Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-01
BRIEF MENTION.

DNlET MIN llON.
Flashes. Does ond Dashes, Boiled
Down From Late Dispatches.
Tle crops of Ontario, except oats, peas
and apples, are reported in first class con-
dition.
The wine dealers Of San Francisco claim
to have been defrau,ied of large amounts Of
wine by bogus New York firms.
William Norton, AID ninety-one, died
at the house he had lived in west of Soda
liza. Mo-, for fifty years.
Captain Rye, justice Of the peace and
noted hunter of Ireland, has been SEN
fenced at Cork to two months imprison-
ment at hard labor for shooting and
wOundirg a poacher.
Judge Rowland, of Indianapolis, Ind,
In test case, has decided that German
must be taught in the public schools of
Indianapolis under the State law.
Vance Safrel, Of London, O., died of
hydrophObia at the union station recently.
In the school board election in Salt Lake
Sitss y tai, Tue LIOtTdlS elcctcu seven
members and the Mormons three.
The official rough count gives New York
q population of 1901, and increase Of
2o.4 per cent. during the decade.
The people uf Spain are reported as be-
ing greatly dissatisfied with the new
Conservative Cabinet, and the situation is
very critical.
The rumOr was current in London that
PreMser Stambuleff, of Bulgaria, had
prepared proclamation of freedom for
Bulgaria which, if issued, would cOmpli-
cate the Eastern situation.
Mrs. X. J. Spencer, wife of bridge
carpenter OF Lacygne, Kansas, has shot
and killed herself No cause was known.
Captain Williams, of Jacksonville, Pa,
twenty years blind, is recovering his sight.
He thinks the glare in his room of an cleo
trio light has something to do with his
recovery.
Olive Logan, the pioneer of newspaper
women, has the honor of being elected a
member of the Incorporated Society of
Authors. of which Lord Tennyson is pres
ident and Walter Besant the secretary.
A Vienna suicide of genius painted his
initials and three crosses on a barrel of
vinegar and then drowned himself inside.
A man in Cincinnati has eaten 40 spring
chickens in 40 consecutive days and still
continues without the diet having effect on
his heart.
A chicken with four legs was recently
Matched out on the farm of l.. Hoff, in
Northampton township, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. 1t only lived few days.
The Princess Louise, marchioness Of
LOrne, is making statue of the queen
KensingtOn as q memorial of her majesty's
early life there.
Negroes Of all ages are gong to school at
Meanwhile, Ga. One negro woman seven
ty-fve years old goes and carries her child
rem, and q negro man eighty-five years old
attends school and is in his A 3 c..
Mrs. Leland Stanford has given 5000
for the erection of a monument to Father
JuniperO Sierra, of Monterey, which will
take the place of wooden cross that
marks the spot where he landed in l77O
William and Asa Morrill,, boys from
Sandy creek, Oswegc county, N. Y, were
out fishing on Robert Corner pond, near
Adams, Tuesday afternoon. In trying to
land a pickeral the boat capsized and they
were drowned.
At Lost Springs, Kansas, John McDer-
mott, q brakeman on the Chicago, Kansas
d Western, was caught between the cars
while coupling and instantly killed. His
body was badly mangled before it could
be taken from under the wheels.
A dispatch from Paris gives the Gaulois
for authority that an engagement has Oc-
CURED between the natives and the French
expedition to the upper Niger, and that
the French were routed. 1t is feared that
the natives have blocked the line of re-
treat of the French.
Henry Hall, an elderly teamster Of COun-
Gil Bluffs, fatally shot his wife recently and
cut his own throat, inflicting probably
mortal wound. He quarreled with his wife
and she took refuge at a neighbours. The
Halls leave six grown up children.
Alfred Blunis, prominent and respected
citizen Of Baxter Springs, Kans., was in
stantly killed recently by being violently
team. Rf: forehead adj a D IA face WAS crushed
20 badly that he was scarcely recognizable.
Secretary Window has issued a circular
asking bondholders to name price at
which they are willing to sell to the govern
ment. There is surplus of $4,000, 900 in
the treasury which may be applied to the
payment Of bonds if they can be purchased
at proper figures.
All through New Mexico, Arizona, some
parts of Colorado and also in old Mexico
no rain has fallen for months, and thou
sands upon thousands of range cattle are
lying dead in the parched valleys and
thousands more are dying for want Of
grass and water.
Atchison, Kansas, is having trouble with
the census enumeratOrs. A letter from
ex-constable Graham to the superintendent
of the census at Washington charges the
local en1meratOrs with counting in resi-
residents Of the city.
In q railroad collision between q pas
senger and freight that happened recently
near Moltn, ILL.,, on the Chicago & North
western several persons were Injured and
the fireman on the passenger train was
killed. The postal can was dashed end up
against telegraph pole.
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Mckee and Baby
jury recently from a runaway horse which
came near upsetting the presidential car
riage. The frightened animal finally
wound up in a show window, badly cut
and bruised. Mrs. Mckee at sight Of the
bleeding animal tainted.
By the explosion of threshing machine
on the farm of James Monroe, near Prince
ton, Ind, Andrew CretZinger was instant
ly killed and Charles White and Thomas
Mehan and Hugh Morrow fatally injured.
White has since died. Sam Sweppy was
seriously but not fatally hurt, and num-
Der Of horses were killed.
The Anheuser-Busch Brewing company
Of st. Louis, has begun replevin suit in
the superior court at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
to recover possession of a quantity of liQ-
uor seized recently at Marion, claiming the
seizure contrary TO law. 1t also asks dam
afes for the retention of the property.
In the Mayor Pendleton scandal at Fort
Worth Texas wherein the mayor obtains