Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
There is a stovs-moulders strike at Nee
nah, Wisconsin.
s. e. Butler committed suicide near San
Antonio, Tex.
About seven hundred glass blowers are
on strike ct Philadelphia.
James Palmer, murderer, escaped from
the officers at Mentor, Indiana.
bog cholera in q virulent form is preva-
lent in many portions of the west.
Geo. w. Sargent, carpenter of Kansas
City, committed suicide by hanging.
Missouri Pacific has leased the Central
branch of the Union Pacific railway.
Gen. John A. Logan was banqueted at
Baltimore by the Maryland Invincibles.
Pennsylvania coal miners are resuming
work at the terms offered by the operators.
Edward Mansfield, a youth at Quincy,
ILL.,, was run over AID killed by freight
train.
The venerable Cardinal McCloskey is ~
ing at point of death at his horse in New
York.
John McGr;nn, brakeman, fell between
the cars near King City, Nc, and was
killed.
Edward Hawkins of Lapcrte, Ind, has
been appointed United States marshal of
Indiana.
A machine shop, warehouse, and two
drydocks at Jersey City burned with loss
of 100000.
The atsorL ey general of Indiana gives it
as his opinion that teachers salaries cannot
be garnished.
Two men were drowned by the capsiz;ng
of fishing smack off Fran kfort Mich,
during gale.
The tobacco crop of Cuba will be not only
larger than that for many former years,
but of better quality.
Rev. Danial Irving, secretary of the
board of foreign missions of the Presbyter-
ian church is dead.
A tract of 4, ce1 acres Of pine land in Clare
county, Michigan, has been sold to three
lnmber companies for $40O,0 600.
DR.. VIM. Gardner, a Colorado physician,
got drunk at Omaha and was robbed of $500
cash, $500 check and a gold watch.
Chambers hes bre ken cut in the stables of
J. a. Truman, near Bushnell, III. Two of
the horses have died, an d several others are
sick.
Three negro children were locked in q
house by their mother at Elerton, Ga. The
house caught fire and the children per-
ished.
Aurphysboro, ILL.,. coal miners proposed
TO strike tor more wages, whereupon two
large companies closed down and quit
work.
Mrs. Druse, who murdered her husband
and burned his body at Little Falls, N. Y,
Der Is.
A planning mill and box factory at Will
Transport, Pa, burned recently, causing q
Loss of $40, 900 and depriving sixty two men
of employment.
Returns from the recent town meetings
in Connecticut show that 70 were carried
by the republicans, IS by the democrats and
Is were equally divided.
Employers Of the court of claims, Wash
ington, refused to work longer without
their pay and the lawyers for the claimants
Clipped in and raised the cash.
The National Miners union has sent out
circulars to every coal company in the
United States, asking them not to furnish
soal to the Union Pacific company.
The Missouri Pacific railroad company
has leased the Central Bran ch of the Union
Pacific road. The lease to run twenty-five
years. No details are yet made public.
The Wisconsin state veterinarian reports
that state free from pleuro-pneumonia,
that CHAMBERS has been stamped out, and
that hog cholera does not exist in that state.
A man calling himself G. c. Whitney
swindled the First National bank of Hele-
ma, NJ. T., out of 81, 800. and the First Ma
tional bank of Butte, M. T., out of $1,000
by forgery.
A negro outraged Mrs. Hugh Walker
killed her. He was soon captured AID
while being conveyed to Jail was seized by
. mob and lynched.
The murder of John Douglas, q farmer
near Newark, Ohio, who bad 81 600 on his
person, has been followed by the arrest of
his son-in.law. The latter was once tried |
in Kentucky on . charge of murder.
!, At Port Jervis, N. Y, q e-year-old lad |
was playing in mill when he was caught |
in the shafting and whirled around until |
his skull was crushed and every bone in |
his arms and legs broken. He died in q |
few m0ments.
In the town Of Campton. Kane county, |
Albert Cook shot his wife and mother-in- |
|aw, killing the latter, who was "a years of |
lge, instantly. Ars. Cook, from whom her |
husband obtained . divorce Monday. il /
latally injured. The murderer escaped.
The authorizes of Cochise county, Ari-
sonia, offer Q reward of $500 for the capture |
II Geronimo, the famous Apache chief,
lad or alive, and the citizens Of Tombstone
promise $3.50 for every Apache scalp brought
INTO that town.
The performing elephant Empress, now
n winter quarters ct Philadelphia, killed
aer third man. recently, striking him twice
With hsr trunk, crushing his chest with
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