Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.

Officer Daniel Ahern of the Kansas City.
mounted police force is missing.
The general strike OF miners along the
BALTIMORE and Ohio railroad is at an end.
4 6reoracker thrown into John Z. Boss
lumber yard at reading, Pa, caused loss OF
t1E,000.
The hop crop Of Central New York il
greatly damaged by vermin and the blight
known as honey dew.
Hugo Michael, Wisconsin farmers son
ran away from home, got lost in the woods
and starved to death.
Naghly handled by mob at Wilkesbarre
Pa, aud prevented from making an address
The Louisiana Legislature adjourned sint
die. During the session about 400 bills wer
introduced, of which number 200 becam
laws.
The summer reading of the president snt
wife is to be an immense scrap filled
with newspaper clippings concerning tn
wedding.
In the case of tho four Milwaukee anarch
lists the jury found them guilty of conspir
ing to burn the court house and of melting
mobs to riot.
The senate committee on appropriation
have inserted a paragraph in the sundry
civil bill appropriating ST, 800 for the Bar
tholdi statue.
At Hunters Chapel church, in Barnwel
county, South Carolina, while Sunday schoo
was In session, Emma Conley shot anc
killed John Steadley.
The business failures during the last seven
lays, reported BY telegraph, number for the
United States, 159: for Canada, 20; total,
l76, which is above the last few weeks.
The employees Of all the blast furnaces in
he PittsburR district have decided to de-
nand An advance of 20 per cent. in wages.
The matter will probably be srbitrated.
executed as Charleston. N. c., In the pres
sace of several thousand people, for the muir
der of Dick Wilson twenty months ago.
The Eve boycotters sentenced in New York
City, for blaok-mailing Thesis, of concert
hall fame, have been removed to the state
prison to serve out their respective terms.
An aged octoroon who nightly seeks lodg-
ing at station house in Cincinnati claims
10 be a son Of Juniur Brutus Booth and the
body servant of Edwin and j. Wilkes Booth
in Baltimore.
Employees of the packing houses at the
Chicago stook-yard are free to declare that
no more Lake Shore cars shall be loaded
until the demands of the switchmen have
heen granted.
A farm hand near Independence, Missouri,
named Mills, has welded Miss Maud Long,
the girl who last winter became known
throughout the country by rescuing two
children left in the woods by a mailman
from Kansas City.
The grand jury in New York have found an
indictment for murder in the first degree
against Dan Driscoll, leader of the w. II. Y.
o. gang, who shot and killed Bridget Gar
rath, two weeks ago. Driscoll pleaded not
guilty in court
Milton Evans, farm laborer from south
hydrophobia ct 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.
Tho French government has ordered Co.
600 repeating rifles TO DO distributed among
the troops before August 1. This action is
attributed to the conduct of Germany in re-
GENTLY arming her battalions in Alsace-
Lorraine with similar weapons. u
The north Atlantic squadron, now lying at
Portland, Maine, will take part in the pro-
longed celebration of the ono hundredth an
niversary of the incorporation of tho city.
Over four thousand invitations have been
extended to natives Of the town now residing
N other states.
M-Alderman Waite, of New York City
has beer committed to the house of deten-
kirv, xyik <hA nd; n<o
'sb0odle" 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 switchmsn at Chicago on the
Lake Shore road have issued q circular, in
which they condemn the imported SWITCH
men. At Armour & Co.'S. place at Chicago
tho train men put in eight cars to be
loaded. Two gangs of men refused to load
the sars and were discharged.
A gang Of about eight conyicts were work
ing in a brickyard few miles from Pine
Bluff, Ark, when the entire number made q
sudden break for liberty. The guards i'm
mediately leveled their rifles and fired, kill
ing three cf tho rin2leaders and MORALLY
vounding fourth. None escaped.
A limited fast train on the Union Pacific
win start about July Is. The Central Pa
oi6c 10 holding Of from the project, but this
will not materially alter the arrangement,
as the Union Pacific will put on an addition
al train each way and shorten tho distance
between Omaha and Ogden by fourteen
hours.
The village of Waterford, Racine county,
Wis. 10 terribly stricken with typhoid fever.
Fifty 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 investigate the cause of the disease.
The city council Of Macon, No., recently
passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of
liquor within the city limits in less quaint
ties than one gallon. The proprietors of
tho saloons presented to the county court
applications for licenses, but they were all
refused, and there is not an open saloon in
Macon. The same state of affairs exist in
Iinnens, Mo.
While two hundred children of st. Joseph's
Orphan asylum, in Chicago, were wandering
through tho shaded grounds they were sud-
denly attacked by dog in the most violent
stage OF hydrophobia, who tore the clothing
nearly OF from several of them. Henry X.
Ccale, residing opposite the asylum, tleaped
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