
Academy of Music on the - l for the ben.
eft of Pony Hart, netted about $4,000
caused . suddsn fall In Ball Telsphene
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