The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-02-19

THE election at Salt Lake City, Utah,
On the 10th went decidedly in favor of
the Liberal or Gentle party, the Nor
mons being defeated by two to one
Much bitterness prevailed, but no fights
occurred.
A NORTH DAKOTA Senate special COM
mittee has begun the investigation of
the charges of bribery in connection
with the Lottery bill. Nothing was de-
veloped at the first sitting.
SUIT has been begun at Des Moines,
Iowa, to compel the Rock Island & Bur
hngton, Cedar Rapids & Northern rail-
roads to furnish the State list of
stockholders and other lawful inform
alton.
THE engine of construction train
ran into caboose at great speed near
Lagerville, Cal, recently and three men
on the cowcatcher were killed. The ac-
cident was due to the engineer losing
control of the engine.
A BOY broke his fathers neck near
Greasy Ridge, O., while protecting his
mother from assault The old man went
for his son with poker. but a blow
from a chair ended his life.
THREE thousand persons were at Cen
trail Music Hall, Chicago, on the night
of the 18th to celebrate the eighty-irst
birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
The st. Louis, Indianapolis & Eastern
railroad of Indiana and Illinois has been
consolidated under one management.
By the recent flood in Oregon a man
named Turner was drowned and Mrs.
Jonn Andrews was killed by landslide
near Simslard. The damage in that vi
cinity aggregated $4,000.
JAMES w. SYKES, the ex-Chicago seed
warehouseman convicted of defrauding
a loan company by false warehouse re-
ceipts, has been granted a new trial ON
technical grounds
The large factory of the Grand Rapids
(Alich.) Brush Company took fire the
other morning and fierce wind soon
swept the flames into the works of the
Grand Rapids Parlor Furniture Com
pany and both were destroyed. The
losses were heavy.
AN aged woman was burned to death
recently in a fire at Oliver Benway's
house at Central Lake, Mich.
Bishop FINK, of the Leavenworth
diocese, has issued a pastoral declaring
that no Catholic can become a member
of the Farmers Alliance.
A STREET car was smashed by a Pan
handle train at Newark, O., recently.
A man and a woman were fatally in
jured.
A PORTION of the great Farwell build
ing, Adams and Market streets, Chicago.
was destroyed by fire recently. The
loss footed up nearly $500, 200 and would
have been immense but for fire-proof
wall.
LAwLEssNEss was said to be on the
increase in the newly-opened Sioux res
servation.
EUGENE CALLAHAN, eighteen years
old, at Cheyenne, Wyo., recently I'M
successfully attempted the life of his
sixteen-year-old sweetheart and then
shot and killed himself.
THE engineer and fireman of a Monon
passenger train were both killed at
Mitchell, Ind, by collision on the 14th.
The mail agent was fatally injured. Six
or seven others were seriously hurt.
THE Denver Col police have arrest
ed two men charged with conspiring to
kidnap ex-senator Tabor and hold him
for $50, coo ransom.
THE deadlock in the Iowa House con-
tinued unbroken on the 14th.
MILTON f. PAGE, manufacturer of
of Chicago, has failed for
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THE Sixth annual convention Of the
Electric Light Association ended at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 18th. NJ. J.
Perry was elected president.