Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02

cember 81, 1887. were sos S07, 81, agains,
SG63, 40, 1S9 for the same time in 1886. The
values of exports for the same period were
Sis 1888 and s7I3, 4O4, OBI respectively.
THE French steamer Suez has foundered
at sea, after having been in collision
Twelve of her crew were rescued and
landed at Lisbon.
OFFICIALS of Pike County, KY, have ap
piled to the Governor for troops to defend
the people against the Hatfield gang.
! Troops were refused, but the people were
| given permission to arm themselves. The
sheriff of Pike County had invaded Yves,
Virginia to capture the outlaws, but West
Virginia sheriff was out with posse to
drive him back 10 Kentucky.
THE Grant Monument Committee has
adopted the draft of circular to be sent
TO all architects and sculptors who may
desire to compete for the honor OF design.
ing the memorial to General Grant. The
| Coo, the original figure.
HENRY GRoEBEL & Co., merchants OF
New Orleans, have assigned with S149, OOC
liabilities and s1OSO oO assets.
JUDGE GRESHAM, of the United States
Circuit Court. sitting in Chicago, has de-
cided that rebates granted by railroads to
| shippers are contrary to statute and COM
| mon law.
THE assets of the broken Ozaukce Coun-
| ty Bank, of Wisconsin. are placed at $l34,
6S2 and the liabilities SHOT,
| SEVERAL overdue yes sells arrived at New
York from Europe on the Goth after stormy
passages.
THE passenger depot of the New York
Central railroad at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, So,
600.
BISHOP IRELAND, of st. Paul, delared in
Washington the other evening that the cor
| ner stone of the new Catholic University
| would be laid in three months.
| HERR BLEIcHRoDER, the great German
financier, has arranged to take e3, 600, 900 of
the new Mexican loan, paying $14, COG, 000
for them.
QUITE lively riot was caused in st. Paul
| the other night by an attempt of young
men to break up an American Gospel Army
| meeting. The ringleaders were arrested.
Four hundred miners about IronwoOd,
Mich, have struck for three months back
pay.
PINKERTON detectives recently arrested
James Barrows in Alabama, whom they
| claim was the leader in the late tram rob-
| berries in Texas. Two or three other ar
rests were made in Erath County, Texas,
about he same time, and hopes were enter
| tanned that the gang had been effectually
broken UP.
ARECEIvER has been appointed for the
Excelsior Electric Company OF New York.
Liabilities about $4,000.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January 26 numbered for
the United States, 26S; Canada, 40; total,
81, compared with 314 the previous week
and 27l for the corresponding week of last
year.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
formed customs officers that he has official
ly determined that the Importation of neat
cattle from Great Britain and Ireland under
certain prescribed conditions will not tend
to the introduction or spread of Infectious
or contagious diseases among the cattle OF
the United States
TIE House Committee on Commerce has
ordered favorable reports on the bill to
bridge the Missouri river at st. Charles
and at Jefferson City, Mo.
THE Sioux Indians have elected twelve
delegates to represent the Nation at Wash.
ington on the proposition to open the reser-
walton.
ONE man was killed and four badly in.
jured by an explosion of gas in mine near
Wikesbarre, Pa, on the 9th.
THE opening of the st. Anthony Hill
Cable line at st. Paul, MIMI, was signal
lied by fatal accident OH the 9th. The
grip failed to catch the cable, when the
passenger car dashed down the incline,
overturning and killing Merville L. Saum-
ers, assistant treasurer of the Northwest
ern Fuel Company. About twelve other
persons were seriously injured.
The balance of trade with the world for
the year 1887 was in 'favor'' of the United
States to the amount of S6,513,6I7.
REPORTS from Berks, Lebanon, Schuyl-
kill and Lehigh Counties, Pa, say the snow
had drifted so that the public roads were
abandoned. The farmers were turning out
in bands of from fifty to one hundred to
open the roads.
THE Federal Bank of Toronto, Ont, has
decided to wind up it's affairs.
ONE man was killed and two others
fatally injured in Jersey City, N. j., re-
Gently by a collision between coal cars in
the Lackawanna yards.
A MAIL train dashed into q number of
men clearing the track of snow near Holy
olze Mass, on the 9th. killing three and
fatally wounding another.