Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-21

]4th says the damage by the floods in
Northern Minnesota would amount 10 $780,
QUO. The boom at Cloquet gave way. caus-
ing the loss Of several million feet Of logs.
the International Typographical Union.
lately in session at Kansas City, elected
Edwin I. Plank. OF San Francisco, presi-
dent The new constitution provides for
biennial meetings.
a DISPATCH from Brussels says: "Ad-
vices from the Congo say that the Arabs,
who have arrived at kinshassa, state that
Henry NJ. Stanley was wounded in fight
with the natives and that afterward one
half of his escort deserted. Tippoo lib
had not sent the promised convoy to
Stanley"
AN electric storm played havoc ct Mil
waukee, Wis, on the 18th. The telegraph
and telephone systems were greatly DAM
aged. In Cheboygan County farmer
named Cooper was killed by lightning.
THE German steamer Pemptos, from
Singapore. with number of pilgrims on
board, which was reported overdue at
Jeddah and which it was feared was lost,
has arrived at Alden in tow with her shat,
broken.
GOVERNOR BUCKNEE, Of Kentucky, has
refused to commute the death sentence Of
W 1llldu dUIcTSOu thS AcSIO Va
Jennie Bowman. of Louisville.
The Supreme Lodge Knights Of Pythias,
at Cincinnati on the 18th, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Supreme chancellor. Will
liam Ward, Of Newark, N. j.; supreme
vice-chancellor, George d. Shaw, OF Eau
Claire. Wis; supreme prelate, Charles T.
Bragg. Of Bangor, Me-; supreme keeper OF
the records and seals. r. NJ. c. White, OF
or eobo
Robert Newell. Of Little Rock; supreme
outer guard, John w. Thompson, Of Wash
ington; supreme master Of the excheQuer,
S,ansberry J. Wiley, of Wilmington. Del.
RECENTLY published statistics of the
Chicago Union Stock Yards Company. and
Of the Chicago Board Of Trade. show that
the Chicago, Burlington T. Quincy railroad
i, still leading all other lines in the number Of
cars of live stock and grain brought to that
market. This fact indicates the rapidity
with which the road must have recovered
from its recent labor troubles, and furnishes
additional evidence of the efficient manner
in which the management handled the re-
cent strikes OF employees on its lines Evil.
IDENTIFY from a business standpoint, the
road is IN able hands.
A BRONZE equestrian statue of Israel Put
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the State, was unvailed at Brooklyn, Conn,
on the 18th. Hon. Morris ". Seymour
mode the speech of presentation and Gov.
ernor Lounsbury tho address receiving it
on behalf Of the State.
THE National Christian Science Associa-
ton has elected Mrs. NJ. r. G. Eddy, OF
Boston, president, Herbert q. Bangs, OF
Boston, secretary. and Mrs. II. A. Larmier,
OF Chicago. treasurer.
The works OF the Salem (Mass.) Lead
Company. 2OOxlO0 feet IN size and four
stories high, together with its contents
and machinery, were burned recently.
Loss, 500, 900; fully insured.
A HEAVY thunder storm passed over Al.
banv. n. Y. on the 18th. Lightning struck
English d Best's hotel. The loss reached
500, OO0; partially insured.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union ended its convention at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 18th. Mrs. Clara Hoffman, of
Kansas City, was elected president.
found guilty OF grand larceny in the first
degree in receiving from Teller Scott the
bonds stolen by The latter from the Man
haitian Bank. Sentence was postponed
pending argument on a motion for new
trial
SERIOUS floods are reported IN Southern
Minnesota and Dakota, consequent upon
heavy rains Of the 18th and 18th. Much
damage has been done, the downpour
being accompanied by heavy winds.
A COLLISION occurred on the Pennsylva-
MIA road pear Fifty second Street Philadel-
phia recently, by which twenty freight
cars were wrecked. O1e car was loaded
with refined oil, which caught fire from
hot box and the cars were almost entirely
destroyed, with the greater part OF their
contents. Loss, S50.OO0.
CLARA WEED, aged eighteen, was struck
by lightning the other night near Aber-
deem, OAK, and killed.
ALL the window glass factories of the
West have shut down until September !
and possibly longer unless an agreement
as to wages is reached.
The French Ministry propose to intro
duce a bill to tax saccharlne as Sugar and
to prohibit its sale as such.
ROBBERS attacked trsin on the NJ, K.
& I. near Muscogee, l. T., on the night Of
the 18th, killing one man and woundlng
two others, but only getting S. in booty.
An active pursuit OF tho rufians was i'm
mediately organized.
BUSINESS fai ures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended June IA. numbered for
the United States, 2O9; Canada, %; total,
2232; compared with $50 the previous week
and 2l3 the corresponding week last year.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.