Dodge City times., 1888-01-05

imprisonment and to pay line Of 81 900.
Tue Mexican Government has granted a
concession to q California capitalist for q
great railroad to tap the mining regions on
the western coast and connecting with the
Southern Pacific.
DIPHTHERIA and typhoid fever have been
causing great mortality in and about Otta-
wa, Ont. owing to the polluted condition
OF the water. The epidemic may cause the
postponement Of Parliament's opening.
JUDGE HOFFMAN, OF the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco, has decided
that on account OF there being no provis-
ions to execute the treaty forbidding the
Chinese engaging in the opium traffic they
could not be prevented. The suit was
against Woo Sing & Co., the opium seized
being Of the value Of s2OO.OO0.
| MRS. KATE WARMAN, of Cincinnati, IL
| nited her clothing at the stove while about
her work recently and was burned to
death.
The freight steamship Newcastle City
| went on the beach on the New Jersey coast
the other night. The crew were saved. The
total loss was $15O, 1000.
THE Sound steamer City of Richmond
struck q rock in East river, New York har-
Dor, on the 18th, and began to fill. Fire
dlSO UrOh0 OuG DuI WAS cXClUSulSucU. 1u6
vessel was docked in time.
THE Austrian railways were reported
blocked by heavy SHOWS on the 18th.
FREDERICK, Nd, was visited by severe
storm on the morning Of the 29th, unroofing
many houses.
TOMMY WARREN, the featherweight pu-
gilist, was honorably acquitted Of the theft
of watch for which he had been arrested
at Chicago
CAPTAIN PAINTER and his second mate,
Fischer, have been arrested in Sunderland,
England, charged with gross cruelty to
their crew, causing three to commit sui
eide and another to die from his injuries.
The vessel was the British bark Embleton
from San Francisco.
MANY persons were knocked down and
stabbed indiscrlminately during race
troubles at Lawrencevllle, Ga, recently.
Five men were taken home on stretchers.
News reached Burnett, Tex, the other
day that four men who were camped on
the Llama river, and in sight of the town of
Llama, had been fired upon by parties uR-
known. Two were reported dead and two
in very critical condition. The whole
affair was a mystery to the citizens OF
Llama
The high school bnilding at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire recently.
Loss, $1,000; insurance, $4,000
SEARCHING parties recently found four
teen dead bodies on the premises Of Sioux
half-breed named Lablant. near the old
Deadwood stage road on the Sioux reserva-
tion in the Black Hills. Lablant was
wanted for cattle stealing and had fled to
the Indian camps on the Upper Cheyenne.
The dead bodies were supposed to be re-
mains of victims whom he had robbed and
murdered.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY MARITIME, of New
York, reported to the grand jury on the
30th that Jay Gould and Russell Sage were
liable to indictment for grand larceny in
defraudng the old bondholders Of the
Kansas Pacific railway.
The men employed on the Reading rail-
road were again ordered to strike on the
30th by the executive committee. The
company refused to have any communica-
ton with delegates from the Knights Of
Labor.
Two little girls were seriously hurt in a
panic which broke out at an entertainment
in Seaman's Hall, Lake and Desplaines
streets, Chicago, the other night, caused
by some one overturning the stove and a
fool superintendent yelling fire. Tho
superintendent was arrested.
SENATOR CHASE spoke before the W. G.
T. U., at Providence, r. l., recently in
favor of the abolition of the whisky tax,
arguing that it was ineffective in restrict
ing and inconsistent with prohibitory doc
trines.
LAST years. failures Dun's report) show
decrease of two hundred in number, buta
large increase of $50 OOO, 900 in liabilities as
follows: 1887, number, 9,643; liabilities.
sl67, 56o. 944; average, sl7,392; 1884, number.
1854; liabilities Sll4, GA, 119; average, SILL
65l. The returns for the Dominion of Can
ada show 1.3S2 failures with SIC, ,3ll ,745 lia-
bilties; average ST, 1868.
Four coal barges broke from their moor
lngs at Seventy-sixth street, North river,
New York, the other night, and three of
them were reported floating out on he ebb-
tide, with presumably about a doz zen men
on board. The fourth was caught off AS
toria, Long Island.
SEVERAL persons were badly injured by
a mixed train on the Pittsburgh Il West
ern going through trestle near st. Peters
burg, Pa. recently.
JOHN F. FULLEN, mechanic. ATTEMPTED
to walk out from Chicago to his home in
Lakeview the other night during the bliz-
sard and was frozen stiff.