Dodge City times., 1888-03-29

DODGE City ZINES.
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THURSDAY, MARCH %, 1888
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
The funeral Of Senator Carnot faith er
Of the French President, occurred on the
20th.
IT was stated on the 22d that the short.
age Of State Treasurer Tate of Kentucky
would amount to S25O, 900.
INVESTIGATION into the affairs Of Treas
urer Ta;e of Kentucky 'niica tas that the
States loss will not reaca 500 COZ,
THE list of deaths cansaI by the burn
Portugal, will reach over one hun ire1.
THE constab'es who arresfe the whole
sale liquor dealers at De3 Moinas, Ia. and
then released them, have been Indicted
for receiving bribes.
THOMAS B. MCGUIRE of Assembly No. 40,
nights of Labor, gives il us his opinion
that the Knights favor Judge Gresham
for President.
A PATENT has been granted for a new
clock which will run for years after being
once wound up. 1t has neither pendulum
nor balance wheel.
H. d. BADGLY and F. w. Irving. of Bos-
ton, aPe in Canada advertising for engi-
neers and fremen to take the places of
Brotherhood men in the States.
Mr.. MCKINLEY, of the House committee
on ways and means, has been authorized
by the minority to prepare a tariff bill
In opposition to the Mills bill.
EBENEzER STANYARD, twice convicted
of the murder of Alice Hancox, was on
the 22d sentenced bv Judge Johnston, at
Youngstown, o., to lie hanged on July 13.
M. NETIEvITCH, Bul laarian Minister of
Finance, saws the government has no in
tention TO proclaim the independence of
Bulgaria. The country will remain loyal
to Europe.
"HoNEsr DICK TATE" for twenty years
State Treasurer of Kentucky, is an abb
sconding defauter. A partial examina-
tion of his accounts up to the 20th showed
deficit of $150,00O
The city of Leipsic has bought Lei
bach's celebrated portraits of Kaiser
Wilhelm and Bismarck for SO 900. The
former picture was tainted in 1886 and
the latter in 1887.
The switchmen in the Erie railroad
yard at Hornelsville, n. Y, went on a
strike on the 23d. 1t is reported that
the grievances are low wages and an OBJ
jectionable yardmaster.
EAGLE HEAD, well-known Indian
scout, and John Warden, a white hunter,
were drowned under the ice while cross
ing the Missouri river n few miles below
Bismarck, Dak., on the 21st.
ALL the countries represented at the re-
cent Sugar Bounties Conference, with
the exception of France. have sent replies
to the British Government favorable to
the abolition of sugar bountes.
A PATENT was granted on the 21st to
Elias E. Ries and Albert II. Henderso on,
of Baltimore, Nd, on an apparatus for
increasing the tractive power of locomo-
tives and other vehicles propelled by elec-
tricity.
THE water in the Willow and Pine
creeks at Mason City, Ia, on the 10Th, was
the highest reached in twenty-five years.
The piers of the Iowa Central bridge
there, the largest bridge on the line, have
been washed away.
COLONEL L. b. FAULKNER and Leonard
Kuhn, director and cashier respectively
of the defunct First National Bank of
Dansville, KY, were arrested on the Dist,
upon requsition of the United States
Court, and taken to Buffalo
The Ohio State Senate ad opted a reso-
luton, on the 22d, to investigate reports
to the effect that three meml ers had So
licited bribes to oppose the passage of a
bill to prevent the Importation into the
State of foreign beef
The water in the Mohawk river rose
seven feet in three hours at Amsterdam,
N. Y, on the 22d, owing to an ice gorge
The tracks of the New York Central were
covered with water, and the town of Port
jackson was completely inundated.
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In the Supreme Court of New York, on
the 10th, Abraham Levitt obtained ver-
dict against Morris T. Hart for electric
lights furnished the New Orleans Exposi.
tion at the request of Major EuTk. OF the
agreed price, $4,000 had previously been
paid.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania, on
the 23d, issued proclamation containing
stringent regulations designed to prevent
the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, which
was known to exist within a radius of
eight miles of Philadelphia.
JOHN I. HOWARD, one of the founders
of Plymouth Church, father of several
well-known journalists, fa her-in-law of
General Horatio Kiug, and one of the
leading citizens of Brooklyn, n. V, led
of apoplexy on the 22d. He was eighty
years old.
A NEW recruiting bill has been prepared
in France which subjects all citizens to
service for twenty-five years, with partial
exemptions in the case of students and
others, with equiva 'ent in taxsS. which it
Is estimated will result in a revenue of
$4,000, 0O0f yearly.
The second and last reading given in
Washing ton i'm aid of the American Copy.
right League took place on the evening of
the 10Th. At the close of the entertain.
meut the President AMI Mrs. Cleveland
received the authors present aud their
friends at the Executive Mansion.