Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-04

Attorney Lanahan. He was taken before
Alderman Parsons. where he was charged
; with misdemeanor in proposing TO support
a candidate for money. It is said that Evans
was spokesman for q committee of seventy
delegates and demanded of candidate $40
for each delegate, which was refused. Evans
was held in $500 for his appearance in the
criminal court. It is said that forty other
arrests are to be made next week.
The citizens of McCulloch county, Tex.
held meeting few days ago and adopted
not American citizens to leave the county
within five days, or they would be hung.
Each Mexican was served with q notice and
left within the specified time. sheriff Gil
der. of Kinney, which borders on tho Rio
Graude, informs the adjutant general that
the Mexicans are making frequent raids
across the river and running of horses and
cattle. Unless United States troops are or
dered there at once the adjutant general will
send force of rangers.
Surrogate Rollins, of New York City,
handed down the decision in the Jesse Hoyt
will case. The will is sustained. The sur
rogate says the will of Jesse Hoyt is in all
things sufficiently probated and the probate
thereof must be confirmed. If in the judg-
ment and conscience of Jesse Hoyt, said the
surrogate, ''the requests he made to his
wife and daughter we're adequate to their
needs and to his conjugal and parental obi
cations, it was natural and proper ne should
look to his fathers children and children
children As persons justly entitled by ties of
blood and affection to the remainder of his
large possessions"
In the cclored Baptist convention in ses-
| - -o%S nIT1tI a.
to consolidate the foreign bodies of the
church and to organize industrial schools
aud churches. A committee was appointed
to prepare plan for the broadening the Sun
day school work. Louisville was selected as
headquarters of the executive committee of
which DR.. Simmons, Of Louisville, was made
chairman, The constitution, which names
the new organization the American Baptist
Convention, was then adopted, and after the
selection of an executive committee and the
reading oftwo more papers, the convention
adjourned to meet next year at Mobile.
Louis Juni, tailor, Henry Balzel, stone
mason, and William Kloth, cooper, have
been arrested for connection with the Chi
cago anarchists conspiracy. In Kloth's
shop was found regular arsenal of i'm
ported firearms. Men have been drilling
there for some time, and have been eeen
carrying mysterious packages, supposed to
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from Berlin to escape prosecution for an
archism, and openly boosted of his sympa-
thy with the condemned anarchists. The
police say he was connected with the hay
market riot, and was locked up for six
weeks, but was discharged for want of evi
dence.
In an interview in the city of Mexico, Mr..
Sedgwick, the American special agent, en-
phatically denies the stories against him in
circulation in the United States to the effect
that he became intoxicated and visited
places of questionable character: Leading
| representatives. who have been interviewed
upon the subject, express themselves as
sorry that the good name of the club had
been called in question. They said that Mr..
! Se1gwick was conspicuous guest at their
ball, and that he behaved as a gentleman
should. Mr.. Sedgwick is confering with
Minister Jackson and investigating the
laws OF Mexico bearing on the Cutting case.
He is having translations of the laws made
and when through here he will 60 to Chi
huahua and then to Paso Del Norte.
O. W. Scott, late book-keeper for the
Foley & Williams Manufacturing company,
at Cincinnati, was arrested on the charge of
embezzling $1,000 from his firm. The an
nouncement of the young mans trouble
created a sensation in the social circles in
which he moved, as he comes from one of
the best families in Kentucky, His home is
at Butler, KY, where young wife is at pres
ent living. Scott is young fellow % years
of age, of dudish appearance. He is in
clined to sport and his fondness for the
gambling table has undoubtedly been the
cause of his downfall. He had made his
home in Covington during bis connection
with the above named firm, but has made
himself very prominent about Vine street
and the other resorts of the city.
The following circular has been issued by
the treasury department. 'Notice is here
by given that on the 18th day of September,
1886, or ct any time prior thereto, the de-
partment will redeem at the treasury of the
United States, in the city of Washington,
| d. c., or at the Office of the assistant treas
urer at New York, paying par and accrued
interest to date of redemption, any uncalled
| United States 3 per cent bonds to an amount
not exceeding $l0,OOO,O0O, Where checks in
payment are desired in favor of any one bu
the payee, the bonds should be assigned to
the secretary of the treasury for redemption
for account of here insert name OF person
or persons to whose order check should be
paid).
[Signed G. s. FA1RcH1LD,
Acting Secretary.
Charley Vellek, aged 10 years, was tempt
ed to run out and play without his fathers
permission, and came near pay ing the PEN
atty with his life. The neighbor boys with
whom he had committed TIE transgression,
not hearing any signs of chastisement,
peeped in at the back yard to see what had
become of their playmate, after he had been
dragged in by his father, and were shocked
to see the little fellow hanging to post in
the woodshed, apparently dead. A rope had
been passed around his neck and chest, and
his arms were extended and tied to other
points of the wall. He was black in the
face and unconscious. A cry that Charley
was dead or dying went up from the horri-
fed children, and Kate Dorak, domestic
employed at the adjoining house, went out
to see what the matter was. She seized 6
Ratchet and cut the child down. He was
senseless, and it was only after considerable
trouble that he was revived. His brutal
father was arrested.
New Albany, Ind, is enjoying quite SEN
sation because Mrs. Americas Duggins pub
licly cowhided Mrs. James Claffney. It ap-
pears that the husband of the former lady
is rather a handsome man, and is well
thought of by the opposite sex. Among his