The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-08-19
CONDENSED NEWS.

CONDENSED NEwS.
Many towns in Western Kansas are
unable to get cars to haul wheat.
Albert Bal, the we'll known New
York music hall manager, is dead.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco will supply diagonal armor for
the Wisconsin at $500 ton.
Figures given out at the patent Office
show that a considerable proportion
of inventors are women.
The Dingley law rates on BICYCLES
are likely to shut ont American wheels
from Germany through retaliation.
French makers of straw hats are
reaping a harvest supplying sunbon-
nets for horses.
The mayor of Lincoln, Neb., has re-
moved the chief of police for making
war on the gamblers.
Pamphlets calculated to strengthen
opposition to the federal courts are to
be dist .Duted broadcast over Kansas.
1t is reported from Chicago that the
Dingley tariff on crockery will cause
1G or Is per cent advance in prices.
It is officially announced that Ethan
A. Hitchcock of St Louis has accepted
the position of minister to Russia
The boil worm is after cotton in
Texas Not much damage has been
done yet.
Mrs Angell's mother testifies that
her daughter was never married to
Jay Gould.
The Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions will send two ministers to
the Klondike country.
Professor Lincoln of Wisconsin Uni
versity was disfgured for life by an
explosion in his laboratory.
Fire destroyed half the business
part of Cleveland, Ok. 1t is said the
fire was of incendiary origin.
Ten Missouri Pacific freight cars
were wrecked between Neal and To-
ronto, Kan. Loss $35, 900.
The Populists. Democrats and Silver
Republicans of Wyandotte county,
Kan. will fuse on county ticket.
Populists, Democrats and Silver Re-
publicans of Harvey county, Kan,
have nominated fusion county ticket.
Ex-Congressman Treloar has pur-
chased the Mexico, Mo-, Tribune, the
only Republican paper in Audrain
county.
Attorney General Crow and Insur-
ance Commissioner Orear of Missouri
ere preparing to wage war on the in
surance combine.
Congressman Ashley B. Wright was
found dead in his sitting room by his
wife ut his home in North Adams,
Mass.
Osman Digna, the famous Dervish
general, has been summoned by the
Khalifa to make final stand against
the Anglo-Egyptian expedition.
Reese & Downey. who own 1875
acre apple orchard few miles east of
Atchison, sold their entire crop to
New York men for s14.O
Miss Adelaide Fairbank, only daugh-
ter of the Indiana Senator, was mar
ried without her parents knowledge
to DR.. Horace r. Allen. Jr.
A parliamentary committee has rec
commended to the French deputies
moderate tax ON theater tickets, q
heavy tax on passes and the abolition
of season tickets.
Fifteen thousand persons attended
the political picnic at Hughesville,
Mo-, and heard speeches by Congress-
men Doclkery, Clark and Cooney and
others
1t is rumored in Wall street that
Comptroller of the Currency Eckels,
WHOSE term soon expires. has been in
vited to accept the presidency of q
trust company.
j. A. r Elliott of Kansas City won
the Kansas ity Star cup from Sim
Glover of Rochester. N. Y, by SEQ re-
of 90 to a. in a match shot at 100 live
birds in Rochester.
II. S. Snyder, a Sheldon, Mo-, farmer
back from the KloDdike, said at Soda
liza that he had found gold worth S575
in eleven days aud would return in
the spring. but that the hardships Of
the country could hardly be exagger-
ated.
One-half of the DEVILS backbone, the
rocky fortress of the Hatfiefds in West
Virginia, was shattered by dynamite
BY . sherlff's posse. Several of tho
posse were wounded, but the Hatfields
escaped.
United States Senator McLaurin Of
South Carolina is seriously i'll.
John Brisben Walker, editor of the
Cosmopolitan, says that his new uni
versity. Of which DR.. Andrews. for
merly Of Brown. is to be president,
will be called the Cosmopolitan uni
versity and Be conducted on the Chsu-
tauqua correspondence plan.
Az result OF game Of base ball
betweeu Roclxport and Stumptown,
No, Abertus Sons killed Lon Hayes
| By striking him with a briclkbet on the
hase Of the brain. The boys were
Ahoat 10 years old and OF good fam
uioe