Dodge City times., 1889-10-31
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for theC eConvenienoe
of Hurried Readers.

Of Hurried Readers.
Michigan farmers are joining the Patrons
of Husbandry by the thousands.
The local switchmen on all the ten rail-
roads at Memphis are on a strike. Freight
traffic is suspended.
The third day of the Cronin trial nothing
in the evidence taken which has not been
before read by everybody.
Henry McNamara, Guthrie, Ok, editor,
has been horsewhippe1 by Mrs. Haines for
publishing dirty paragraph.
An independent republican ticket has
been placed upon tie canass in Virginia in
opposition to the Malone ticket.
United States troops stopped the work of
grading on the Rock Island road at the line
Of Oklahoma, seven miles south of King
fisher.
Annie Price, ForepauGh's fat woman. is
dead. from conges.ive chill.
George A. Haley, of Newark. n. j.. has
been rendered General HartraEft's place on
the Cherokee commission, and has de-
clined it.
The Alabama state prohibition conference
decided to make arrangements for the con-
ventions to nominate state and county Off
GERS next year.
| A number of non-comm ssioned officers
at Jefferson barracks, IT. Louis. have been
reduced to the ranks tor improper treatment
of recruits.
The steamer Quinte burned to the waters
| edge, near DesarOnto, Canada. Several
were burned Or nearly drowned, though no
lives were lost.
Railroad Magnate Huntington s daughter
Clara is really married to Prince Halzfeldt.
TIE switchmen of the Chicago & q rea
western railway prevent any freight traffic
by strike.
IL is considered to be news of sufficient
Importance TO get on tfe wires, that Boston
most OF the time.
1t transpires that the crew of the steam
ship Earnmore, while drifting in an open
boat three weeks. eat OF the bodies of two
OF their number who died.
Electric street railways which use storage
battery cars are about 20 be tied up by an
injunct on against their use while the courts
decide as between patentees lItigant.
| Dispatches from the City of Mexico say
that earthquake shocks have been felt over
large part of that country, but no damage
or loss of life is reported.
Acting Secretary Batcheller has appointed
| NJ lton F. Holland, of Wash n ton. to be
chief of a division in the auditors office.
Mr.. Holland is well known colored lawyer.
| Mrs. T. j. Richardson. wife of the late
| commissioner of the Guthrie, Ok, land
office, has been killed by the explosion of
| gasoline stove.
A Washington special says that the chair
man of the VIRGINIA democratic state COM
mittee practically comedies that his party
ticket will not be elected.
Settlers in No Mans Land have burned
| the range of the Scotch cattle synd cate.
destroying all feed for their cattle, VIII ch
have begun to die of starvation. The loss
will be enormous.
The Kansas State Academy of Science, in
session at Wichita, visited kingman and ex-
am!ned the rock salt being mined there,
and expressed tae r satisfaction at the pro-
duce of the industry.
Drunken men with money in their pock-
cts, going home at n ght from their busi-
ness. are nightly beaten and robbed on the
street of Kansas City. Mo. Occasionally
one is killed or is missing.
At Franklin. Pa. two young men fille1 a
piece of gas pip with giant powder and left
it where schC o. ch ldren handled 1t. 1t ez-
pioded. Ell .hteen of the ch were in
jured. and it is feared that four of them will
die.
The foundrymen and machine manufac-
turers of Fittsburg, Pa. have decided not
to concede the 10 per cent. advance in wages
demanded by tie moulders. TIE decision
is regarded as final, and long strike is an
ticipated.
Jay Gould is reported as saying at st.
Louis that the proportion of tonnage to
revenues. of the great railroads, is one-thlrd
more than last year: and SO, though rates
are not entirely satisfactory, they are not
alto -ether bad.
At the Mound City, Kansas soldiers re-
un on. j. d. Snoddy made speech IN which
ne characterist;cally scolded the Kansas del
eca ion in congress, in the p; esence OF two
of them. Senator Plumb and Mr.. Funston,
representative of Snoddy's district.
The Russian press, in commenting on the
steady increase In the efficiency of Ger
many's arms, urges the st. Petersburg gov
ernment to at once add largely to the
strength of the Russian artillery stationed
along the German frontier.
Railroads of this country are. just now,
nearly all blocked with moe freight than
they have rolling stock o. eneines to handle.
The Pennsylvania Rail o d frei iIht traffic is
paralyZed by gorge of freight: and Though
exceptionally well stocked, feels the prevail
ing car famine.
The ALL American excursonists spent last
Sunday at Omaha. reaching that place from
Sioux City. In Nebraska. at small sta
ton. was a small camp of Indians, who gave
the South Americans complimentary war
dance. This was their first sight of North
American abOriglnes.
The Abilene bank. at Abilene, Kansas,
owned by c. H. Lebold and J. NJ. Fisher,
has suspended. Local depo sits 100000: as
sets in real estate and notes S6iO,OOO. A
number of business men are sufferers, and
the dispatch says that business is practi
cally paralyzed.
The interstate commerce commission, IN
session at Washington, has heard arguments
in the case of the Chicago board of trade
against the Chicago & Alton Railroad COM
pany and Others. The complaint against
the roads Is that they discriminate against
live hogs in favor of packing house products
in fire. 'ght rates from Kansas City and other
western points to Chicago.
Fort Pierre, across the river from Pierre,
S. D.. has quite a town on the military
reservation. the inhabitants now being un-
der commands from the government to
vacate. The town is principally upon q
section of land which is to be transferred to
the railroad if conditions are aGreeably set
tied: or. otherwise, IT VIII come n market
as other public lands. In either case the
settlers will be compelled to vacate.
Merchants of the great cities OF England
are holding public meetings and otherwise
inaugura.lng a fight against En- ,lish rail-
ways VIII ch are said to collect excessive
freight charces. and to SC inmate in the r
tar ifs aga nst individual patrons, and
against certain localities. Parliament will
be asked to institute commission with SIM
liar pawers to those exercised by the United
States interstate commerce commission.
Better Than Oklahoma.
LOO acres of the choicest land In the San