Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-08
observation-disclosures,

recently. Ten Indians were killed. The
Mexicans lost two:
DANIEL WREN. the Convicted Chicago
bbodler, was taken to the Joliet peniten-
tiary on the I'D to serve his sentence.
MONMOUTH. ILL.,, the other night was Lit
up with what appeared to have been a
monster meteor on q tramp, moving from
southeast to northwest, and passing the
place with Lightning rapidity. An expio-
sion which Jared walls and windows took
place shortly after. Reports from neigh.
boring towns showed that all experienced
the same sensations:
| A WARRANT has been issued at Cincinnati
for Frank Regel, late assistant cashier CT
the METROPOLITAN National Bank, charging
him with forgery and swndling building
associations. He was an officer in several
building associations and influenced them
10 deposit in the Metropolitan Bank.
| WILLIAM MCMAsTERs. Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who had been directed by his physician to
use an electric battery for heart disease,
dropped dead the other night when he
turned the current on.
| FATHER KENNEDY and eight farmers have
been convicted and sentenced to two
months imprisonment for attending meet
| ing of suppressed branch Of the National
League at Newmarket.
| The west bound Southern Pacific train
was boarded at STEMS Pass, N. NJ, the
other night, by two masked men. They
cut the express and mail car from the
train, made the engineer run down the
track mile and a half, forced the express
messenger to open the car and ri1ed it OF
| all valuabies. The mails were not touched.
The robbery was said to be heavy.
The plan of campaign victory near
Loughrea, Ireland was celebrated with
bonfires. Sir Henry Bourke has granted
twenty five per cent. reduction to his ten
ants, pays the legal cost, reinstates evlcted
tenants and pays the cost of their mainten-
ance since eviction.
| AT recent session of the Electric Light
convention at Pittsburgh, Pa, paper on
Underground Electric Arc Light Wires"
was read by Wells W. Llggett, of Detroit.
He claimed that while it was entirely
feasible TO bury telephone, telegraph or
even incandescent wires, no system had or
probably ever would be adopted which
would solve the question of burying arc
lights underground.
| BY the will Of Seth Wadham, of Chicago,
$50, 900 each is left to the Chicago Nursery
and Half Orphan Asylum and the Old PeO-
| ple's Home.
A BLACK, oily substance, the exact nature
| of which Is unknown, has been struck in
| the Chicago " alter tunnel shaft on the lake
| front.
| A FIRE on New Granite street, Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently destroyed two
churches and several business houses.
Loss over 100000.
| JUSTICE DENNY, of the Queens Bench
division, Ipswich, Eng, in the case CT a
poacher who had severely wounded a
gamekeeper, held that the gamekeeper had
no right to arrest and hunt poachers as he
would wild beasts. The jury acquitted the
poachcr on the ground Of self-defense.
IT is reported that a syndicate of French,
Belgian and Dutch bankers has advanced
to Russia the sum of $50, 900, 900. refusing
to grant larger Loan unless the Bulgarian
question is settled peacefully.
| BUSINESS failures (Dun's re?ort) for the
seven days ended February %, numbered
| for the United States. 237; Canada, 33;
| total, go, as compared with 273 the pre-
vious week and 2S9 the corresponding week
Of last year.
| AT Detroit, Mich, recently Francis Her.
| bert, aged thirty-three, was sentenced to
! Imprisonment for life for the seduction Of q
thirteen-year-old girl.
| The party arrested near Lebanon, Mo-,
recently for Tascott, the murderer of
millionaire Smell, turned out TO be some one
| else.
A SEVERE storm visited Gibson County,
Ind, ON the night of the 24.h. Much DAM
! ase v-as reported, but no lives were
thought to be lost.
A GRAND tieup on the Burlington sys-
tenn was expected on the 25th, owing to the
refusal of the company to agree to the de-
mands of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
| ASSISTANT CASHIER FRANK NJ. RIEGEL, Of
the deiunct Cincinnati Metropolitan Bank,
has been arrested for using e,gnt 81, 600 or.
ders of a building association for his pri-
vate ends.
| AN oil still in Buffalo IN. W refinery
exploded recently, instantly killing an
employee and severely injuring the super
| intehdent.
THE Inter State Commerce Commission
has decided the case of Rice VS.. the Louis
vile & Nashville, charging discrimination
in favor Of the Standard Oil Company. The
Commission finds that the tank line system
was deception, tho public not really be-
ing allowed to compete with the Standard
Company. Judgment was therefore en-
tered for plaintiff and the railroad ordered
| to grade its tank rates with its carload bar
| rel rates.