Dodge City times., 1889-06-27
LATEST NEWS.

Condensed for theConvenlence
of Hurried Readers.
Mrs. R. B. Hayes WAS not expected to live
many days, on Saturday, June %.
There are several cases of typhoid feye.
among the Johnstown workers. The He'd
Cross hospital is caring for them.
General Sherman, with a party. goes to
Denver June g, and will remain until after
the Fourth.
Rev. Father John Carroll, the Oldest priest
in the United States aged SO years, died at
the Mercy hospital in Chicago on the 18th.
The strike among the laboring men at
Johnstown is fairly on, and there are not
100 men, all told, at work.
Two laborers at Johnstown are dying with
blood poisoning, caused by contact OF the
General Simon Cameron was considered
in a dying condition on the evening of june
Winners at Saturdays races at Kansas
City. No.: Bridgelight, Churchill, Clark L.
b., st. Albans and the Elk.
Postmaster General Wanamaker expresses
himself as surprised, not at the defeat of
prohibition, but at the magnitude of the
majority against it.
The estimates of loss of life in the Cone
maugh valley have again been raised to TO-
600, and with much appearance of being re-
liable.
Vancouver, Washington Territory, has
lost four blocks of wooden buildings by fire,
in the business part of town. The losses feii
mostly upon the poorer, small shop keepers.
Seventy miners are eptombed in a pit at
New Castle, n. S. W., and it is doubtful
wheth er they can be rescued alive.
President and Mrs. Harrison have accept
ed an invitation from Henry {. Bowen to
be present at Roseland park, Woodstock,
Mass, the Fourth of July.
1t is said that Burke, the man in custody
at Winnipeg, offers to waive extradition and
go to Chicago if he will be allowed to '.turn
states evidence" Meanwhile requisition
is preparing.
Wichita officers believe that "Confessor'
Woodruff, alias Black, is the man who Killed
Van Cleave, in the fall of 1887, at Winfield;
and that this killing was done for sup
posed treachery to some secret organization.
Governor Bulkley, of Connecticut, has
signed the new secret ballot bill.
The Baptist church at Shelton, n. j., the
third Oldest in the United States. celebrated
its 2OOth anniversary, visitors being present
from all parts of the state and from other
states.
The main building of the Callahan col
lege, at Des MOines, Ia, including the lee
ture room, laboratory, music and art rooms,
G-N nf mi
June 20.
Clara Barton, of the National Red CroEs
Association, says that there are enough
physicians and nurses and hospital conven.
fences for present and expected needs, at
Ostrog, on the Black sea, near Odessa,
has been nearly destroyed by fire. A thou
sand people have been made homeless,
and the damage is estimated at one-haif
million dollars.
Wreckage has been washed ashore on the
Massachusetts coast from the steamers
Haytieu Republic and Victoria, and 1t IS
feared that the two vessels have been in col
llsiOn.
Nicholas Foley, who murdered Mrs. Pom
eroy Clark, at Elgin. Neb., was taken from
the deputy sheriff, who had captured him,
and hanged to a bridge near the scene OF
the crime.
The people of Stanhope. Boynton and
Dover, in New Jersey, are ANXIOUS over the
condition of the dam which restralns Lake
HOpateong, above those places. This lake
is twice as large as Conemaugh.
In sympathy with unfavorable reports
from Havre and Hamburg, coffee dropped
between 40 and 20 points in New York. In
the closing hour there was a reaction, the
market closing with decline of about l5
points on sales of 10000 bags.
The semi-annual meeting of the South
Dakota Farmers alliance Is being held at
Huron. The grangers are resolved to have
a hand in the government of the new state.
They favor the Australian system OF voting.
A free trade resolution was voted down.
The Dakota warehouse commissioners are
in st. Paul comforting with the Minnesott
commissioners in reference to grades IN
wheat. The report that the prospect IN
Dakota are most flattering for an abundant
wheat crop.
Cashier Voight. of the defunct Farmers
and Mechanics bank of Pittsburg, Pa, has
been sentenced to six years Imprisonment
in the western penitentiary for embezzle-
mept. Sentence was deferred on the other
counts.
In France the rivers have overflowcd their
banks and partially submerged the town OF
Barbecue and the surrounding country.
Many houses have been undermined and de-
stroyed, and crops and vineyards have been
ruined.
A frightful storm prevailed in the central
part of Illinois on the morning OF June Il,
and was simply terrifying at Decatur.
For two hours rain poured down in torrents.
The streets were rivers of water. The
thunder and lightning were unusually
severe.
Under a huge tent on the green, at Meet
ing House Hill, Dorchester, Mass, was Gel
ebrated the 25Oth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the first public school IN the
United States that was established by direct
tox on the people June % 1853, the honor OF
which is claimed by Dorchester.
Kansas inventors: Churn, Henry B. Lynes,
Wichita: gram weighing apparatus, James
E, Bussenbarrack, Robinson, folding coop,
Carr l. Evans, Sedan: dOubletree, Alba
Minor, Harper: weather strip, Harlow q
Cook, Ottawa; cash carrier, William X. Dean,
Ottawa; corn planter. Patterson Il Foster,
Ottawa.
The chief engineer of the Wabash railway
has commenced the survey OF the Detroit,
Wabash & Chicago railway, connecting
link between the Wabash Western and Wa
bash system. Inc line eAteHos iioiii ""
bash to Laketon, connecting at that point
with the Chicago Il Atlantic for Chicago,
and Wabash Western for Detroit.
A sweeping fire broke out in the First
ward of Johnstown. Pa, at 1870 p. M. June
"A. The flames spread rapidly and at
O'Clock 2O) houses were burned. Among
those on fire is the First ward school house:
All the engines in the place have been called
out and the most intense excitement pre-
walls. Nearly all the houses burning were
more or less destroyed by the flood. The
wind Is high and the fire Is spreading
rapidly towards Kernville. 1t has got
beyond the control of the fire department
and now covers five acres.
Better Than Oklahoma.
LOO acres of the choicest land in the Sah
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado. all under
fence, water-rights secured and bitches