Dodge City times., 1888-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


A DISASTROUS wrecK ON the Baltimore &.
Ohio railroad, near Grafton, W. Va, with
heavy loss Of life, was reported on the
11th.
SAM JONES, the eccentric evangelist,
says that Mr.. Cleveland will be renOm-
mated, despite the scheming of Bill Scott,
Barnum and German, and elected, too.
After that, the Republicans will return to
power.
MISS MINNIE ROSE PARSONS, Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, who was abducted and aban-
doned by Lieutenant Ryan, of the navy,
was found by the police in New York, on
the 11th, and returned to her home. She
will assist in prosecuting r yam.
THE WOman's Board of Foreign Mis-
sions met in New York on the 11th.
GEORGE KENAMoRE and his fifteen-year-
old son were burned TO death, in Greene
County, Mo-, on the 11th, in the destruc-
ton of their home.
TYLER BROS, manufacturers of steel
tubing, New York and Boston, with mills
at South Boston, and half owners of the
Christiana Rolling Mill at Wilmington
Del, have suspended. They claimed $780,
600 capital.
WIN. MILLMAN was hanged in the yard of
the Jail at CharlOttetown, p. E. l.. Tues
day, for the murder of Mary Tuplin on
July 2 last.
THE accounts of S. NJ. Weir, treasurer
of New Albany, Ind, have been found
$4,000 short.
Mr.. T. B. JOHNS, one of the most sue
| cesssful lumber merchants in the West,
died at his home, in Terre Haute, Ind, on
the 10th.
CHRISTOPHER NUGENT, one of the best
| known rOan in Nawarl r a nDa
time owner of the largest morocco manu-
factory in the world, died at his home
recently a poor man.
On the 18th DR.. c. 7. Agnew was report
ed seriously i'll of peritonitis, at his resi-
| dence in New York
PRESIDENT FRANCIS L. PATTON of
Princeton College was banqueted by the
Princeton Alumni Association of Chicago,
| at the University Clnb
THE fourteenth Iowa State encampment
of the G. A. R. was more largely attended
than any previous one in the history of
| the association.
On the Erie railroad two locomotives
and 12O freight cars were piled up in
| mass of ruins by collision, on the 18th
| No one was hurt.
On the 18th VIM. H. Barr, of Philadel-
phia, called at the New York City
| CorOner's Office and identified the effects
of the young man who suicided at the Con-
tinental Hotel, on the 5th, as those of his
son, James H. Barr.
AT Youngstown, O., William Anson's
mower and reaper works were DESTROYED
by fire, entailing loss of $25O,OO0, on the
18th.
UN the 10Th Ensign Ryan, of Philadel-
phia, who enticed Miss Preston from her
home in Pittsburgh, Pa, and abandoned
her in New York, agreed to make partial
reparation by marrying the wronged girl.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, Geo. H.
Aver called upon the superintendent of
police, confessed to robbery of his en-
ployers, Browning, King & Co., of Phila-
delphia, of the sum of 5000, and surren-
dered himself.
On the 9th an extra freight train on the
Erie railroad was wrecked one mile east
OF Carrolton, N. ", by which brakeman
named Powell was instantly killed, and
many other trainmen were hurt
The April meeting of the General Ex-
ecutive Board. Knights of Labor, con-
vened in Philadelphia on the 10TH with a
bare majority of the members present.
CowARDLY assault was made upon an
editor of the Evansville Qnd.) Journal. on
the 10th, by a crowd of tOughs whose ac-
tlons he had criticized.
Miss JENNIE STEVENS, a school-teacher.
or w atervlile, Conn.,, has been missing |
for several weeks, and it is feared she has |
met with foul play.
BY an explosion Of natural gas at the |
pump-works, south of Muncie, Ind. on the |
9th, workman named Green was fatally
injured.
PRINCE BISMARCK held long confer
ence with the Emperor on the 10th.
THERE is much curiosity in Paris as TO
whence the Boulanger party obtained the |.
FUNDS necessary to carry on such an ex.
tensive campaign.
CARDINAL HOWARD will reside in En-
gland in the future, as the climate of
Rome does not agree with him.
The Prince of Wales has donated f1OO
for the relief of the sufferers by the floods
in Germany.
THE late Emperor of Germany left the
sum of thirty marks to each invalid sol.
dier of the war of 1870.
In Philadelphia, ON the 11th. Mrs, Hook
man, aged thirty-fve, was fatally injured
oy jumping from window of burning
building
Mr.. K. II. SoULE, general manager Of
the New York, Lake Erie & Western rail.
road, has resigned his position, TO take
effect April 80.
AT Rome, N. Y, on the 18th virginia
Jackson was found guilty of the murder
OF Morton Metcalf and sentenced to be
hanged on June 10.
On the 18th bill was introduced in the
senate identical with the Bryce bill in the
House, to define and establish an anchor.
age ground for vessels in the bay and
harbor of New York.
THE Oregon State Republican platform
denounces the tariff policy of the Presi.
dent.
ON the 18th John L. Sullivan sailed from
Liverpool for America.
DURING the deadlock in the House hills
having special assignments to days GOV.
cred by the time thus occupied lost their
standing.
oN the 18th there was some talk among
Republicans of filibustering against the
Tariff bill. but it was not general.
DIR. MACKENZIE has discoved that three
tube in the Emperor's throat is defective
and has ordered a new one.
On the 18th Mrs. Margaret McClain. of
pittsburgh, Pa, brought suit against
christopher Lamb to recover 5000 dam.
ages for the death of her SON. with the
murder of whom Lamb stands charged.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident was re-.
ported to have occurred at Avoca, Ia. ON
ne 18th, but it proved to be a hoax. {
In Russia, on the 18th, several persons
we're killed by the explosion of q powder
actory on the line of the st. Petersburg i
Moscow railroad.