Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-12-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

An experimental railway has been oreuel
at Ten-Tiep, China, and successfully orer
ated.
The wax department. of the Stardard o
works, on Broadway, Cleveland, Ohio, ar,
burned. Loss about $4,000.
Richard Holland, of the Enterprise Goa
o freight train and instantly killed.
At conference of Jewish rabbis. held il
New York, it was resolved to petition con
Rress for the en- actment of a national mar
riage law.
William Woodcock. president of the rail
-oad master mechanics association of the
United States, died at Elizabeth, N. j. HI
was native of England and was 81 years
of age.
Governor Currier, of New Hampshire, has
chester, United States senator to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death of Austin f.
Pike, of Franklin.
In his annual report to the secretary OF
war, General McFeeley. commissioners OF
subsistence, says his bureau expended $3,
H4, $50 during the last fiscal year, leaving g
balance on hand Of $609, 281.
The directors of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road held meeting and appointed 8. 8. 81.
Clarke, formerly manage of the Union
Pacific railway, as first vice president of the
Missouri Pacific, vice 81. M. Hoxie, de
ceased.
A special to the Detroit Evening Journal
from Montague, Mich, says the bodies of the
crew of the Conway" we're found on the
beach near that place and 81 600, known to
have been on the person of Captain Smith,
gone.
The elevator at the new building of the
Allegheny County Electric Light company,
Pittsburg, Pa, fell o-day from the fourth
floor to the celler, killing Beverly Harris,
colored, and seriously injuring Jas. White
aud Edward Basten.
A report reached Washington from the
west that an attempt had been made to kill
at the white house, and the first intelligence
of the alleged attempt on the presidents
life was conveyed there by reporters.
John d. Carey, sheriff of Buchanan coun-
~, Missouri, refuses to deliver the Jail keys
TO his successor, Joseph AIdriano, until the
criminal court has decided the contested
election case, it being alleged that the sher-
ff-eiectis not citizen of the United States.
At the city election in California, Mo-, the
vote for mayor was q tie between V. B.
Beam and DR.. Burke, present incumbent.
The case was decided in favor of the former
by the novel method of drawing lots, this
being in accord with the ordinance bearing
ON the subject.
The heavy cloth curtain which, during the
day time covers the electric light lenses on
the statue of liberty, caught fire, and fell
on the light wood work of the staircase, in
the interior of the statue. It was only by
the hardest work that q fire was averted and
the great statue saved from ruin.
The jury in the McQuade Doodle add rraan
case of New York failed to agree after being
out three days. 1t ia rumored that the jury
was tempered with, but the authorities do
not credit the rumor. Application for Nc
Quade's release on bail was denied, and he
was committed to the tombs pending his
retriaL
Robert Vance, of San Antonio, was thirty
years ago one of the sureties on the bond
of an Indian agent, who proved to be short
IN his accounts to the amount of $500. A
jury in the federal court gave the government
q verdict against the Vance estate for $12,-
600, including compound interest for
tvsnty- six years.
Henry George stated that he was making
arrangements for the publication of weekly
paper, which it was intended to issue on the
first of the year. 1t will be called the Stand
ard. He said it would be about the size of
the Irish World, and would sell for five
cents. The paper will be published in the
of all who work with their hand or
head.
Advices to the associated press are to the
effect that heavy snow storm prevailed all
Thanksgiving day in northern New York
and northern and western Pennsylvania,
and at Binghs mpton, n. Y, the skating rink
was crushed by the weight of snow on the
roof. And large number of people were
going to the place. About twenty persons
were inside at the time. but all escaped.
Persons joing the Henry George Progress
E1ve Democratic party are compelled to |
pledge themselves that they will abide by I
the decieion of the majority: do faithful |
committee work; use all legltemate means |
to procure votes for their candidates; al tend |
nil meetings of the organization; and report
any indications of treachery to the party |
that may come to their knowledge.
Mrs. Erastus Brooks of New York City.
vas 80 Frustrated by the death of her hus-
band that she was unable to be present at |
he services in the church of the Ascension
It West New Brighton. Rev. Paschel Har-
over, rector of the church. went to the
house of the dead journalist and held ser
noe OF prayer, az WHOA none out members
If the family were present. Mrs. Brooks
supported by her son and daugh-
ers.
Consul Brigt am, of FL Paso, Texas re-
,eived communication from Washington
aging: Our government will take no action
n the case of Rivera, murdered at Treska-
,alis, Mexico, twenty miles below here,
July IA. Ths ground for refusal is that Ri
era appears not to have been an American.
lie was born in Mexico, and had lived two
ears in Texas, but never declared his inten-
ion to become citizen.
"Pittsburg is no place for me, said Mrs,
PARSONS, wife of the condemned anarchist.
The workingmen have given me q very /
old reception. PittsbcrR has fewer an .
rohists than any othor labor centre in the ,
United States. have found less than half ,
dozen outspoken friends here" She says I
be cause is very strong and growing in !
|hicago. She claims to have assurances
nat the condemned men viii not be exc !
uted.9
r. Watts, a contractor on the Dallas and {
|reenville line of the Missouri Pacific rail- 9
ay, was brought to Dallae. Tex, and al G
lifted to the city hospital, horribly man
led about the head, face and body, the Z
ssult of being blown into the air BY an v
uf dvnamita The Charuo N oe II, | i