The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-12-05
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THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF.

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Geo. Heimrod, of Omaha. has been
appointed consul general at Apia.
Samoa.
Fire in Yankton. 5. D.. destroyed the
best business block of the city Loss
500. 900:
The brigands threaten to kill Miss
Stone if the full ransom is not paid by
January I.
Judge Taft, civil governor OF the
Philippines, is coming home to regain
his health.
The battIeship Missouri will be
launched at Newport News Saturday,
December % next.
The svitch1nen of Pittsburg, Pa,
who work for seven railways. have gone
out on strike There 600 of them.
Glen StudebalSer died on November
81. He was the head of the great
wagon firm. He was 70 years old last
March.
Ex-Governor Waite, of Colorado,
dropped dead at Aspen on the 2sth
while he peeHng apples Up to
the moment of death he had been in
good health.
Americans in London attended n re-
ception at the United States embassy
Thanksgiving. American business
and private houses were decorated with
the Stars and Stripes.
The Santa Fe passenger department
has issued a circular Offering stopover
privileges at the petrified forest of
Arizona to all holders of through tick
cts who desire to visit that celebrated
natural curiosity
a disaster occurred on the Choctaw
railroad in Michigan, in which emil
grant train (Ita1ians) met a fast express
train. head on. The casualties are
many but reports differ greatly as TO
The number of lives lost
There are about 40 cases pending in
the federal court, district of Kansas,
growing out of the failure Of the Phoe-
nix Building and Loan association of
st. Joseph, Mo. A number of them are
set for trial on December 16.
A r. Peacock, millionaire of Pitts
burg, Pa, visited two old men who
poor, who were companions of his youth
at Sornerville, n. j.. and bought each
of them a fine house and lot of
the best residence streets in the town.
Forty-seven hogs which came from
Louisville, Ky, when taken out of a
sca1ding vat at Buffalo, N y, showed
signs of smallpox and We're seized and
destroyed. The health commissioner
said there was no mistake, that they
had smallpox.
William Gwin is dead He was for
thirty years chief messenger to the sec
rotary of state. serving under all adj
ministrations.
A silver mine which has been lost for
rs years, has been re-discovered in the
Catskin mountains, not far from Ellen
Vile, Ulster county. New York
AIS by 80 feet elevator in a whole
sale implement house in Kansas City,
while loaded with so corn shelters, fell
seven stones and did large damage, be-
sides creating great excitement No
one was hurt
Col. Bill Cody reports having ar
ranged with New York capitalists for
the construction of an irrigation canal
in Wyoming which will cost 81, 900. 900
and water 12o, 900 acres of land
Systematic work by a gang of thieves
is carried in getting away with
trunks and express goods In some
cases teams and wagons are taken to
haul off the plumber and then left
somewhere.
The yearly increase in the postal
revenues has resulted in the free de-
livery service becoming self-sustaining.
Bogus insurance agents are being ar
rested in quite number of places
The latest arrest occurred at Rockville,
Mo-, charged with claiming to be an
agent of the Aetna Insurance company
, He also posed as the organizer of fra
terna1 orders
A lawyer OF Flagstaffs Arizona. told
his client that his patent for his land
was worthless because the president S
wife had not signed 1t and that it had
not been acknowledged It is said that
this sslawyer. has been In practice of
the law for several years