Dodge City times., 1888-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

LARENDON q ALIENS rice mill at New
Orleans. together with large stock of rice
and valuable machinery, was burned the
other day. Loss, $4,000; insured.
TIE National Rubber Company's factory,
at Bristol, r. l., has again shut down,
throwing out the go hands recently put on.
There are now 400 persons out Of employ
ment.
By a collision at water tank near Ra-
cine, Wis, the other day, two cabooses and
several freight cars on each Of the collidIng
trains were wrecked and burned. Two
brakemen were hurt.
A DESPERATE fight between Orangemen
and Catholics occurred at the village oil
KIllybearn, near Cookstown, County Ty-
rome, Ireland, recently. The battle was
finally stopped by the police.
GEORGE W. MEADE & Co., one of the
largest exporting firms of San Francisco,
have made an assignment. The firm is said to
have large resources, both in merchandise
and realty. The firm shipped fully $1,000,
0O0 worth Of fruit East the past year.
AT q meeting of the Western Window
Glass Manufacturers Association at Pitts
burgh, Pa, trade was reported unusually
good for this season, with prospects for
spring fattering. No changes were made
in prices.
INDIAN AGENT GRAY, Of the Crow agency,
who resigned recently, has written Secre-
tary Lamar asking leave to withdraw his
resignation.
THE Merchants Exchange of Buffalo, n.
", is in favor of naval service on the
great lakes.
PAUL BODEN, Of San Francisco, who tried
| to smuggle $40, 500 worth Of diamonds and
farcy goods into New York, has been SEN
fenced to years Imprisonment.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
recommends further legislation to bring
express companies fairly within the law.
The wife of Wesley Roy, farmer living
near Benton, KY, bore him a quartette of
children-two boys and two girls. This
remarkable birth is the first of the kind
that ever occurred in the State. All of the
children were reported doing we'll.
THE Baltimore iron works are six months
behind their contract on gunboat No. 2 for
the Government.
Two cases of smallpox were found on
board the steamship Oceanic, which
reached San Francisco from China the
other day. The vessel was quarantined.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
Bijou Opera Company, of New York, on a
judgment of $4,000.
RICHARD II. BARRINGER, a popular Young
man who died recently in Troy, n. Y. was
coustsnt smoker of cigarettes. He be-
came troubled with en- affection of the
heart which was followed by dropsy. Ply
sicians attributed his death to nicotine
poisoning
AREcKNT Bozeman, NJ. T., special says .
row of frame buildings on Main street, oc-
cupled by twelve merchants, had burned
there. Loss, SS5, 600; insurance, sl4OOa
FIRE in Thompson 4 Walkup's lumber
yard, Chicago, recently, destroyed 81, 900;
insurance ample.
THE Cannon ball express from Chicago on
the Albert Lea route ran into q snowdrift
near Ely, Iowa, on the morning Of the 2Sth
Several persons were seriously injured,
but no one fatally.
TIE post-office at Iassillon, O., was en-
tered by burglars the other night and four
bags Of mail rified. Little money was Sc
cured.
THE losses by fire in the iron works Of
the country during the past year were
placed at A,SS1, COO, against $S,417, 500 in
1856
A LOADED freight train Of twenty-four
cars was completely wrecked near Denni-
son, O., recently. The fireman was fatally
injured. After the wreck the fragments
caught fire and were completely destroyed.
Loss heavy.