Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Fort Sumter, TO SlUO a month.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE London corporation has rejected
the public illumination proposals of the
Brush Elecrc Light Company.
THE French Chamber of Deputies is de-
batin; the war estimates.
JOHANNA NOCCM, q widow, living 81
Ninevah, o., fel: into the fire in a fit, OF
the 9th, and was burned to death.
JUDGE COMING has replied to the letter
of Colonel Fellows criticising his judicial
action in connection with the Gould. Sage
case.
MAJOR JAS. B. POND, the lecture mana.
ger, is to marry his secretary, Miss Gl ass
The Alabama Republican State Execu'
tive committee met on the 9th and called
State convention to meet in Montgom.
ery on the 18th of Nav.
PRINCE FERDINAND of Bulgaria Is pre-
pairing manifesto in reply to the expect
ed ult imatum of the Powers regarding the
Bulgarian question, in which he will pro-
claim Bulgaria a kingdom and call upon
the people to crown him King.
In accordance with the demands Of
Russia the Porte has notified Prince Fer.
dinand that his position in Bulgaria ID
illegal.
Mr.. GILHooLY, NJ. P, was convicted at
Schulz, County Cork, Ireland, on the 9Th,
of offenses under the Crimes act, and sen.
fenced to two months Imprisonment.
Two brakemen were probably fatally
injured on the 9TH IN a collision between
two freight trains on the Central Iowa,
two miles north of Hampton.
Mr.. A. STIRLING PENNINGTON, assistant
United States district attorney for Mary.
land, died at Baltimore Oh the 7th.
The yacht Mayfower will not CT osa
the Atlantic to participate in the jubilee
racing on the Clyde.
The owners of the Social Mill, Nourse
Mill and Globe Mill, at Woonsocket, R l.,
have, without solicitation, advanced the
wages of their two thousand employees
five per cent, OWN g to cheap cotton and
good business.
URIAH BoSKIRK was shot dead through
the window of the De Jannette Hotel. at
Logan Courthouse, w. Va, on the 9th,
while standing in the parlor in converse
ton with the wife of the proprietor. A
constable named Thomas has been arrest
ed on suspicion.
THE safe in the post-office at Lebanon.
O., was blown open by cracksmen on tn Q
night of the 9th, and ST., 700 worth Of
stamps and small amount of money
taken. There is no clew to the bur z.
lars.
The Massachusetts, Senate passed Q
resolution on the 7th providing for bien.
NAL State elections.
THE sharpest shock of earthq uake felt
in California for eighteen years was ex.
perienced on the 7th.
ELLwoOD BAUM, proprietor and editor
of the Pottstown Pa.) Daily NeUS
dropped dead at his desk at one O'Clock
on the morning of the 18th, of heart disease.
Miss RACHEL STERN, aged enty.six
years, daughter of a wealthy New York
merchant, and noted for her activity In
charitable organ cation work, hanged
herself at her residence in that city on
the 9Th.
PETER VELKER, a well-known contractor
of Pittsburgh, Pa, was shot and instantly
killed on the night of the 18th at the door Of
his home, in Soho, by stranger who had
followed him from the center of the city.
No motive for the murder is known. The
murderer escaped.
THE protocols sub mitted by the British
and American commissioners at the
fishery conference at Washington were
laid before the Canadian House of Com.
mons on the 9TH. Contrary to expecta.
tons, Sir Charles Topper and Mr.. Cham.
berlain, together with the American com.
missioners, made proposition for
greater freedom of commercial inter.
course between the two countries before
discussing the fishery uestion.
The police of Norfolk, Va. arrested Q
gang of five counterfeiters on the 9Th
who had flooded that city with counter
felt silver dollars. The pieces are thicker
than the genuine, but lighter.
I. H. Toni IN SON, cashiereof the Brad
ford (Pa.) National Bank, died at three
O'Clock on the afternoon Of the 9Th from
the effects of the pistol.shot fred by Geo
A. Kimball, who attempted to rob The
bank on the 9th.
THE board of managers for the Ohio
prison on the sth paroled John Fasnet
the notorious ballot.b box suffer Of Cincin-
natl.
THE death Of the Emperor Of Germany
and the affection of his son has had tho ct.
feet of allaying the National hatred Of tho
French, and engendered feeling Of pro.
found sympathy.
THE Crown Prince, on learning Of the
severe illness of his father on the 9Th, Dc.
termined, despite the opposition OF the
German doctors, to repair to Berlin.
A MATCH was shot at Dayton, O., on the
Sth, between AL Bandle, of Cincinnati, and
Rolla Heikes, of Dayton, l0o live pigeons
each, 800 side, birmingham rules. Ban.
die winning by a score of 81 to 81.
The funeral services of Miss Alcott
were held In Bos ton on the 9Th. They
were entirely private, only invited friends
being present. The burial took place In
the old ''Sleepy Hollow" graveyard 81
Concord.
The board of directors of the Iowa OR.
cult met at Cedar Rapids on the 9Th, and
fixed the dates for the seasons races -
follows: Cedar Rapids-June 10. n Ia.
elusive; Marshalltown-June % %; Coun-
Gil BlufsJuly 3. & Purses viii b e.
fsrsd the same - last year.