Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-11-22
NEWS BREVITIES.
fmpOrtant News Items in Pithy
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The average yield OF the cotton crop o
1888 is G, S54, 8S5 bales.
There were no new cases or deaths at De
catur, Ala, yesterday.
A fire at Buffalo, N. Y, destroyed prop
erty valued 1t $4,000.
By an explosion of FIRE damp at Brussel;
thirty miners were killed.
Memphis, Tenn. cotton firms estiLnate
the crop of 1883 at {, 954, SIS bales.
The New York Star has been sold at auc-
tion to A. h. Shellabarger for S15,c00.
AtNew York $4,000 worth of grain,
machinery, etc, was destroyed by fire.
A fire at San Francisco Sunday night
caused loss of S10u,0 900; insurance 5000
John McKinlay, wholesale -four and gro
Gerry dealer a. albany, n. Y, has failed for
100000.
The liabilities of John McKinlay, whole
sale -four and groceries, Albany, n. Y, viii
reach $4,000.
At a republican ratification meeting at
Clyde, Kan, pictures of Presiden: Cleye-
land were burned
James NJ. Dcugheriy, Mary Anderson E
crazy admirer, Ia, been adiudged insane
oAA tdheu 10 III asylum.
A freight train at Dovner's Grove, ILL.,.
collided with a passenger engine, which was
demolished. No one killed.
Gus Cooper, of Portland, Conn, murdered
his wife by cutting her head open with on
axe. Jealousy was the cause.
William Brown, a Cleveland, o., suburb
grocer, cut his throat and exploded two kegs
of powder in his store but still lives.
Henry Kuhn. a moulder, 80 years old,
committed s1icide at Louisville, KY, by
shooting himself through the head.
Officialreturns from every county inPenn-
eylvania show a plurality for Harrison of
1918. Blaine's plurality was SI,Ol3.
An incendiary fire at Black River Falls,
Wis, destroyed J, O0O, coo feet of lumber in
the yards of Weed 81 Co. Loss, $4,000; in
cured.
The National Board of Trade, at its seq
sion in Chicago last week, by resolution ia
vored the reduction of letter postage to
cent.
II was reported that Governor Guy. of the
Chickasaw nation, Indian Territory, had
been 8ssassinated. The report was not con-
frmed.
The official plurality for Governor Elect
Hovey in Indiana is 2,191. Gray, the pres
ent democratic governor, had 1872 plurality
in 1884.
Three bodies have been recovered from
the ruins of Bryant's European hotel. Chat
tanooga, Tenn, which was destroyed by fire
recently.
Green & Stevens Eawmill, on Stone Is
land. opposite Bay City, Mich, burned with
considerable lumber, etc. Loss, S5O,oOO;
insurance, coo.
Official returns from the Second Congress
aiOnal distr ct of Arkansas give c. X. Brock
enridge, democrat, So majority over John
M. Clayton, republican.
The condition of Mrs. Jay Gould remains
UNCHANGED. DR.. Baldwin, who is attending
the lady, says Mrs Gould cannot survive
more than a day or two.
report from W. II. Barnnm, at Lime
Rock, Conn, shows a slight Improvement
ard the physicians now have slight hope
that he may phil through.
At Gladeyater, Tex, George Roden COM
pletely dec ,pitated Nathan Owens, who was
trying to kill him. The trouble grew out of
ROden's alleged intimacy with Owens wife.
Quarantine against Dekatur has been
raised at Louisville and passenger and
freight business resumed by the Louisville
and Nashville railway to and from that
point.
The prairie fire which started west Of
Aberdeen, OAK, Monday is still raging and
has burned over several townships. 1t was
caused by farmer who set fire TO straw
stack.