The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-02-25
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Hurried Readers.
An extra session of the Texas legislature
| has been called for March IA.
Twelve to sixteen feet of snow has fallen IN
| tended over Austrian-P Poland and the Tyrol.
Destruction by avalanches Is almost certain
| to follow.
The grip is playing havoc with the Chero-
KEGS. just east of the Usage agency. Within
radius of ten miles of Skiatook. twenty-five
| have died within the last six weeks and il IS
| still spreading.
An alleged process by which calf skin can
be transferred into first-class leather in ten
hours is the basis upon which a syndicate u
endeavoring to get control of all the tanneries
| IN this country.
The Illinois democratic state central COM
| mittee has decided to hold the next demo-
| cratic state convention at Springfield, April Z.
There is general feeling among the job
| bling grocers along the Missouri river IN favor
of fighting the action had in Topeka concern.
| ing rates on sugar, &c, IN the courts ana IL
| is gaining ground daily.
Indianapolis has another street car strike,
more determined than the first. The mayor
| has refused to put police on the cars, but
promises that the police shall arrest any dis
turbers of the peace of men on the cars.
The Trans-Missouri Freight association il
Dragging that the railroad commissioners Of
Kansas were hoodwinked by the railroadere
when the late settlement was agreed upon be-
| tween them and the Kansas wholesale men.
We shall see.
The Missouri legislature, now in special ses-
| sion, before making appropriation for re-
| building the state university, which was
| burned at Columbia, will decide upon tho
site where it shall be rebuilt. Columbia
| seems likely to loose it.
The Santa Fe route proposes to the West
ern Traffic association to cut down passenger
| rates from the Missouri river to California
points the amount now paid in commissions
| to ticket sellers in the east and to stop pay
| ing the commissions.
At the time the Hill democrat state con-
| vention was in session at Albany. meeting
| of the committee of fifty of anti-TamanY
democrats called q state convention to meet
at Syracuse, May 81, to choose delegates to
the Chicago national convention.
Senior Mendoza Cortes. ex-minister and q
| peer of the kingdom of Portugal, who held
| the office of president of the Lusitano banE
has been arrested on q warrant signed by the
minister of Justice. Frauds are charged IN
| connection with the railway employees PEN
| sion fund.
In the bluffs of small creek. in a hilly
| portion of country near Lathrop, Mo-, gold
| bearing sand, in paying amounts have been
| found while digging two wells, nearly one
| mile apart. The gold bearing sand II fifteen
feet thick, the heaviest deposits of gold being
| in the lower part of it.
The mail service between England and the
| Continent is generally delayed by the storm.
Tho n; 4, s thick with spOvc tina II ia scarCelY
possible to SEQ boats length away, and 2
| tremendous sea - sweeping up the channel.
| The captains of the packets will not venture
| out until the storm abates-
France has at last been sensible enough to
| repeal the law exiting the Bonaparte family,
and the ex-Empress Euoenie will speedily
| take advantage thereof t. visit watering
place on the Mediterranean. What deal OF
| history has been made since she came,
| lovely young girl, from Spain!
Lightning struck the glazing mill of the
| Latin Rand powder works. situated four and
| one-half miles north of Columbus, Kansas,
| exploding 40 kegs of powder which were ui,-
| dergoing the process of glazing, scarcely
| leaving enough of the material of which the
building was composed to even mark the site
| of the building.
The opening of the bridge across the Ms
sissippi at Memphis will be duly celebrated
about April 10. Railway men estimate that
| the opening of the bridge will bring the weet
| and south from twelve TO twentyfOur hours
nearer together in the matter of freight traffic:
and several hours nearer In the matter or
| passenger traffic.
Representative Harter says that he had pre-
sented the request for caucus of the demo-
cratic members on the silver question to
Holman, chairman of the caucus, and bad no
doubt the call would be issued. Many sen1r
tors. he said. had stated to him that they BE-
lieved action on the silver question should %
postponed, and would do what they could to
bring about such result.
Professor Hardness, of the National Obsey-
atory at Washington, Is reported as sayiq&
concerning the recent remarkable aufoHf
DISPLAYS: II wish l could tell you mop
about these auroras and their cause oY !
can't 1t is something of which we kn4W
comparatively little, and about which there
is great uncertainty. though scientists have
made it study for ages"
Anew York paper says it is reported that
the friends of Walter b. Earle, former pa
tent of the Kelley institute. who died insane
after undergoing treatment and being dis-
chared as cured of his incorporate habits.
are going to make things lively for the Kelley.
people. They claim that Earles death wes
caused by the bi-chloride of gold treatment,
and will bring an action for SlCO,OOO dam
ages against Kelley and his associates.
A combination of noted millionaires are
supposed TO have taken in, IN quiet way, all
the wheat bets offered, so that the shorts arc
80 OCO. 900 bushels in the hole at Chicago, and
for comparative amounts IN New York and
across the ocean. Now the combination Ii
about to bulge the price, shaking out tho
shorts and hoppering all their margins. Wneas
must 90 up: one set of gamblers make mil
lions. another set lose, and the farmer who
sold cheap only has regrets left.