Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

that the president has offered the secretary.
ship of the treasury to Senator Mcpherson.
1t may be stated with certainty that Score
tary Manning ia going back to the treasury.
He has decided to remain at the head of the
department so long as his health will permit
him to do so, even to the end of Mr.. Cleve.
lands term.
The statement in General Miles official
report of the Apache campaign made public
at Washington, that Geronimo was MT cap.
tured but surrendered conditionally, is con-
tradicted by Captain lawson, who was in
command of the United States troops at the
time of the capture. In private telegram
dated Albuquerque, N. NJ, Captain Laweou
denies that the surrender of Geronimo
was Nth any conditions whatever.
The Bohemian Catholic union No. l OF
the United States, met in st. Louis in its
tenth annual session. Delegates number
100 from twenty four states and three terri
tories. The presidents report was read
showing that the unions throughout the
country are harmonious and in prosperous
conditions. The secretary's report states
that the receipts of the union for the yea1
were 81, 900, and the expenditures $45, COO.
in. Platt and G. D. Bardwell, 20 or p
years old, have confessed to setting fire to
the Monson academy buildings at Spring
field, Mass, on June Z. Their connection
with tho crime was discovered through the
recent arrest of Bardwell at Amherst fol
burglary. Platt was induced to turn states
evidence and made q complete confession.
He said the deed was done "for the fun of
the thing" and witt he idea of creating
some excitement.
Judge McCrary of Kansas City, has left
for Washington to argue q case in the gu
preme court which involves about N,O0O
acres in the Neosha, Kas., valley, issued
about fourteen years ago to the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad. The land has
nearly all been sold to farmers and improved
upon and should the patents now be set aside
the state will be thrown open to enter under
the homestead and presumption laws.
Captain Mike Hennessy, chief of the
Houston, Texas, detective agency, was as
sassinated by an unknown person within
half a square of his home. Hennessy had
just stepped off a street car when an un-
known man stepped out of the darkness and
| fired deliberately at him three times, each
bullet taking effect Hennessy died with
out saying q word. Bloodhounds have been
put on the track of the assassin, and he is
certain TO be captured.
The secretary of the interior has under
consideration proposition to allow certain
tribes of Indians in the west the privilege OF
utilizing the grass upon the surplus lands OF
their reservations by allowing them to take
cattle from neighboring cattlemen to pasture,
and to receive fair and just compensation
therefor, but no white men will be allowed
upon the reservation. It is probable that
| an order authorizing certain tribes to enter
| into contracts with cattlemen as outlined
above will soon be issued.
Frank Whiting and Charles Haver, two
prisoners in the Indian penitentiary serving
sentence for ten and twelve years respect
lively, made desperate attempt at escape
recently. While an engine was backing into
the prison yard both men, knives and ham,
mers in hand, started through the yard and
jumping upon the engine choked the fire.
man and threw him off, and throwing the
| throttle open started off. Whiting was shot
dead by a guard, and Ravens, who had
jumped from the engine, was halted by a
bullet.
Hank Lindseys livery stable on the cor
ner of Fifth street and Kansas avenue, To-
| peka, was burned. There were thirty five
horses in the barn, all were saved but one,
that one being trotting horse belonging to
Quinn WEIGH of st. Mary's, and was entered
| for the trotting races at the Topeka fair: he
was Valued at $500. All the hacks and
| buggies were saved. The loss is about 3d.
600. Insurance $4,000. No other buildings
were damaged, and the fire was kept well un-
der control. 1t is not known how the fire
originated.
The Canadian Pacific passenger train went
| through trestle bridge It's miles east OF
Winnipeg, Manitoba the other day. Five
cars including the mail and express and
four passenger coaches were badly wrecked,
and afterwards burned completely. The
sleeping coaches alone escaped uninjured.
Eight persons were badly injured. Six bags
of mail matter were destroyed and five res
cued. All the bag gage was destroyed,
among which were many valuable outfits,
including the jewelry and papers belonging
to President Sutherland, of the Hudson Bay
company, who was just returning from
England.
There is prospect of trouble at the Deer
ing harvester works in Chicago. The i'm
mense shops were closed, as is the yearly
gradually been employing the 300 men for
next seasons work, and it is said that the
Knights of Labor who have made applica-
ton for work have been informed that their
services were not required. The statement
is also made that the foremen uf the various
departments have list of the men who
participated in last springs strikes, and
when such persons apply for work they are
told they are not needed.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company
in. Nashville, Tenn, the pur. base by that
company of the Pratt Coal and Iron COM
pany, and the CHM iron works, of Birming-
ham, Ala, were consumated and confirmed.
Th;a a elton has broupht together under one
management probably the largest and most
valuable coal and iron property In the
world, The combination is the consumma-
ton of scheme that marks new era in the
south, and demonstrates the fact that pig
iron from this date will be made in Tennessee
and Alabama at less than 50 per ton.
General W. T. Sherman and family are
etopping at the. Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, When asked if he would make any
reply to the open letter of Jefferson Davis to
J. T. Scharff, the Maryland historian, in
which General Sherman is declared to be
falsifier, the general said, with emphasis:
"No-decidedly no. The matters touched by
Davis were settled in the newspapers two
years ago; yes, some of them twenty-five
years ago. Davis record and mine are
known, and from them the people can draw
their own conclusions. Davis book shows
him to Se a traitor. His letter is altogether
beneath my consideration"
A sensational story was published in st.
Paul, MIMI, to the effect that Hon. Emory
A. Storrs, the noted lawyer of Chicago, who
died in September, 1885, was slowly poison |
ed to death by the leaders of the gang who |
perpetrated the election frauds in Chicago, |
for which Joseph Mackin was sent to Joliet
state prison. Knowing that Mackin had
told the secret of their crimes to Mr.. Storrs. |
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