Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-10-24
LATEST NEWS.

| LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.
The original of a telegram to Burke, while
be in the hand writing of Stoltenberg, Alex
ander Sullivan's stenoprapher.
Topeka jury cancelled an 5000 debt
for borrowed money, secured by real estate
mortgage, on the ground of us1ry: even
wiring out the acknowledged debt and legal
interest.
George E. Neal has been appointed to
succeed E E. Kimball, deceased. as .. S.
district attorney for the western district OF
| Missouri.
The supreme court of Iowa has put an
other quietus upon the Interstate COM
merce" defense Of Illicit traffic in liquors IN
that state.
Governor Humphrey has appointed ]. S.
West, of Fort Scott, judge of the Sixth dis
trict in place of Judge French, resigned.
The Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen,
1
an ed tor for their official paper a. a salary
of 3d. 800 year.
Secretary Window has decided that argen-
tlferous lead ores imported from Mexico
must come in free of duty, under the law az
it now reads.
| Louis l.. king of Portugal, is dead. The
duke of Braganza, eldest son of the king,
succeeds to the throne, with the title OF
Carlos the first.
A gigantic barb wire trust is forming, in
which Washburn, the holder of most Of the
patents covering the manufacture OF the
wire, is interested.
j. A. Hanley, the new traffic manager of
the Santa Fe, was once station agent on
that line at a small station In New Mexico.
Chill has placed machinery. agricultural
implements, tools, copper and iron on the
| free list. T. csc are all American produc-
The Kentucky board of health has issued
| circular letter in view OF the unusual pre-
| valence of diphtheria. The circular sug-
| gests methods of sanitation and disinfec.
| ton.
American congress, while on their eScur-
sion, first met with white frost at Grand
Rapids, Mich, and were sensibly affected
by the new experience.
The Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood,
at Denver, held its sessions mostly in secret
The president has appointed Webb Nc
Nall, of Gaylord, Kan, register Of the land
Office at Kirwin.
General Hartranft, ex-governor of Penn
sylvania, was buried at Norristown, Pa,
with imposing funeral ceremonies.
A vein of natural gas has been found IN
khn 10 Mtnh OF
Chicago, for the new water works tunnel.
Violent storms prevail in the region Of
Naples. The city is partially inundated.
An immense amount of damage has been
done.
Typhoid fever is prevalent all over the
upper peninsula of Michigan. Students OF
Yale college at New Haven, Conn.,, are hav.
ing it, too.
gardens at Cincinnati. 1t is nearly five and
q half feet high and weighs about $50 pounds.
This is the first born in America.
A sensation in Chicago has been caused
by the ale ed discovery that the Gamma
Gael, or Michigan members thereof, are
working up a plan to rescue Burke and
Coughlan by force from the court room.
The railroads ar. already doing an i'm
meme freight business in moving the heavy
grain crop of Karsas. Two thousand cars
of grain were inspected at Kansas City alone
during the first eighteen DAYS of October.
special from Columbus says that Gov
ernor Foraker is very sick man and the
indie ltions are that it will be some time be-
fore he is able to resume work in the CAM
paign, if at all. His physicians say he Is
not improving as rapidly as he might.
The cannon ball." or No. 4, on the Santa
.1voI - <,f h<
18th. Conductor Thornburg saved the
wreck from fire, but was badly burned IN
doing so. Thirteen passengers were more
or less hurt, but no one was killed. A broken
rail was the cause.
The Central Labor union, of Indianapolis,
10 urging people to refuse to put their Alex
les in the box on the street cars. so as to
compel the street railway company to re-
employ the 100 conductors who were dis
charged when closed cars were put on in
place of the open summer cars.
The railroad fare from Chicago to Mis-
souri, river points is $3.50; from the latter
to Pueblo it Is $1s.15. making the sum of
tie locals $30.65. The through unlimited
rate from Chicago to Pueblo Is $500. 1t
Is now a question whether a throu IN rate,
exceeding the sum of the local rates, is legal.
Joel Thomas, the horse man, once of
Lawrenc. Kan, now of Kansas City, Mo-.
has brought from Richmond, Ind. a mad
stone which has been III his family 128 years;
and VIII CHI has a record o many wonderful
cures. He proposes to place 1T with some
physician, but would not sell it for any
amount.
General Green B. Raum, of Illinois sue
ceeds Tanner at the pension bureau. He was
commission d and took the oath of Office DC |
tober II. H was prominent officer of the
union army during the campaigns in the
Mississippi valley and the march to Atlanta |
He was commissioner of internal revenue |
from 1876 for seven years.
The national board of trade, in session at |
Louisville, Ky, favors new bankruptcy |
Law. Resolutions were passed opposing any |
modification of the interstate com nerce |
law. espec ally of the clause prohibiting |
pooling: favoring national supervision of |
insurance and uniformity of insurance leg
islation; favorirg a reduction of federal
revenues in the way which will least en- |
barrass industries and trade: favoring reel |
procity trade relations with Canada.
Senator Plumb. who has been visiting |
several sugar ia tories in Kansas, is reported |
as saying: 'Oh, yes. I think Kansas will
get another appropriation for next year of |
49,. 600 for sugar making appropriated. Last |
year Kansas got about 100000. Next year
/ think it will be easier to get an appropria-
ton than it was last year. and, also We will
use to an advantage 100000, but what 1t
will be possible to get remains to be SEEM"
The annual report of the pension bureau
shows AIS. 739 pens; oners on the rolls at the
end of the year, June 20, 1883. This was
net increase of 81. 1853 during tee year. The
average annual value of pensions has been
$131 ,18; the aggregate annual value, $64,-
245. SO Is: the amount disbursed for PEN
sions since 1861, 81. O52, 21s, 413.17. The COM
missioner recommends the establishment OF
two additional pension agencies to relieve
the offices at Columbus, O., Chicago, In
dlanapolis and Topeka.
Better Than Oklahoma.
loo acres of the choicest land in the San
Iuis Valley. in Southern Colorado, all under