Dodge City times., 1889-11-07
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Lopd Wolseley has accepted IN invitaaon
TO be present ct the unveiling of the seatuo
of General Lee, at Richmond. Va.
Pliny L. Soper, Of Topeka, nephew of Cy
Leland, of Troy, has been appointed assist
eat United States district attorney for KAN
eas.
A storm in southwestern Kansas and east
ern Colorado has delayed the Rock Island
and Santa Fe trains. The snow extends as
far east as Meade.
The two women at Oswego. Kansas, lately
brought from Michigan on requls Il n, are
not satisfactorily identified as the Bender
murderers.
In the Mccoy Hatfield war skirmishes are
frequent. and pris oners taken by the NC
Coys are court martialed and condemned to
be shot.
Denver, Colo, had foot of snow Octo-
Der 20, but it all melted during the day.
Lewis Andrews has just died at Potters-
vile, Warren county, n. y. He was 1O9
years old and was bright and active up to
the day of his death.
1t is still insisted ON the one hand and
denied on the other that the Chic ago q
Alton road is changing hands, IN way to
benefit the Union Pacific.
The Chicago anarchists are providing for
sensat onal features for the parade IN OBJ
servance of the anniversary of the execution
of the Haymarket murderers.
A cyclone did damage near Sherman,
Texas. Its path was but 100 feet wide, and
it raised after striking the village OF Ken
dali Chapel Isaac Whistler was killed.
President Harrison has issued thanks.
giving PROCLAMATION, naming Thursday,
November 2&
Martin Burke has been identified by half
dozen witnesses as the man Williams who
purchased the furniture for the Carlson COT
tage, where Crouin was killed.
Thirty women and girls, out of 800 en-
ployed in a carpet factory at Glasgow
Scotland, were crushed to death by n wall
of another building falling upon the carpet
fact t,ry.
The late snow storm west and north OF
Kansas extended east in Nebraska to ,lma-
ha. In western Nebraska and Wyoming q
blizzard caused a blockade of railroad
traffic.
The general auditors Office of the Santa
Fe is to be removed from Boston to Topeka
about December 1st.
A herd of Texas long horns stampeded
Sunday morn ng in the streets o. Kansas
City. Some were shot, others lassoed and
all finally captured.
The Montana state canvassing boards re-
turns give republican majority IN the leg
islature, which is to elect two United States
senator's.
The car accountant of the Chicago extern
sion of the Santa Fe is being removed to
Topeka, to be consolidated with car ac-
countant A. p. Wilder's department.
Colonel A. NJ. York. brother of DR.. York,
who was among the victims Of the Benders,
does ros believe that the Bender fam ly
were lynched. as is quite generally believed.
A pantry girl in a Cincinnati, O., hotel
was bitten by a tarantu a concealed in
bunch of bananas. The girls arm swelled
rapidly and the bite is considered serious.
Chicago proposes to erect tower for the
worlds fair of 1892 which shall put the Eiffel
tower in the shade. It is proposed to be
1,6OO feet high, 40 feet across its base and
225 feet broad at top.
The latest aivices from Guatemala state
that the revolution in that republic Is ended
and that the government has triumphed
over its enemies. ALI the revolutionists taken
prisoners were shot.
Engineer Twombly and Conductor Bu-
ford, of the Rock Island train which met
with disaster at Englewood. near Chicago.
have been indicted by the grand jury and
held in bonds of $175,O0 each.
A Catholic priest, who, by accident, has
lost the use of his legs, has been nominated
as democratic CANDID date for county clerk OF
Atchison county, Kansas. He has the con-
sent of tn, bishop to make the race.
Sheriff Reynolds. W. A. Holmes and Eu-
gene Middleton, w!iif, taking eight Apache
Indians and one Mexican to the Yuma peni-
tentiary, were killed by their prisoners four
miles from Riverside, Arizona
squad of Mexican soldiers in a train
from era Cruz to Mexico city. mutinized
and attacked their lieutenant and sergeant,
killing the latter. They then jumped from
the train, one of them being killed in
doing SO.
A London dispatch says that company
is being organized there with capital OF
half million pounds sterling. capable OF
unlimited expansion. for the purpose OF
purchasing the great grain elevators OF
Chicago.
The Indiana state board of agriculture
has advices from many OF the northern
ard northwest counties saying that hog
cholera ia epidemic and that hundreds of
hogs are dying daily and the disease stead
lily increasing.
It is both asserted and denied that Chief
sbvha off <ha haP
okees, are agreed IN the policy to advise the
Cherokee coun il to accept the offer OF the
national government of $l.2o an acre Tor
the lands in the Cherokee strip.
The ate snow storm IN the west, extend
ing over the western part of Kansas, is re-
ported as the worst storm ever experienced
at Denver. South of there thousands OF
horses and cattle drifted of their ranges
and many persisted In the blizzard.
United States District Attorney Craig ar
riv ed at Danville. Va. and I. A. Fox, reg
istrar at the last presidential election. was
arrested char ed with improper erasiny 2
from the registration books the names OF
republican voters.
The $50 miners employed at Odin. ILL.,.
have struck for higher wages and cheaper
supplies. They clam the company charges
them more for bl sting powder than the
market prices and that their supplies are
not obtainable except at places controlled
by the employers.
Pres dent Harrison has issued his procla..
mat on adm ting the two new states OF
North Dakota and South Dakota. his Is
the first instance in the history of the ma
tlonal government of twin states entering
the union at the same moment. Both proc
iamations were signed at $40 p. m. of No
vembeI 9.
Mrs. John W. Mackey, the wife Of Cali
forna's mining king, has sued the Man
ciester. England. Examiner. for libel. for
prbli-hinr that Mrs. Mackey was poor
widow with two children, and that she was
employed as q waster-woman by Nevada
miners when Mr.. Mackey fell in love with
and N arried har. The defendants have
paid into court $4,000 as tender, but re-
sist larger claim.