Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-08
NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,

EEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,
The cotton-worm is at work in South
Carolina fields, and planters are much dis
heartened st the outlook.
Fifteen thousand dollars has already
been subscribed in Chicago toward the
equestrian statue of Gen. Grant.
The Chicago Iumbermen have determined
to organize an insurance company for car
rying risks on their ysros, and to employ
fire tugs on the river.
Miss Florence NJ. Coon died suddenly a,
Edgerton, Wis, last week, but as the usual
evidences of dissolution are not present her
friends lave refraineo from burying her.
Cooper & Hewitt, of New York, have sued
the Pennsylvania steel company for $780,,
600 damages for the alleged infringement of
patent tor refining and con verting cast
iron into csst-steel.
Reports from the eastern part of Waco
county, Texas, say that cattle are dying
with disease known as dry murrain.
at the nose, and it never stops until they
are dead.
8. g. Burdett, commander in chief of the
G. A. r. suggested at Gen. Grants funeral
that if agreeable the use of the 6. A. K.
ritual would crafty the members of the
organization. Gen. Hancock replied tn at
Pastor Newman had already been desisns-
tedfor the ser vices.
Attorney Generel Garland, to whom the
secretary of the interior referred the ques-
ton of the power ofthe interior department
to authorize the Indians to lease their lands
for grazing purposes, has transmitted to
Secretary Lamar an opinion than no suca
power exists.
President Cleveland has re fused 70 modi-
fy his order FOR the remoy Il of cattle from
leased Indian lands. Protests aga net the
enforcement of the order, and petitions for
extension of time have been sent to Wash
ington from St. Louis, Kansas City and
other localities.
At Fremont, Ohio, the soldiers monu-
ment. erected by the people of Sandusky
county, was unveiled with imposing cere-
monies August Let. The shaft stands in
park on the site of Fort Ste
phenson, where on August 2, 1913, Maj or
George Croshan. with 100 men, defeated
200 British and adams under Proctor and
'ecumseh.
Che secretary of state has received from
TIE French government 1859 francas, be-
ing the amount awarded by the Franco
American claims commission to the Ameri.
can clai mauts against the French e ,vern-
ment. Nineteen were presented. All but
two were either disailowed Or dismissed for
want of jurisdiction.
One hundred female employees IN the
weaving department of the cotton mills q,
Evansville. Ind, struck yesterday On &C
count of reduction of Is per cent in their
wages. A meeting was held by the strikers
last night, and it was decided that the girls
should confer with their fathers, brothers
or guardians, and procure assistance and
advice.
The Apache raiders have broken up into
small se 1ads, and are trying to gain their
A squaw camp was discovered
by q company OF Mexicans in the Pinati
in Sonora, and a number of
squaws and OLD blu ks killed. Captain Law
toms troops stack party of Indians in the
Milestone HountaiDs, and captured twen-
Is -four horses.
The officers of the corps Of er gineers in
charge of Improvements upon the fortifica-
ton Of the country, have made their snnuai
reports to the chief pgineers. On account
of the small appropriation made last year,
but little oHk has been done during the
past seajla. The funds available ere used
in putting in good order the platforms and
of the various forts. 1t is estima.
ted that there has been de crease of about
81, coz, 600 in publicaebt duri1 G the month
Of July.
A private letter from Kinney county,
Texas, states that hostile bands of indians
are taking advantage OF the withdrawal OF
the cavalry from this district and are at
large on the frontier. The writer says that
two Mexicans at the mouth of Pinto
Greek, eight at Las Vegas, and about TWEEN
ty at other points have been killed in Cross
ing the Rio Grande, near the border, by
Indians, and that band of raiding warriors
have been in Kinney, near Brothers ranch.
So far az learned no loss of life has attended
the Indian raid in Texas.
General Simon Cameron sent the follow.
ns telegram August 1st.
Donegal Farm, Lancaster county, Pa.
To Col. Fred D. Gram, M. McGreoor.
81 am glad to know that Generals John.
,ton, Buckner and Gordon are going to act
- pail bearers with Sherman and Sheridan.
Your fathers prayer for peace to his ccun-
try has been answered and the last bitte:-
ness of the war wiped out for ever.
[Signed.l
SIMON CAMERON"
A telegrsphic message reports the fall of
. portion OF an old ferry rolling mill at
South Wellington, Delaware, and says sew
sral men are buried in the ruins. Later
SEQ. Ely, carpenter and william Jones |
were killed instantly and the
believing wounded: Ferris Giles, hip badly |
fractured, may die. VIM. Goodwin, leg |
broken. Al. Downward, leg crushed. A. |
White. . negro lAborer, wrist an ankle |
broken. A man by the name of WILDER |
had his leg crushed. 1t is feared that there
Ne others under the ruins.
The Chicago Times, Fargo, Dakota Terri
ory special says that party of influential |
capitalists will soon leave Montana for |
" Washington to promote a scheu to divide |
Dakota on the Missouri river a. Xontana
forth and south at the east ero O the
Boxeman tunnel. This would uek Dako- |
. an agricultural state and leave the cat