The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-09-12
THE LATEST NEWS iii BRIEF.

! nE LA ESG NEWS lN 0hlEfs
Hope for settlement of the steel
workers strike is about dead
Geo. A. Nicl1e rson, director of the
A. T. & S. F. railroad. is dead
Both Mitchell and Gompers advise
Shaffer to compromise, but Shaffer
fuses
Three hundred miners at Hunting ton,
Ark, of the Kansas and Texas Com
pany are strike.
In the ecumenical conference in Lon
don there are 10 American bishops and
gro American delegates.
A recent hail storm in Pennsylvania
froze one man to death, and several
others were badly frozen
President Mitchell left New York
for Pittsburg, Kansas to try and in
fuence the miners to strike
An ambergris mine has been found at
Point Conception, California, which
promises to be of great value.
Columbia, the champion of 1899. has
been selected by the yacht club to race
against Lipton-s Shamrock IL
A box was damned through a
wall Of the Burlington freight Office at
ST. Joseph, Mo, and three clerks were
badly injured.
The United Mine Workers Journal
of indianapolis, considers it inproba BILE
that there will be a general strike in
the anthacite coal region
DR. Roswell Park, of Buffalo is re-
puted of the best surgeons in
the world The nation may be thank
full that the chief executive is in such
hands
Many peach orchards about Athens,
OHIO, will be destroyed having been
condemned by the Ohio agricul tura1 de-
partment. the trees being affected witt
| the San Jose scale.
| The latest reports say that J. Pier
| pont Morgan has obtained control of
| the zinc production of the United States,
| three-fourths of which comes from the
| Ga1ena-Jop1in, district
A cloudburst did damage at Cebo,
| Hail accumulated foot deep the
| level and L, 900 feet of the Northern
| Pacific track was washed away. All
| wires are down.
| Secretary Hay clerk to Lincoln;
Root taught school; Griggs was a law
| clerk; Hitchcock clerk in a store; Gage
at Is was bank clerk; Smith was a
compositor in early life; Long did
chores farm, and Wilson at 20 was
| a farm hand.
The Northwestern hotel in Buffalo is
destroyed by fire. The loss is esti
mated at $500 One man was badly
burned.
The New Zealand government order;
most of its locomotives from Phi1adeI
phia, and rs per cent of other railway
stock of all descriptions from America
Dartmouth College will celebrate the
Daniel Webster, on Sept 90, by laying
the cornerstone of Webster hall.
thousand of the alumni will parade il
revolutionary costumes.
J Holland has been having war will
Sumatra since 1870 and has expended
$500, OO0, 900 on it, and the Sumatran
now say they have only begun to fight
The French government told tn,
Turkish ambassador to leave Francs
and he left 1t is ruIaored that nava
, division has been ordered to Turkisl
: | waters
A Macon county, Missouri, farmer
saved his cattle and kept them in goot
+ order after pasturage gave out. by cut
ting elm trees. The cattle thrive OF
the leaves and small branches
!, NJ J. Collins has been appointed as
sistant general purchasing agent of tn
Santa Fe, with headquarters in Chi
cago-
Senator Clark, of Montana owns tn
!. richest mine in the world, which bring g
|, | him So. ooo.o 900 a year when full,
? manned just now the mine is idle be
= cause Clark viii not grant his men al
S-hour day
The best estimates on the Texas cot
ton crop place the yield at 25< million
: bales-neariy one-third decrease from
last rear