The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-03-12

DONNELLY & Sons, printers OF tho
Chicago directory, have failed for 500.
600.
FORTY armed men of the Smith AMI
Slusser factions had an encounter at
the court house at Barboursville, KY,
the other day. One man only received
serious wound.
The Car has received q threatening
letter from woman signing herself
''Tchibrokoya." The Russian Ministers
also received similar notes.
FIFTEEN Swedes and Hungarians were
in destitute and befuddled condition
at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently. They had
been shipped from Stockholm and
wanted to reach Kansas City, where
they were told houses and lands awaited
them.
THE Ohio State board of penitentiary
managers has recommended to President
Harrison the pardon of Fidelity Bank
wrecker Harper, who has yet four years
to serve.
THE Bank of England has reduced its
rate of discount from to ~ per cent.
CHARLES LIPPINCoTT, the soda water
apparatus manufacturer of Philadelphia,
confirms the report of negotiations by
British syndicate for the four factories
in this country.
The town of Reading, Mass. was re-
ported on fire on the morning of the 7th.
Much damage was done.
The Cleveland and Chicago express
on the Lake Shore road was wrecked
near Buffalo, N. Y, on the night Of the
9th. The cause was due to broken
coupling, Pullman car being piled on
top Of the day coach. Seven persons
were killed and about fifteen injured.
THE private banking house of Bellere
ct Freres, branch of the Paris banking
house operated at San Francisco under
that name, has made an assignment. It
is believed the liabilities will reach
$500, 900.
The great pigeon shooting match be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City ended
at Chicago on the 7th in favor of Kansas
City. The scores were 420 and 416.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended March numbered
26O, against total of 3O1 the previous
week. Last year the figures were 2S1.
THE Arab power of Uganda, Africa,
has been completely overthrown. Dis
sensions, however, were probable be-
cause of Protestant and Catholic rival
ries.
The remains of Alderman Hillock, Of
Chicago, were inferred in Rose Hill
cemetery. His body had been refused
interment at Calvary because he had
been a Mason.
JAMES MCINTosH, of Spirit Lake,
Iowa, and two young ladies were
drowned recently while driving across
East Okoboji lake in sleigh.
THREE boys were instantly killed re-
Gently by an explosion of dust in the
Armstrong furniture factory at Evans
vile, Ind.
GOLD has been discovered in a gravel
bank near Sioux Falls, S. D. The ex-
tent of the deposit is not known.
A BANK of lead thirty feet high and
fourteen thick has been struck on q
farm near Dubuque, Iowa.
Mrs. ALEXANDER STOKES was burned
to death in her dwelling in Denton,
Nd, the other day.
THE Scotland Yard policemen have
evidence of conspiracy of desperadoes
in Canada to inveigle rich young men
from England under the pretense of Sc
curing farms in the colony and murder
ing them. The idea grew out of the
Benwell murder at Niagara Falls.
A LARGE portion of the money stolen
by Express Agent Walton has been re-
covered at Dallas, Tex, where it was
secreted.
A wOMAN's head has been sent to
Prince Dolgoroukoff in Russia, signed
"Jack the Ripper" The murder was De-
lieved to be connected with Nihilism.