The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-05-26
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The Chinese in Korea are busy plant
ing crops. a.
Secretary Hitchcock is spending ten
days at the st. Louis fair. a
The Western Union Telegraph Co.,
will not lease wires to pool rooms.
Secretary and Mrs. Hitchcock spent
the past week at the worlds fair
The National Editorial association
OF St Louis selected Guthrie, 0. T., as
the next meeting place.
Seven indictments were voted by the
grand jury in Chicago against the pro-
moters Of race track hand books.
Secretary Moody is indisposed and
upon the advice Of his physician will
remain quietly ut home for few days.,
Eight million five hundred bushels
of coal was shipped south from Pitts
burg, Pa, during three days Of last
week. a.
Fire at Newport, Ark, destroyed a
grocery warehouse, the Iron Mountain
freight station another warehouse and
an elevator.
The Illinois Republican convention,
after taking IS ballots, adjourned for
ten days upon unanimous consent Of
the candidates
In Eastern Virginia there are several
thousand acres Of oyster farms, where
oysters are raised by artificial methods
on artificial beds.
Major V, M. Hobbs, who drove the
first mail wagon across the plains from
Independence, No., to Santa Fe, is dead
at the age Of 49,
A schooner laden with oil and mer.
chandise for Cape Nome caught fire at
San Francisco and one or two men
were seriously burned.
At a dinner in New York $4,000 was
subscribed for the Russian Red Cross
society OF this $4,000 was given by a
man who refused to have his name
made public,
0rmonde, the world famous horse, is
dead. He was foaled in 1883. He died
ut the Menlo Park stock farm. He
earned for the Duke of Westminster
stakes amounting to Sl49,325.
There Is a section Of New Haven ad-
jacent to Yale college, where there isa
reign Of lawlessness. Feminine resi-
dents are constantly in terror. A Wig
ilance committee has been organized.
Cuba expects a boom in prices Of
land and in business generally on &C.
count Of the isthmian canal
binding snowstorm ragged through.
out the copper country in Michigan
Three inches of snow fell in Calumet.
Thirteen lives were lost when Brit
ish steamer, during fog struck on the
rocks at the northern point Of Cape
Breton.
Gar Nicholas is reported to be I'm.
able to sleep and has no appetite since
the destruction of the battleship Petro-
pavlovsk.
The yard and greater part Of the
plant Of the Sierra Lumber Co., at
Chico, Cali, are burned. Loss, $3.50, 900.
By the Inauguration of scores of
suburban worlds fair trains the st.
Louis Union station now has $50
trains daily running in and out of the
Sheds
A better understanding between cat
tlemen and railroads is the result Of
the conference of cattlemen in Denver,
especially upon better service, more
prompt delivery and return tickets,
each Of which was conceded.
Rear Admiral Albert s. Kenney, re-
tired, 1t is stated, has been selected as
treasurer of the Panama canal COM
mission, He was formerly paymaster
general at the navy department.
At some Of the public libraries in
London the racing news is carefully
BACKED out Of the newspapers before
they are pnt upon the files for read.
ing.
Sister Francis Xavier, notable per-
sonage in western charitable and
religious circles, died from apoplexy at
81. JOseph's hospital in Denver.