Dodge City times., 1890-01-02
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OI f1OII10O h0dO0ISs
Alexander Blackburn. an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Leayeaworth, was muir
dered in an clubhouse at the home by having
his skull crushed.
The question at issue between the con-
tending members of the Montana legisla-
ture. the question of which party are legally
members, has reached the courts.
Sixteen men were crushed in the Lane
mine, near San Andreas. Cali, by fall of
the roof of the NINE. The surface cayed IN
to the depth of forty feet. to width of
thirty feer.
Private kilograms from Montevideo re-
ceived by persons at Beunos Ayres con firm
Brazil. They also state that the situation
of the present Brazilian govern ment is
critical.
The Associated Press dispatches of Christ
mas night bring accounts OF many drunken
fights and murders committed. They come
from all parts of the country.
The Russian influenza has reached the
Rocky mountains. Tn ee-foIIths of the
citIZens OF Dtnver are su ering from it.
Reports from Cheyenne are to the effect
that that city IS similarly affected.
Malignant dIphtheria is raging among
Russians at Eureka, South Dakota. Thirty
persons have already diel. One farmer lost
six children and another Is said to have
buried four children in one gra e.
James E. West, late editor of the Chicago
Times, has been convicted of fraudulent
over issue of Times stock. an sentenced to
five years in states prison and to pay fine
of $1,000.
The Kansas City Congregational club
celebrated the landing of the pilgrim faith
present. S. U. Thacher, of Lawrence, pre-
sided. After the banquet the toasts were
proposed and responded to.
The anarchist, Frattini. who threw bomb
from the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza COlonna. Rome, in AUGUST last, was
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment.
As he was led from the dock he cried,
'Lorg live anarchy"
The New England Society of Pennsyl-
vania held Its annual meeting at Philadel-
phia followed by a banquet. Over so per-
sons were present at the banquet, including
Postmaster general Wanamaker and other
distinguished persons.
Secretary Window has advertised for pro-
posals for tie privilege of taking seals from
certain Alaskan Islands.
"A general stIlhe O' COiileTS HIS Detu Audu.
gurated throughout Belgium. The scarcity
of coal is already beginning to be severely
felt.
Christmas was a warm day all the way
from New York to Kansas. Tennis and
croluet parties were held everywhere, and
Christmas services in the churches and
Christmas dinners IN tie houses were had
with open doors and windows.
Fonseca, chief of the provisional govern
ment of Brazil, is dying. The question as
to who will succeed him is engaging serious
attention. 1t is elieved that the change in
the ministry which would follow Marshal
Da Fonseca's death would lead 10 serious
complications.
All the miners and laborers in the mines
of the Reading Railroad company through
out the Schuylkill valley. as wei as those
employed in the individual collieries, have
been put on three quarters time, and there
is no prospect that full work will be resumed
for several months.
The supreme court of the United States
has granted the state of Virginia leave to
file complaint against the state of Ten
nessee in the ma ter of the disputed bound
ary lIne between the two st ,tes. Subp nnas
were directed to issue against the governor
and attorney general of Tennessee.
The Brazilian government has sued q
decree providing that all persons found en-
deavoring to corrupt the allegiance of SOL
diers, or contriving or proposing any meas
ures for active opposition to the republic
shall be tried by the military tribunal. An
opposition Journal has been suspended.
Great quantities OF -four are S de tracked
between Minneapolis and Milwaukee, be-
cause the roads east of Lake Michigan can
not take it away from Gran1 Haven fast
enough. There g dread OF still further
hindrance by free G up delaying the cross
ing of the LAKE from Milwaukee, to Grand
Haven.
Chief of Police George W. Hubbard, OF
Chicago, has be n superseded IN Office by
Captain E. Fl. Marsh, who was President
appointe AS United States mar
shal for the district of Chicago. Ex-Chief
was bod over troa, the opposi-
ton party administration preceding that of
Mayor Cregier.
A severe storm has movel, on the 18th,
England coast; violent gales have pre- vailed
on the lakes and from New England to Cape
Hatteras. A maximum velocity of fifty-six
miles an hour is reported from Block Island
and Boston, sixty miles from Sandy Hook
and forty-five on the Virginia coat.
Confidential figures obtained show the
stock of wheat at Minneapolis in private
houses to be about 2.350,000 bushels. This
makes the stocks at three leading points as
follows: Minneapolis. (public houses), ~
572,603 bushels; MilneaDOiis, (private
houses), 2,350, 900 bushels: st. Paul, 5i5, COO;
Duluth, 4,37?,3S6; total, 1i,fi6,91a.
In the three weeks ending Decembery q,
President Harrison sent to the senate ,429
containing the nominations lin
cluding army an navy appointments) of
about 1,e00 persons. When the senate ad-
iourned. that day. there had been made
public the confirmation OF about 1000 of
Ihese nomination, TIE great majority of
hem pOstmasterS.
The business portion of Petrolia, Pa, is
burned down. The total loss is estimated
between $4,000 and $1,000. with little in
,urance. The thickly settled porto of the
own north OF Main street and Argie street,
and on the south side from the tank, which
s still standing. was destroyed as we'll as
buildings toward the cemetery. About |
forty buildings III all were destroyed.
A mighty stream Of immigration is pour
ng into Washington territory. The people |
,ome from south. ca and north. The cars
IF the Canadian Pacific haze been crowded |
with west bound rasser gers for months. 1t |
appears that our western bound emigrants |
ravel on the Canadian Pacific because that |
carries Pass ngers for less
money than any of the American rail- |
,oads do.
Lumber shippers of Atchison have been |
Idvised from burlington & Missouri head |
Iuarters that after the st of January they |
rill be given through rates equal to the sum |
# the two locals for which Missouri river |
,oints have been clamor ng. This conces-
ion is already in effect at Omaha. The B.
Z NJ. also announce that work is in pro-
'ress on tariff that will give the same ad- |
aDtaOea tn the iObher in all lines of trade.
The action of Q B. & NJ. compels the Mis-
ouri Pacific, Rock Island and Santa Fe to
i've like rates.
Hetter Than OkIahoma !
100 acres of the choicest land in the Sau
Il. -, nIlaa aaYadaH