The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-01-07
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

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epidemic of typhoid fever.
A large part Of Wheaton, Mimi, is
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Captain Frederick Pabst, the Mil
waukee brewer, died on January /.
The Russian government has ordered
100000 pounds Of American meats.
Nineteen New York city policemen
who have tuberculosis, being asked to
resign, have done SO.
Earthquakes were felt on the morn
ing Of December 81 at Penfeld, Paris
and Bloomington, Ill.
Judge Owens Of Honolulu lost his
mother and his sister Amy in the
theater fire at Chicago.
Confederate General James Long
street died in Gainesville, Ga, aged 81
years, from pneumonia.
San Bernardino, CAL, has IA railway
outlets, with three more to be in opera
ton before next spring
Fargo Squiers, eldest son Of the min
lister to Cnba, accidentally shot and
killed himself a. Havana.
Grant G. Gillette did not reach Kan
sas City on the day he had set for q
meeting with his creditors,
A consulate general at Mukden, Man.
churia, and q consulate at An Touk, are
asked for by the treasury department.
The department of commerce and
labor is to take charge of the naval
reservation at Guantanamo bay, Cuba.
Japan has completed the purchase
Of the Argentine warships Moreno and
Rividavia, building at Genoa, Italy,
for which Russia also was negotiating.
Burglars dynamited the safe Of O.
Cohen, jeweler and pawnbroker, Of
Des Moines, Iowa, and secured $4,000
in cash, diamonds, watches and other
property.
The o. s, government has agreed to
donate to Santa Re, N. NJ, the aban-
doned Fort Marcy reservation of TX
acres 1t lies in the heart of rhe city
and rs called worth 100000. " will
be used for a high school.
A leading society womao of Louis.
vile, KY, has had attachments granted
against her to secure the payment of
notes given for grocery bills and mer-
chandise amounting to S14,7ss. One
bill for groceries amounts to $1,000.
la is now known that the number Of
dead Of victims Of the theater fire in
Chicago is 5S7, all but IL Of them hay
ing been identified.
The postmaster general has appoint
ep Edward +. Kimball, Of Massachu-
sets, superintendent Of the money
order system Of the postofice depart
ment.
The present Hawaiian light house
keepers are all taken over into the
United States light house service which
will pay them for their services from
and after January |.
Chinese cruisers at Shanghai arc
preparing for active service in connec-
ton with the Russo-Jopanese imbrog-
lilo.
tbs officially announced at St. Pc
tersburg that in view Of the reports
current abroad Of renewed attacks on
the Jews that Kishineff was never
quieter than at the present time.
There are many cattlemen in Texas
who have come TO the conclusion that
perhaps overproduction has had just as
much to do with the slump in cattle
values as has market manipulation.
The Seri Indians who occupy an Is
land in the Gulf Of California, are on
the war path and are raiding ranches
on the mainland,
The National rolling mill at McKees-
port, Pa, has resumed operations, and
the tube and mills also. The resump.
tons will furnish employment TO 5000
men.
Fire at Bethlehem, Pa, damaged
the large union depot. The United
States Express company succeeded in
removing all valuable packages and