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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Missouri University Burned.

Missouri University Burned.
COLUMBIA, No., January 1.-THE main
building of the state university of Missouri is
destroyed by FIRE, causing loss of 500, 900.
= One of the literary societies of the univer-
sity had arranged to give an entertainment
IN the chapel, and the audience had just as
sembled, when the smell of smoke attracted
general attention. Investigation discovered
the fact that fire had started in the library,
directly above the chapel, and was burning
6ercely.
The audience dispersed quietly while the
students did all they could to subdue the
flames and save the contents of the building.
The village fire department could not cope
with the flames and they confined their efforts
to save the adjoining buildings, in which
they were successful.
The main building was completely de-
stroyed and only small portion of the con-
tents saved. The loss IS $4O0, 600 and the in
surance $4,000.
The entire library, consisting of 10000 vol
umes, was wholly destroyed. 1t was insured
for $4,000.
The building contained all the recitation
rooms, the chapel and large auditorium,
besides the library. The main part of the
building was constructed in 1915 at q cost of
500, ZOO, and two large wings have been added
in the last ten years at an additional cost of
$4,000.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Summed I'd.

NcALEsrER, 1. T., January BIN an in
terview William Cameron, superintendent of
the mines, said:
'Thity-nine men were killed in the mine
and eighteen have died since. The company
cen in no way be held responsible for the ex-
ploslop, as the mine has been carefully exam
med by experts, who claim the ventilation
was good and there was no gas in any part OF
the mine. The fault was in the entryman
firing his shots contrary to orders, which
were not to be fired until 5 30 p. w., when all
the men would be out OF the mine. The fan
never stopped running and the 1856 live men
were taken out within seven hours after the
explosion, thus showing splendid manage
ment. The mines will be clear within ten days
and 1t will take $50 car loads of slate and rock
to clear the first passage"
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Slippery Diplomacy.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-When on November
20 of last year Attorney General Miller made
the announcement before the supreme court
bfthe United States that the basis for arbitrat-
ing the Behring sea difficulty has been reach
sd, he was saying what, of course, was at the
time strictly true.
{ An agreement seemed to have been arrived
ut - to the different questions to be submit
ted to the erbitrators.
1 The only matter open for further considera-
tion was tho manner in which the arbitrators
were to be selected and their number.
This, it was confidently believed, would
present no serious difficulty.
What Attorney General Miller announced,
however, no longer holds good. 1t will be
remembered that the agreement he spoke of
was not original.
In other words it was not in the nature of a
regular Treaty.
IIt WAS simply series of propositions
agreed upon by Secretary Blaine and Sir
Julien Pauncefote, reduced to writing,
which had received the sanction ON one hand
Of President Harrison, and on the other of
Lord Salisbury.
All this has now been upset by demands on
the part of Lord Salisbury for further modi-
f1cafim of the agreement reached in Novem-
Der. Precisely what is the nature of these de-
mands i Is impossible to ascertain.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
A Romantic Case.

CHICO, CAL, January 81. P. Mcintyre,
a private detective of st. Johnsbury, VT,
arrived here, hired team and went over to
Glenn county in search of ]. NJ. Martin ana
wife, the latter being the rightful heir to a
fortune left by her father, ex-Congerssman
Cross, of Vermont. About ten years ago
Bertha Cross met Martin in Washington, D.
c.; as the father opposed the marriage, the
couple eloped. Several years later they came
to California. The mother of the girl has
since died and last July the father died, leav-
ing the entire fortune of about 81 100000 to
this only daughter. Detectives have been
searching since the fathers death and finally
located the daughter in Glenn county. Mar
tin for several years lived in this city in very
poor circumstances and month ago moved
to Glenn county. Martin and his wife and
the detective left to-day for st. Johnsbury.
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and promise reparation to the Omitted Saes
until the trial shall have taken place and The
Minister Months statements warrant the
assumption that the trial is to begin lmmedi-
ately, and if it is clearly apparent that the
regular processes of Gillian law are being
carried forward with the proper expedition,
and that there is, therefore, no ground to ex-
pect an apology, the United States govern
ment will doubtless continue to await the re-
suit for a reasonable length of time.
Minister Mont characterizes as absurd the
statement coming from Vallejo, Cal, that
Davidson, the Baltimore's sailor, was tried
and convicted in Chill without his knowledge
or that of the officers of the vessel.
A grave disparity Is to be noted between
the findings of the Gillian district attorney
and the testimony collected from the Balti-
more's people concerning the attack ON them.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Why He Sold Goods so Low.

