Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-19
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

BONE0 lISs
Rev. A. A. Whitmore fell dead in his pull
pit at Anita, Iowa.
The principal business block at Phoenix,
Arizona. valued at 500, 900 was destroyed by
The democrats Of the Second district Of
AF;usouri. nominated Charles II. Mansur for
congress-
The democrats Of the twelfth Ohio con-
,,rossional district nominated General James
". Denver.
Ex-Governor, John w. Stevenson, of
Kantucky, died at his home in Covington,
KY, aged 78.
Til reported from Watch Hill that Secre
+orv Manning has almost wholly recovered
his health.
Tbanaper mill of Richmond Brothers, at
AnnIeton, Wisconsin, valued at $4,000 was
4 burned recently.
Sir persons were killed and many wounded
bv an explosion of gasoline in the cellar of
q merchant at Stuttgart.
Fifty companies Of southern militia are
ancamped at Galveston, to enter the state or
interstate contest for prizes.
Acontrolling interest in the gas plant at
Des Moines has been purchased by Phila-
delphia company for $35O,OOO.
The president appointed Daniel EMagone.
If Opdeneburg, n. Y, to be collector of
customs of the port of New York.
Masked men entered Farmer Furber's
bouse. at Pittsburg, ILL.,, bound him hand
and foot and decamped with his valuables.
Comneting lines have followed the example
If the Burlington road in educlng the price
If tickets from Kansas City to Chicago to
s. 'l'A'''
The WEIGH grain elevator, at Marysville,
Mo. owned by Edward Balm, Of Kenosho,
valued at $4,000, has been destroyed by
Ere.
Charles Fl. Scnwab, the new comptroller
of Chicago, discovered in q voucher from
the police department a clerical error Of
5000.
One man was killed and several others
we're seriously injured by the explosion of a
boiler in the Water-works at Columbia, South
Carolina.
Twenty-Five new cases of typhoid fever
and three deaths are reported at Pittsburg,
Pa. There are now over POO cases, many
serious.
unloading a cargo of 100000 feet of lum-
Der from Duluth, the largest consignment
ever known.
Ned Fitzgibbons and Jack Moore got
drunk together in New York, got into a
fight, both fell into the river and Fitzgib-
bons was drowned.
In the recent election Jackson Miss,
4 gave 300 majority against prohibition, but
~ iad hu 10
lists by 800 majority.
Alden & Brother, advertising agents in
New York and Cincinnati have filed an as
signment in the latter city to secure llabili-
ties, estimated at $4,000.
The walk-out of the union printers on the
Sedalia Mo-, BazOo, has proven a signal
failure. Their places were all supplied and
the paper was not delayed.
The lockout of the extensive packing
establishment of John z. Squire, in Cam
bridge, Mass, led TO serious rioting, the old
employees fighting the police.
An attempt to rob the post Office at
Astoria, l.. l., was frustrated by the police,
who attacted the burglars, capturing two,
one of whom was wounded.
Madeline Kessler, of Chicago, the heiress
to considerable property, has eloped with
q
ate Of Canadian penitentlary.
Experts from Chicago went to Chenoa to
open bank safe which passed through
the recent fire, and found therein $25, 900 in
currency and coin in good condition.
In the Grand Army encampment at San
Francisco General Sherman reviewed the
causes of the Mexican war and detailed the
hlstory of the conquest of California.
John Schaefer, of Pekin ILL.,, 81 years OF
age, arose in his sleep aud walked out of the
second-st0ry window, breaking leg and IN
Iurlng himself internally, and will die.
Martin H. Rice, representative of Indiana
to the Grand Masonic lodge of England,
has received from the Prince of Wales q
Jewel of solid gold bearing a miniature
crown.
There is trouble among the railway PEG
PIE over the sales of excursion tickets to the
Topeka educational reunion and the Mil
VEaukee sangerfest, limited all the way *
November.
Edward Colestock, switch crew foreman
and Charles Haide, fireman, who were hur
Dy the explosion of Union Pacific switch
engine yesterday, at Kansas City, died at the
hospital.
AT meeting of the Central Labor unlo1
OF chicago, it was stated that nearly S14,
hao been raised for the defense of the an
Sfchlsts, 81 900 of the amount coming from
Portland
Charles ]. Campbell, general manager o
Ine Stelnway & Hunters Point railroad, whC
recently disappeared, is now said to be
9eieulter in large sum. 1t is thought h
sin Canada
Inc western whisky pool is being reor
sanlzed at Chicago as the American Pro
ueacang and Leasing company with capita
Y! Ne1,OOO distributed among ninety -on'
ustillers. About halls the the houses repre-
seated are kept idle by leasing their capacit,
@ the association.
a. Independence, Mo-, James Armstrong
asck driver, shot John Wilson, plumber
N n Ine breast and shoulder, during dispute
.IIelf respective children had had quarre
rnlcn involved the parents. Wilson vii
ssaoOaoly die. Armstrong who was tn
esgfessor, was arrested.
committee of the New York counci
I'm IN 70 Rockaway Beach to present to tn
snoW of General Hancock memoria
oAUuLQ from fhn aifv