The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-04-02
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Wisconsin legislature has passed
o drastic anti cigarette bill.
A twenty.barrel oil producer has
been struck ut Roseville, Ohio.
Holding up street cars is becoming
quite frequent in Kansas City, Mo.
Cholera has appeared at Damascus
on the eastern shore Of the Mediterra.
mean sea.
Crude oil Is advanced three cents q
barrel in the oil fields at Lima, Ohio,
and South Lima, Indiana.
The Nebraska Legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 for relief Of famine
sufferers in Sweden and Finland.
A strike at lion, N. Y, throws out
OF work about 5000 people employed at
the Remington typewriter works.
In the last congress the house had a
republican majority of 80 At theextra
session the republican majority will be
thirty.
A violent earthquake occurred at Je.
rusalem on March 80. The population
were panic stricken, but the damage
done was slight.
About the last action Of the Arizona
legislature was to adopt a resolution
protesting against joint statehood
with New Mexico.
Edward Vandeventer, Of Mound City,
Mo-, was using dynamite to kill fish in
the Missouri river and had both arms
and both legs blown off.
The secretary Of The treasury pl,r.
chased on March 80 for Philippine
coinage 100000 ounces Of silver OF an
average of 40.S cents an ounce
Work Of extending telegraph lines in
Alaska is seriously affected by the de.
sertion Of men who leave to go to the
latest discoveries of gold fields.
Prominent merchants Of Chicago pro.
pose to put in operation line Of 100
five to ten ton auto-trucks. The dray.
mems strike induced this action.
A third shipment Of Canadian oats,
rye and barley has been made for the
famine stricken Finlanders. There
were $4,000 bushels of the cargo.
Quantanamano has been selected as
the principal United States station in
the West Indies. 1t Is on the east end
of Cuba and controls tile Windward
Passage,
The Swift packing plants were closed
on account OF the funeral of Mr. Swift.
The flags over the plants were at half
mast since the announcement of his
death and the office buildings were
draped in mourning inside and out.
In the fire which destroyed the 10.
ronto, Ont, opera house the propri-
etors Of the "King Of Detectives lost
all scenery and costumes, valued at
100000; or two-thirds as much as the
building
Bids for supplies for the Indian SER
vice will be opened at Chicago on April
81. There were bids opened at New
York on March 96.
Frankfort-on -the.Main no longer in.
herits the fortunes Of strangers who
die there. The Prussian supreme court
decides that Prussia isentitled to them.
The butchers, $50 in number at the
packing plant Of Swift Il Co., at Omaha,
struck because OF the employment OF
non union men, There were 5000
hogs in the pens when the men walked
out. ,
A company at Joplin, Mo-, is said to
produce annually 100000 crop Of GIN
seng from n three-acre lot. There is a
forming to combine every gin
seng farm in the United States.
The Missouri Pacific has commenced
| "a
work at Kansas City which is to cost q
million dollars.
The fee for joining the United Mine
Workers union has been raised from
NJ to $40.
Two distinct shocks Of earthquake
occurred last week in Derbyshire, Eng
land, In the town Of Derby walls OF
buildings swayed and considerable
damage was done.
The volcano Of Soufriere is again in
violenternption. The country people
ire terrified. The arrow root produ.
Tern have mttheir crop while IN the
iryiug wires, which Is spoiled by vol.