MK1Ico, No., January IA remarkably
smooth piece of detective work has been un-
earthed here. A detective opened grocery
store here several months ago and undersold
every merchant in town. 1t Is now found
that he is in the employ of st. Louis tobacco
company, and has saved his firm about $50,
coo in rebates, which it owed to jobbing
houses in case they kept their part of the con-
tract existing.
These contracts forbid jobbers from selling
tobacco at cut rates and provide that each
jobber should receive a cash rebate at tho
end of each year. Brown" bought goods in
small lots and always purchased tobacco.
Wherever he received a cent in reduction on
prices he reported to his firm.
He caused one firm in Kansas City to for
felt SC, 900 in rebate and in all tapped jobbers
of that city for $4,000. He got about the
same from the resources of st. Louis firms.
When he had worked them all he stuck a sign
on his door which announced that he was in
voicing and packed his goods and went to st.
Louis. His work was done.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Our Sailors Tell Their Story.

Our sailors Tell Their story.
VALLEJO, CAL, January 12.-Nearly all of
the crew of the Baltimore have now testified,
and the officers take the stand next.
The case of the United States, as stated by
President Harrison in his message, has been
fully made out. There can no longer be any
doubt of q mob organized before hand.
Every sailor was warned by ut least one per-
son that the Baltimore's men would be at
tackled at dark. The clerk of the bank where
they changed their money warned some of
them. An English sea captain stopped others
ON the street and warned them, and many
others in all classes of society also gave warn
ings. As result, many of the sailors kept
away from the low part of town and went to
the fashionable residence and business part,
to be followed and attacked by the mob.
There were at least four different localities,
some of them over mile apart, where the at
tacks on the sailors were made simultane-
ously.
The shameful part played by the Valparaiso
police and soldiers becomes more and more
evident daily. Nearly every witness was
abused and insulted by them. The evidence
is abundent that it was these who shot and
killed Riggin.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Inauguration In Ohio.

Columbus, O.-Wllliam Mckinley, Jr., was
inaugurated governor of Ohio with imposing
pageantry unexampled in the states history.
The city was crowded with people from all
parts of Ohio, and large delegations from
neighboring states. All the state institutions
and city schools had holiday to witness the
grand demonstration.
At II 30 the legislature, supreme court,
state officers and members of the press. AS
sembled in the senate chamber and there pre-
ceded by Governor Campbell and Governor
elect Mckinley, marched to the rotunda of
the capitol.
At noon. after a happy introduction speech
by Governor Campbell, Chief Justice Mar
shall ]. Williams, of the supreme court, ad-
ministered the oath of Office to Major McKin-
ley, who thereupOn assumed the functions of
the governorship.
He then delivered the inaugural address,
surrounded on the stage by his wife, ex-Gov-
ernor Campbell and family, the members of
the legislature, members of the press, rela-
tives of his family and other distinguished
and invited guests.
In his inaugural address he advocated the
making of laws which will insure the better
protection of the lives eff railway employees.
several recommendations designed to per-
feet it.
Regarding the re-districting of the state for
representatives in congress, he hoped the
arrangements of the districts would be done
with fairness to all.
Extreme partisanship," he continued, Sin
their arrangement should be avoided. There
is a sense of fair play among the people which
is prompt to condemn a fragrant misuse of
party advantage at the expense of popular
suffrage.
"Partisanship is not to be discouraged, but
encouraged in all things where principle is at
stake; but a pariisanehip which would take
from the people their just representation, as
in the case of the congressional re-districting
by the last Legislature, Is an abuse Of power
which the people are swift to rebuke.
"You must have observed from the returns
of the late election that tire party which ear
Iied the state by a plurality of more than
u 900, and which received plurality in fifty
one counties in the Lightweight in Ohio. car
ried but seven congressional districts OF the
twenty-One, the minority party thus control
ling two-thirds of the congressional districts
and the majority party only one-third.
ut will be your duty to re-enfranchise the
citizens of Ohio who were DISTINGUISHED by
the last legislative 'gerrymander' and to re-
store to the people their rightful voice III the
national house of representatives.
Free suffrage is of little service to citizens
if it's force can be defeated by legislative
Vaccinations in the form of a gerrymander.
The districts should be made so as to give the
party majority in the state a majority of rep
resentatives, and so arranged that if the party
majority shall change the representative ma
jority shall also change"
In the evening from 80 to 10 30 o'clock,
Governor and Mrs. Mckinley gave a grand
reception to the public at their headquarters,
Chittenden hotel.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Big Suit Against Jay Conld.

