Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-11
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Kansas City, No., elected full republi-
can city ticket.
The president has appointed Cornelius
Vancott of New York, to be postmaster at
New York.
The president has appointed Joel B. En-
hardt to be collector of customs at New
York.
The French chamber of deputies voted to
sustain the government in prosecuting Gen
eral Boulanger for acts akin to treason.
Edwin Booth has been compelled to cancel
engagements by reason of threatened par
alysis, caused by excessive smoking.
Cincinnati elected a republican mayor.
The remainder of the successful ticket was
politically mixed.
The Minnesota legislature has passed
beef inspection bill.
Senator Allison is authority for the state
ment that there will be no extra session of
congress until fall.
warehouse at Kansas City, No.. burned.
Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
The worlds convention of the church of
Joseph, Mo.
One hundred and fifty workers on the To
peka sewers have struck until they are paid
Cor the six weeks work due them.
Mrs. Sheriff Jennings at Albany, No., pre-
tented an escape of prisoners by driving
Them back into their cells with her revolver.
Bridgeton, Nj, has suffered severely from
cyclone.
Two feet of snow fell in parts of Pennsyls
vania. The storm is heavy in Virginia and
Washington, ID. C., Is white.
1t takes FIVE or six hours. standing in line,
to get a chance to ask for a letter at the Ar
kansas City postOffice.
Congressman Funston is laboring to have
q clean sweep made of the Officials at Has
kell Ins titute (thc Indian SCHOOL, at Law
hence, Kan.
The government of Chill has formally sig
nified its intention TO participate in the con-
gress of American nations to be held in
Washington this year.
The United States man-of-war Brooklyn
has been found in the Atlantic by British
ship in a disabled condition, with her main
shaft broken and her supply of provisions
very low. The British steamer rendered aid.
Neighbors of the evicted families on the
Des MOines river lands in Iowa. are planting
the fields from which they had been driven,
working en- masse to do it. Arrests are being
made.
A prairie fire started near Scotland. OAK,
swept over much country and destroyed
barns, stacks and houses in great numbers
and wiped out one-half of the town OF
Olivet. Some railroad bridges were burned.
Governor Humphrey has issued his procla-
nation for special election in the Fourth
congressional district, to elect a successor to
Thomas Ryan, to be held on Tuesday, the
21st day of May, 1889.
Fire originated in a butcher shop at Mel
son, Neb., and burned whole block, includ-
ing hotel, two drug stores, three groceries,
one hardware and two general merchandise
stores. Loss, $4,000.
Senator Ingalls, comes home TO AtchisOu
to arrange for building a new house to re-
place his home that was burned. 1t is said
that this work will keep him at Atchisop
most of the summer.
The Kansas supreme court decides that
sidewalk tax cannot be collected when the
work of constructing the sidewalk is done
Under resolution of the city council only.
in the absence of an ordinance.
Albert S. Lowe, cashier of the st. Joseph,
Mo-, Union stock yards, recently married,
lost money at cards and stole money to pay
his losses and then went to Canada. HIS
shortage is 81, 900 or more.
Senator Plumb has secured an allowance
of pensions to Thomas Caddick, Wakeeney,
and Charles Stone of Topeka: Bernard Car
lin, Strong City, and Thomas Main of Ben
ton. !. 7.
Congressman Perkins succeeded in having
II r 81
Wilson county, Kan, made special and he
received notice of an increase from 81 to Srl
per month.
robbed his partner NJ. II. Millspaugh, oil
Ypsilanti, Mich, near Fort Scott. They had
been travelling together through the country
selling microscopes, etc.
Willis horse barn, on his ranch, nine
miles east of Alma. burned with II horses,
feed and equipments. Loss over $1,000. In
surance 1000 in Continental and 1.5O0 in
Capitol of Topeka.
The gross earnings of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railway,fon all lines for
February, were 81 ,S64 800: net earnings,
$780,, 782. An increase over February last
year of $50, 103.
Car Repairer Heintz, whose family lives
at Silver Lake, Kan, was shot and killed at
Mcfarland. station on the Rock Island IN
Wabaunsee county, by Charles jackson, who
was playing the cowboy act by shooting
around without aim.
The recent hurricane in the South Pacific
ocean caused great damage on the Island oil
Tahiti. Parts of the island were submerged
and many persons were drowned. on the
Island of Tonga the hurricane created great
havoc. Thirty persons persisted there IN the
storm.
Santa Fe stock has taken slight rise. 1t
is thought that the purposes of speculation
which have caused 1t to get so low have
either been accomplished or expended their
force. Those who ought to know say that
its real earning value is as great now as
when it was worth 80 to 80.
The president has granted pardon in the
case of Vim. Woods, convicted November
last of murder in the territory and sentenced
to be hanged April IS. He also granted a re
spite till June u in the case of Henry W.
Miller, convicted of completely in the same
crime.
Four coaches of Baltimore d Ohio train,
nearing South Chicago, just north OF One
Hundredth street were derailed by bad
switch and broken to pieces against cars
standing in the yards. killing James Hanna,
of Smiths Basin, n. Y, and injuring
dozen 9th Z II o myers.
That prairie fire in Dakota has turned out
to have been very serious matter. The
towns almost completely destroyed are Volin,
Olivet, Perkmana, Lesterville and Mount
Vernon. Three or four other villages have
been reported as lesser sufferers. The hu-
midity of the atmosphere was only per
cent, the mean annual humidity for that re-
zion being 20 per cent. The velocity of the
wind was 46 miles an hour. The losses arc
estimated at 100000.