Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-07-25
LATEST NEWS.

LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.
An inspector of the postofice department
has found shortage Of s., 500 in the EN-
poria, Kan. postoffice.
Crop reports for Dakota and Minnesota
known.
l. Cincinnati juries acquit saloon keepers who
keep their places open for business on Sun.
day.
The ground was wet and soft and the sup
ports of the seats in a circus at Milford,
Mass, fell down, injuring hundreds oil
people.
Jack the Ripper has resumed operations
In the White Chapel district, London, pro-
viding ghastly case of dissection each
night.
Eight hundred more British troops have
started for Aassouan.
Eastern railroads have started in at giving
the veterans a l cent rate to Milwaukee,; and
it looks like stampede, and that all the
roads will do the same.
Some of the Rock Island passenger trains
make only hasty stops at Kansas City. Mo-,
about what they do at the smallest country
| stations.
Aterrible thunderstorm prevailed through
out the central and western portions OF
Massachusetts,. doing great damage to crops
and small buildings.
Charles E. Whittimore has been appointed
postmaster at Lyndon, Kan. When he had
the Office before it had not been raised tc
presidential grade.
The government of Spain has forbidden
any demonstrations calculated to encourage
the pope to come to Spain in the event OF
his leaving Rome.
A cloud burst partially destroyed the vii.
lage of MELVILLE, Herkimer caunty, n. Y,
doing $4,000 damage TO crops and bridges.
There Is q movement ON foot lOokin to the
consolidation of all the natural gas compa.
MES in Ohio and Indiana fields, and to put
them into a trust.
| White Taylor, a Negro burglar, fatally
stabbed Policeman Coll, at Kansas City,
Mo-, Monday, while Coll was attempting
his arrest.
The steamer Zelandia, just arrived at
Auckland from Honolulu, reports all quiet al
| Samoa.
Reports of suffering, amounting to starva.
ton, come from the Canadian northwest,
and along the Dakota line. In some casee
people were living on field mice and goph-
| ers.
The latest appointments are: NJ. NJ. Hur-
ley, of Indiana, to be third auditor of the
treasury; j. H. Franklin, of Russell, Kan.
to be deputy second auditor of the treas
| ury.
2 Hall Tracey, of Halstead, an employe Of
the Frisco, at Wichita, while making 8
coupling was caught between the engine
| and lumber, which projected from a car,
and was crushed to death.
Philip Benning, the father of Hon. Charles
W. Benning, of Atchison, Kan, was thrown
from his buggy and received such injuries
that he died.
The jury in the case of Mr.. William
O'Brien against Lord Salisbury for damages
for SANDER returned a verdict IN favor OF
Lord Salisbury.
The London paper trust has about been
completed. The capital will be s., 5OO,0 O
An immediate advance of 5 per cent. in the
price of paper is expected.
Mrs. Harrison complains of the want OF
any feeling of privacy in the White house.
and advocates the construction of family
apartments as an extension of that build
ing.
At last "Jack the Ripper" is said to have
been caught. He gives history of his
crimes in detail; says that he has Just re-
turned from abroad, and is considered in
sane.
Both of the big railroad stories have been
Chicago l. Alton is not for sale; and that
the great combination scheme is visionary
at least.
be contested ON the claim that John NJ.
Clayton, who was assassinated while taking
testimony to contest the place, was duly
elacted
So far this season nearly three million
tons of iron ore have been shipped from the
Lake Superior mines. This is nearly one
and one-half million tons in excess of the
showing at this time last year.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, is covered inches deer
with sand flies, or Mormon flies, as they are
called. They live but day and a night,
and many wagons are employed in hauling
them away. In places they are three inches
deep.
The treasurer of the Creek Indians went to
Washington to draw the first instalment OF
the price of their Oklahoma lands and
found that it had been paid to members OF
the tribe with whom the bargain had been
made.
A criminal was executed in Minnesota
July 18, and in spite of the new law, which
prohibits the publication of anything more
L. e. - e h.
papers of that state, of the next morning,
have complete details.
A Winnipeg special says the story origina-
ting at Grafton that the settlers in the north
west had been reduced to eating field mice
and gophers is simply lie. The chance is
good for two-thirds of crop and there Is nc
destitutiou anywhere.
An English syndicate has purchased forty
elevators of the Van Deusen system along |
the Chicago. Minneapolis. st. Paul d Oma- |
ha road. This Is believed to be the first steI |
toward the purchase of the Minneapolis |
Touring mills by the syndicate.
A heavy rain prevailed July 20, through |
out northwestern Kansas and southwestern |
Nebraska, accompanied by a severe wind.
Several washouts are reported on the Cen |
blown down. The storm has done consid- |
cradle damage to small grain.
A. L. Mohler, assistant general manager |
of the Manitoba railway, has just completed |
a through personal examination of the |
wheat crop along the line of the Manitoba
system, and predicts that the country trib
utary to the Manitoba lines will furnish |
for shipment at least 100000 bushels OF
wheat.
In the United States court Judge Foster
decided the case of E. p. Diehl, of Olathe,
KAN, against the Western Union, in Diehrs
favor, giving him S1,80O damages. Diehl
received Geographic order for "forty car
loads of ice" which should have read "forty
tons" and shipped twenty car loads before
the mistake was learned.
Better Than Oklahoma.
100 acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under
fence, watcr-rights secured and bitches
ready for use. II will be sold as a Who'll or