Dodge City times., 1889-07-18
LATEST NEWS.
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A nest of counterfeiters has been broken
up at Jarez, Mexico.
1t Is stated that Emperor William has for
hidden the ofic ers of the German army to
visit the Paris exposition.
George E. Traiver, thought to be Kan
sas farmer. has killed himself at Jackson
vile, Illinois.
| recent decision by the Iowa railroad
rates east.
| Texas and Kansas City parties are ship
ping large numbers of hogs and bee es to
the City of Mexico.
Ten days notice has been given for raising
passenger rates from Colorado points to
Chicago from S26 to S3o.65.
The Russian government has totally sup
pressed the Lutheran church in Russia.
The straw board trust is broken; aud straw
| board has declined S12 and S13 ton. This
ought to effect the price of paper boxes.
The Indianapolis, Ind, stone cutters have
succeeded in their demand for the recogni-
tiOn of eight hours for days work.
The thirteenth anniversary of the first oil
well in PENNSYLVANIA Is to be celebrated at
Franklin.
At Decatur, ILL.,, the Sunday storm did
some damage in town and considerable to
crops.
At Lemars, Iowa. a hail storm fourteen
miles long and two wide destroyed glass and
injured crops.
"Bunt," or "Stinking smut" is destroy
ing much wheat in Indiana.
The ingalls, men who have been on trial
for shooting CimarrOn men, III the late
county seat war, have been acquitted.
The hundredth anniversary of the fall of
the Bastile has been celebrated wherever
there are Frenchmen or socialists.
Martin Burke has been fully identified at
cal with Frank Williams, who hired the
Carlson cottage, where Cronin was killed.
The associated press reporter at Washing
ton that sends out dispatches about Maize
has had Secretary Blaines resignation on
the wires several times. He is a fool.
At Elkhorn, Wis, the wind destroyed a
Touring mill.
The st. Joseph refining company has been
down for term of three years. The con-
sideration is $1S,OC0 year. Abou. 175 per-
sons are thrown out of employment.
One hundred and twenty five deputies un-
der Sheriff Gray were surrounded by strikers
at Carnegie's Homestead mills, near Pitts
burg, Pa, and not permitted to enter the
mills, which they came to protect.
The city assessor of Minneapolis, Minn.,
has put on the tax rolls s.OO0,0U of wheat
found in the elevators there, and the grain
men are said to be gnashing their teeth in
consequence.
Robert Dalton, deputy marshal in Okla
hOma. was arresting Lee West for unlawful
traffic in whisky, when West shot Dalton
with Winchester, and Dalton shot West
with revolver. Both dead.
A comparison of the business done in the
local print cloth market at Fall River,
Mass, for the first six months of 1889 shows
a considerable increase over the business
done during tho corresponding period OF
1888.
Porter, the superintendent of the census,
says that no more applications for office IN
his bureau will be considered, and no more
appointments made except those already
decided upon until after the 1st of Septem-
ber.
Frances E. Willard has issued an address
to the officers and members of the W. {. L.
O., eulogiZing the temperance work per-
formed by the late Lucy Webb Hayes, and
appointing Sunday, July 2S, as the day upon
which memorial services shall be held
throughout the country in her honor.
A detachment of United States regulars
will encamp with each of the six regiments
of the Iowa National guards next month.
The regular troops will be taken from Fort
Omaha. This assignment is for the improy-
ment of the National guard. A similar as
signment has been made i'll Pennsylvania.
Legal tender mutilated notes hereafter
will be redeemed in full instead of by tenth
parts, as has been the rule. 1t three-fifths
of the note is presented it will be redeemed
in full, If less than three-fifths there will be
no redemption unless there is evidence that
the rest of the note is destroyed:
The monument erected at the grave of
Roscoe C0nkling in Forest Hill cemetery,
Utica, n. u, is completed. 1t stands on
the family plot, just north of the monument
to Horatio Seymour. The monument Is OF
Quincy granite and in the form of a sar-
cOphagus.
Princeton, Ohio, was destroyed by a
cyclone on Sunday, July IL. 1t took about
twenty minutes for the twister to do its
work. Loss of property in the village $780,
600. Damage to crops. fences, ETC., Is very
great in the pathway of the storm, which
was about quarter of a mile wide.
Cowboys from the Cherokee strip report
that Texas fever is playing havoc with cattle |
there. Forty head was seen dead on one |
pasture yesterday and on others from seven |
to twenty-five carcasses are lying around. |
of cattle they say are dying in |
Oklahoma and they say that not hoof will |
be taken there from the north or from the
south.