The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-16
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The entire republican ticket IN Maine is
elected. The republican nominee for gov
ernor received 1000 majority.
The treasury department purchased 1,000,-
600 ounces of silver at prices ranging from
80, 1854 to .SS5S on September 8.
Big failures are occurring in London, pre-
cipitated by the collapse of gigantic bank
and building associations. The losses which
led to the suspensions arc chiefly traceable 70
injudicious speculations in land blocks.
The American Bankers Association in
session at San Francisco, has adopted q res
olution to do away with the customary three
days of grace on all notes. All banks of the
country are expected to be governed By tho
new rule.
A steamer from New York was quarantined
for three days at Havana
Anna. ILL.,. was visited by an earthquake
shock at , O'Clock p. m, September Ii.
The Great Northern has fled its notice of
withdrawal from the Western Traffic assOci-
alton.
The Rock Island road has commenced
work on a sixty mile branch from its main
line near Jensen, Neb., to Lincoln.
In 1871 Kansas had one member of con-
greSS and Minnesota had two; now Kansas
has eight members and Minnesota has seven.
We are pleased to know that our young
friend E ". Birkes. upon the completion of
his course at Elliott's Business College, Bur
lington, Ia, secured an excellent position Ia
st. Louis.
The railway supply house of Joseph Joseph
i Bros, Cincinnati, is destroyed by fire.
The loss, as estimated. will reach so, 0sO
The entire front of the building was packed
full of cotton waste ready for shipment.
The Lombard Investment company Of
Kansas City, No., has been overhauling its
books and finds heavy defalcatious by book
keepers and clerks. Two OF them are to be
brought back from the City of Mexico.
The Pacific express on the Missouri Pacific
Wichita train was robbed of all money In its
safe by two robbers who entered the tram
soon after leaving Kansas City, and who
bound and gagged the messenger, and left
he train at the next station.
Southern Minnesota and Wisconsin was
viSitel. September 10. by one of the worst
wind, rain and hail storms known in twenty
years. The damage to crops will be heavy.
In some places turkeys and chickens were
killed by hail and sparrows covered the
ground.
Eight m,n were killed and three fatally
injured in collision on the Clearfield Il
Cambria railroad at 8 p. M, near Altoona,
Pa. September s. As a result of disobeying
orders, the work train met the passenger
train In deep cut. None of the passengers
were hurt.
London cable says: Official reports
show that cholera has been absolutely
stamped out of the united kingdom. The
local government board authorities of the
chief ports and the greatest populous centers
concur in the statement that no cases of real
cholera, and but only a few choleric cases
have occurred
posse encountered the train robbers Ev-
ans and Sontag, who they ha6 tracked f1rty-
five miles through the mountains, at Samp-
son Flats, Cal, and exchanged shots. The
robbers made desperate defense. killing
element prevails, and additional officers are
in pursuit of the robbers.
Nancy Hanks trotted mile in :O7 fiat at
st. Paul, September .; beating her own
record, which already beat the world. She
made the first quarter in 227a the half IN
:03I5; three-QuarterS In l :3fi., and as she
came under the wire in , :O1 she turned her
head to the grand stand, with the plain ex-
preston of ''Well, l have done it,
Santa Fee passenger train was held up at
Wharton station, twenty miles north OF
Guthrie, y. l., september Z. but the ROD
bers secured nothing but a couple of baskets
of grapes, the express messenger having hid
the valuables of the safe while the robbers
were etfecting an entrance TO the car. No
effort was made &c rob the passengers
Chief Arthur, of the engineers, is out with
belligerent paragraphs against the Reading
railroad company, charging that two engi-
neers have been discharged for being men,
bers of the brotherhood. The roads officials
are distributing car loads of constables at
principal points on the line, and station
agents are directed to remain in their sta
lions night and day.
At WATERFOWL Junction, near Cambridge
station, at 10 40 2. NJ. September 10, heavy
freight crashed into the rear end of passen-
ger train standing on the track and tele-
scoped the rear car, killing eight persons and
wounding thirty others. The force of the
collision smashed the front end of the boiler
and cylinders and the escaping steam added
horror TO the situation. Nearly every per-
son On the passenger train was more or less
injured.
mob of from 300 to 400 took possession
Of the docks at Fire leland, armed with shot
yun5 and other weapons, and twice resisted
Ill attempts made TO land passengers from
he steam boat Cepheus, which was hired TO
AXE them from the Inflated NOrrnannia.
The hotels and houses had been secured for
he accommodation of the first and second
,abin passengers, but appeals from men and
women to let them land were received With
brutal ieers by the mob. and the day will be
ooked upon as one of the most horrible re-
oroaches on American civilization that ever
occurred Ii American history.