Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-10
NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Ella Steel committed suicide at Cell
ns, Ohio.
There is a stove n oulders strike at Nee
nah, Wisconsin.
A storm in Boston Harbor the other day
was the most severe for forty years.
James Palmer, murderer, escaped from
the officers at Mentor, Indiana.
Hog cholera in virrlent fem IS prsva-
lent in many portions cfthe west.
Several murders have recently been com.
m;tted by the Apatches in Arizona.
Missouri Pacific has leased the Central
branch of the Union Pacific railway.
Hon. T. Husarek, editor of tie Cincin.
nat, Volkbladt, died in Paris the other
day.
The fourth annual meeting of the Ameri.
can forestry congress hss convened al
Boston.
George Young has been convicted O!
wife murder at Ennis, Tex, and sentenced
TO death.
The president has appointed Dudley O.
Watson to be collector Of customs for the
district OF Michigan.
The tobacco crop of Cuba will be not only
larger than that for many former years,
but of better quality.
An accident on the Western Maryland
railway. near Chambersburg, Pa, caused
he death of two children.
Dr.. VIM. Gardner, Colorado physician,
got drunk at Onehs and was robbed of $500
Sheriff Mcconnell, of Rains county, Tex !,
was stabbed and seriously wounded by an
old man named Finn who Was drunk.
Two children whose com bined ages will
not reach 80 years, eloped from Green's
burg, Pa, and were married at Pittsburg.
Ex-Minister Kasscn has collected materi-
q; Cor 9 diplomatic history of the war of
the rebellion which he is engaged in writ
ing.
Secretary Manning accepted the resig-
nation of Horace G.. Jacobs, assistant su-
pervising architect, to tske effect October
31st.
Statistics are being gathered by the sig
nal-service bureau with view to predict
ing tornadces and giving warning Of their
approach.
Ex-Governor Moses, of Sou:h Carolina
was sentenced to three years il the Massa-
:husetts penitentialy for obtaining money
1nder false prstenses.
'There's little mistake about nv age.
I'm only ninety and a halt. 1 have been
aboring in the cause Of temperance more
han fifty years.-Dr. Xix, of Boston.
Three companies OF troops, with Captain
John era wford and his scouts, are in hot
pursuit of the Indians, who have taken
refuge in Dragon mountains, Arizona.
Mrs. Druse, who murdered her husband
It Little Falls, N. Y, and afterwards cut
MS body up and burned it in q stove, has
,een convicted of murder in the frs degree.
Returns of the census of 1885, as applied
to Boston, chow q population of 1855 101
males and 204, 3O5 females; total, 390, 400.
This is 3 gain of 27,S70, es &C impaired with
1880.
It is said that the president and his czbi.
let will attend the Virginia state fair, to be
held at Richmond, Virginia, on the 22nd
inst, if the pressure of public business does
lot prevent.
A negro outraged Mrs. Hugh Walker
near Danville, Va, recently, and afterward
killed Der. He was coon captured and
while being conveyed to Jail was seized by
mob and lynched.
In tie circuit court at Independence,
Missouri, Miss Edith Verarze of Warrens-
,urg, Missouri, was awarded SIT, 600 in 8
nit for q breach OF promise against David
hughes, q contractor.
Professor Agassiz has found it necessary
g decline the Office of superintendent Of
osst survey, because of duties already rest
ng upon him. This decision is greatly
regretted by the president.
The first snowfall of the season is report
d from Fest Tawas and Sheboygan, Mich.
1t the latter place . fierce storm ragged
nth the temperature below freezing point. |
heavy frost fell in Iowa.
It is estimated that there has been q de- |
reese of about $12.OCO,0OO in the public |
lebt during the month of September. Pay
nents on account OF pensions during the |
Month we're about 81 100000.
Advices from Huschuca say that a cour-
Or arrived from Major Davis command |
nth intelligence thar on the 22d instant |
10 had fight with Apaches, killing one
lestile and wounding several.
i William Kuffer, prominent citizen of
Colorado, Kansas, died suddenly at the st. |
ames hotel in Kansas City. BE stopped
D that city while en- route with some friends
D the Topeka reunion. His death was
robsbiy the result of rupturing blood
essel from fall.
]. J. Burnes, epresidentof the Denver
remphis and Atlantic railroad telegraphs
rom Mulvane, Kansas, to the associated
rees as follows: The dispatch sent from
opeka in regard to the Denver, Memphis
nd Atlantic railroad. is incorrect. rhe
onds voted to that road are good and the
ompany Is ell right.
The number Of business failures through
ut the United States and Canada for the
1T seven days are {: United States, III Il
nnada q total 106 cnmuared Nth 1a6 l.