Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-01-24
LATEST NEWS.
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Of Hurried Readers.

The British steamer Ply apeket has BEEN
1unk by collision with an unknown vessel.
Forty-two persons were drowned.
Settlers who claim righte from the Max
ypll Grant company and set:lers who ignore
TIE grant are evicting each other.
Extra session talk is revived at Washing
ton, and the outlook now is that the Fifty
first congress will meet b:fore December, 80.
John II. Thurston, who was temporRJ
chairman of the Chicago convention, IS
urged By Nebraskans for place in the cab
met.
Canada built cars are no longer permitted
10 be loaded in Michigan to be run through
to Portland. Me-, without payment of duty
on the cars.
Congressman Oates, of Alabama, in an in
terview, voiced the sentiment of most lead
ing southern men by advocating disfran-
chisement of blacks.
Delegate Cain, of Utah, has been heard at
length In the house of representatives, in
making plea for the admission of that ter
ritory into the union.
et St. Louis from Texas, which have been
fed on sorghum and cottonseed. They are
reported as extra fine.
White Caps, at Great Darlington, Mass,
notified Associated Press agents that they
must not come here to get news against
our organization. We shaut allow il"
Seven of Charley Jones' big buffalo bulls
got loose in Kansas City and nearly scared
tn mselyes to death, as well as all the people
who cav them. They we're finally corraled.
Henry Gearge talked to the Minnesota
Legislature, by invitation, about his single
tax doctrine. He says his idea Is more
strongly held in that state than in any other
western state.
Wisconsin railroad train was blown
from the track. and another train ran into
the wreck. One engine man was killeiVan-
other fatally injured ano brakeman badly
One hundred men in the Hyde colliery.
near Manchester, England, when fire damp
explosion occurred. Seven were taken out
dead at once. the rest still below at the hour
of the dispatch.
The Wisconsin legislature is considering
bill for the regulation of railroads. The
long and short haul clause of the interstate
law is copied in it. 1t prohibits pssses to
anyone not an employe.
Forty degrees below zero at Noche, Oak.
and thirty below at Grand Forks during the
bright days when Topeka business men
we're at work in their offices in their shirt
sleeves with the windows up.
All the republican members of both
branches of the Arkansas legislature have
held meeting and adopted a resolution
unanimously recommending General Powell
Clayton for a cabinet position.
2Mexican custom house employees at Mata-
moras, Mexico, are four months behind with
their pay.
The Grand Opera house at Minneapolis,
Mimi, is in ruins from fire. Loss $4,000
Fully insured.
Three hundred coal miners at Boonesbor-
on gh, Ia, are out on n strike because of
reduction from AZ to cents.
At Wheeling, W. Va, train load of coke
was run into by fast train, scattering cars
ana coke over wide space.
E. T. Brown. a capitalist aud real estate
man of Wichita. is missing, with strong
probability of his death by murder.
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians are pre-
pairing to form a Farmers alliance, which
shall open a banking and mercantile house.
The Standard Oil company's tanks in
South Chicago burst. letting out $4,000
barrels of oil. Its infiamable character
caused almost panic.
Teton. Gslala, Panka. Sanona, Pembina,
Arikara, Hedasta, Isanti and Amati are only
some of the names proposeSsor the two new
states to be formed from Dakota.
A ship load of Alasatians are held at
New York because they have come to this
country on contract to raise Sumatra to-
bscoo in Florida. Held under the contract
labor law.