The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-21
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

During the past week az the bank of Eng
land discount was easy at per cent. for thres
months and Il per cent. for short.
The cruiser Baltimore on leaving the dry
dock at Vallejo was swung around by fun
ous tide and stuck IN the mud near the wharf.
A dispatch from Rome says that the eoirci-
dsnce OF the deaths of Cardinals Simeoni and
Manning so affected the pope that he e1-
claimed: Il feel that my hour Il also ap-
preaching"
Nineteen horses were burned to death in
the livery barn of Z. {. Smith, az Fremont.
Neb., and all the carriages and other stock
consumed. The fire started from "A over
turned lantern.
Monseigneur Magnasco. archbishop of
Genoa. Italy, is desd; of influenza
The Deariorff building in Kansas City. Mo-,
Is burned. The building and all of its occu-
pants suffered losses, which are covered by
sea tered insurance; no one company being
heavily concerned.
Frank Smith. 4 farmer near 81 Joseph.
Mo-, was killed by the di>ckargN of q revolver
IN the hands of his neighbor. TIE two were
hunting and the neighbor stumbled, which
discharged the weapon.
Reports from northern Vermont show the
rural sections 20 b suffering from severe at
tacks of II Grippe. Many families arc pros
trated by 1t. and there his been a remarkable
mortality among aged persons.
The results of artificial irrigation IN Mon
Nna have been most encouraging. Overtwo-
thirds of the farms OF that state arc supplied
with water by artificial means, and they have
developed a high degree of fertility.
Henry L Preston. editor of tho Kansas
City Sunday Sun has been indie cd and ar
=
ing or selling publication Of the character
of the Sun Is from two to five years IN prison.
The two Kansas City. Mo-. fires Sunday
left the ruins festoOned with icicics. and tho
streets mass of ICE: the water AZ enc time
being four feet deep in places Some Of thu
tiremen's trucks had to Re chopped oue Of tho
ice next day.
The New York World. in an article about
Senator Plumb, calls him George B. Plumb
all through II. New York newspaper writers
are getting 10 be about rs ignorant concern
ing Americans As the London newspapers
have always been.
The infantry companies now Stationed at
Fort Reno, q. T., have been ordered to Texas
for service. II Is presumed they are to take
part In the troubles on the Rio Grandc. The
Fifth cavalry Is expected To take upth march
for Texas at any moment.
On the London stock exchange business
has been notably contracted. HE fact that
remarkable number of members are suffer
Ing from influenza retarded dealings. The
general tendency was downwards, yet several
American railroad securities advanced.
Tie collier San Matoe has been chartered
at San Francisco to take coal fror, Nanaimo
To Chill. The captain Of the collier states
that the United States government has char
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his cargo through as rapidly as possible.
The interstate commerce commission has
decided that railroad company cannot ex-
act from coal shipper a promise 70 pay de-
murrage in case he fails 70 unload coal within
forty-eight hours; the promise being made a
condition of delivery upon the dealers switch
Victoria has announced that the funeral Of
the duke would be u state affair and that it
would be held in St. Georges chapel. Wind
sor palace. 1t was in this chapel that the
marriage of the duke To the Princes Victoria
Mary was to have taken place on February
- next.
Halifax is experiencing the most e1traor-
binary weather In its history. No snow has
fallen so far and there have been but ono or
two cold days. Ii was mild as n spring
day and ram fell. The unusual weather ia
the cause of a great deal OF the prevailing
sickness.
An Encli=hnan in Washington has started
a subscription among English ship owners to
raise the required amount TO send donated
provisions from this country ~ Russia. IL
will be remembered that the lower house OF
congress refused 10 allow government YES
sci to carry that cargo.
General Schoield saws that tn. latest re-
ports from General Stanley, commanding
- 4 s I'D, ~ 49, nr
za's band was badly scattered and nearly dis
organized: the men were hiding In the chap
paral and that United States troops were close
on the trail of Cara, with reasOnat,se expec-
tations of capturing him.
Mrs. Mary Simpson. fashionable dress
maker committed suicide IN a novel manner
at Chicago. Walking out upon the ice at the
foot of Ohio stree she Invested herself OF all
her clothing and lay down in a perfec ly nude
state upon the ice to die. Her dead and rigid
body was found there next morning. She had
been sick and Is supposed to have become in
sane.
Since the now wheat has been available the
Minneapolis mills have rJIl n they never run
before, their work for the first four months
of the crop year being Unprcceicn I'd rs o
the quantity OF flour made. The output for
the calendar year, too. Is above anything ever
before done. The year OF lSSS, tcret Ofore
the banner year, is exceeded by over 10000
barrels.
An academy in Montreal burne1 a day or
two since. II is conducted by the Providence
nuns. and there are over aUJ children III the
institution The flames spreai rapidly and
the creates. confusion reiSned. The nuns
had the utrnos. difficulty IN preventing
panic. The fremen finally succeeded In at
ting all the nuns and pupils safely ous # thu
building The loss will be heavy.