The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-01-10
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF

tHE LAIESt NEWS IN BRIEF
blanket of snow.
Ignatius Donnelly died january > at
Minneapolis. Mimi, aged 70
t'Cudahy," which appears in print so
often of late, is pronounced ssCuddy."
There is trouble on the Northern Pa
eitic between the company and its tele-
graph operators
The Earl of Hopetovn became the
first governor of the federated Austria
Ian colonies on January 1.
The death of Ignatius Donnelly met
with long obituaries and editorials in
the papers of London, England.
The increase of German exports to
the United States during 1900 was
43- ~ per cent over the exports of 1899.
The public library at Seattle, Wash,
is burned. The total stock of books
numbering 25, 900, valued at $40, 900 are
a total loss.
The total losses paid by fire insur-
ance companies in the United States
and Canada in 1900 is SI63 36e 700;
against S136, 773, 200 in 1899.
Dispatches from the Southern states
tell of lynching of negroes, with an
average of more than one each day;
there frequently being two or more in
one day.
Berlin is experiencing very severe
weather The Spree was frozen over
50 sundenly that the ice enclosed IS Of
the city's swan and the fire department
was called out to release them
The supervisors of San Diego, Cali
have fixed a penalty varying from SEQ
to 500 for for iberating Belgian
hares. It will not be long before it
will become necessary to pay a bounty
for Belgian hare scalps.
Seventeen hundred workers in the
employ of the Continental Tobacco
company, in Louisville have quit
work They find fault with their
wages and with rules formulated by
the new superintendent.
Governor Roosevelt addressed the
Y NJ. c. A of New York city, on
December 80. Copies of the address
were sent out in time to be read at the
same hours in meetings of the Y. NJ.
c. A. in more than 100 cities.
The National president of the w. C.
T. q. has written the Kansas state
president that the friends of Mrs.
Nation, who wrecked a saloon in
in her coming trial They will be en-
p1oyed by W. c. T. u friends.
Isaac Morris, pardoned Michigan
convict, has sued three ex-wardens of
the states prison at Michigan City, for
So, 900 pension money which he charges
they received and appropriated to
themselves
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way has adopted pension system for
its employees similar that in use
upon the Pennsylvania Line.
Consul Listoe, at Rotterdam, says
there is a good field in Europe for
American zinc, the zinc mines of
Europe being nearly exhausted
The Choctaw. Oklahoma and Gulf
railroad has sold 50 900. 900 new con-
solidated mortgage bonds, together
with $500. 900 general mortgage bonds,
to syndicate of New York and PhiIa-
delphia bankers
DR. James Gibbons, a nephew of Car
dina1 Gibbons, was shot by foot pads
in New Orleans, the night of Jan
uary p He will recover.
The coal miners strike in Colorado
has caused coal famine there, and in
Western Kansas and Nebraska, as well
as in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.
Two of the largest stores in Bur-
ling, Iowa, were burned at midnight,
while the world was welcoming the
new Century
The Missouri Pacific has voluntarily
increased the wages of engineers OF
local freight trains qnarter of cent
mile, making their pay Al cents a
mile.
Cadet Edward a Johnston. of Oregon
q West Point cadet, secured first place
at the semi-ahnual examination in en-
gineering, ordnance and gunnery, law
and history; an unusual distinction.