The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-12-17
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

On Wall street stocks incline to q
lower lovcl.
Jewish emigration from Russia to
America is constantly increasing.
Half Of the Messina orange and lemon
crop has been destroyed by halstorm.
In London the other day the fog was
so dense that flare lights were placed
in the scrects. Trains we're much dc.
laycd
Secretary Root is defending General
Wood against charges Of faulty I'D.
nlnistration of Cuban affairs while
governor of Cuba.
The record shows that the enroll.
ment for 1903 in tho public schools OF
Iowa was only $50, 9Ol, as against $780,.
173 the year before.
The Democratic national committee
is to meet at Washington on January
IL to decide upon the time and place
to hold the national convention.
Because OF the numerous daylight
holdups in Boston, twcnty.one having
occurred in seventeen days. the police
board detailed large force Of police
as special guard.
The International Typographical
union has perfected plans for an indie.
pendent type foundry. The fund comes
from five cent assessment which nets
nearly $4,000 d month.
Commander Cameron McR. Winslow
has been designated as naval aid to
the president to succeed Captain W. s.
Cowles who has been assigned 10 com.
mand tile new battleship, Missouri
Shipments Of stockers and feeders tc
the country last week from Kansas
City were 494 cars, against 43O oars the
previous wecl, and 472 cars the same
week last year. Kansas got 253 cars.
The war department is ut work to
develop coal mine on small island
off the east coast Of Luzop, P. l., SO
that coal can be supplied in .ho Phil.
ippines instead Of Australia and japan.
the factories in the Fox river manu-.
featuring district in Northern Illinois
were shut down by tho refusal Of their
numbering nearly 1900, to
promise M individual agreement not
to strike.
A total Of over 100000 pupils was
enrolled in the schools Of Illinois in
The school year ending June 80. The
lvcrage wages paid teachers for males
S S65.SS, and to females $3.50 Wages
1aricd from $3.50 TO 500 a month.
VIM. R. Vice, the defaulting passen.
,cr agent at San Francisco Of the
southern Pacific, has been located in
honduras,
Judge Kohlsaat has refused the de.
nand of some Of the Dowic creditors
o change the order made in the Dowie
ase
The first partial report Of the U. S.
rand jury, sitting in Omaha, returned
idictments against ten ranchmen for
fencing public lands The
N men are among the foremost
Of Nebraska.
Swift & Co., it is said, will increase
lcir capital stock to S35, 900, 900 to buy
stributing markets in New England
I'd refrigerator cars In the West
A case has been started 70 test in
e supreme court the validity Of Gov
.abodys proclamation suspending the
rit of habcas corpus in tho mining
gion Of Colorado.
In Germany they are beginning TO
down trees by electricity. A plat.
lm wire is heated to u white heat BY
electric current and used ikea
",
The birth rate Of France and Ger
my is l47 for Germany to each IS
ldren born in France.
fire in the bedroom OF Queen Alex.
Ira of England placed that lady in
ne danger. The heaviest loss was
IN furniture and the queens treas.
ID knicls linacl;s, mostly by water.
)r Wenlz OF Philadelphia, says
re Is nothing in the public reports
corning his SOIL, Edward i. Wentz,
that he only knows that he has
appeared. The reports say he was
mapped for ransom.