Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-19

wounded.
A SEVERE blizzard swept through Dakota
Minnesota and Iowa on the 18th. Tn
storm came on suddenly after fall O
snow. Fears existed of the fate of an,
persons who may have been oyertakeu b,
the storm remote from help.
IT was stated at Chicago on the 18th tina
the Western railroads were unable to com,
to an agreement and tina: freight rat,
| war was certain.
THE United States man-of- war Iroquoi,
has returned to San Francisco from an un
| successful search for the abandoned ST
John Hancock.
| RUMpF Bros cotton mill. PHILADELPHIA
was destroyed by fire the other day. Loss
$4,000.
THE car works at Dauphin, Pa, and
church and several houses were DESTROYED
| by fire the other night.
| THOMAS BARRETT, convicted of the muir
der of a street car driver in Minneapolis
Mimi, has been sentenced to be hanged
May H.
HANBURY & CARNEY, of San Diego, Cal
| have been sued for 500 $50 collected by
| them on land Of the International Compa
| ny, Of Mexico. and not accounted for.
IT is reported in New York that the cop
per wire manufacturers were meGitating
trust to keep prices up.
THE Northern Pacific and the Minneapoli:
& Omaha Railroad Companies are at vari
ance regarding $1,000 acres of land in the
| Ashland (Wis.) district claimed by bott
under grants.
w. II. Delaney, counsel for the Kansas
Pacific bondhOlders, has written to Presl-
| dent Cleveland asking for the co-opera-
ton of the Government in securing the ar
rest of Jay Gould, who with Russell Sage
is charged with misappropriatlng several
millions dollars. Gould is outside the ju
risdiction Of the New York court having
some time ago left the country.
1T is stated that III the Port Timpson dis
trict of British Columbia fifty children
and young people had died Of scarlet fever
within short period.
Two trains came into collision twenty
five miles west of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
morning Of theIf3th. There was terrific
crash and much damage done, but all on
board escaped with slight bruises.
The jury in the case of the State against
Thomas e. Plat to GUST him from the posi-
ton Of Quarantine Commissioner of the
City of New York on the ground that he
was not a resident Of that city, returned q
verdict against him.
The swindler who, year ago, defrauded
people of the City of Mexico out of $50, OO1
by spurious advance sale of Patti concert
tickets has been arrested in New York.
He proved TO be Charles Bourlen, French
Jew, a notorious and dangerous confidence
man.
REPORTS of persons frozen to death in
thu hliz1o r6o f tho 10Th nd 1Sth ,xyov INIT 70
numerous. The cold was intense, from
twenty to forty degrees below zero being
registered in Minnesota, Montana and Da-
kOta.
ADvIcEs from the Russian frontier say
the troops in the Lublin district are suffer
ing terribly from the cold. Forty sentinels
have been frozen to death.
Disastrous flames broke out in Indian
apolIs, Ind, in the rear OF ID. P. Irwin &
Co.'s dry goods house, South Meridian and
Maryland streets, on the night of the 18th.
The fire extended as far as tho new union
passenger station. The losses were esti-
mated as amounting to total Of $3.50. 600.
A FIRE adjoining the Free Press Office at
Detroit, Mich, the other night, compelled
the editors and printers to seek safety in
flight.
BUSINESS failures Oun's report) for the
seven days ended January II numbered
for the United States, 25S; Canada, 30;
total. 2SS, compared with 279 the previous
week and 1923 the corresponding week of
last year. Business was reported dull.
The President has granted pardon in
the case Of Levi G. Pratt, convicted in the
Southern district of Iowa Of passing coun-
terfeit money and sentenced February l,
1856, to five years Imprisonment.
The non-union printers OF Chicago have
organized Printers Protective Fraternity
No. %
THE great Bass Brewing Company, of
England, is to be converted into limited
liability concern.
DELEssEPs maintains that the Panama
canal will be made available for the transit
of vessels in 1890 by means Of immense me-
tallic locks which Engineer Elffel has been
ordered to construct.
THE values of exports Of breadstuffs for
the twelve months ended December 81,
1887, was $685. 301, 76S, as against S14S 123, O2O
for the twelve months ended December 81,
1885,
TIE forty-six Arabs who arrived in New
York several weeks ago have been de-
clared paupers by Collector Magone aud
will be sent home.