The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-06-02

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Work is being pushed to prepare the
Russian Baltic fleet to sail before o.
tober.
The first carload of the season re-
ceived in Chicago of California cherries
sold for $4,000.
Panama has established a national
real estate and mortgage bank With
$l,O00,oc0 capital,
The attendance at the worlds fair
during the last week Of May was al
most 100000 people.
Pension Commissioner Ware says he
will not quit the pension Office until
he is 'pardoned out"
Hundreds of clerks in Wall street
are being let out because Of a univer-
sal let up Of country buyers on
change
James j. Hill, the many-millioned
railway man has given $1,000 900 for a
Catholic cathedral at st. Paul, Mimi,
and Mr.. Hill a Protestant.
Forest fires have been raging
throughout the northern portions of
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Lumber
companies are suffering heavy losses,
U, $. Judge Boyd could find no salts
factory hotel accommodations at
Wilkesboro, N. c., and announced that
he would take quarters in a tent or u
car.
A high educational official of Min.
nesota says that more than 100000
teachers will this year abandon an oc-
cupation which does not yield them
living wages.
A remarkable order just received
from Rome, which forbids the opening
Of collegiate courses at the Catholic
university at Washington is being dis
cussed by the trustees of that institu-
ton.
The Russian and japanese govern,
ments are competing sharply for the
purchase Of transports in Holland and
Belgium. Tt is supposed that it is
their intention to convert them into
armed cruisers.
In the flooded regions in Greedy and
Nance counties, Nebraska, there were
thousands of stock drowned. Three
persons were struck by lightning,
Trains were tied up by washouts,
Twelve inches of rain fell.
The United States census bureau has
begun the work of gathering statistics
Of special classes ofpopulation, includ-
ing penitentiaries, almshouses, insane
asylums, etc. Director North has ap-
pointed about 1000 special agents for
this purpose.
Railroad employees are notified that
they must make their visits to the
worlds fair before August Is, as their
passes expire on this date
For the last five years and more the
average dividends of the Standard Oil
Company has been "A per cent year.
Sixteen natives Of che Aleutian is
lands, near Alaska, with u full equip
ment for an Indian village, are on the
way to the worlds fair,
In the nine months ending March,
1904, the total number of American 10.
comotives sent to foreign countries was
3ls, valued at So, 463, OlG.
None of the bishops elected by the |
general conference Of the Methodist |
church live west of the Mississippi
Texas cattle are being dipped in
crude petroleum and then sent to
northern pastures without inspection.
The Cudahy packing plant near Los
Angeles, Cali, is destroyed by fire,
The loss is estimated at about $780,
900.
The American Smelling & Refining
Company of New York, is distributing
in cash among Its employees,
on the profit sharing scheme
All the burlap used anywhere is
made in India and is shipped from CAL
eutta.
The fire at Yazoo, Miss, left 500
families with no homes and half Of
them are destitute.