Big quit Against Jay OCnIO.
KANSAS CRIT, KAN, January 12.@Suit has
been begun in the court of common pleas by
the Northwestern Construction company
against Jay Gould for $435, coo, and q writ of
attachment for that amount was issued against
the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific roads.
The plaintiffs charge that on June 10, 1880,
they contracted to sell Jay Gould the follow
ing securities: 81, GIG, 600 first mortgage bonds
of the Kansas City, Wyando.te Il Northwest
ern railroad, 16, 600 shares of the capital stock
of the road, So, 600 of unpaid coupons on its
first mortgage bonds, an open account of
$273 600 on the Northwestern railroad, claim
for balance due from A. b. Stickney and the
Chicago, 81. Paul 4 Kansas City railroad and
forty acres of land near Kansas City, Kan,
the whole amounting to 100000. all of
which the plaintiffs claim Was purchased by
Mr.. Gould on June 10, 1880, at New York
city by his indorsing on The proposition his
acceptance of The Offer.
The Wall street wizard refused, it u claimed,
to carry out his contract because $135, 600
worth of the coupons had been punched q if
for cancellation. He declared them not mar
ketable, although there vas attached to them
affdavits proving they were not paid.
Tho company alleges that there IL still due
on the contract $83o. 900 and they ask for that
sum. They also 4aFnishee the Union Pacific
and Missouri Pacific roed TO secure the
money.
The suit Is one of the largest ever brought
in Wyandotte county and win attract cousid-
cradle attention IN railroad circles.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
The Remedies.

TOPEKA, January s.-Governor Humphrey
thinks that the remedy for the troubles in
the sparsely settled counties in southwestern
Kansas, Is for the legislature 10 disorganize
them and attach them to more populous coun-
tics for judicial purposes; SO that criminals
may be tried and punished. As the law now is,
and as these counties are now populated, it is
impossible to set jury, as was demonstrated
in the Brennan case.
Attorney General Ives concurs in this, but
also suggests that speedy remedy may lie in
declaring that country under martial law.
This would give opportunity for speedy set
Element of the difficulty by court martial
trials and military executions.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Cherokee Sooners.

GUTHRIE, I. T., January 12.-Information
has been received here that 100 Cherokee
have arrived on the strip, and have staked O!
claims on the most fertile land obtainable.
They expect to hold eighty acres each By
virtue of article of the recent Cherokee
treaty, which provides that 'those Cherokees
now resident upon the strip may take eighty
acres of land which shall cover their improve
ments."
It Is believed they have secured this article
in the treaty for the very purpose Of cheating
white settlers out of much of the most fertile
land in the strip.
Many more families are getting ready to
move, and unless congress acts speedily the
Indians will secure the most valuable lands.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
a Great Storm.

LONDON, January 1.-THE heavy snow
storm continues here, in Scotland and in the
north of Ireland. All traffic in the snow
covered districts may be said to have COM
pletely stopped.
The present visitation is said to be tho
most severe which has swept these shores in
ten years.
From a station in Caithness, the most
northerly country in Scotland, q train is fast
imbedded in the snow, and in spite of the ef-
forts of rescuing parties, it has been impossi-
BILE to succor the passengers and railroad
crew on board the train.
On some of the railway lines, traffic has
been SO entirely stopped that the officials
have deferred any further efforts to break
the blockade until the weather moderates.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
A Brave Officer.

