The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-10-22

MINNESOTA Presbyterians arc op-
posed to the opening Of the worlds fair
on Sundays.
NATURAL gas in great quantity has
been discovered near Cairo, Ill
Mrs. MINNIE MILLER. of Chicago. the
third victim of the Baltimore & Ohio
wreck at Hicksville. O., is dead. Two
other ladies are critically injured
THE Ecumenical Methodist confer
ence adopted unanimously petition to
the United States commissioners of the
worlds fair. protesting against the pro-
posed opening of the fair on Sundays
Two passengers were killed and sew
eral injured by the overturning of H
& O. train at Hicksville, O.
GEN. McCooK recommends the forti-
fcation of San Diego, Cal.
EPIZooTIc is very prevalent at Quincy.
Ill. among horses and mules. In two
livery stables almost every horse has it
1t is estimated that two-thirds of the
horses and mules in the city are afflicted
with the disease, which some claim to
be the grip
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were killed by train in a suburb OF
Chicago Another child was fatally
hurt.
Two coal miners at Red Lodge,
Mont, were crushed to death under a
huge fall of rock.
The boiler of the steamer Evangel
exploded near Port Townsend, Wash.
Three men were killed. The Evangel
was built by the pennies of eastern
Sunday school children for missionary
boat.
THREE of the staff of the Inter Ocean
and the engineer were killed at Crete,
ILL.,. by the engine on which all were
riding going into an open switch. The
object of the newspaper men being on
the engine was to illustrate a midnight
ride.
LAND COMMISSIONER HAUGEN. of the
St Paul road. who has recently re-
turned from Minnesota and Dakota,
says reports of great damage to grain
in Dakota are false Mr.. Haugen found
but little grain there that had not been
threshed.
THE Ayres & Wygart musical instru-
ment company, of Chicago. has failed
because of lack of capital
j. r. STEVENSON, aged 81. professor
of astronomy in the high school at
Quincy. Ill. committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. No cause
was assigned.
The bodies of 900 soldiers who fell in
the battle of Fort Recovery, O., when
St Clair was defeated by the Indians
100 years ago. including the body of
Gen. Butler. Were inferred on the 10th
with impressive ceremonies in one inn
mense grave at the cemetery set apart
by the government for that purpose.
Over sc, 900 people were on the grounds.
FRED E. SCRIMsER, president and M.
Dawson, cashier, of the Wyoming ma
tional bank, were drowned by the up
setting of a sailboat in Hutton's lake,
eight miles from Laramie. Wyo
The Panhandle vestibule limited was
wrecked at Mingo Junction. four miles
west of Steubenville, O., recently. Two
persons were killed and four seriously
injured.
JUDGE WILLIAM JOHNSTON, once q
noted jurist of Cincinnati and an init
mate friend of Secretary Stanton dur
ing the war, is dead
ANOTHER and very determined effort
is to be made for the release of Oscar
Neebe, who was convicted with the
Chicago anarchists and sent to Joliet
for fifteen years.
A DISPATCH to the Chicago Times
from Washington speaks of an opium
ring and says that two senators and
five representatives are implicated.
ONE hundred and twenty men en-
ployed on the electrical building at the
worlds fair ground quit work because
their foreman, William Irving, had
been given the alternative to accept a
position at 40 cents an hour or quit
THE wife of Allen G. Thurman ex-
pired at Columbus, O., on the 18th. She
was born in Chillicothe. O.. in 1911, her
maiden name being Mary Dunn.
THE SOUTH.
The American newspaper building at
Nashville, Tenn, has been Quilted by
fire.
GEORGE and Jim Howard were shot
and killed near Mount Sterling, Ky,
by a man named Cupps. whose house
the two tried to enter to whip Cupps
Rev. FATHER FRANCIS WUYrs. eccle-
siastical superior of the Lorettoans, died
at Loretto convent in Marion county,
Ky. He was a native of Belgium and
was a man of profound learning.
SAM WRIGHT. colored, was hanged by
a mob near Helena, Ga, for assaulting
Miss Ada Beckwith. He denied his
guilt but Miss Beckwith positively
identified him.
DIR. j. A. P. BAKER, of Abingdon.
Va, convicted of the murder of his
wife by poison. has been granted
new trial
GEN. w. II. F. LEE, second son of Gen.
r E. Lee. died at Ravenworth, Fair
fax county, Va, aged 81. Gen Lee
had represented the district for two
terms in congress and was a member.
elect of the next house.