The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-12-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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$3.50. 600 East India goods to the
value of q. 0o0, coo were stored in tho
building.
An imperial edict published at Pekin
orders the building Of . double line Of
railway from Pekin to Tien Tsin, the
rails to weigh eighty-five pounds per
yard. Tho estimated cost Of the road
Is s., 000, 900.
The representatives Of Yale won the
decision in the second annual debate
with Princeton. The question was,
Resolved, That 1t would be wise to
establish in respect of all State legis-
lation of . general charac:. a system
OF referendum similar I. at estab-
lished in Switzerland Princeton
upheld the affirmative.
Andrews & Co, school furniture,
Chicago. failed.
Ron. T. j. loves residence. Guthrie,
Ok, burned; loss, 1000.
Judge Bierer of Perry, Ok, says Ok
lahoma's criminal laws are the worst
on record.
A plot::to seize Canton and form an
independent Chinese empire has been
frustrated.
Chicago ice dealers have formed
combination and will put up the price
next season.
Oklahoma is pushing her claims to
statehood. A rousing conve n was
held at Shawnee.
Four hundred thousand pennies a
day are being made at the Philadelphia
mint and 90 500 gold double eagles.
DR.. Herman Ahlwardt, anti-semitic
agitator, has arrived in America, to
give lectures against the Hebrews.
Speaker Reed contemplates the
forming of two committees to consider
election contests and hurry them
through.
Louis Stern of New York has for
feited $4,000 marks, the amount of
bail given for his appearance to I'M
dergo trial for insulting a German Of
fcer.
The people of Cole county, Mo-, have
voted, by a large majority, to issue
$50. 900 of per cent bonds for a new
court house at jefferson City.
A. X. Ward, the notorious Memphis
forger, was returned to that city and
placed in Jail. A great crowd gath
cred at the depot. but the officers
evaded them.
The tack factories OF the country
have formed q trust and have already
almost doubled prices.
Robert Bradley, aged -, veteran
of Leavenworth, Kan, was married at
Atchison, Kan, to Matte Bradley,
colored. aged %.
Mrs. Leonard, her former husband,
Marion Williamson, and their son,
Norville, have been held without bail
for the murder of old man Leonard at
Wichita last month.
A. j. Bryan of Sedgwick. Kan, has
sued State Senator w. NJ. Congdon Of
that district for $4,000 for malicious
prosecution. Congdon had Bryan ar
rested for embezzlement in q wheat
deal, but he was acquitted.
According to the report of State Ac-
countant Challinor of Kansas tho
charitable institutions cost S113, 79t. 70
during the first four months of this
fiscal year. The balance of the ap-
preparation was $29, 3 1886.
Dan Stewart, manager of Fitzsim-
mons, and J. j. Quinn, manager of
Peter Maher. got together at New
York and fixed up a match between
the pugilists to take place near Ell
Paso, Texas, on February Is or Is for
q purse of SIC, 900.
w. J. Murray of Toledo said that he
could fast forty-seven days He did,
but died when the time had expired.
National Democratic Committeeman
Thomas of Colorado opposes the finan-
cial part of the presidents message.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation convention is preparing a
schedule of duties which they want
congress to adopt.
A plot of q secret organization to
capture the city of Canton, China, was
discovered by the United States con-
sui and frustrated.
1t is conceded that the long-dis-
lance speed record is now held by an
American road. The best English
records have been beaten by the New
York Central
The Kansas executive council has
awarded q Chicago firm a contract for
$3.50 worth of fresco work in the
capitol building.
Bud Hatch shot and killed Tom
Mullen near the Midland Hotel in
Hutchinson. They had qusrreled.
Six men were injured by the explo-
sion of boiler in the engine house of
the New Athens Coal Company at
Belleville, Ill. Two of them are not
expected to recover.
A German admiral has published .
book showing the defenselessness of
German commerce in case of war and
arguing for IN allowance of 1OO, 0OO.-
600 Traces to build new cruisers.
Thomas Colby, q well known citizen
of Topeka, died at Johns Hopkins hos
pital, Baltimore, of Bright's disease.
The First National bank of Pratt,
Kan. went into voluntary liquidation.
All depositors have been paid in full,
and the stockholders have enough
assets to pay out if they can realize on
them.
1t is the general impression that the
retirement of greenbacks as suggested
by President Clevelsnd's message will