TorEKA, January Sit is learned that
Judge Botkin sent the following letter to
Mrs Dunn, wife o. the assassinated sheriff:
Dear Mrs Damn:
''The arrow that has go cruelty pierced your
heart, also entered mine. Your late husband
way my true ard often tried friend. He
faced whole mob of nearly thirty men and
nS to he smiled aDa thew
have hit me, and then firing again at his muir
derers,. he said to Joe and H. p. Larabee,
under-sheriff, Boys that bullet will kill me
in half a minute. Get out of here, if you
can, and tell Judge it's good and sweet to die
for ones friendsv would that words of
mine might console you in your grief.
Your friend. THEo. BOIKN."
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14

In the Case Of the State Agent.
ToPHKA, January 1.-The supreme court
deny the wnt of mandamus asked by State
Agent w. w. Martin against Governor
Humphrey, Auditor Hovey and Attorney
General Ives, to compel them to enter into q
contract with him for the compensation.
On the 18th of March, 1891. Governor
Humphrey appointed W. W. Martin state
agent, and Mr.. Martin, when appointed, asked
the governor, auditor and attorney general to
make a contract with him for compensation
for his services.
The supreme court in this opinion decided
that the officers of the state cannot make q
contract binding to state to pay out money
not appropriated for that purpose.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
ATeacher's Throat Cut.

n 6aCn0F 3 NFOdC cut.
TopEkA, January 9.-Win Ehrhart, teacher
of the Indian creek school, district No. 20,
four miles north of Topeka, was attacked by
three of his scholars after school, and re-
ceived injuries from which he will die.
The leader of the boys is said to be young
son of George Kistler, an old and prominent
Shawnee county citizen. The Kistler boy
was assisted by two Others, whose names
have not been learned.
The boys threw Ehrhart down on tho floor,
struck him over the head with an iron poker,
and cut his throat with pocket knife.
LATER.-Ehrhsrt lost much blood, but il
not in q dangerous state.
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A Woman'S Idea.

Pm1ADz1PMA; Pa, January Sins. VIII
liam L. Elkins, wife of the well known street
railway magnate, one of the members from
this state, of the board of women commits
siQners Of the Columbian exposition, takes a
positive position in favor of keeping the
worlds fair open on Sunday. Il am in
favor of keeping the fair open upon every
Sunday from the day it opens until the
close" said she to q reporter. 81 think that
everyone, no matter what his or her station
in life may be, OF what may be their employ
ment, should be given an opportunity to
view every one of the many wonderful or in
teresting things that will be upon the exposi-
ton grounds"
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NKw YoRK, January u.-R. G. Dun d Co. 3
weekly report of trade says: The first week
of the new year was marked by some striking
events. The changes do not threaten, but
promise to hep tie Legitimate business o: the
country, which over-contdent speculation a.
this time might have embarrassed.
The government issued this week its final
statement of the yield of wheat, corn and
oats. The yield of wheat now reported so
far exceeds previous department estimates
that the price has dropped sharply 81 cents
fer the week by sales of only Il, 0O0, 900 BUSH
els. Oats also dropped ~ cents, but corn
rose hc on large exports, actually exceeding
those of wheat for three days Of the week
and sustaining the price.
Pork products are scarcely changed; Oil
rose 2ac and coffee Ac. Cotton has dropped
to the lowest price since early in 1849, VIZ. {:
70.A for middling uplands. The receipts at
the south continue greater than last year,
and though the exports are also greater, the
stock accumula ed and largely carried by
banks at various points has depressing in
fuence. This affects trade throughout the
south but in other parts of the country trade
is fair for this season, New Years quiet not
having entirely passed.
Chicago reports some increase IN receipts
of barley, CURED meats, cheese and cattle.
Receipts of oats nearly double last years, of
flour, corn, rye and dressed beef fully double,
and of wheat, thres times last years.
Dry goods sales are light though payments
are better. Sales of clothing and shoes are
larger than year ago, and money Is in fair
demand, with the supply ample for legiti-
mate trade.
At St. Louis cold weather caused Q better
trade in heavy clothing and other trade is
reasonable, the grain blockade having been
broken.
Trade at Kansas City Is quiet and money
in light demand.
Collections Throughout the northwest are
very fair, though slow at most southern
points.
The great industries report no important
change though in iron large business il be-
ing done, and the tone is improved.
The money market has been we'll supplied
out the northwest it is easier.
In brief, the business prospects of the
country are remarkably favorable for the be-
ginning of the new year, excepting Ut the
south, and while the depression IA chat sec
ton may considerably affect some trades and
branches of manufactures, the uplifting in
fluence of the large northern crops and the
unprecedented foreign demand for northern
products, gives substantial ground for the
81 Eat confidence which prevails.
The business failures throughout the coun-
try for the past week were 435, compared
with 329 the previous week. The figures for
the corresponding week last year were 403.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Kansas Wholesalers Promised
Speedy Relief.


