Dodge City times., 1889-06-06
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Australia has been having wonderful
rains, a hurricane, land slides, etc.
The Concordia land district in Kansas has
been consolidated with that of Salina, with
its Office at the town of Sallna.
Memorial services were held at the court
house at Lawrence, Kan, in honor of j. z.
Usher.
The eight months war in Hayti is said to
have ended in favor of the insurgent forces
under General Hyppolyte.
High Canadian officials express themselves
as hopeful of a peaceable settlement of the
Behring sea seal fisheries matter.
The Santa Fe is borrowing g.money for three
and four months on its plain notes. at per
cent. against June and July requirements.
So far there have been twenty-slx apph-
cations to enter townsltes IN Oklahoma.
DR.. p. S. Moore, who was surgeon general
of the confederacy, died, May 81, at Rich
mond, Va.
James Martin is dead. He is the father
of Governor John A. Martin, of the Atchison
Champion. He was in his seth year, and
had lived in Kansas since 1857.
Rev. ]. c. Myers, while preaching in
new church. near Hillsboro, Ind, was
struck by lightning. He is permanently
blind from the effects.
1t is likely that ey-Congressman Lloyd 5.
Brice will become the editor of the North
graduate of Oxford and a son-in-law of ex-
Mayor Cooper of New York.
At Williamsport, Pa, the flood reached
the record of 1865.
This time it is an iron ore mine that has
been discovered near Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Maybrick, the neice of rebel jeff
Davis, who was suspected of poisoning her
husband in England, has been taken into
custody.
Many Canadian sailors are fitting out to
sail for Behring's sea to fish for seal in
American waters, despite the presence of
American war ships.
A banquet was gwen TO Minister Tom
Ryan at City of Mexico May 30, attended
by prominent Mexican officials and resident
Americans.
Edward ]. Gray, member of congress
from the Third Louisiana district, died at
his residence near Placquemine.
Martinsburg, W. Va, was visited by a
tornado May 20, demolishing a vast amount
Of property. 1t then passed down the Po-
tomac and did damage.
May 81 was a notable weather day in
portions of the country. Rain and snow in
Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, we're re-
markable in amount.
]. S. Elder. traveller for a Troy, n. Y.
carriage firm, was found dead in a room of
the Central hotel at Cincinnati. Tho dis
patch says that he has sister living in
Topeka.
The Policemens' monument was unveiled
at Chicago, in Haymarket square, May 80.
1t cost $1,000. On the pedestal iS the IN
scription. In the name of the people OF the
state of Illinois, command peace"
Eighty anti Malone republicans of Vir-
ginia hell conference in Washington to
see what could be done to prevent Malone
from controlling the patronage of the state.
The result of the meeting is secret.
A fearful gale ragged over the lakes Thurs
day night. Everywhere vessels are wind
bound or driven ashore. At Chicago the
wind blew forty miles an hour; at Mllwau-
kee forty-two miles.
The attorneys for the insurance compa-
nies in the Hillmon case express doubts
about Hillmon's being arrested in Arizona.
The man who came for requlsition has
been sent back to Tombstone to complete
his evidence of Identification.
1t is rumored that the Mexican congress,
IN secret session, is discussing the question of
cedinc Lower California to the United States.
1t is believed, however, that the ru1nor Is
groundless and is merely stratagem OF the
conservatives.
Further particulars in the case of he kill
ing of W. W. Proctor, show the murder to
be a horrible one. He was well of and un-
derstood to have gold in his house. He lived
in the northwestern part of Atchison
county.
Bolivia and the Argentine Repdblic have
signed treaty by which the dispute as to
the location of the boundary line between
the two countries Is satisfactorily settled.
Several times within the last few years war
was upon the point of breaking out between
the two governments over this question:.
According to the position taken by the
United States government by congressional
declaration, the jurisdiction of the United
States over the waters of the Alaskan side OF
Behring sea is not admitted TO be sub
ject for negotiations. Our government
simply asserts its absolute right, and admits
the existence of no question for negotiation.
The rains in the east were not confined to
the narrow valley in Pennsylvania, where
such harvest of death resulted, but did
damage and caused distress throughout that
state, West Virginia. Virginia and the Dis
is badly flooded. points in the Susquehannah,
Potomac, Allegheny, and other valleys were
flooded, bridges and buildings and mills
swept away and people left in want and dire
distress.
The disaster by flood and fire in Pennsyl-
vania is of such extent as to be impossible
to get even an approximate estimate OF the
loss of life. Eight thousand people dead,
seems to be a moderate estimate. This
awful calamity was caused by the breaking
of dam, which confined n large reservoir.
or rather artificial lake. above JOhnstown.
That city, with the many others in the same
valley, are swept away by flood OF water,
coming almost in an instant, in wall OF
thirty to forty feet in height. B"ldlngs,
with people, and all other movable matter
swept down the valley, in the mass being at
least two passenger trains filed with people;
At a bridge this mass of debris lodged and
ground together. and caught fire burning
hundreds to death who had, as yet, escaped
drowning or crushing. Bodies are being
gathered here and there by the hundreds,
and more seen at all points passing down
with the mad waters. Many bodies have
been seen to pass Pittsbnrs IN the current, rent
and some have passed down into the Ohio
river Relief, or efforts to give relief. are
not wanting. Money is being subscribed:
everywhere, at Pittsburg 100000 was raised
in a short time. The war department is
straipip every effort to be of service. Heart
rending incidents are reported, but only one
such in ten thousand will ever be fully
known. The towns of Johnstown, South
Fork, Mineral Point and Conemaugh are
gone, and their people are mostly dead;
while the farms and villages along the valley
are alike swept out of existence.