Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-26
NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
imports of dry goods for week at New
York were $500, 1877.
Tie Virginia tobacco crop is reported to
be suffering from drought.
Miami university at Oxford, O., is re-
opened after being closed tnirteen n years.
Concord, Mass. cele brated the 25Oth an-
niversary Of the incorI Grafton of the town.
Senator EvsIts refuses to accept the
Republican nomination for governor Of
New York.
Gas has been struck at q depth Of seventy
feet on farm three miles from Mendoza
Limos.
Ex-first assistant postmaster General Hay
is lying very sick at his residence, Pits
burg, Pa.
The president has appointed Anthony F.
Seeberger to be collector of customs at
Chicago.
The ninth annual reunion of the Army
of West Virginia is being held at Ports
mouth, Ohio.
Cadet Henry A. Wiley of Texas has been
dismissed from the Annapolis Naval acade-
my for hszing.
The stock of nails at Pit!sburg end the
West has been almosS exhausted by the
long strike of the nsilers.
VIM. Bedford, ST., a we'll. known stock
man, was fatally gored by an Alderney bull
at Evansville, Ind, recently.
During the past few days the Apache
Indians have murdered six citizens in
Grant county, New Mexico.
Indictments against Oklahoma boomers
who have compiled with the Presidents
order by vacatirg are to be qusshed.
The president has appointed W. B. Bacon,
bic brorher-in-lsw, superintendent of the
Custom House at Toledo, Ohio.
Hon. A. NJ. Kelly has formally rendered
his resignation as United States minister to
Austria. 1t has been accepted.
The event of selling 100000 hogshead of
tobacco this year WIS celebrated with great
Eomp and ceremony at Louisville, KY.
Extensive mines in the upper peninsula
of Michigan, which have been idle for
long time, are about resuming operation.
A man who robbed bank Of $500 at At
with his booty and handed over to the
police.
Stewart Rot ield an escaped inmate of the
insane asylum at Indianapolis, recently
hanged himself in the woods near that in
stitution.
Geo. w. Smith was arrested near Denver,
COL, while attemptir G to place dynamite
cartridge on the track of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad.
At the annual meeting of the lumber
manufacturing association of the north
west decline of Is per cent in the value Of
lumber was reported.
Smallpox has broken out in Nav York
City, but the health officers are making ev-
cry effort in their power to prevent any
spread Of the disease.
erich veins of natural gas, which are be-
lieved to indicate the presence of coal,
have been struck near Fargo, OAK, at
depths of sixty to 40 feet.
It is announced at Ottawa that the Cana
dian Pacific railroad will be opened for
freight and passenger carriage to British
Columbia and the Pacific coast, October
9Th.
The new and costly covered pier of the
royal N etherland mail steamship company,
at the foot of York street, in Jersey City,
was partially destroyed bv involving
loss estimated to be $50, COO.
The following fourth Glars postmasters
have been appointed in Kansas: At Hope,
Florence A. Feats; Hanover, J. M. Hood;
Walton, John T. Drake; Liberty, Edward
Barrett; Carney, V. B. Winkler.
Five indictments tor illegal cohabitation
have been returned by the federal grand
Jury at Salt Like City, and two women
who refused to testify were sent to the
penitentiary for contempt.
An easterly gale which swept lake Mich
igan recently was more severe and greater
in area than any other gale of the season,
and returns thus far chow that the damage
to shipping exposed was quite general.
The board of managers of the national
temperance society decided to forward to
The coming New York state democrat cand
ret ublicsn c0nv entions resolution as king
them to insert prohibition plank in their
platforms.
Thomas Mann, prosperous farmer of
Hiawatha, Kansas, who went to Kansas
City last week ON business, was robbed of
81, 450 at tie Union depot. He had Just
bought Il ket, and placed his pocket book
in his coat pocket. A few minutes later he
discovered that it had been stolen,
secretary of the Interior Lamar. who has
been confined to his house for the past few
days with a severe attack of influenza, is re-
ported as being somewhat better to-nie bit.
His physicians, while entertaining no ap-
prehensions of serious results have urged
the secretary not to leave lis house for sew
ersl daye.
The twenty-fitt annual convention of
the brotherhood of locomotive firemen of
North America, convened in Philadelphia.
After . short street parade, the delegates
assembled in the Chestnut street opera
house. Governor Patterson made an ad-
dress of welcome for the state, and Mayor
Smith extended the welcome for the city
81 The sixty-frst session of the sovereign
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