Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-25
NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC,
Tha secretary of the interior has issued
emphatic Orders it keep open cattle trails.
John Roach, the famous ship builder,
who for many years past has done business
under the 6rm name of John Roach & Son,
Philadelphia, made an assignment.
It is estimated that $50 wine and beer
saloons have been closed in st Louis since
July LIST, under the operation of high
license law, and that some four hundred, or
about one quarter of all the saloons in the
city, will shut up during the month. The
liquor saloons have not been Effected, and
probably will not be. 1t is only the small
places, remote from business centers, that
have 80 far succumbed.
Mrs Emma Gaunt was murdered by her
husband John Gaunt, at her home in
Habocken, the other day. Gaunt is an
Euglishman, ifty-four years Of age, and
wasintoxicated at the time. His wife re-:
fused to occupy the same bed with him and
he stabb I'd her in the neck and side with
large butcher knife. She died an hour
later. Mrs. Gaunt was forty-fve years of
age. The couple had been married thirty
years and had FIVE children. Gaunt is un-
der arrest.
Secretary Of the treasury Manning has
prepared and is sending out circular letters
to m manufacturers and others interes ted in
industrial arts, stating that investigation
proves that the tariff laws relargely evaded
BY an differentiation. He asks them to
give their views IS to the feasibility of sim
plying the tariff and changing the advalo-
rem duty to specific, and information is
sought to be laid before congress to aid in
the improvement of the custom system.
Information is also asked with regard 70
the relative cost of manufacture in this
country and Europe.
J. F. Cottinger, ex-sscretary and treasurer
of the central transportation company, of
Pennsylvania, charged with embt element
of $147, 800, and forging certificates for 112
shares of the company's stock and uttering
and publishing the same, was arraigned be-
fore Judge Yerkes, in Philadelphia. A
plea for mercy -as made on behalf of the
prisoner, who is 6 years of age, and the
head of highly respectable family. Conssl
said that large portion of the stock was
over issued by the defendant twelve or thir.
teen years ago and it was fact we'll known
that large amount Of the money, which
the defendant had received for the over
issue was paid in dividends at twelve per
cent. per annum, to the very persons who
got the stock, SO that he profted very little
himself in the trer sactions. The trouble
was that he began in a small way and kept
it up in order to prevent his first fraud from
beipg discovered. It was testified that he
began the over issue in 1874, continued I'M
til the I'd of April, '85, during which time
had nothing to say in his own behalf. The
Judge sentenced him to an imprisonment
for four years at separate and solitary con-
fnement in the county prison.
The colored man Green, who was the
cause of the controversy between ex-Secre-
IaIy Lincoln and Gen. Hazen, about one
time Gen. Hazen declined to place Greel in
the signal corps guard of cavalry and in
fantry which had been set apart for colored
soldiers, but not the signal corps. Secre-
tary Lincoln, however. ordered his enlist
ment in the corps provided he could pass
the examination, and was sent to Ft. Myer
Il undergo the regular courss of instruc-
III, He performed all the duties accept
ably, snd with the other members of his
class recently became eligible for station
duty. The signal service observer at PEN
sacola asked for an assistant and was told
that one could be sent him. He procured
place and made other arrangements to re-
ceive him and Green was the man selected
at the assistant and was sent to Pensacola.
On his arrival the signal service officers re-
fused to receive him because of his color.
The officer has been summoned to Wash
iDgton to make an explanation. The col
ored man remains in charge of the Office at
Pensacola. 1t is stated at the signal Office
that Green was assigned to duty at Pensa-
cola without any regard to bis color and
that the officer who selected him did not
know at the time of his selection that he
was colored.
A desperate attempt to rob the Richmond
Il Danville pay car was made, The car
reached Atlanta, ans during that day the
paymaster distributed 10000. During the |
night the pay car and supply car were
placed on the main line near the Mark
and his cook occupied the Car. Mr.. Groser
xpected to be moved early in the morning. |
About 8 O'Clock he awoke and found the |
cars in full motion. They were moving at |
the rate of forty miles an hour. The rapid |
rate aroused his suspicion and he arose and |
opened the car and put the brake on. The |
train was moving up steep grade and the |
brake soon brought it to stand still. Mr. |
Groser then climbed up on the supply car
ana approached the engine. When he had /
made half the distance he observed Q
man climbing off Of the engine. Where
are you going to take met" demanded Mr..
Groser. ITO the Belt Junction." was the
reply. "For WHAT" Mr.. Groser ask. "You
viii find out soon enough, you are the man
we want" was the reply. and at the same
instant the man began firing ut Mr.. Groser.
The bullets whistied about his head and he
made for his car and placed his cook to
watch one door. He then sprang from the
car and ran Tor help. He returned to his
car in half an hour with helm. but found
the men gone. The safe contained about
$50, 600, but had not been molested. Three
men were seen about the place where the
train stopped, and one man has since been
arrested. The work was performed by nail
road men.
4 dispatch from Omaha says that Con-
gresham HOlman's specisl congressional