The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-02-15
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Lawton fund has reached $685.
o54.
Havana is entirely clear of yellow |
fever.
Dayton, Ohio has had a very destruc-
tive fire.
Revenue collected in the Philippine
Islands during January amounted to
1857, 3os.
Harrisonvi11e, Mo-, has lost its prin-
cipal business block by fire, with a loss
of 500, 900.
Puerto Rico's population is 9e7, $40.
The census of 1897 showed popula-
ton of SOC, 7os.
John Luscomb, a cattle feeder of
Jackson county, Mo, has been arrest
ed for ''Gil1eting."
Phil D. Armour, Jr.. of Chicago, died
suddenly at Montecito, near Santa
Barbara, California.
The Marine hospital laboratory at
Washington is manufacturing serum
for bubonic plague
In New York city all flags were
placed at half mast during the funeral
of General Lawton at Washington
The only colored member of congress
is Mr.. White, of Tarboro, N. G. He is
lawyer and graduate of Harvard.
Arrangements are being made in
many cities for the celebration of the
birthday of Abraham Lincoln, Febru-
airy II.
St. Joseph, Mo-, has made a canvass
for a city directory upon which an
| estimate is made giving the population
| at So, $40.
Buffalo Jones has had a hearing be-
| fore the house committee on public
/ lands concerning his scheme for ma
| tiona1 reserve of land which to
| breed buffa1oes.
| The area of the Transvaa1 is 119, 139
| square miles, or about large one
| half of Texas, a little smaller than
| Nevada. In the Orange Free State are
| only 4s, 326 square miles, little less
| than in Louisiana
A quantity of dynamite and giant
powder in the Dickinson Arms Cos
store at Little Rock exploded. Il
caused a fire which destroyed half {
! dozen business houses and broke ST, SOC
worth of glass throughout the city
The case which will decide the con
stitutiona1ity of the law creating tn.
| Kansas Court of Visitation, is likely tx
be heard by the supreme court il
March or April.
The total collections for the port e
Havana for the 3o1 working days of tn
3 year 1899 was 81, Oo7, 154, making al
average daily collection of $50, s67-
The coke makers strike in Cleveland
| Ohio, resulted in advance in thei
wages to $3.50 a day, with time am
half for over hours, and double pay TO
Sunday work
Thirty thousand persons, man
| Americans among them, with essed tn
Z toboggan races at Christiana, Norway
= Colonel Richard w. Thompson die
: February 9, at his home in Terre Haut
e Indiana He was 81 years old; tn
g oldest statesman of rank for man
j years
l. The disbursing officer, O. s. Army
n at San Francisco, was robbed of a nun
>, Der of checks A Memphis nations
bank lost 81 900 which it advanced o
one of these checks which called 70
$500
The great tunnel under the Alps t
3 oe twelve and half miles long, is no,
d completed a distance of two and one
< fifth miles.
h Russian newspapers openly advis
% profiting by Great Britain-s difficultie
t. to realize on the old scheme to secur
d Russian ports on the Indian ocean an
a Mediterranean
le The Union Pacific is said to hav
20 closed contracts to construct tunn.
r an Wyoming to cost 81, 800, ooo- It's oil
n ject is to shorten lines and reduc
e grades