The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-10-19
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nearly every prominent actor and
actress in England and America sent
regrets on the death of Sir Henry Irv-
ing.
The International Harvester Com
pany has purchased the Vulcan Works
near housekeeping, Sweden. A Swed-
lsh corporation will be formed TO
manufacture harvesting machines.
A severe earthquake shock at San
tiago following slight shock on Fri
day, has caused general alarm Sew
eral houses were damaged by the dis
turbance, but no one was injured.
King Oscar formally resumed the
reins of government. Swedens King,
on August 10, appointed Crown Prince
Gustave to be regent while his ma
jesty went to Marstrand for his
health.
At Peoria, ILL.,, the Dougherty scan
dial has claimed another victim. Driv.
en- to desperation and nervous pros
tration by worry over the disclosures
comprising his bank, and fear of a
disastrous run, Nelson Burnham, a
stakeholder in the Peoria National
bank, died suddenly, aged 70 years.
A bomb was thrown in Warsaw at
the villa of an English manufacturer.
The cook and gardener were killed
and the house was damaged. The
bomb throwers fed, pursued by po-
lice. When closely pressed the fug.
tives shot and killed three policemen
and then escaped.
Over a thousand farm laborers
made desperate by the famine, invad
ed the market place at Ecija, 4S miles
from Seville, Spain, seized the entire
stock of goods and money, destroyed
the market and threw the town into
panic. The authorities hastily applied
for military relief.
The president has issued procla-
nation creating the Jamez Forest re-
serve in the northwestern New Mexi-
co, embracing about 1,250,O0O acres.
1t is intended to conserve the wa
tiers of the Rio Grande river and espe-
cially of the tributaries known as the
Thamaca and Jenez rivers. a.
The resignation of VIM. F. Powell
as United States minister to Hayti
has been submitted to the president
and accepted. AS his successor the
president has determined upon DR..
H. w. Furniss, of indianapolis,
prominent negro. DR.. Furniss is the
present consul to Brazil. He will as
sumo his duties as minister to Hayti
about November Is.
Peace in the Far East is now an as
sured fact. The state department
was informed by Baron Rosen that
the car had affixed his signature to
the Portsmouth treaty.
1t is confidently expected that the
treaty of peace with Russia will be-
come effective on October 1G or II,
when the notices of its ratification
will have been exchanged.
Colonel Duggan, commanding officer
of the Department of the Lakes, in
which army division Captain Taggart
serves, said he would not take Off
cial notice of the scandal aired in the
Wooster court. There will be no
charges preferred against Taggart
unless the authorities at Washington
decide to have them fled
Reports having reached the war de-
partment through Manila papers of an
outbreak of cholera in the Philippine
Islands, Secretary Taft cabled Gov
ernor Wright for statement of con-
ditions and received the following
reply: Cholera has practically dis
appeared From August % to date
there have been 71S cases and sos
deaths"
Lieutenant General Chaffee and
Mrs Chaffee, Brigadier General Bell
and Mrs. Bell and Brigadier General
Crozier, with thor stats, arrived in
New York from an inspection Of
foreign armies.
A party Of Italian laborers near
Twin Falls, Ala, undertook to cook
and eat some choice cuts from dead
horse which had been impregnated,
with strychnine to kill coyotes. Six
Of them died and seven arc seriously
Ill. The men we're employed on .
railroad grading.