Dodge City times., 1889-12-05
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Secretary Blaine is troubled with lumba,
60, which laid him up part of last week.
The Leavenworth pontoon bridge was
broken loose from its anchorage by the ice
ard a portion of it carried a mile down the
river. Damage about loo.
Mr.. Reed, of Name, was nominated for
speaker By the republican caucus of the
house of representatives on the second bal
lot, receiving eighty-six votes.
A disastrous cyclone did its work of de-
struction in Buford county. North Carolina,
on Thanksgiving day. One girl was carried
SO far that her body has not been found.
The Bos on underwriters figure the loss
by the Boston fire as between 100000 and
$o,0O1.OOO: while estmates by others, equal
" competent, still place it at near S1O,-
100000.
The last day of November "November''
corn went to 90 cents in Chicago, the shorts
getting squee ezed: but before night it
dropped again to 81.
Two more Boston firemen. Michael Mer-
nan, DR.. Ives and ohm Brooks. pipemen OF
hose 4, are reported missing and are be-
ieved to be in the ruins of the Brown-Dur-
rell building.
Chamberlain and Cook, two of the Stew
ems county alleged murderers, have been
sent to Texas. The rest of them. who have
been in Topeka, have given bail bonds and
gone home.
Two more of the principal actors in the
Stevens county tragedy, in which Sheriff
Cross and four others were killed IN Nc
Mans Land have been arrest in Denver.
They are j. R. Frazee and f. Isor.
Samuel Kirchhoffer, cashier of the West
ern Type foundry, at Kansas City, has been
arrested charged with embezzllng between
$1,000 and 5000 of the foundrys funds.
He was committed to Jail in default OF
s., 900 bonds.
1t seems plain that the Boston fire was
caused by the crossing of electric wires. All
the clocks of the Boston Time company were
stopped at the same minute. and many
fires starting at the clocks were discovered
in time to be put out.
At Pittsburg, Pa, three aldermen and
four detectives have been sentenced for
accepting bribes to settle cases of illegal
liquor selling. The aldermen are all quite
prominent and wealthy.
The Tribune building at Minneapolis.
Minn., eight stories high. and also occupied
by the Pioneer Press and other newspaper
offices. burned down early Saturday night,
when the offices were filed with people. Ten
or more editors and printers were burned to
death.
The last witness in the Cronin case, po-
liceman who took Coughlin to the station
when arrested, produced two knives then
taken from Coughln which were immedi-
ately identified as the same knives usually
carried by DR.. Cronin. The speeches in
closing the trial then began. .
Judge Longenecker's opening address to
the Cronin jury was a revise and consecu-
tive arrangement of the evidence in the
trial. After him Judge Wing, for the de-
fense, gave history of cases where verdIcts
had been wrongfully given upon circum-
stantlal evidence. This closed the first day
of speech making.
The republican caucus, after placing Mr..
Reed in nomination for speaker, completed
its ticket with Mcpherson, who has often
been clerk, for that place: A. J. Holmes. Of
Iowa, for sergeant at arms; Charles w.
Adams, of Missouri, for doorkeeper (by one
majority: and Rev. Charles B. Rumsdell,
of Washington, D. c., chaplain.
Widows and friends of the miners that
were killed at Frontenac mines, near Cir
ard, Kansas, have sued the coal company,
claiming from $4,000 to $4,000 each. The
first suit has just been tried, the jury giving
$1,000. There are so many of these suits
that the company fears bankruptcy if all
these cases go against them. There were
forty-five miners killed at Frontenac.