Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-07

Cholera has. within few weeks, swept
sway thousand hogs in one township in
Champaign county, Ill. It is said to be
rapidly spreading.
A census report just completed shows
Kansas Gty's population, exclusive OF Kan
SOS City, Kan, and other suburbs, to be
TO-, 042.
-Four men were killed and several
wounded by the explosion of the boiler of
the tugboat Frank Moffett, opposite Marine
City, Mich.
The murder of John Douglas, q farmer
near Newark, Ohio, who had 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.
Mr.. Samuel N. Brooks, OF Hyde, Eng
land, the father of the prisoner now in Jail
at st. Louis, charged with the murder Prel-
Ter, has arrived in that city.
gDavid Marks, late deputy county clerk at
Helena, Montana, has been arrested for
the theft of warrants amoua ling to several
hundred dollars.
Anton Plans, Of Peninsula, O., took q
dose of morphine for quinine, and to cave
him from dying the people used him 80
vigorously that he sailed in and tried to
clean outthe crowd.
In foundry at st. Louis, molder named
Scott Thomas undertook to pour five tons
of melted iron into pit fourteen feet deep,
and met a horrible death by the breaking
of MANILA rope supporting the ladle.
Captain A. E. Lee, who was private Sec
rotary of 4. B. Hayes, at his inauguration,
makes state nsnts tending to disprove the
idea that Gen. Grant thought Tilden was
ected.
A political riot which for several days
has been in progress at Bustameute, Mexi-
co, between the white and Indian parties,
has already caused four deaths. Every
man is a walking arsenal. The state Off
GERS at Monterey have been called upon to
restore order.
About $50 feet Of the bridge of Pleasant
Vale and Atlantic City Turnpike company
at Atlantic City, N. Y, fell yesterday while
about fifty people were on IL. Many were
thrown into the water, but none were
drowned.
The city of Evansville, Indiana. he's failed
to pay the interest coupons Oh So, COO, OOO of
water bonds. The holder Of the securities
is an eastern life insurance company,
which is privileged to take possession o.
the water-works at its pleasure.
Six disgu ised men rode up to the resi-
dsnce of a colorsd nam named Csc. Tenn
one night recently, called him out, and
shot him down.
Thomas M. Turner, young man in the
employ of John Conway, has been ARRESTED,
charged with the murder of Mrs. Conway
and her daughter last week at Kansas City.
Judge Parrett, of Evansville, Ind, has
decided that the Bell Telephone company
nish instruments to whoever complies with
the usual rules.
Frank Jones, A. V. shuman and Harvey
Carlyle were convicted in the United States
district court at Springfield of burglarizing
the Covel (McLean county, i H., post.
office.
Capt. J. N. Hyde, of Dixon, Illinois, who
has carried clutches since 1864 tor q wound
received at Marietta, Georgia, has been
compelled to suffer the amputation of his
:ightleg.
Senator Stafford, of Californis, has do
hated tract of land comprising 81, 900 |
lcres, valued at three and half million |
dollars, for the endowment of university |
% be erected at Paloalt, that state.
A fire in the clothing store of Nathan ia
'obs, at Gloucester, Massachusetts,, caused +
oss OF 900. Henry Rogers, engineer, o
N electric Light company, was fatally in
ured by the fall of q coping.
A gang of burglars entered the residence
# Sir Frederick Ulrich Graham, at Carlisle,
eng, and had.packed up nearly all the val
tables when aservant rushed out for help.
fight took place between the robbers and
be police, in which two of the latter were
atally wounded.
Boston Buck and six members of hiseang
4 counterfeiters, who had been operating
q western Pennsylvania, have been SEN
enced to hard labor in the Pittsburg peni-
entiary for various periods. Buck is
early 20 years of age.
The wholesale and retsil grocery business
t Augusta, Ga. having been monopolized by
hinamen the citizens are petitioning the
l11Ht - devise means to stop the vel
de in migration.
The illicit distillers of franklin county,
FeorEia, have begun war upon law abid-
1g citizens whom they suspect of haying
horned upon them. A young man who
,stned for the government in several cases
a. been assassinsted, and many persons
ave been ordered to leave the county or
IKE the consequences.
Judge Moran, in the circuit court 1T
hicago. has decided that ]. Young Scam
ION may redeem from the United mortage
at the legal rate of interest,
roperty on the corner of Congress street
nd Wabash avenue valued 1t $500, OOO
hich was sold under mortgage eleven '
ears ago. II
The supreme court Of Michigan has made
decision which restores to Mrs. Cynthia
Z. Crawford, of Detroit, . tract of five
lousand acres of land on the shore of Lake
uron, to which her son, Leonard, had !!
stained the title by forging . deed. Mn.
rawford il now IS years of age.
George Washington, . colo1ed citizen of
ut st. Louis, paid no sttention to threats
tar and feathers unless he separated from