Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-02

24O,OJO 81 LOUIS, 10 ,Ot0; Milwaukee. W.
600; Indianapolis, $3.50, 900; Louisville, 113
600; Cedar Rapids, los, OC0.
1t ball given at the residence Of job
Warren, near Columbia, Miss, dispuI
arose between Thomas and Dan Scarbo
ouch, brothers and John ard Bob Bsylii
about the dance. Pistols were soon draw
and Thomas Scarborough fell dead, she
through the heart. Dan was shot in tn
shoulder AUD seriously hurt. The Baylis
boys lett the country Immediately and the
whereabouts are unknown.
President Cleveland appointed Dr.. Eve,
hardt postmaster a. RipOn, Wis. Las
0 tase the offc3 from'his SUCCESSOR, be wa
kicked into the street, and q United State
marshal had to be sent for before d.
Evorh iIdt could get his Office.
A Chicago drill company has been award
ded the contract to bore an experiments
we'll in the salt basin owned by the state O
Nebraska at Lincoln. rhe depth is to b
rwo thousand feet andt the compensation
$10,I5.
A gentleman in Chattanooga desires t.
find the rightful owner ofa cane cut by An
drew JACKSON, and presented by him to I
friend named Mullenbrink. The relic wal
found On the battlefield of Lookout noun
tain.
One Of the Maryland police steamers haG
battle, on Tu, sday night with fleet o.
Illicit oyster dredgss, in Poplar island mar
rows. There is q suspicion afoat thatsome.
body must have been killed.
The Hendricks monument association OF
Indianapolis adopted resolution not to ask
no appropriation from congress, but to de.
pend alone upon voluntary subscriptions
by an appreciatiye people.
G.F Williamson, who fad from Windsor,
Missouri, with q considerable amount o;
borrowed money, is son of one of the
most prominent cattle men in that state.
Senators Sherman and Miller and Score.
tary Endicott hrve offended the painters
Fifth Avenue hotel, which is boycotted,
The Kentucky court of appeals denied
the m ,tion Ct Mrs. NJ. c. Lucas to compel
the lower court to allow her to qualify for
the position of jailer at Frankfort, KY.
The treasury department purchased
1 900, 600 ounces of silver in the month of
December for coinage in standard dollars.
The silver dollar is Low q lcted al 795.
The forty-two shoe factories in Massachu-
sets where strike occurred some months
sgo opened under the terms of the award
made by the board of arbitration.
An explosion Of gas in vault in Getty
treasurer's Office ut Terre Hsute resulted IL
fatal il juries to City Clerk Davis and Coz
siderable damage to property.
Fire in the Arlington cotton mile at
Wilmington, Del, destroyed the building
and machinery, inHic'iDg an estimated
oss cisco 0C0, fully insured.
Walter L. Newberry, a Chicago million
aire, died at sea seventeen yea,s ago, was
sent home il c:sE Of rum and q Isctly
buried by friend, who has only Lately
told it on his death bed.
a huge Christmas ire in the county
hospital at Chicago caughg fire, igniting the
clothing OF some twenty persons, but no
one Yves seriously injured.
G. W. HoIlenHeck, formerly publisher of
Godey's La6y's Book, has been arrested in
Philadelphia charged with obtaining 81 600
on false pretensss.
The net earnirg s of tee Atlantic system
of the Southern Pacific railway increased
Bis 600 during October Is compared with
the same time last year.
Frank v. Adams, q clerk in q military
office at Omaha, insured bis life for $40, COO
in favor of q friend, cad closed his career
by the use of morphine.
Ben Blanchard, the Indiana land specu-
lator, who fed from Terre Hsute to escape
arrest for mbezziement, has surrendered
to the sheriff.
/ Tie president has approved the bills
&r M.cG ND
moving the political disabilities of General
Lawton.
Mrs. E.zabeth Warner, wife Of promi-
nent chul CHI member, was arrested at Cieve-
and, Oaio, charged with shop lifting.
Lee Hunt, aged 10, was shot and killed
by the accidental discharge of his gun while
out hunting near West Plains, Mo.
Six boilers ofthe San Francisco water
works exploded killing two men and dam
gerously wounding two others.
1t is thought that the steel rail combina-
ticn is broken by the establishment of
new mill at st. Louis, Mo.
The commissioners of Cook county, Ill.,,
offer a bounty S. for the soap Of every
wolf killed within the limits.
: An interesting report On labor emanstes
from Mr.. Hadley, OF the Connecticut bu-
reau of labor statistics.
An attempt ives made by dynsmiters to
blow up the residence of Judge Lambert
Tree, al Chicago.
Il is denied tia. the Northern Pacific is
TO consolidate with the Wells Fargo Ex-
press company.
James Blair. stockman from Laramie,
Wy, committed suicide by hanging n ear
Albany, Mo.
Three men were Injured by collision on
the Panhandle rosd at Philadelphia Cross
Rosds, Pa.
Mr.. Frederick Paine, American ConsuI
General at Berlin, las submitted Lis annual
report.
Ed Pendergrsst died at Independence,
Mo-, under circumstances suggesting foul
play.
The school tee cheers of Chicago left in o
body to visit the New Orleans exposition.
John r. Elmore, . Baptist minister,
suicided by drowning near Clayton. Ind.
The United States steamer Dolphin sail
ed from Brooklin on Q six days trial TIP.
Three men we're shot. two probably fatal
~, by David Former at Waynesburg, Pa.
Imports Of dry goods at New York the
past week were valued at 81, 534. 466.
W. ". Corcoran, the Washington, ID. C.)
philanthropist, II 81 years old.
the psss year 167, u miiee Of railway.
Mandan, Oak, ssn congress for author-
ity to tn rxihoad land.