The Globe-republican., 1892-04-07

Dodge CITY, Kansas.
ninety feet trestle on the Memphis road,
near Seymour, Mo-, has been burned.
Worlds fairs: Vienna, 40 acres, cost $,-
600 1000 in preparation: Philadelphia, 40 acres,
cost s., 600 200; Paris, 1889, 60 acres, cost $1O
100000; Chicago, 800 acres, cost S25,OOO,OO0
1t is reported at Omaha that ]. S. Leeds
will be appointed traffic manager OF the
Union Pacific, to succeed c. 8. Mellen, who
resigned. This is contingent upon Jay Gould
continuing in control of the road.
By the settlement arrived at between the
managers of the Santa Fe road and the tele-
graph operators employed by the company,
advances in their pay will increase the a9gre-
gate paid to this class of employees $4,000
year.
w. r. Hill, of Baltimore, claims that he is
the inventor of the balloons now in use by
the German army observation corps.
General w. S. Singleton died at Baltimore,
aged 81 years. In 1855 President Lincoln IN
trusted General Singleton with mission to
Richmond. whittier he went four times and
conferred with jefferson Davis and others. q
Wonderful tales are told of the action of
the wind in the late gale which covered many
states 1t is fact that the most lively mag
inatlon cannot concoct story but that the
real cyclone will beat; if not in kind, yet in
degree.
The "Yellow house." the presidents resi-
dence in Caracas Venezuela, was the scene
of bomb explosion, which DESTROYED every
window and partially wrecked the building:
The president was in council with his chief
officers at the time.
The commissioner of the Indian bureau
has been informed of serious damage to the
building of the Haskell institute. He made
known the fact to Senator Perkins, who sue
ceeded in attaching to the appropriation bill
81, 600 to be used in repairing damages.
Whitelaw Reid says that the recent attitude
of the pope advising the Catholic subjects of
France to support the constituted authorities
has had the effect of attaching the clerical
party to the cause of the republic, although
hitherto they have been in sympathy with
monarchy.
The executive council, consisting of the
state officers of Kansas, at their annual meet
ing on the last Wednesday in March, reap.
-,ointed George T. Anthony as member OF
ne board of railroad commissioners. The
Topeka Capital: WAS named as the official state
paper for another year.
An exodus to the Cherokee strip and Okla
homa from Denison. Tex, has begun and 2OO
citizens are bound thither in wagons and on
foot They are all of the better class. clerks,
men of character and standing, and some
professional men. They 60 to take advan-
tage of the approaching opening OF the new
lands.
A private letter from Angola, on the Rus
sian frontier, tells horrible tale OF suffering
among the Russian people. The letter says
that in spite of food sent from America, peo-
pie are dropping dead in the streets from
starvation. The food as it is distributed
through the infected country is seized by
rabid officials and shared among them.
A fire in New Orleans destroyed three cotton
presses with, ten. ten and fifty thousand bales
of cotton: with ten thousand more in yards.
A whole block was burned. There Will be
salvage on the cotton, so much as to bring
the total loss down nearly to S,OOO,OO ON
cotton and $50 900 on presses and sheds. 1t
is thought that the fire started from clga-
rette.
At a meeting of the democratic congress
sional campaign committee, John L. Mitch
ell, of Wisconsin, was elected chairman; Law
renee Gardner, District of Columbia, secre-
tary, and j. L. Norris, District OF Columbia,
treasurer. Among names of state members
of the committee are: Kansas. 5. +. Nicely;
Missouri, Seth W. Cobb; Oklahoma, Dudley
B. Madden.
The Figaro of Paris, publishes interviews
with two leading anarchists. They declared
that the members of the party were acting
singly on their own responsibility, and that
there was no preconcerted plan to cause ex-
blossoms. Both of them expressed themselves
as delighted with the moral effect OF the ex-
blossoms which, they said, would direct greater
attention to their doctrine.
With no certainty as to where the anarch-
lists will strike their next blow visitors to Far
is deem it the safer plan to leave the city,
much to the disgust of hotel prOprietors and
shopkeepers. There is no denying the fact
that the expressed intention of anarchists to
inaugurate reign of terror has caused con
sternation. Their success in this direction
has embroidered them to the commission of
further crimes, and the people daily, nay
hourly, expect to hear of other dynamite out
RACES.
Great excitement was caused at Madrid by
the discovery of an anarchist plot to blow up
the chamber of deputies. Two arrests were
made. document was found on the prls-
oners containing the draft of the plan OF ac-
ton of q cosmopolitan society accordingt
which the conspirators were first to blow up
the chamber of deputies: second, the senate:
third, the law courts; fourth the council OF
state: fifth, the ministry of war; sixth, the
royal palace m the chapal, and seventh. the
Bank of Spain. All this work was to be CON-
pleted before May day.
Notice to Kansas Contractors.
Sealed proposals for the construction of the
Kansas Worlds Columbian building will be
received at the Office of w. H. Smith, 122