Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-24
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

1870 - ~ - " We
DOMESTIC.
Three St. Louisans report having seen A.
B. Thompson, the absconding bank cashier
In Canada recently.
The president has nominated 8. Davis
Page, to be assistant treasurer of the United
States at Philadelphia Pa.
Louis E. Church, associate Judge CT the
supreme court of Dakota, has rendered his
resignation to the president.
William Harrigan, an ex- convict, has beer
arrested in Detroit, Mich, for the murder OF
the Knoch family last winter.
Two little children were killed by a boile,
explosion in Wellsville, o., being caught ir
the debris and scalded to death.
Martin Irons, the deposcd Knight OF
Labor is now residing at Rosedale, Kansas
broken in mind, pocket and spirit.
The man Allen, who killed Tom Small a,
at Carthage, Mo-, was himself killed in
Kansas last week while resisting arrest.
The west Michigan railway has been per-
petually enjoined from obstructing the wa
ter course and canal in Newago county,
Michigan.
The losses by the lumber fires in north
east Wisconsin are greater than for years.
It is estimated that 100000 feet of pine
have been destroyed.
Charles s. Keller, one of the leading dry
goods merchants of Dubuque, Iowa, disap-
peared suddenly and mysteriously, and no
trace of him can be obtained.
The prohibitionists failed to secure local
option for Vicksburg, Miss, by about ZOO
majority, while the county is thought to
have gone against the scheme also.
Samuel X. Gay, chief clerk in the Pitts
burg, Pa, pension Office has skipped for
Canada, having embezZled over $15, 600.
He had been an exemplary young man.
The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days number,
in the United States, l63; Canada, 20; total:
1873; compared with a total of 178 last week.
The hottest day of the season in northern
Texas is reported at Fort Worth. Reports
from various points show that the thermom-
eter registered from 100 to ITO degrees in the
shade.
The International molders' union will
hereafter meet once in two years, and Gin
cinnati will be the headquarters of the Or
der. P. A. Fitzpatrick of Cincinnati, was
elected president.
Steve Renfrow, a not orious desperate and
scaped convict, who was captured near En-
erprise, Miss, brought to Livingston and
placed in Jail, was taken from prison and
hanged by masked men.
Geo. Harrison. colored, was hanged at
Shreveport, La, for the murder of Geo
Allen. Allen had ordered Harrison to leave
his premises, and he shot Allen dead while
he was standing in his own doorway.
The Chase county national bank at Impe-
cause of the defalcation its president, who
lad wrecked the Dundy county bank at
Henkleman. Losses $4,000.
Forty cars of the Forepaugh circus train
vent over the embankment near Vassalboro,
Ne, Twenty horses we're killed and several
men we're injured. Two men we're missing
and are supposed to be beneath the wreck.
The official report says that, while the
prospects on the Prussian crops, especially
those of rye or wheat, are generally highly
satisfactory, the outlook in several districts
Of Selesia is bad. Oats, barley, and pota-
toes generally promise normal crops.
portable engine on the farm of s. B.
lobe, at Alton junction, ILL.,, blew up. The
result was disastrous. Five men were badly
wounded, three fatally. The thresher and
all the wheat adjacent was burned up and
three or four horses were killed.
EN-. Wyatt, who for nine months has
been postmaster at Austin, Cass county,
Mo, was held to await the action of the
grand jury by United States commissioner
on charge of embezzlement of $439. Bail
of 81 600 was given.
Drought in northern Wisconsin still con-
tinues, and forest fires are widespread. A
prominent lumberuan says that at least l.
OO0, 600 feet of pine have been destroyed al
ready in the Menomonee region, and that
the timber loss by the fire is the greatest tor
years.
sensation was created in the house by q
personal encounter between Representatives
Cobb, of Indiana, and Laird, of Nebraska,
growing out of the charges made by the for
mer on the floor of the house to the effect
that the Nebraska members had been con-
cerned in a land ring.
Grand Master of the Masonic lodge of
Quebec, j. Fred Walker, Las just issued a
Masonic edict proclaimir that all Masonic |
interests be suspended from date between |
Quebec grand lodge, its subordinate lodges, |
and all brethren IN obedience thereto, and |
the grand lodge of England
The Iowa state board of health has been |
advised that small pox in a malignant form |
has broken out near Bolan. Fourteen cases |
are reported and one death occurred the other |
day. The disease is supposed to have been |
brought there by German who landed at |
Baltimore or New York, lassed the quaran-
tine unquestioned, come direct to Boian /
and communicated the nlalady to all the
others.
A Tombstone, Arizona, dispatch says: In
formation from General Miles headquar-
ters is to the effect that Captain Lawton,
with his company of one hundred Mexican
cavalry, is in the sierra Msdre mountains in
pursuit of the Apaches. Another detach-
ment is in the came region working in con-
junction with him. The report that General
Miles is negotiating for Geronimo's sur
ender is denied.
Tho voting in the impeachment trial Of
State Auditor Brown was begun BY the Iowa
Legislature. Ten ballots were taken. There
we're no votes for conviction till the seventh
ballot was reached, and then in the counts
relating to the Bremen company bank trans
actions there we're eleven votes for c0nvic-
ion. There are twenty more counts in the
Indictment on which the roll must be called.
The entire senate was present.