Western Kansas world., 1885-06-06
NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC,
Locusts have appeared in great numbers
in Arkansas.
War is again imminent between cattle
men in the Texas Panhandle.
All the iron mills at Youngstown, O., and
the Mahonins valley shut down.
The banks of New York hold $50, 76S, ,925
bove the reserve required by law.
in. Day, confidential clerk of New
York banking firm, is short $4,000.
Losses by the foods in Fall and McLen.
nan counties, Texas, amount to $500, O,OOO.
At Pittsburg the Republic Iron works
signed the Amalgamated association scale.
The corn crop in Illinois is being injured
some by root worms, but the prospect other
wise is fair.
The farmers Review of Chicago says the
wheat outlook is the gloomiest known at
this season for ten years,
The general synod of the lutheran church
met in the Thirty second biennial conven-
ton at Harrisburg, Pa.
At Milford, Mass, the priest forbade the
G. A. r. entrance to the Catholic cemetery
to decorate the graves.
The body of Christian Kruse, believed to
have committed suicide, was found in the
river near Washington, Mo.
The military order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, at New Yoik city ,-e-elec-
ted Gen. Grant commander.
Cotton plantations along the Brazos river
in Texas are inundated and the crop badly
damaged ii not ruined entirely.
William c. Smith, postmaster at Holden,
Missouri, whose books show q de flict OF
5000, killed himself with a revolver.
Four miners were killed at Charleston,
w. Va, by the swapping of brake band on
an incline, letting the car 90 at great speed.
Damage to the extent of $780, 900 was
caused and 500 workingmen made idle by
the burning of New Yolk furniture fac
tory.
Willie Prentiss killed his ~ at Or
ange, Mass. The man was nd,pla-
eng cup on his head, o boy to
shoot ut it.
Chefles DENLY, of Indiana, has been ap-
pointed minister to China, and Wendell A.
Anderson, Of Wisconsin, consul general at
Montreal.
A disrepntab1e waman of Gallipolis,
ONO, named Herder, was tarred and
teathered by citizens for attempting the
ruin of an orphan glrl.
Elizabeth Cleveland, the presidents sis
ter, has written an exceedingly caustic let
Sors IN 70 r,&to of D<xv
Howard Crosby on total abstinence.
On seat in train which reached Dubu-
que Saturday evening was found babe
with club foot, crying loudly. The un-
fortunate infant was tenderIy cared for at
hotel near the depot.
The wheat crop of California as estima-
ted.by the secretary of the State Agricultur-
al society, will be less than half that of last
year. The increased acresg in Oregon and
Washington territory is AZ per cent.
At midnight, Saturday, 25O men rode in
to Corydon, Kentucky, and deposited in
the posoffice letters to county officials de-
manding an investigation of the treasurer's
books at once. The mob went quietly
away.
The public debt statement for May is ex-
pected to show a reduction of about SIS ,OOO,-
OOO James w. Whelpley, of New York has
been promoted to assistant treasurer of the
United States.
About $3,OOO,OOO was paid out of the
United States treasury in one day for PEN
that account during the present month
about $40. .0OO, 900.
Three women and six children were
drowned in a canyon near Indianola, Neb.,
q few days ago. The bodies of two of the
victims were recovered. It was caused by
the bursting of q water spout two miles
from that place.
A fire in the lumber-yard OF the Stuaeba-
ker Brothers Manufacturing company at
South Bend, Indiana, caused loss of $7o,-
600. The implement factory of John
Elliott & Son, at London, Ontario, valued
at $3.50, 600, was burned.
The charge is made against Gen. Robin
son, lately appointed collector of Internal
Revenue for the Seventh Kentucky dis.
trict, that he was q defaulter of $4,000
while collector of taxes at Lexington, but
it is admitted that the shortage has lately
been paid.
A $2O,OOO,O 900 mortgage, given by the
Pennsylvania Railway Co. to the Union
Trust Co., of New York, to secure policies
of equal amount of first mortgage bonds,
issued by the company named. on its 200
miles of road, was recorded in Allegheny
county, Pa.
The Postmaster General said that the
postmasters at Jamestown, N. Y, and Vim
cennes, Ind, were suspended upon proofs
Of active and extensive partisan participa-
ton in election. The postmaster ct Ma
rengo, Ia, was suspended because he had
moved out of the State and was reported to
have offered his resignation for price.
A special from Denver, Col, says that
millions of young grasshoppers are report
ed coming out on the sandy soil lon the
south side of the Arkansas river, above Pu-
eblo, destroying early vegetables and ten
der shrubs. Their appearance is similar to
that of 1873, when they were swept east bv
the winds, and consumed an mmsnse
amount of growing crops in Kansas.
5 Professor Riley, Of Washington, says the