The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-04-19
THE LATEST NEWS In BRIEF

The navy department will buy the
submarine boat Holland.
In the last year sixty-tvvo silk mills
have been started in this country
An electrical engineer. of Rochester
n. V, made his will by talking it
into a photograph
General Funston has hanged two
Filipino assassins and there is a fuss
being made about it.
The passport bureau of the state de
Partment issued 165 passports on April
9; breaking all records
Ninety-three cases and 20 deaths from
the bubonic plague have occurred at
Sydney, New South Wales.
Contractors for the new Kansas CITY
convention hall give bonds to have
their work complete on June Is.
The first parish church of Concord,
Mass, is burned 1t is one of the
known historic buildings of the state
The Omaha fair buildings were all
taken down but one, which was re-
served to house the worknen; then it
caught fire and burned.
The United States Court of Appeals
in St. Louis decides that train1nen and
train dispatchers are not ssfel1ovv SER
Regulations have been passed pro-
hibiting tugs fishing in Lakes Mani
toba and Winnipeg. Considerabl
American capital is said to be invested
in these fisheries.
new SO, 600, 900 English mining
syndicate has purchased IS mines and
10 mills at Galena, Kansas, and expects
to buy enough more to become an i'm
portant factor in the zinc trust.
The St. Joseph, Mo, retail clerks are
likely to strike. They had a boy on
the street carrying a sign advising
persons to trade with early closing
stores. The boy was arrested and
fined
An agent for Great Britain has con-
tracted with ST. Louis, Kansas City and
De Moines firms for 10, 900 horses to be
nsed in the Transvaal. They will be
shipped from New Orleans as soon as
secured
The repeal of section of the Ia
tiona1 banking law of 1890 will result
in the temperance in circulation of
the legal tenders which can no longer
be carried part of the lawful
money reserve of the banks.
Representative Curtis denies that he
suggested changing Pension Commits
sioner Evans to Webster Davis old
place.
There is an unexpected balance of
the sum appropriated by congress to
send food to India in 1897 This is to
be used now to charter vessel to take
to India the food gathered by The
Christian Herald.
A fire in Green Point, y. Y, destroyed
several factories; loss over half a mil
lion dollars Between 1900 and 1900
people out of employment.
Mrs. Dewey declares that she tried
to keep the Admiral out of politics
Several large firms in Chicago have
adopted a rule prohibiting cigarette
smoking by employees, on the ground
that the habit impairs their work.
About LOO employees are affected of
whom four-hfths are under IS years
old
The Gould lines win reduce rates on
gin machinery from St Louis to Texas
common points from 595ze to 325zc.
This cut was predicted and will be
met by all roads
Henry C. Caldwell. judge of the
United States circuit court, refuses to
become a candidate for the vice presi-
5ency-
c. L. Lennon, of Lincoln, Neb-, a
printer and member of Colonel W. J.
Bryan-s Third Nebraska regiment dur
ing the war with Spain, committed
suicide by taking poison
All the locomotives in service on the
Southern California road are now burn
ing oil for fuel. 1t is a part of the
Santa Fe system and is. with branches,
about coo miles in length