Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-31
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

George E. Adams was renominated fol-
congressman by the republicans of the
Fourth Illinois district.
COncordia parish, La, is short in his accounts
500. He has good bond.
The police If New York has been warned
of the possibility of duel between JOSEPH
Pulitzer and William Dorsheimer.
Included in party of Wyoming convicts
placed in Joliet prison, was a Grow chief
who will serve one year for stealing horses.
r. G. Hummer, a wealthy !umberman Of
Wausau, Wisconsin, killed himself with 9
shot gun because of heavy losses by recent
forest fires
One man was killed and several Others
we're seriously injured by the explosion of q
boiler il the water works at Columbia, South
Carolina.
There is some alarm at Boston in regard
TO the non- arrival of the English cutter
Salatea, which sailed from Southampton,
twenty five days ago.
The Pennsylvania tube-works, at Pitts
'drgh, have voluntarily advanced the wages
If the one thousand workmen 10 per cent,
dating back two weeks.
The Fulton brewery at Galena, Illinois,
the pioneer establishment of the kind in
northern Illinois, was totally destroyed by
tire. The loss is 81, ZOO.
The democrats of the Second compression
al district Of Iowa have nominated Judge
Walter I. Hayes to succeed j. M. Murphy,
the Hennepin canal champion.
the president has approved the act. y
authorize the construction of railroad,
wagon. foot and passenger bridge across the
MiocicoSnvs ~ nv,hn
Casper Wehner, a republican politician of
Pittsburgh is the fourth of q squad of insepa-
rable friends in the ed Pennsylvania volun
teers who have committed suicide.
William Hunter, second assistant secre-
tary of state. and the oldest official in con-
tiuuous service in the United States, died in
Washington of a complication of diseases
incident to old age.
George II. Bates, of Delaware, personal
friend of Secretary Bayard, has started for
San Francisco, on secret mission to the
Samoan Islands, where e will meet repre-
sentatives of the European powers.
Joseph Henderson, a clothing merchant at
Butte, Montana, was killed with shotgun
by Nevada miner, who at once committed
suicide. The murder claimed that Hender-
son owed his.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago, Judge
Gary showed considerable timidity when q
policeman exhibited four pounds of dyna-
mite rolled up in pair of greasy overalls.
London paper says the liberals hold the
position coveted by the Parnellites. They
are the arbitrators of the fate of the govern
ment. Lord Harrington will keep the indie
pendent attitude.
The express from New York ran into a
gravel train near Bridgeport, Conn, smash
ing several of the gravel cars and killing and
wounding a number of Italians on the train.
The exact number is unknown. No passen-
gers were injured.
Charles Blekeney, the teacher of class in
the Avenue Methodist mission in Brooklyn,
N. Y, who was convicted recently of assault
ing Lutte Peters, Ii years old, ard also his
own daughter, Jennie, was sentenced to
states prison for nine and a half years.
Senator Hoar, as a sub committee, report
ed to the committee on privileges and cleo
lions that he had examined the material sub
United by the Ohio legislature on the Payne
case, and had found nothing to show that
Payne's seat was secured by bribery.
1t is positively known that A. B. Thomp.
son, the defaulting cashier of the Provident
savings bank, of st. Louis, is in Canada.
Several residents and friends of the embez-
zler returned from trip through the pro-
vinces say they saw and conversed with him.
Indian Commissioner Atkins make long
and explicit statement before the special
investigating committee of the senate in
answer and in refutation of the things
alleged against his administration in con-
nection with the Indian leadership at Ana
darko.
A Laporte, Ind, dispatch reports the
,7rovvrsnss IN Dina T,ok o hv, tho ~
their boat of Frank Malloy and Mrs. Rose
Stern. Young Malloy was a son of Mrs.
Emma Malloy, the temperance evangelist.
Mrs. Stern was daughter of Jacob Vile, of
Laporte.
A real estate exchange was formally in
augcrated at Kaasrs City, for facilitating
the transaction of general real estate bust
ness and fostering the manufacturing and
business interests of the city. Speeches
were made by the officials and prominent
citizens.
A special from Scotthaven, Pa, says: The
miners employed at SCOTS five mines, who
recently returned to work after signing an
ironclad agreement; struck again because
the company had removed the check weigh
man from the triples. protracted struggle
is anticipated.
The widow of C. r. Mabley, of Detroit,
who made undue haste to marry a man
named Spiers, will be called into court to
contest an effort being made to remove her
minor children and their property from her
custody, on the ground of her cruelty and
indecent language.
Attachments have been granted by the
supreme court of New York, against the
property of the Provident savings
bank of St. Louis, Missouri, in three
suits broush by Legrand L. Benedict,
under claims assigned him by Mary A.
Shepley, amounting to $10,14
A lad named p. A. Schell, in order to see
his dying moSher, rode on truck of the
limited express, which made but two stops
between Fort Wayne and Pitts burg, $40
miles. Such desperate adventure resulted
in his being given q bath, breakfast, and
sufficient money to continue his journey to
Washington.
Douglas Roome, for several years the
trusted book keeper of Wright, Anderson d
Co., q dry goods commission firm of Boston
aud New York, has disappeared. He sent a
letter to the firm confessing that he had
robbed them of about $4,000. His specu-
lations have been going on for two or three |
years.
Three of the warrants sworn out for the |
arrest of the Provident Savings Bank di- |
rectors, of st. Louis, have been served, and |