Dodge City times., 1888-03-22
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breast and indications hat he had been
murdered and the S. PIP, sltlon is that the
crime was COMMITTED during the previous
night When found he had Il gun in his
hands, and this circl,ns tance coupled with
the fact that bullet rad pierced the house.
leads to the CONCLUSION that he was out
looking for tue pIrtie, who afterward
killed him.
CIMARRoN, Kan, March 19.-In the eX-
animation over the Carried County seat
fight, F. l.. Francis te~titied to seeing eiec-
ton returns forged. This created terrible
excitement among the citizens and a tur-
mol ensued The perjurer saw an oppor-
tunity to escape and was permitted to do
SO by the opposition. He went East last
night, and is described as mlddle-aged six
feet high, broad and stop shoudered, full
light beard, weighs l75 pounds. People
are clamoring for him and offer reward
for his apprehension.
CHICAGO, March .19.-Mrs. William Dal-
ton, wife of rag picker, was burned to
death with her four-year-old daughter in a
tenement house fire at l62S South Clark
street early his morning. About dozen
other persons, half of them negroes, made
their escape f ON he building in semi-nude
condition. A dissoiute tailor who was
nou-payment If rent is suspected Of having
set the place on fire.
SILVER CITY, N. NJ. March 19.-The prop
osition su uDmit ted to the clues in this con-
ference for a ste for Il Methodist college,
including Las Vega,. Socorro and other
territorial towns. was acted on by the City
Council, which donated 2OJ acres of ground
for college purposes. This land will be
placed on sale IN the E st. the proceeds to
be used in constructing buildings.
LONDON, March 19.--i!r. James G. Blaine,
in private letter writ en- from Florence TO
q Lordon friend, states that he will visit
London IN May md reach New York about
the end of June. His return 10 America,
he says, has no political significance what
ever, and he will under no C. .rcumstances
personally participate In the coming Presi-
dental Congress.
New York. March 19-William Race,
aged sixly-tive, the wealthy proprietor of
Belle Mead farm. near Bound Brook, n. j.,
was murde,e ei last night VII le attending
to the cattle in his barn. His boiy was
, found this morning, the head terribly
crushed and blood-covered club lying
beside him. There is no clew to the MUIR
der.
ST. PETERSBURG. March ia pamphlet.
condemning in moderate terms Russia
reactionary policy, and predicting internal
disasters. is bong circulated in the highest
circles here. The amphlet is remarkable
for the elegance of It's language. The police
have so far led to discover the author OF
the work.
THE striking engin GERS OF the Chicago,
Burlington & Q lincy railroad, on the
18th, requested tho enrinear' of other
roads to handle all freight cons igned to
the Burlington as fast as offered. The
result was that more cars were forwarded
than the company, with its limited force,
could handle, and they were compelled to
refuse to receive then, and were mulcted
for trackage CHARGES and required to
pay all freight bills, amounting to thou
sands of dollars, OF tender OF freight.
All this, in view of their suit to compel
compe ting lines to handle their freight,
is in the nature of boomerang.
A GREAT snow storm ragged in Scotland
on the 10Th. Naaily all the ia always We're
blocked with snow, and traffic was at
standstill.
DANIEL BOWMAN, a veal thy farmer Of
Allen County, O., was found dead n his
corn-feld, on the morning of the 10Th,
with deep cut in lis forehead. He is
supposed to have been mul dered.
AN immense natural-ga' explosion oc-
Cured at Toledo, o., on the 18th, entail
! ing q loss of sevela ii thousand dollars. A
travelling man Eamed fireman as fatal
ly burned.
FREDERICK CAROLYN, a carpenter, mur-
dered his mistress in most brutal man.
ner with hatchet, in New York, on the
10Th. The woman's name is unknown,
but she was a widow with three children.
The Ohio river was practically block
AIDED at Browns Island, five miles above
Steubenville. O., on the 18Th, by the sink
ing, in one tanged mass, of eighteen coal
barges, entailing loss OF 81, 600 bushels
of coal.
ON the 10th ATTORNEY General Garland
sent to the House of Representatives an
answer to a resolution calling for nforma-
tion as to the amount of money expended
for the apprehension of Illicit distillers
and volators of the internal revenue
laws. He said that these expenditures
were in payment Of local deputies en-
ployed as guides to officers in making ar
rests, but failed to state the amount paid
out.
The Chinese Immgrat ION treaty was
laid before the Senate on the 18th. 1t eX-
shores except those now here, a. nd makes
exceptions of certain privileged classes.
A BILL was introducy d in the Senate,
on the 10Th, to provide Tor the admission
of U all into the Union.
A. d. RATHER and r. Mundv, of Temple,
Tex, were held up and robbed near the
Santa Fe railroad bridge on Red river,
nine miles from Gaine sville, OF tie 18th.
Rather gave up $500 and a god watch,
and Mundy con tributed the modest sum
of fifteen dollas
DISPATCHES from Malta, Madrid and
Melbourne, Australia, slate that general
mourning was CD ervel on the 10Th for
the late Emperor William of Germany.
The municipality of san Reno, Italy,
on the 10th, unanimously conferred hon
orary citizenship upon DR.. Mackenzie.
SIXTEEN per ons We're drowned eff
Bari, Naples, on the 18th, by the capsiz-
ing of Trieste plea sure boat.
WHILE Jas. Scarlett was on trial at Bon.
ham, Tex. on the 16t III, for the murd ar of
Andy Lacefie'd, in 19S5, the latter came
into court and protested that he was not
a corpse.
SENATOR CARNor, fat her of the Presi.
dent of the French Republic, died on the
10th.
IT was stated on the 18th that General
Boulanger had decided to ente.' the Cham.
ber of Deputies.
A REQUIEM service for the dead En-.
peror was held in the English church in
Paris on the 16 b.
The funeral Of the late Emperor of
Germany was solemn zed on the 18Th, in
the presence OF a large concourse of titled
mournels ahd of the popu ace Of Ber-
lin.
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