The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-12-03
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Hurried Readers.
Judge James N. Coffinbury, one Of the
oldest members of the Cleveland bar, fine
orator and brilliant writer, died November
x, aged . years.
Marshalltown, Ia, has had destructive
fire, which destroyed the fremont house
ana tho best business block In town, tho
losses aggregating $4,000
A New York paper says that Jay Gould is
out OF Wall street to stay out; that he is now
on tour Of the southwestern lines of his
system, in search of health.
The Monon block. Chicago. sixteen stories
high, has been cold to q syndicate OF four.
representing Chicago, New York, San Fran
cisco and Topeka, for $675. 600
The water famine has ended in Brooklyn.
Advices from Canton. China. state that tho
anti-foreign Chinese, in the interior, are
numbering and otherwise prosecuting those
friendly to foreigners or missionaries.
The storm did havoc in Longtou. Ontario.
Genesee, Wayne and Schuyler counties OF
New York, unroOfing houses. uprooting
trees. wrecking barns and killing cattle.
The Union Pacific has offered reward of
$1,000 for the arrest of the miscreant who
removed a rail and caused the wf.ck of the
fast Denver passenger train at Julesburg, Col.
A fire at Escanaba. Mich, destroyed 150.-
O0O bushels of gram, 1000 barrels of flour
and 10000 tons Of coal; together with the
buildings, Jocks and sheds containing them.
An American schooner has arrived at New
York loaded with lumber from Chicago; said
to be the first sailing vessel that ever made
that voyage. She made the trip in sixty-six
days.
1t is proposed to build up q diamond cut
ting industry in the Kimberly district, South
Africa, by placing an export duty on the
rough stones and paying bounties on the cut
goods.
The announcement is made by the Amer
lean Wheel company, that the Fort Wayne
branch will be again put in operation. Five
hundred men have been out of employment
six months.
dispatch from Suakim, Egypt, says the
tribe of hilluks severely defeated a body of
dervishes near Fashoda. Large reinforce
ments have been sent to the scene from
Ddurman.
Representatives of English capital have OBJ
tanned an option on all the breweries in Brit
ish Columbia, ana will change some of them
to lager beer breweries. all the lager con-
sumed there now being imported.
Four loaded refrigerator cars and a caboose
broke loose and run wild down grade near
Mexico, NO.. jumping the track and rolling
down an embankment only moment before
1t would have met a passenger train.
A crazy man shot three times at Rev. DR..
John Hall. pastor of the Fifth Avenue Pres
byteran church of New York city. as he was
passing from morning service to the parson-
age. The parsOn was no. hit.
Roseberry, the equine champion of high
jumping, met with an accident while attempt
ing to beat his record. seven feet and one
death. The horse was valued at $25,OOO.
A report has reached Yokohama, Japan,
that body of Russian troops has crossed IN
to China by way of Siberia. War between
those countries is not anticipated. but Russia
will insist on large territorial CONCESSIONS.
The Indiana coal miners have entered upon
a strike to the finish. having the support OF
the national officers Of the United Mine Work
ers. They oppose miners leaving the state
to get work with competitive mines In Iili-
nOls.
Churches. schools, factories, oil derricks,
inos. roofs everywhere, are among the men
toned as destroyed in Pennsylvania IN the
late storm. which seemed to cover almost the
entire state.
English farmers and farmers journals feel
verv sore over Secretary Rusk's proposal to
the importation into the United
States of English cattle SO long as the restrlc-
lions upon the landing OF American cattle at
British ports are not removed.
George Wheaton Allen, better known as
Land Bill Allen. the originator OF the home
stead act died at the county inflrmary, Col
1mbus. Ohio, aged 81. He had spent for
tune in the interest of the bill OF which ne
claimed to be the originator.
ENGLISH conservatives at their Birmingham
declared in favor of applying the
PRINCIPLES of the Irish land act to English;
giving laborers and small farmers a chance
to acquire land by installment purchases, not
much, if any, greater than current rental.
A .swhaie back" vessel, valued at $4,000,
left Duluth with 5000 bushels of wheat, Tor
which freight Is charged to the amount OF
$4,000. This would pay for the boat twice
over in one season. allowing return ireiehS
TO cover expenses. Too much freight charges
Thirteen horse car passengers and a red
hot stove were rolled head over heels IN front
of a switching engine in Chicago, and though
the car was reduced almost to kindlinG by
the locomotive and took fire from the stove.
the thirteen people escaped with their lives.
A farmer named Little, living near Hay
den, Ind, while digging we'll recently, dis
covered at depth of forty feet unmistakable
evidence of the glacial period. in the shape
of we'll preserved trunks of trees. the like OF
which do net grow in that locality ct present.
The late storm originated near the Georgia
and Florida line. sweeping thence northeriy
and eas.eriy, Jumping the Alleghenies and
with accelerated force sweeping the country
10 New York. A cyclone center formed IN
Missi ssippi at the same time, passing north
srly farther west than the main storm.