Dodge City times., 1888-04-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


agree upon o revis ION Of rates on expor
freight shipped through inland cities.
The report from San Francisco refer
ring to an alliance between the Canadian
Pacific and the Spreckels Sugar Refinery
is denied by Vice-President Van Horn,
of the Canadian Pacific railroad.
The California House and twenty Other
buildings in Depre, Wis, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th.
Four men were killed and several in.
jured by the wrecking of construction
train on the Kansas City, Memphis &
Birmingham railroad, sixty miles west Of
/ Birmingham, Ala. on the 18th.
THE First National Bank Of st. Johns.
vile, N. Y, was robbed, on the night OF
/ the 18th, Of $4,000.
DAVID WALKER. the Bald-Knobbel
chief, was found guilty at Ozark, Mo-, OF
| the 18th, and sentenced to be hanged.
! A RECEIVER was appointed and an ac.
counting ordered of the assets of Imre
Kiralfy, on the 18th, by Judge Bookstaver,
of New York City, at the suit of David
Goodman.
GENERAL W. II. GIBSON and E. J. Trot-
ter, of Ohio, were chosen as delegates to
the National Republican convention on
the 18th. They are both enthusiastic
Sherman men.
A MOB of farmers took a negro named
Jerry Smith out of the Memphis (Tenn.
Jail, on the 18th, and lynched him. He
was charged with attempted assault on a
white girl.
BREADsTUFFs exports from the United
States during March, 1883, aggregated
S9,040,143, falling off from last year of
S5,060,3 ,330.
JOHN R. LOGAN (colored) pleaded guilty,
at Topeka, Kas., on the 18th, to falsely i'm
personating a Government official, and
was sentenced to two years Imprisonment.
THE Owens Sunday bill passed the Ohio
Legislature, on the 18th, and went to the
Governor for his signature.
A FOREST fire which started near Fall
mouth, Mass, on the 18th, threatened to
lay that town in ashes, and caused great
CONSERVATION among the inhabitants, who
fastened to the scene to fight the flames.
The strike Of Italian laborers on the
Meriden & Waterbury railroad, was end
ed, on the 18th, by the company paying off
the men and discharging them.
THE buildings of the Liberal Club, erect
ed in Birmingham, England, in 1876, at a
cost of e64000, were sold at auction on the
18th for g., 300-f10, 900 less than the cost
of the ground upon which they were
erected.
CHARLIE, the seven-year- old son of Jo-
seph Campbell, of Rolla, Mo-, while try
ing to effect an entrance to an outbuilding
in the yard of his fathers residence, fell,
and his head and neck being caught in a
partly-opened door fastened by stout
cord, he was strangled to death before as
sistance could be rendered.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by District
Assembly No. 81, Knights of Labor, of
Philadelphia, to the friends Of organized
labor, asking for contributions to assist
in paying off the indebtedness incurred in
the late strike in the Lehigh Valley coal
region.
THE Maryland Republican League met
in Baltimore on the 18th. 1t is said to
have been in the hands of Mr.. Blaine's
friends.
BUSINESS failures for the week ending
on the 18th, as reported by r. G. Dun &
Co., We're: For the United States, 200; for
Canada, %: total, 222, as compared with
221 the previous week, and 10 for the cor
responding week of last year.
FIRE in Nanticoke, Pa, on the 18th, de-
stroyed number Of buildings, and at one
time threatened the existence of the town.
Mr.. GODKIN has reiterated his charges
against Assistant Secretary Maynard, of
interference IN tie custom house man.
agement to accomplish political ends, and
has offered to produce the witnesses.
ExMAYoR GRACE of New York has been
actively engaged, during his brief stay in
London, in interviewing prominent bank
ers and politicians, and has become quite
a social lion.
TWENTY meetings proposed to be held
in County Glare, Ireland on the 10Th, un-
der the auspices of the National League,
were proclaimed by the British Govern
ment.
The Chicago q Atlantic railroad re-
duced its passenger rate from Chicago to
Boston, from nineteen to seventeen dol
lars, on the 18th.
MINISTER PHELPS arrived from England
on the steamer Aller on the 18th. He
said he had not been recalled and the
Chief-Justiceship had not been offered to
him.
ALL of the cGrrespon dents to the Lon
don papers agree that the crisis over the
of Prince Alexander to Princess
Victoria has been settled amicably, and
that there will be no political change.
PITrsBURGu, pa. April l6-Ahout five
n indred aetegltgs, .tctsatlng 80 loco
motive engineers oJ ra.G5 leading INTO this |
city, wcra altu j III; a.t,rno,n by |
Messrs. Il ri ilal Pur,er. Of the !
Bro herrcod o. Lscoug.i.s Engineers, on
ma ters Of lmpor IA e :, he order The |
addresses were enthusiastically received |
and resolutions passed fully indorsng the |
60 strikers thus far, and pledging undi-
vlded support financially and otherwise,
as necessity mieh demand
LONDON. April 11.--Advices from China
state that l. Hung Chang. the Chinese
Premier, on behalf Of his Government has
demanded that the King of |
Corea explain why the Corean Minister to
the United States presented letters of
credence to President Cleveland without
The Intervention Of the Chinese Minister.
which act he claims breach of the ex-
oicit conditions upon which China per-
nitted Corea TO send ENJOYS abroad.
AUSTIN, Tex, April l6-The management
If the International and Interstate drill
and encampment to be held here May IA to
9on the occasion of the dedication of the
lew capitol building expect 10 have Presi-
lent Cleveland and wife as their principal
guests. The entire Texas Congressional
delegation, headed by Senator Coke. will
bear the invitation to the White House,
md, if accepted, win be the escort to
Texas.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April l6.-NewtOn Pat
on, the negro suspected of having shot
ND lied Mcdowell Crawford Yesterday
rave himself up this morning. Two years
go ne proved an altbi for the attempt to
murder Crawford and it is thought he |
dopted this bold course again relying on
he support of his factions and the mur.