Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-22
GENERAL NEWS.

The celebration Of the battle OF the Boyne
at Belfast, Ireland, caused rot.
The man Allen, who killed Tom Small at
.. Carthage. Mo, was himself killed in
Kansas last week while resisting arrest.
The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sine
die. During the session about AGO bills wer
introduced, of which number 200 becam
laws.
The senate committee on appropriations
have inserted a paragraph in the sundry
civil bill appropriating $500 for the Bar
tholdi statue.
The business failures during the last seven
laws. reported by telegraph, number for the
Tinted States, 159; for Canada, 20; total,
i76. which is above the last few weeks.
The employees of all the blast furnaces in
AhA Pittsburg district have decided to de-
nand an advance of 20 per cent. in wages.
The matter will probably be arbitrated.
lack Lambert, painter by trade, was
sxecnted at Charleston. n. c., in the pres
ence of several thousand people, for the muir
der of Dick Wilson twenty months ago.
steye Renfrow, a not orious desperate and
nscaped convict, who was captured near En-
terprise, Miss, brought to Livingston and
nlaced in jail, was taken from prison and
hanged by masked men.
The grand jury in New York have found an
Indictment for murder in the first degree
AGAINST Dan DriscoIl, leader of the w. II. Y.
O. gang, who shot and killed Bridget Gar
rath, two weeks ago. Driscoll pleaded not
guilty i'll court.
Milton Evans, farm laborer from south
arm Missouri, died in great agony from
hydrophobia at the police station In Kansas
Git. A mad stone was applied and appar
emily took effect, but its owner said that the
patient had come too late.
The French government has ordered co.
600 repeating rifles to be distributed among
the troops before August l. This action is
attributed to the conduct of Germany in re-
Gently arming her battalions III Alsace-
Lorraine with similar weapons.
The official report says that, while the
prospects on the Prussian crops, especially
those of rye or wheat, are generally highly
satisfactory, the outlook IN several districts
of Selesia is bad. Oats, barley, and pota-
toes generally promise normal crops.
A portable engine on the farm of S. B.
lobe, at Alton Junction, ILL.,, blew up. The
result was disastrous. Five men were badly
wounded, three fatally. The thresher and
all the wheat adjacent was burned up and
three or four horses were killed.
Grand Master of the Masonic lodge Of
Quebec, J. Fred Walker, has just issued a
Masonic edict proclaiming that all Masonic
interests be suspended from date between
Quebec grand lodge, its subordinate lodges,
and all brethren in obedience thereto, and
the grand lodge of England
Ex-Alderman Waite, of New York City
hiss beer committed to the house of deten-
ton as witness against the indicted
doodle" alderman at his own request. He
said his reason was that he had been follow
ed about by persons who seek information
from him and bother him.
The striking switchmen at Chicago on the
Lake Shore road have issued a circular, in
which they condemn the imported switch
men. at Armour d Co.'S. place at Chicago
the train men put in eight cars to be
loaded. Two gangs of men refused to load
the cars and we're discharged.
gang of about eight convicts were work
ing in brickyard few miles from Pine
Bluff, Ark, when the entire number made
sudden break for liberty. The guards i'm
mediately leveled their rifles and fired, kill
ing three Of the rin2leaders and mortally
wOunding fourth. None escaped.
A limited fast train on the Union Pacific
viii start about July %. The Central Pa
cl11c Is holding off from the project, but this
will not materially alter the arrangement,
Is the Union Pacific will put on an addition
al train each way and shorten the distance
between Omaha and Ogden by fourteen
hours.
The village of Waterford, Racine county,
MIS- is terribly stricken with typhoid fever.
ElIty people are down with the disease and
-FOUR deaths have occurred in one family of
eleven, and in another of nine all are in
beds. Great excitement exists in that place
and the state board of health will be asked
70 mvestigate the cause of the disease.
:, At the coroner's inquest held at New
Herm antown, n. j., over the death of the
Dsyld WEIGH, one of the victims of the
fottersVllle poisoning case, important facts
we're developed in the evidence showing that
.one one had probably placed arsenic in the
lce cream cans Intentionally. One of the
suspected persons, it is reported, has left
me community for parts unknown.
=; v. Betsler, a prominent business man
VI Oarrollton, Mo-, accidentally shot and
Slleo his brother, 4. A. Betsler. The two
bIroStners, IN company with several others,
tSa4 gone out for an afternoons sport, and
just before their return home the unfortun-
woe q hoAAhIuS ldTS6L 1OT Tlno
plsctlce. His brother was holding a gun
a Snlcn was accidentally discharged With the
above effect.
tombstone, Arizona, dispatch says: In
ttOamatlon from General Miles headquar-
M Uas y 70 the effect that Captain Lawton.
ca arn nls company of one hundred Mexican
rnSany, ls In the Sierra Madre mountains in
r rurse!1 OF the Apaches. Another detach-
;n -cns - ~ the same region working in con-
ME- I;ISaon with him. The report that General
,s s-nss !: negotiating for Geronimo's sur
Sal. .ne voting in the impeachment trial of
Iso .o inuultor Brown was begun by the Iowa
vssaslature. Ten ballots were taken. There
hslI o 40 votes for conviction till the seventh
sel I,Ss was reached, and then in the counts
acs,o-4s 70 the Bremen company bank trans
Hon Ons ~ Inere were eleven votes for convic-
ind;.. mere are twenty more counts in the
Ths aa1snt on which the roll must be called.
'ire senate was present.
representative VIM. II. Cole. of the third
Wsst;aano district, died at his residence in
Ia hui gton, in the 49th year of his age.
for a nas oeen sufferer from Bright's disease
not sn.;i years past, and his demise was
All santlrely unexpected. He had not been
80 70 attend the meetinus of tho honse M