TOPEKA, January 1.-THE State Board Of
Railroad Commissioners issued their deci-
sion in the celebrated Kansas wholesale groc-
ers case, in which the wholesale men of
Hutchinson, Wichita, Salina and Arkansas
City, charged that the railroads were in q
trust to keep up rates on sugar and other
groceries, in the interest of the Missouri riv-
er wholesale points.
The railroad commissioners say if the rail-
roads don't make rates by February LIST to
put Kansas wholesale grocers on an equal
footing with Kansas City and Missouri river
dealers, the commissioners will make rate
and enforce it February 10th.
The rate on sugar from San Francisco to
the Missouri river is uniform on all lines
slxty-five cents hundred pounds. The rate
from the same point TO interior Kansas
points is the Missouri river rate with the local
rate back to such points added.
In other words, Kansas wholesale mer-
chants are comp ,lled to pay $1.W for much
less service than their Kansas City cOmpeti-
tor gets for sixty-fve cents.
To enforce this, the railway companies and
sugar producers cooperate with each other.
The producers will not sell sugar at San
Francisco, subject to direct billing and ship
ment to the Kansas wholesale dealers. It
must be cold and routed via Kansas City, Mo-,
II 6OlQ 20 tnom ot all. Line follrO2oS VIII not
deliver the sugar to the Kansas gr0cers en-
route on payment of river rates, although it
Is carried past their very doors, but will only
deliver it in transit on payment Of added
charge equal to the charge of shipping it
back from Kansas City to the point of such
delivery.
The railroad companies give two reasons
for the existence of the presen. rates one
that Spreckles and Havemeyer, tho sugar
kings, are responsible for it, and the other
that it is due to the Missouri river and Cana
dian competition in the sugar tratic.
The second part of the complaint Is de-
voted to Kansas distributive rates.
Tho Kansas wholesale grOcers, in their re-
spective towns in interior Kansas, seek to dis
tribute their goods to country dealers within
the country naturally tributary to them. The
territory IS chiefly in the state of Kansas.
This composition is confined to the jobbing
cities along the Missouri river.
The decision shows by table comparing
rates from Kansas City and between Kansas
wholesale points to other Kansas points, that
Kansas retail grooen must, on account of
these rates, buy their goods at Kansas City,
rather than patronize their natural local
wholesale dealeIs.
The commission holds that the existing
rates are unjust, and Q hardship to the Kan
cas- Wholesale Grocers.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
Arkansas Boycotted.

GAnsvuLl, Tx, January ia large
meeting of Santa Fe railroad employees was
held here at which resolutions were passed
not to handle any freight that came from or
went to the Arkansas Pass road.
A resolution was also passed asking the Of
fcials not to receive any such freight for
shipment. If any such freight should be
brought here it Is thought the men viii quit In
preference to handling it.
EMPLOYEES of the International and Great
Northern railway company have taken simi-
lAHaction, giving notice to the company that
after thirty-sH hours notification no Arkansas
Pass freight would be touched.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-01-14
AN English Syndicate.

OcDHS, CrAH, January 11.-Joseph Clark,
Espresentins an sEnglish syndicate, has
bought twenty 4hree, or all but six of The
nour mills in Utah. The transaction in
wolves q, 800, 600 for plants and $4,000 for
tie stock now ON hand. The company pro-
poees to erect number of elevators, and e1-
pssls to control The entire wheat crop Of ths
Territory.