Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-16


KY, was held as prisoner for refusing to
give up the Office to w. F. Mccormick, whom
President Cleveland appointed two weeks
ago. When the parties were brought before
the United States commissioner, Fenton an
nounced that the case had been compromised
and that he was willing to give up the office.
A committee appointed to examine into
the condition of tenement-house in New
York reports that the worst ones in that city
are owned by Trinity church, which habitu-
ally let's its buildings fall to pieces before re-
placing them with warehouses. A corner in
Daight street is rented by the bloated relig-
ious corporation to . iquor-dealer.
A national healthand sanitary convention
will assemble at Defuniak Springs, Fla, in
March. Its obje6 ia, tie prevention of yell
low fever and other disesses,. the advocacy
of a strictly national quarantine and inter-
national interference when necessary, in
compelling tropical nations to prevent the
spread of their epidemic diseases.
A colored' barber in Cleveland obtained .
license and took to himself a hand
some blonde named Ina Norton, the cere-
mony being performed by the pastor of the
African Methodist church. The young lady
suddenly left card party on Wednesday
evening and fed the city with her husband.
IL Is Ieareu Cnat very iedFy iosses VIII oc-
cur among cattle on the ranges in New
Mexico, this winter. The cattlemen, an
ticipating an open winter, have generally re-
tanned fewer men than usual, and on account
of recent storms the cattle are, many of
them already drifting from their ranges.
Attorney General Garland refused to COM
promise with William S. Warner and j.
Henry Work, of New York, for check for
$152, 800 in favor of the creditors of the
Marine National bank, which they stood
charged with robbing. The offenders will
soon be tried on the indictments.
An audacious robbery occurred in a whole
sale house in Boston, where stranger came
up from the basement, at the opening, of
business, with gripsack containing $500
worth of silk, and escaped without being
He had spent the night in the
building.
Intense suffering is the fate of F. NJ. West
erfeld and wife, of Willmette, Illinois, who
to be kept under the influence of morphine,
and the physicians predict that within few
hours the husband will undergo muscular
torture.
The number of business failures through
out the country during the last seven days
for the United States were 316; Canada 20;
total 336, being the largest aggregate for any
week since January, 1885, The casulties
we're exceptionally numerous in the southern
states.
A wreck occurred on the Chesapeake &
Ohio at Stritcher's Neck Tunnel, w. Va, by
which two men were killed and three others
wounded. The men were raising track in the
tunnel when the freight train entered and
was derailed, piling the cars in confusion.
At risk of their lives workmen are stead
,lxv1 Lob 10 oh oiv, he Of fho
victims of the Nanticocke mine district. The
sum of $4,000 will be obtained for the wild
ows and childred by the donation of days
pay by each collier.
The Edgar Thompson steel works, Braddock,
Pa, have closed down in all departments,
because the men in the converting mill re.
fuse to handle the hot metal made by new
hands who had taken the places of the strik-
ing furnacemen.
Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, chair
man of the pensions committee, expressed
indignation because Commits
sion Black refused him an interview, and
when he yielded finished his mail before he
would converse.
The North Side Wooden company, manu-
Wis, have made an assignment. The lab
ilities will reach $113,CO0 The assets on
mill and machinery are ST., 900, and on stock
$1,000.
The clothing of Edwin Frederick, young
man employed in the pump works of Can
ton, o., was caught in a belt. He was
whirled about the shafting and his skull was
crushed against the ceiling, death being in
staneous.
In the family of Charles w. Parish
IL \ L., 60.
some months resided Miss Mary Reader,
to be cousin. Her suicide from
has caused a vast amount of
gossip.
David Ginden, who was prevented from
leaping from the Brooklyn bridge, reported
himself, his wife, and four children in a
court contributed freely to relieve the fam
lily.
A member of the house of representatives,
having carefully canvassed the coinage COM
mittee, states that majority is opposed to
the continued coinage of the silver dollar,
but is decidedly in favor of bimetallism.
The people of Ashland City, Tennessee,
threatens to lynch q saloon-keeper named
Ward Simmons for numbering and robbing
II. G. Adams, the wealthiest man in town.
The accused pleads self defense.
John Proctor, a workman at Lights roll
ing mill, Lebanon, Pa, was seized With
fit, and falling into a mass of molten metal,
was shockingly burned. His head and arms
were reduced to crisp.
The Illinois board of agriculture has decid-
ed to permit manufacturers of butterine
and oleomargarine to exhibit their product,
hf II 1oI ,o1c of hn of ooh
show in Chicago.
The knights of Labor of st. Louis have
placed an effective boycott upon q saloon
and hall owned by John Eggler, because of
his refusal to accommodate the street-car
strikers last fall.
The grand jury at San Francisco found an
indictment for felony against George w.
Tyler, the leading council for Sarah Althea
Hill, who claimed to be the wife of ex-SeIa-
tor Sharon.
Andrew Bell, the SON of leading mer-
chant at Burlington, Iowa, has been placed
in Jail for the seduction of Miss Nandain,
his father refusing to sign bail bond of
$1,000
A menagerie was sold out at auction in
Monroe, Georgia. p. X. Campbell, Chica-
8Oan, OOE&nb $0sOUU elepn8nt TOT $l,UUU,
and Adam Forepaugh got two lions for 500.
James g. Blaine, at Legislative banqust
In Augusta, made an argument against the
biennial system Of elections and sessions
recently adopted Maine.
William Kerby, young tug captain IN
Chicago haxbor, has been declared insane.
He c11ims 70 have invented craft With wings
70 ~ throQah the air.