Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-05-16
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Reports of good soaking rains come from
all parts OF Kansas.
Des Moines, Ia, also had taste of cy-
clone on the 10th.
A shock of earthquake was felt at Annap-
oils, Md, on the night of May 10.
The attendance at the Paris exhibition has
thus far averaged Loo persons daily.
The oil we'll at Terre Haute. Ind, con-
tinues to flow at the rate of 100 barrels
day.
W. E. st. Clair. the balloon parachute
specialist. fell 400 feet at Houston, Tex, and
was killed.
A heavy wind at Geneva, ILL.,, did great
damage, notably to orchards which are
generally broken down.
The survivors of the wrecked vessels who
are still at Apia, Samoa. are employed III
saving machinery, ETC., from the wrecks.
The sixty-ffth anniversary of the Ameri-
can Sunday School union has been held in
the First Reformed church at Albany, n. Y.
The French government announces that
visitors to Paris during the exposition will
be required to pay only One-half the regular
charges on dutiable goods.
1t is now said that the depredations CON-
mitted in southern New Mexico and charged
to the Apache Indians. were the work of
Mexicans.
At Aledo, ILL.,, party of school children,
who had been picnicing were caught by the
| wind and some of them did not touch
ground for hundred feet.
The three bald knobbers were hung at
Ozark, Mo-, May 10, but botch job was
made of it. The rope broke on one and
stretched on the others.
General William S. Harvey, the oldest
officer of the United States army, died May
. at Orlando, Florida. He was 80, and had
been on the retired list five years.
The storm in the east passed over New
Jersey, fifty miles an hour and struck New
York City with a sand storm worse than is
ever experienced on the western plains.
Highwaymen attacked paymaster and
his escort, on their way to pay tn, men at
Fort Thomas, AriZ., and got away with
$4,000. Eight of the escort were wounded.
France has gained the place of second to
the United States in production of wheat.
The executors of the will of Myra Clark
| Gaines have won the suit, IN the United
| States supreme court, involving S5f6,OOO,
| which has been in the courts for two or three
| generations.
The Pueblo Indian agent, Williams, re-
ceived a telegram from General Carr at
Wingate, n. NJ, saying that a fight had
| taken place near the post between Indians
and cowboys.
Fierce forest fires are burning in northern
| Wisconsin, east of Gogebic Lake. Great
| wastes have been burned, and reports from
the Vermillion range state that all the towns
in that district have been fighting the flames.
James Smith and Thomas Lawer were
before justice court at Kansas City. Kansas,
when Smith drew knife and slashed Detec-
tive John W. Gilley in the neck. He was
shot down while running and killed.
The national association of lumber deal
ers is holding It's twelfth annual meeting at
Chicago. There are about fifty members
present, mostly retail dealers from towns
and cities in Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana,
Ohio and Iowa.
The recent forty Eight hours gale did DAM
age in several places in Kansas. Pratt,
Stafford, Sedgwick, Rice, Washington, Mar
shall and perhaps other counties lost build
ings. There are reports of one or more fatal
accidents.
At request of the president Senator Plumb
has put his views in writing concerning an
amnesty to deserters from the regular army.
The letter suggest that quiet pardons be
granted with little publicity and that persons
so pardoned may not be again enlisted.
There have been sixteen cases of contest
in the Fifty-first congress already certified
to the clerk of the house. They come from
Indiana l, Connecticut l, Maryland l, Vir-
ginia 3, Mississippi 3, West Virginia l, 1.-TWO
more expected Alabama 2, South Carolina
!, Tennessee l, Arkansas 1, and Florida 1.
The reports of the government agents in
Oklahoma and considerable other evidence
bearing on the charges which have been
brought against government officials in
Oklahoma are now under consideration by
the president and Secretary Noble, and
some acton will likely be taken within a
very few days.
General Manager Erb and Superintendent
Summerfield, of the Kansas City, Wyan-
dotte 4 Northwestern, have been consult
ing with the directors of the Lawrence, En-
poria d Southwestern, known as the Gar
bondale Branch" 1t is generally under
stood that the Northwestern will soon gain
control of this branch.
The latest from the destructive gale gives
terrible particulars of destruction to life,
limb and property, in the northern part of
Pratt county. the eastern part of Stafford
county, and extending into ice. VIM.
Crawford, killei. Injured VIM. Bolt,
Oliver Beard, James Beard. A. F. Guinup,
Mrs. J. Love, Pc err Scarlet. Mrs. John
Bartlett. WIN. McReigh Joseph Ferris. Mrs.
Guinup and babe. Mrs. Lindley, Miss Dever:
s. S. Crawford and 20 or 30 more. All of
those named may die.
Allegheny City, Penn ylvania, experienced
a terrible calamity on the night of May 10.
Also portions of eastern Ohio. Farms were
washed out, houses. fences and trees along
the banks of streams were swept away and |
landslides Cured on nearly every road |
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street and numberless cross streets are filled |
with debris. and cars are unable to be moved |
and are completely hemmed in by planking |
and rubbish. Roof, of houses were ruined |
by the weight of the telling water. The !
same tale Of terror and destruction comes |
valley, the West End Southhde, Pleasant |
valley and Lawrence valley districts. The |
lightning played havoc all night long. Four
deaths are SO far reported. The losses will |
reach half million dollars.
The German striking miners are noting |
and destroying property. The oil factory at |
Lierenfeld is the first destruction reported. |
The entire military garrison of Dusseldorf
is in the disturbed mining district. The
first riot was dispersed at the cost of six Oh the
crowd being killed, one of them being boy
of years. A woman was wounded. The
number of killed and wounded in the sew
eral collisions which have taken place is un-
known, and it is impossible even to form an
approximate estimate. as great many of
the dead and injured have been hastily re-
moved from the scene b. their friends and
secreted out of the way. Colonel Michaelis
is in supreme command of the troops in the
lisordered districts and is literally carrying
out the orders be received from Berlin.
otherwise the destruction of life would be
much greater than it has been.
Refer Than Oklahoma,
1.2OO acres of the choicest land in the San