The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-08-15
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Count Won Wa1derSee has reached
Germany from China.
The government expects to put a
500, 600 printing plant at work at Man
liza.
Myzan :. Decker, who has manufac-
tured the Decker piano for forty years
is dead a the age of 49,
The navy yard worl<mcn propose to
join With the yvorl1men in arsenals and
form new labor union.
Paul Kruger, it is reported from
Rotterdam, is in a serious mental con
dition- y specialist has been called
from Berlin.
c. C. Sholes, superintendent of tele-
graphy for the Santa Fe, thinks that
the telephone will supersede the tele-
graph in rai1roading-
The Selby Smelling company of San
Francisco offers $50, 900 reward from the
thieves who carried off S293, 900 worth
of their gold bricks
The imports at Manila are now largest
from the United States, which were,
during May, about half "a million dol
lars. England and China come next in
list.
The Kaiser-s father, mother and one
uncle have died of cancer. His own ear
has been subject to a chronic sore, with
morbid discharge at times, for many
years
David r. Seary, grand secretary of
the Knights of Honor, and connected
prominently with other fraternai or
ders. die din New Orleans last week,
aged 81 years.
1t is asserted in wine makers circles
in California that in the Perigord dis
trict Of France the crop Of grapes has
been SO enO1-r4a01lS That wine In ia
to less than cent "a gallon
The Topeka gas company has filed a
suit in the federal court TO enjoin tho
city from enforcing its ordinance lo1ic-
ing gas at 81 per 1, 900 feet. The ease
viii be heard by Judge Hook in Wich-
tia Sept 16-
a construction company, with capt.
| tai of u million dollars, and a tovvnsite
1 company. with half million Of capital
| have taken Kansas charters. They are
! both for and IN connection with the
| Orient railroad company
| Judge Garland. of the L. s court at
| Sioux Falls, declares the freight and
passenger rates fixed by the South Da-
! l1ota railroad commissioners to be con-
fiscal tory. and has issued an INDUCTION
against their being put into effect
| The gold held by The Bank of France,
/ Z
| than that held by the u S. treasury.
| The average rent for Il small house
| in the suburbs of Manila, suitable for a
respectable white family, is s97 a
| month
a mad dog started at Bethany, Mo-,
| and before his career of biting every
thing ended he had travelled 81 miles.
| Health authorities have quarantined
| hundreds of horses, dogs. hogs and cat
| tie. Many have already died on been
| killed.
Leading business houses, notably de
| partnent stores. at Pittsburg. Pa. are
ciischarging their clerks by the scoro,
and more Will have to be laid off. on ae-
| count of the great steel strike 4 ma
jority of those discharged are girls
There is a mine on fire at Plymouth,
| Pa , which cannot be quenchctl. It
| viii probably take SO years for 1T to
burn out. To food 1t is impossible
being on a high level on the mountain
side and there are other mines below Il
which would have to be filed with
| water.
been appointed receiver of the First
National bank of Austin, Texas
a through trolley line between New
York and Boston is proposed There
are some links IN the system already II,
operation
j Floods of the Yangtse Kiang river
have destroyed thousands Of lives ard
vast amounts Of property.
Naples, N Y, and vicinity has a
grasshopper plague which is serious
Grain is being cut prematurely to save
something