Dodge City times., 1889-06-20
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Cork, Ireland, has subscribed $3.50 for
valley.
Ths lord mayor of Dublin has remitted to
America another 81 900 for the benefit of
the JOhnstown sufferers.
Parnell. Davitt, O'Brien, and other of the
great Irish leaders, in and out of parliament,
scoff at the idea of duplicating Alexander
Sullivan in the Cronin murder.
Two thousand delegates and hundred
Thousand visitors are expected to sSeend She
national convention of the North S:.,e:soan
Turnerbund at Cincinnati. Ohio.
There has been but two days without raio
at Johnstown since the catastrophe. 1t hos
been raining so much since the wreck was
fired as to hinder the burning.
A storm at Fort Scott damaged the Con-
greSational church. Fannie Henderson was
killed by lightning.
Hyppolite seems to have whipped Lcgi-
time in Haytl. He has pronounced himself
provisional president.
Information has been received at the
state department at Washington. that the
Samoan treaty was officially ratified on
June IA, at Berlin.
Cardinal Gibbons is about to ordain
Randolph Uncles, at Baltimore, Nd. as
priest IN the Catholic church. He Is the
first colored priest in the United States.
Frank L. Woodruff. late assistant post
master at Lawrence, Kan, IS in custody on
the charge of embezzling So, 800 from post
office funds.
Calvin S. Brice has been elected chairman
OF the democratic national committee.
a project is on foot to unite the cities of
Sherman and Denison, in Texas, With an
electric street railway.
Father Patrick J. Donahue. one Of the
oldest priests in America, died at st. Mary's
hospital in Milwaukee.
James NJ. Gamble, principal owner of one
of Clcreland's street car lines, was found
dead in his bed at Chicago hotel, from
drinking carbolic acid.
All but thirteen of thirty-five wedding
guests were poisoned by eating ice cream
made in copper vessels, at Mill,tone, n. j.
Some of them are seriously sick.
A cyclone did much damage at Ligonier,
iHu., Suuuiy June 10.
Chicago detectives sent to New York to
identify Maroney and Mcdonald, did not
know them, and they were discharged.
The valley of the Rhone IN southeast
France is flooded. The memories of &C
when 1000 houses were swept down that
current are brought up by this flood.
Colonel II. c. Rizer has resigned the posi-
tiOn of secretary to the Kansas railroad COM
missiOners, to take his old place as disburs-
ing agent of the United States geological
survey.
The stricking dock laborers along the
Clyde in Scotland number 5000 and show
no signs of weakening. The strikers stop
ped and set fire to van in which provisions
were being carried to imported laborers.
The divorce proceedings between Senator
Sabin and his wife prove to have been mutu-
ally agreed upon: and his provision for her
future support satisfactory to her and her
friends.
Friends of Chester A. Arthur have erected
a $1,000 monument at Rural cemetery, be-
tween xroy and Albany, New York. They
have fund of $4,000 on hand to erect a
statue of the ex-president in New York.
A train loaded with Sunday school pupils.
their teachers and relatives, on an excursion
from Armaugh to Warrenpoint, ireland,
from the wreck and still there were others
under the debris.
Edward Siler, farmer, and James Wiley,
farm hand, are arrested, chargei with the
murder of ". ". Proctor. n neiehbor who
lived alone, in Atchison county, Kan. The
murder was reported two weeks ago, and
seems to have been a cold blooded affair.
State agent. T. d. Thacher. of Kansas, has
made his report on the mining. manufacture
ing and agricultural interests of Kansas to
the bureau of statistics at Washington. 1t
is the first report received, and is praised as
being model report.
Charles A. Williams, of the Minneapolis
Tribune, formerly of the st. Joseph Herald,
has sued the st. Joseph Gazette for 1900,
for libel. The Gazette stated that Williams
wrote the disrespectful article, which was
published in the Tribune, concerning Mrs.
ex-President Cleveland.
There seems to be no further doubt that
John W. Hilimon has been fully identified;
and George j. Baker says that the differ |
ences between the insurance companies and |
the parties who captured Hillmon have been |
settled. The public is yet kept in ignorance |
of where Hillmon is kept hid by the author
tiles.
cyclone Is reported as having struck |
Uniontown, west of Fort Scott. Two women |
and four children were drowned. The |
storm seems to have commenced as far west |
as Barber county. That part of Fort Scott |
known as BelltOwn, in fact all of North Fort |
Scott. was entirely under water. Bridges |
ore gone on many streams, and railroads
are useless.
Woodruff, alias Black, one of the parties
in custody charged with having a hand in
the Cronin murder, makes a new confession
every few days; each being partly consist
ent with the rest, and all having points
winch would fit in with information other
wise gained. None of Woodruff's talks
have implicated Judge Michael Boland, of
Kansas City, Missouri.
Breadstuffs exports from the United
States during May past aggregated in value
50. 762, ,S64. against 1883, S23 in May 1888,
and for the eleven months of the current
fiscal year $11t ,O45, ,691, aga nst III ,55S.359,
during the corresponding eleven months of
the pre- ceeding fiscal year. Exports of the
principal articles of provisions during May
past aggregated in value Ss,225,6 ,693,
against s., 166, ,9S7 in May, 1888.
The Neosho river is on big tear. Great
quantities of harvested wheat and oats have
passed Parsons on the high tide. The Wal
nut and Whitewater are very high. Augusta
10 flooded. stopping trains on both roads.
The Santa Fe depot and buildings in the
over part of town are flooded At lola all
,mall streams are out of their banks.
Tracks are washed out, and crops on low
and ruined.
Buffalo Bills benefit exhibition at Paris,
or the Johnstown fund, was attended by
he Prince and Princess of Wales and their
children, Price Albert Victor and Princesses
Maud, Louise and Victoria; Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid. the United States minister; Mrs. Levi
P Morton, wife of Vice President Morton,
md most Of the prominent members of the
Ime-ican colony In Paris. As a result of
he performance tho sum of 81, 600 was added
o the relief fund.
Retfer Than Oklahoma