The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-08-19
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| This congress completes athrty years -.
vice in the house for Mr.. O'Neill. of Pennsyl
vania. Mr.. Holman comes next in length q
| representation, Us he has been for twenty
eight years congressman.
The greatest rate war ever known among
southern railroads has been declared. Tho
| Memphis Passenger association has virtually
! collapsed, and il flu ure it will be cut
throat game for business among the trunk
lines.
Southwest Texas has been having heavy
rainfalls, doing much damage. A railroad
bridge was swept away while freight train
was crossing it; the four rear cars went down
and several trainmen killed or Injured. This
! was on the Southern Pacific.
It is authoritIvely stated that James q.
Blaine will speak in the coming campaign in
| the state of Maine.
Our young friend, W. E. Churchill, Who
attended Ellio;t's Business College. BurlinS-
| ton, Ia. has just secured fine position IN
Burlington.
The democratic congressional convention,
which met at Dodge City, Kan, August 16.
after stormy session of three hours, nomi-
mated Jerry Simpson for congress by vote
| of % to SA
At Gloucester, y. j.. during q running
race horse fell and seven others. with their
| riders, piled up on the track. All the riders
out one were taken to a hospital IN an IN
conscious condition, and some of them viii
die.
The 18th and 65th regiments of the New
York militia were held in readiness at their
armorleS In Buffalo and were sent out to pro.
tect railroad yards and trains; leaving the
armories between I and l 80 a. III. of Au-
| gust Ii.
converted Jew entered a synagogue in St
! Paul on the Jewish Sabbath and, IN the He
brew language, began TO preach. At tirst the
! congregation was much taken with him. But
he soon began to preach Christ, and then ho
was dragged out of the synagogue and beaten
severely.
tram of burros from the Mel mines,
state of Sinaloa, Mexico, loaded with $4,000
worth of silver sulphides and guarded By
| twenty men, was attacked by fifteen bandits.
| Three of the guards were killed and the rest
left bound. while the roboers drove off tho
| burros with the loads of treasure.
Advices from San Francisco indicate that
the Southern Pacific is determined to make
the proposed 30 per cent reduction In rates
on canned goods, wines and other commodi-
L
if the commissioners of the Western Trafti0
association decline TO authorize the action.
The motion to dissolve the temporary in
junction in the case of the Symms Grocer
company of Atchisol and others similarly
situated against the state railroad commits
sioners and six railroad companies operating
in Kansas. was overruled by Judge Robert
NJ. Eaton, OF the district court. The case
will be appealed
building which was being erected at
Ogden, n. j., fell. burying twenty men be-
meath its ruins. The accident occurred by
the sudden giving away of a derrick, causing
the entire structure of wooden beams and
| timbers to collapse. Up to late hour at
night twelve men were taken out of the ruins,
| all seriously and four fatally wounded.
The police of Pittsbury have discovered
| another plot to assasslnate II. {. Fnck,
chairman of the Carnegie Steel company.
The intended assassin Is Aaron Ssamm, q
close friend of Bergman and Emma Gold
man. Secretary Lovejoy has been warned
that he has until the 18th inst. to live. Other
officials have also received threatening letters.
The new eight hour law has confused every
thing connected with government contracts
Whether the law stops at the work being
done on the building itself, or whether it
takes IN work on material, ana If so, how far
it reaches back into the forest and stone
quarry, is the question to be decided. This
forces a delay of some weeks on all govern
ment work about to be awarded.
News come from Guthrie, q. T., that the
Iowa Indians have left their allotInents and
have gone TO live with their cousins, tho
Otoes. They say their reason for this is that
there has been received by them from the
coming Messiah revelation to the effect
that in order to receive proper consideration
from him when he comes they must close
their civilized methods Of life and return to
the old methods.
The city of Memphis, Tenn, was thrown
into state of intense excitement over tho
announcement that Governor Buchanan bad
COMMITTED the sentence of II. Clay King, who
was to have been hanged Friday, August II,
for the killing of David PO-ton, to imprisOn-
ment for life. Colonel King was spirited
away to escape being mobbed. crowd
assembled on the street, and after hanging
the governor in effigy set fire 70 the dummy
and watched it burn.
A mob of $50 free miners captured the
stockade at Tracey City, Tenn, placed every
piece of property belonging to the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad company at a safe
distance, took the convicts out and placed
them under guard, and then applied the torch
to the buildings. which were soon mass OF
flames. They then proceeded to the mines
and took possession of the convicts there and
MARCHED them all to the railroad station and
placed them in box cars, cut the telegraph
wires and placed guard over everything in
the yards. The convicts cut the train in two
and made dash for liberty. Several shots
were rred and one was killed and one
wounded Six or eight made GOOD their e.