Dodge City times., 1888-12-20
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Mr.. Buiterwor:h, of Ohio. has introduced
for reference a Joint resolution authorizing
the president to negotiate with reference to
unity and assimilation with the United
States of the Dominion of Canada, or OF one
Or more of the provinces thereof.
When the United States war ship Galenn
was TO have started from the Brooklyn navy
yard it was found TO be stuck in the mud
and had to wait for high tide.
Petitions are being accumulated in west
ern Kansas protesting against the passage
Of the Oklahoma bill in congress.
Representative William H. Martin, OF
Texa., charged with assault on George IL.
Harris, reporter on the evening Star. ap-
peared in the police court at washington,
u. c., pleaded guilty and was fined Sl5.
At Cleveland, o., a water pipe bursted and
did $4,000 damage to streets. and buildings,
on Division, Hanover, Wes. River and con-
tgnous streets.
Mr.. and Mrs Levi P. Morton arrived at
Indianapolis to visit the Harr.sons at their
home.
Adjutant General Jamison, now at Beyier,
No., BELIEVES that the recent fire there was
incendiery. He does not care to say what
hes convinced him of this, hut adds "That is
where the chief danger lies."
The New York Mail and Express threatens
to tell the whole truth about the scandals
just now being so much denied, concerning
the present administration, if the counter at
Jacks upon its friends are not stopped. 1t
says it has the whole matter pigeonholed.
The boilers of the state school for imbe-
cile children at Winfield, have exploded.
There is no lawful way to replace them until
Legislative appropriation is made.
The secretary of the treasury has awarded
the contract for the erection and compile
tion of the public building at Wichita. Kan,
to Z. \. Jobst of Chicago, at Sl25,5sl.
A test case has been made and suit
brought by one of the evicted settlers in
Iowa, for the value of the improvements he
had made on the land from which he had
been driven.
The Everett block in Boston is burned. It
contained, in the city hall, many relics and
paintings. A Grand Army fair was in pro-
gress and 2, 900 relics we're gathered there
which were all burned.
W. F. Hicks, of the banking house of
Hicks, Gephsrt d Co., Valley Falls, Kan,
died from an over dose OF morphine.
The Colorado Midland is making rapid
headway and it is expected that Oregon will
be reached by next spring. Track laying is
going on at the rate of a mile day from
New Castle, Col.
Perry Belmont has been confirmed as
minister to Spain.
B. p. Hutchinson. the Chicago grain
rornerer, is seriously sick.
4 Six Main street business houses in Pratt,
Kan, have burned with no salvage.
A company is being organized at Atchi-
son for the manufacture of vitriied brick,
terra Gotta and sewer pipe.
The Chicago anarchists have retained
counsel and will give the courts chance to
pass npon their rights to hold public meet
Ings.
The New York Press claims to know that
James g. Blaine has been offered and has
accepted the chief place in President H8r-
rison's cabinet.
Mrs. Helen c. Fields, wealthy widow of
Wichita, claims to have been welded by
spirit power to a prominent man OF that
city. A jury pronounces her sane.
Boston has had very bitter contest over
the election of school officers. Over 1900
women registered and voted, S37 being the
largest number who have before done so.
The contest was over the use in the schools
of a text book which Catholics objected to.
The use of the book was sustained by the
election.
George Bassett and son and E. Z. Hug
gins. of Bedford, Ia, are reported to be in
the Texas penitentiary for stealing herd
OF ponies.
The extra session talk changes froat
daily, as portrayed in the Washington dis
patches. One day the thing is settled upon
es very probable, the next as improbable.
Nobody knows but General Harrison and he
won't tell yet.
A dispatch from Kirwip says that the spe-
ciai to the Kansas City Times giving an ac-
count of the doings of 'White Caps" at
Agra, Phillips county, is an infamous lie.
That the article has no foundation and is q
base fabrication from beginning to end.
The Hsytians are reported as having ar
ranged a surprise which will forestall their
beng called UPON by a naval demonstration
to surrender the steamer they have seized.
They are said to have put crew on the
steamer and sent her to New York, con-
signed to her .rightful owners, to arrive
there before our navy reaches Hayti.