The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-06-04
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF,

The North Canadian river is higher
than ever known.
In some parts Of Iowa the food be-
gan to reccde on Friday.
The Blue river covers large districts
n the city Of Beatrice, Neb. There
are no trains moving
The paper mill of the Malone Paper
company at Malone, N, Y, is destroyed
by fire, Loss, $4,000.
Water on the bottoms at the mouth
If the Kansas river reached the depth
Of twenty feet on June ?.
Labor troubles have caused the clio.
sing Of Smith & NELSON'S revolver fac.
tory at Springfield, Mass
All wires along the Union Pacific
from Kansas City to Denver were put
ont Of service by the storms
The Omaha packing houses have
raised the wages of unskilled employees
from TX to 10 cents an hour.
At Creston, Iowa, ten buildings were
blown from their foundations; one Of
them was wrecked completely.
Salt Creek overhows the lowland
portion of Lincoln, Nebraska. Quar-
tiers are provided in the court house
for families driven out of their homes,
The number of persons killed in the
earthquake in Asiatic Turkey is $50 by
official estimate A score Of villages
were completely destroyed and many
more partially.
The tornado in Iowa did great dam.
age. Botna, Shelby county, was wiped
off the map, and many farm houses
near there were wrecked. The Great
Western depot and u large church were
wrecked.
Judge Carpenter, at Denver, decides
that the appropriation act Of the last
legislature Is invalid. This will make
II special session of the legislature nee.
essary If the supreme court sustains
the decision.
For the fifth time but not consecu
lively, General Luis Terrazas, states
man and hero of Mexico's fight for in.
dependence and the richest man in the
republic, was inaugurated governor of
Chihuahua last week.
us. District Judge Phillips grant.
ed AN injunction to two non-union res
taurants Of Kansas City, Mo-, against
the labor organizations, restraining
them from doing acts calculated to in
jure the business Of the plaintiffs
Thomas A. Ellison has become q
partner Of Mareoni in his wireless tel.
egraphy schemes Edison transfers a
number Of his own patents to the new
firm and is technical director Of the
business.
At last grand jurics in Alabama are
indicting people who hold negroes in
involuntary servitude, and some Of
them for whipping such persons
The ]. !. Case machine shops at Ra-
cine, Wisconsin, are burned; also the
Racine Bout mandatory and the
Standard Oil tank sheds.
In. Southeastern Nebraska farms are
flooded. In 0toe county eighty bridges
havebeen carried away At Hastings |
and Galloway high wind and heavy
hail fall did great damage.
The Presbyterian general assembly |
adopted resolutions as basis for eff
forts TO secure the expulsion Of Senator
Reed Smoot, Of Utah, from the United
States senate
North Of Gray, Audubon county,
Iowa, a tornado wrecked ~ farm house
and children were killed, and five
others seriously injured.
The Central Ozark Fruit Co., Of To
pclsa, Kans,, has purchased 1850 acres
of land in body in Webster county,
Mo-, which will be converted into an
orchard, making one Of the largest in
the state.
The Presbyterian general assembly
by unanimous vote adopted the re.
vision Of the confession OF faith as pre-.
pared by the committee appointed in
1901,
At Sioux City, Iowa, 500 persons
wore driven from their homes along
Floyd river M.