Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-28

A dispatch from Washington says: Sine
the Koilev episode diplomatic relation
with Austria have baen practically cut Of
! The Austrian minister who has not beel
in this country for some time has bsen re
tired upon t e grounds that, having beel
in the diplomatic service for forty-5w
years, he is disqualified for further service
This leaves the mission vacant, and tn
Austrian government has signifed that
viii. remain 30 until the United States see
fit to appoint minister to succeed Kelley
whom it rejected.
A dispatch from Washington says
Robert L. Ream, special field examine
in the general land Office died here. FL,
was pioneer in the settlement of the west
and his log cabin was the first buildins
erected where Madison, Wis, now stands
de was active in the early settlement o
Kan sas and Nebraska. He Left a widow
and three children. One of the latter ii
Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie, wife Of L!euten'
ant Hoxie Of the engineers.
A dispatch from Sedalia, Mo-, says: Dep.
uty United States Marshal, Henry Graves
passed through this city en-route to Jeffer.
son City, having in custody judges J. c.
Charles ouaty court, who be had ARE sted
for contempt of court in filling to make q
levy to pay judgment rendered last Msy in
Judge Krekel's court Al Jefferson City.
Hon. Thomas Scott, the other Judge. could
not be found by the otfic srs, and it is sup
posed is uding arrest.
Mrs. Rhoda Howard died in Bath couu-
! ty, Kentucky. sgsd 116. She wss wonder
fully preserved, and retained her facilities
| to the last. She was three times married,
one of her husbands being in the revolu-
| tionary war. Four children survive her,
the youngest being 70 years old. She was
born in North Carolina, and came to Ken
| lucky in 1894. She smoked q pipe and
never took dose of medicine.
Miss Della Richardson was riding from
Otto postofice to Frank Strong's ranch
near Winfield, Covley county, Kan, the
other day when her pony became unman.
| { able and she was thrown to the ground.
Her dress caught Oh the saddle horn and
she was dragged over the ground and over
barbed wire fence. Her skull was crushed
and her Eody terribly man9led, producing
death before the enimal could be stopped.
She was 22years old.
A telegram from st. Louis seys: As Mr..
John B. Bowman, one of the most proml-
pent citizens of east st. Louis, Illinois. was
approaching home in the outskirts Ct the
town, was shot in the back Of the head OF
neck by sn unknown person and instantly
killed. The perpetrators and motive for
the murder remain q mystery. The dis
eased was an able lawyer, formerly mayor
OF East St. Louis.
About two months ego, in Harlan al
Knox counties, Kentucky, twenty-nine
moonshiners were arrested by w. H. r )g-
ers, g. deputy marshal, and most Ct them
are now serving sentences. On Sunday
evening Rogers was fatally wounded by q
ball fred through hie bedroom window in
Harlan village.
J. =. Corner, OF Kansas City. YVES run
over by passenger train recently in the
yards at Argentine, Kan. He attempted to
get on the train while it was in motion, but
slipped and fell with one leg under the
wheels. His leg was fearfully mangled and
he was taken at once to the hospital in
Kansas City for treatment.
The Newton, Iowa, II. 4. church burned
down November 9th, loss about $4,000.
The building was insured In the old Bur.
Angton insurance company for X. 900. and
on November 10th the company paid the
church trustees $500 without discount.
Rev. William Smith, of Berea, O., was to
have lectured at Hoboken, N. J. He hired
q couple of young men to cart the box con-
tanning the large paintings to illustrate his
lecture to the church, but they disappeared
together with the pictures AND the lecture
had to be postponed. Several ether engage
ments will have to be cancelled.
A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, SAYS:
The entire adult population of Ste. Martha
village vo' u atsrily assembled in church
and pledged themselves to abstain from al
coholic beverages for the space of one year.
This villege has population of 1000 per-
sons.
The stage bound for Casa Grande, Ari-
zona, from Silver King mine was stopped
oy masked highwsymen, armed with shot
guns, two miles south of Pinal, Arizona.
The robbars obtained two bars of silver
bullion, worth ST. 600. Officers are in pur-
suit.
A. dispatch from Washington states that
there Will be q caucus of the republican
senator's little while before congress meets
to decide upon the course to be followed
with regard to President Cleyeland's ap.
pointments.
The fiftv-severth annual meeting Of the
Baltimoie and Ohio railroad was held in
Chicago. ito revenues of the road for the
wear were SIG $50 600, decrease o. $2,S19,-
965. The surplus fund is s47, e14,6l5.
The steamship Switzerland landed at
with LIS Italian emigrants, bound to Chi |
,ago. ALI we're supplied with instruments |
to Italian street warblers.
Deputy United States Marshal 81. W.
Rogers was shot and fatally wounded in
Harlan county, Ky, by an unknown as
,sssin, who fired through a window at |
which Rogers outstanding.
Wilbur Norris, q steamboat engineer of
Rock .land, has confessed the manufacture
IF silver dollars in connection with George
q axes. The dies and molds were surrend-
red.
The decision Of Justice Miller in the
ranch case will compel the COM
,any to remove rs wire fence from So 600
'cres Of government land in Custer county,
Neb.
A party of Philadelphia surgeons and sci
,ntists, who gave the brain Of John Nc
ulIough thorough examination, found
lIseese due to blood poisoning.
A negro named Noah Cherry, who muir
Tered white schoolgirl in Princess Anne
county, Virginia, was lynched by residents
# that vicinity.
The business portion of the town of Ha-
elhurs', Miss, was destroyed by fire last
hight. Loss estimated at 81 ,0O0,OCO; ineur-
nee small.
Herman Roger, of California, sues the
'chulz Betting company for 81 zoe, 000 dam
ges for infringing q patent process for
reating raw hides.
A San Francisco Chinsman vas fined s.
onating another "hsythen" in shipping
srtifcate u