Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-25
the NEWS IN BRIEF,
AT HOME AND ABROAD,

AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Charleston still feels light earthquake
shocks.
| Special Diplomat Sedgwick has returned
| from Mexico.
! The Bell telephone suits have at last come
to trial in Cincinnati.
| 1t is said that Secretary Manning will 60
as minister to Austria.
The union plumbers of Kansas City have
struck for fewer hours and more pay.
The president has commissioned John B.
Burbridge as postmaster at Attica, Kan.
The walters in the st. Louis hotels have
struck for $2S a week during the festivities
Three prisoners sawed their way out of the
Warrensburg MO- Jail with file and case
knife.
Ell Coyotes band was surprised by Mexl-
can cavalry, and the leader and seven Others
butchered.
in October, will represent the German Impe-
rial bank.
The corner stone of the Lewis academy, al
Wichita, was laid Thursday with very appro-
pirate ceremonies.
Troops have been withdrawn from the
Arizona and New Mexico country and the
troubles are considered ended.
The Kingman National bank, of King
man, Kan, has been authorized to COM
mence business with capital of $4,000.
Edward C. Buskirk, of Indiana, and Dan
lei G. Gutche, of Ohio, have been appointed
principal examiners in the pension Office.
Col. Charles S. Stewart, of the corps of
engineers, was by direction of the president
and at his own request, placed on the retired
list.
The democratic convention of the Fifth
district, Louisiana, nominated G. Newton for
congress, over Mr.. King, the present incum-
,ent.
In quarrel about girl William Donaho
was stabbed by Fed Priestly at Kansas
City, and died instantly. Both men we're
teamsteks.
There was sharp frost at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
but as comparatively few fields of tobacco
remain unharvested the damage Is believed
to be slight.
Asher Durand, perhaps the Oldest Ameri-
can painter of note, died at his home in
South Orange. n. j. He was rorn in 1876 at
Jefferson, N. j.
W. Robertson has been nominated for
congress by the democrats of the Sixth dis
trict, Louisiana, over A. B. 1roin. the present
incumbent.
The democrats of the Tenth district, Ten
%,l la1c Oh
of the Memphis Araldncke, for congress by
reclamation.
The Chippewa Falls Lumber and Broom
company at Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, the larg-
est in the country, was struck by lightning
and completely destroyed.
Barney Filing and Patrick Kelly, of Riv-
erton, ILL.,, we're instantly killed by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of cider mill which
they were running.
George I. Setter, democrat and assistant
secretary of Board of Public Works, of Gin
cinn6ti, O., has been arrested for embez-
zling$ 5000 of the funds of the Board.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has filed plans with
the New York bureau of building for club
house on the northeast corner of Madison
avenue and Forty-ffth street, to cost
100000.
Carl Won Weller, music teacher at Jack
sonville, Florida, claiming to be an Austrian
count, has been arrested for stealing dia-
mond ring and a case of surgical instru-
ments.
Another killing frost has been reported
in Manitoba, where the thermometer inSi
Gated % degrees. In the Lake Superior re-
gion the thermometer was FROM 81 to 80
degrees.
A terrible rain and wind storm passed
over portions of Indiana, Illinois and Michi-
gan On the 16. Small crafts on the lake
were capsized, and in Terre Haute cyclone
is reported.
A special agent of the treasury depart
ment who recently returned from Alaska
says the master of the seized British vessel
Onward admitted having killed his catch of
ealalong the shores of the islands.
Comptroller James s. White of Milwau-
kee, Wis., was sentenced to two years and six
months in the Waupun penitentiary, at hard
labor. He was convicted of embezzling
seven 81 600 city bonds.
The plans and specifications for the new
cruisers and gun boats, including the $40
ton gun boat whose clans we're changed by
order of the secretary, are now completed
and ready for the inspection of intending
bidders.
MISS Lulu bat6S, OF Olncluuatl, mace
balloon ascension at Charlottesville Indiana.
When three hundred feet from the earth the
air-ship burst open, and she braced herself
in the basket and reached the ground with
bad jar.
Lieut.. Hem, of the Galatea, is the 6e-
scendant of an old Irish family. Two cent
uries ago the name was spelled Hone, Lieut..
HEM is the grandson of the famous Irish
barrister who defended O'Conneu in 1e43
and prosecuted John Mitchell in 1848.
James Recalton, school teacher of Ma
plewcod, N. j., has Just returned from a trip
through Russia on tricycle.. He left New
York June IL and arrived at Archsngel early
in July, and st. Petersburg August IL. His
trip cost him only $500. -Sk
The central committee of the united lab
arty OF st. louis, conIose6 of members
the Knights of Labor, Central Labor union
and Trade assembly have issued q call for q
convention to be held ON October 70 nomi-
nate full city ticket. Accompanying the call