Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-12-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF. ].
The late Mrs. Thereea Lamb, of Lawrence
oefe, !nGiana, left $3.50 for the care and sup
port Of terrier dog.
Governor AIger, Of Michjgan, will on
Christmas give 10 each of 4S7 newsboys of
Detroit q suit Of clothes.
Governor Aarmaduke has refused to in
eerfere in the case of Robert Grayson, sent
eoced to b hanged.
new railway of seventy two miles in Ari-
coma, running from Prescott to Chino, will
be in operation about New Years day.
The venerable Bishop Machebeuf, of Den
yer has Gel. brated the fifth anniversary
OF his ordination to the priesthood.
Frierds Of the late General Hancock have
decided to purchase q r. side nee in Washing
ton and present it to Mr.. Hancock.
A Dispatch from New Bedford reports the
killing of three of the crew of the bark Mer-
laid, in the Indian ocean, py mad whale.
The sheriff at Hot Springs Ark, raided
every gambling establishment in town and
burned the tables and chips in the street.
Marshall p. Wilder. one of the foremost
pomologists of the United States died at
Roxbury, Massachusetts,, at the age of u.
G. J. Foreacre, one of the division supper
intendents of the Baltimore and Ohio road,
formerly major of the 7tb Georgia regiment,
died at Newark, Ohio.
The supreme court Of Ohio rendered q
decision sustaining The coDst,tutionality OF
tAe Dow liqour tax law in all its features, in
sauding the tax and lien provisions.
A negro convict named Hughes, in the
Missouri peniten.iary at jefferson City, as
saulted and badly cut keeper named Coined.
His Chances for recovery are very poor.
The president appointed Rev. William
David Walks, of Fargo, Dakota Territory,
anember CT the board of Incian commits
'siopers, vice William T, johnson, resigned.
A. p. Irwin is likely to be appointed post
master at Cairo, Illinois, although an appli-
cation has been filed by Joseph Houser, a
oolored man who conducts q democratic
newspaper there.
GAIL Mussfeldt, one of the Milwaukee not.
ers whose sentence was recently suspended
by Judge Sloan on promise OF good be-
havlor, woe again ~--estsd for q brutal as
sault upon his father.
Among the republican candidates for sen.
ator from Minnesota are ex-governor @. K
DAVIS, of st. Paul; r. B. Langdon and
Thomas Lowry, millionaires of Minneapo-
lis, and Gordon e. Cole, of Fairbault.
President Cleveland Fhas nominated En-
skine n. Ross to be judge and ]. Marion
txi,t of California, and Colonel U. B. Will
COZ to be brigadier general
A swindler, representing himself as con-
neeted With the geological survey at Wash
ington, has been operating throughout the
western country for four years, generally
Sing the name of Captain Clarence E. Dut-
ton.
John @. Miller, a we'll known pension
Washington by George N. Walker, con-
tractor, for writing scur1ilous letters about
Walkers wife. Miller's wound is probably
atal. Walker is in Jail.
The will of Mrs. WHEELER, of Cleveland, O.,
with whore murder her husband is charged,
gives the greater part of $4,000 to Thomas
e. Shaw, of Birmingham, England. Prop
erty valued at $40, 700 goes to the Western
Reserve School of Design.
General George W. Northrop, tire vel
known railroad man, has been adjudged in
sane and Communicable the Anchorage asy-
lum. Northrop has been connected with the
Jeffersonyille Madison Il annapolis pas
enger agency for twenty years.
The commissioner of the general land Of
foe recommends that proceedings be COM
menced to compel the removal of feCces un-
lawfully enclosing public lands il New Mex
loo, amounting to 165, 900 acres. Six oom-
panies have that amount of land enclosed.
Near Ash Grove, twenty miles northwest
of Springfield, Mo-, while M. P. Collier was
under the influence of religious excitement,
he struck Thos. Todd on the head with an
axe. inficting wound that is said to be IA
tai Collier was placed under arrest.
The Floyd County Savings bank at
Charles City, Iowa, has been seized by the
sheriff on an attachment sued out by the
directors against Cashier Rossine, who is
charged with taking 1000 and absconding
TO Europe.
Among the appointments sent to the SEN
ate were the following from Kansas: Collec-
or Of internal revenue, Nelson F. Acers;
tostmasters-Frs.k Cummings, Ashland;
< p. Bancroft, Mankato; John Bostorf,
New Kiowa; G. w. Moore, Pleassnton; w.
x. Cannon, Norton.
George Rice, an extensive oil refner at
Marietta, Ohio. has brought suit for $780,
GOO damages against the Louisville and |
Nashville railway for being shut out of the |
southern markets by an unlawful conspir- |
acy between the road named and the Stand |
ard Oil company. He asked for an injunc-
lion against the discrimination steadily |
practiced.
Christian F. Schsu, tailor of Erie, Pa,
shot his daughters, Minnie and Annie, kill
ing the former outright, fatally wounding
the latter, and also attempted to kill his
wife, and in attempting to escape shot at
Policeman Higgins, who finally dubbed
Schau selseless and effected bis arrest. The
family consists of Schau, his wife and nine
children, Minnie and Annie, aged respect
fully u and 70, being prepossessing young
ladies.
Sylvester Granda, just arrested in Kansas
City, admits that he was with the party whoJ
killed Haddock in Sioux City, Ia, and drank
Nth them. They had agreed to attack
Haddook and another prominent prohibit
zionist. Arensdorf, he says, fred the shot
Rhich killed Haddock. Granda, with his
vife and Koehnitzki, who is now under az
reet at Sioux City, doated down the river in
, dat boat and Koehnitz6 went on to Cali I
Fornia. IL
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