Western Kansas world., 1886-11-06
THE GENERAL NEWS.

w. McLAugnlln OI Snicaso ~eao o'oN.
over Il false report that Queen 'lctorla was
dead.
IT. Quincy, for the past eight years
.comp, roller of Chicago, is 80 rapidly failing
thst lis death is daily expected.
The track of the Central Vermont road is
blockaded at Gassetts Station by the re-
mains of three trains which crashed together,
but no person was seriously lnJdred.
Hon. Thomas C. Manning, of the United
States minister, to Mexico, was formally
presented to President Diaz and an ex-
chapgs of friendly sentiments occurred.
Ata meeting held in Atlanta by the South
ern Passenger association, 1t was resolved
that no more commissions on tickets be
paid. Some of the roads will thus save S5O,-
600 per annum.
Or. M. Tobias, a wealthy citizen of Ca
sew. Illinois, has been indicted for throw
ing yitrol on the dry-goods stock of j. M
-Gooch. suit for damages has also been
ente rtained by the merchant.
IL funeral of Mrs. A. t. Stewart, in New
York, was attended only by a limited num-
Der of relatives and friends, Bishop Little
John officiating. About forty persons fol-
lowed the remains to Garden City.
The greatest failure in the history of Lo
gal county, ILL.,, hos occurred. The bank
ing house of William d. Duston closed, with
liabilities at 100000 Inc bankers are pre-
pairing to make an assignment.
A dispatch from San Francisco, asserts
that Michael Davitt is soon to be married to
Miss Tore, who resides in Oakland. She is
an orphan twenty years old, highly accom-
pIisnsd and has $1,000 in her own right
he French vice consul at Montreal, hav,
.as Iost heavily by the abscondlng OF
Rotbschiid at Toronto, is an active advo-
cate of reform in the extradition system be-
ween Canada and the United States.
Two druggists in Guatemala were recent
Iy put to death for giving poison and
bribe of $1,000 to servant OF the president
to dispose of that official. The servant
handed the vial and the money to his master.
John Delany, a prominent Snowman, who
recently married Miss Montague, Fore
paugh's $4,000 beauty, was murdered on
the railroad track at Flemingtop junction,
Pa. by unknown parties. lie WAS known to
;arry large sums of money.
Colonel s. l.. James has sold TO New York
parties his plantation in Louisiana and the
lease of the labor of the penitentiary in that
state. A company will be organized to
build levees and work the plantation with
one thousand conYicts.
At Albany, Oregon, Capt. VIM. w. Saun-
iers was sentenced to hang December 70.
Saunders, who was formerly editor of the
Corvallis Leader, murdered Charles Camp
bell at Albany In June last year, made his
escape after the day of trial and was recap
tured after twenty days.
The Corn Exchange bank, of New York,
has filed complaint in attachment against
the New York branch of j. O. Ferguson d
Co., of Indiana. The bank claims an in
debtedness of $93, GOO, which has accrued
in money loaned on bogus warehouse re-
ceipts. The attachn ent is to be placed on
the pork house properly Of the Ferguson's
in Indianapolis.
Two men have been arrested in Kansas
City, one printer, charged with stealing
the trunk that disappeared from the Union
depot and was said to contain $1,000 worth
of j3welry. The property was worth but
$500 and has been recovered. One man was
oyeI hauled last aight at lodgings IN the pub
hc l. brary bailding, and the other IN the
Journal building.
A nee ing OF the Catholic university board
was hel at the Cardinals palace. in Balti-
more Nd. The plans for the university
wele discussed, and the committee author
lied to make contracts for the building to
.oe commenced next spring. Five hundred
housand dollars has been subscribed In ad-
1ition to Miss CaldTelPs original contrlbu-
zion of $S00,900.
John Francis. 16 year convict sent up
frpm Dayton, o., escaped from the guard
at the court house in Cleveland. He was
one of the principal witnesses for the state
in the Thirteenth ward tally sheet forgery
case, now on preliminary hearing. Francis
had been placed Oh the witness stano, but
during lull in the proceedings walked out. |
The Gdzette's Desarc, Ark, special says: |
while County Treasurer Ward, OF Desarc, |
Ark, was going home from his office, a couple |
Of men seized him, threw coffee sack over |
his head, beat him badly and took his keys |
ana robbed the office OF over S1l, 600. He was
knocked senseless and when found his legs |
were tied together. There is no clue to the |
robbers"
,boAI Charlton, well-known and wealthy
citizen of Pittsburg, Pa, jumped from
Columbus. Hooking Valley and Toledo pas
senger train at Canal Winchester, Ohio,
while laboring under fit of insanity and
ded to the woods. His friends pursued
him for several days, and when they at
length captured him, he was almost naked.
de had hid a large sum of money in the
woods and friends are now hunting fer it.
The steamer Rowena, which has been
htted'with refrigerating compartments by ;
the Anglo-American Fresh Meat company
)f London, has arrived in Galveston, Texas, ,
o take the first cargo of fresh beef to Lcn-
Ion from any Texas port. She will carry !
IUC5aps on her initial trip. If the venture .
proves a success the Rowena will make regu- .
ar trips, and other vessels will be construct I
ID for the Texas trade. G
General Superintendent Jameson, of the |
aiIway mail service, has completed his an
lual report for the fiscal year ended June q
70 last From the report it appears that at
he close of the year the railway postofice I
ines in operation numbered 81, occupying :!
35 whole cars, and ], 80 apartments in cars. l
The aggregate length of railroad routes over
which these cars run is 110, ,672 miles, and the I
nnual miles of railroad service performed l
" clerks was 100, 923,9lO.
All the annua estimates have been re- @
eiyed at the treasury department, except q
hose for public works of the naval estab- f
and the postal service. Those al
eady submitted, which cover all the regular d
ivii expenses of the government, show very
title change in the amount from the appro-
riations for the present year. The treas
ry department will have the estimates in
hape for submission to the appropriation
ommittee at its meeting on the 10th
roximo. Il
Josephine Abenz 40, a year-old child who Z
we'd with her parents at No. 16S Elizabeth
treet, suffered for two days from severe q
old before DR.. Dl Jpella Astello of No. Al i
larion street, was sent for. DIR. Astello u
rescribed cough mixture and told the n
lother to give the child a small quantity. 81
he mother indiscreetly administered a tf
of the mixture. An hour later o.
he child was taken with convulsious, and